Hello Kirt, First, excuse my english I'm basically french speaking. Secondly I'm not in the business of selling Instinctotherapy and I lack the self discipline to practice it alone. But I did not learn Anopsology by hearsay or vague approximations, but by practicing and studying it with the inventor for several months. But let me address a few points : > I was similarily enamored with instincto for many years but learned for a > "fact" that it's track record is somewhat shoddy. Perhaps you could > comment on the following: Then shoddiness is everywhere because nothing seems to work perfectly all the time. But I wont comment about the medical track record or any other. > 1] Nicole Burger's death by cancer at a relatively young age. Unfortunately, nobody was inside her to see how she was living and secondly, we will never know at what age she would have died under different conditions. > 2] The problems longtime instinctos encounter when not modifying their > "pleasure diet" through intellectual repression of "instinct": > > specifically > > 2a] the effects of eating "too much" fruit > 2b] the effects of eating "too much" meat > 2c] the effects of overeating in general > 2d] the effects of eating "too few" vegetables Lets put aside the fact that the quality of the food we eat can have an impact on our instinctive perception. Very few of us practice instincto since we are born. Many reward and compensation patterns have been put in place in our subconscious (along with many other things), and it is indeed a huge upheaval to modify our whole way of being to the world. To simply relearn the profound meaning of attraction is not that simple... > 3] Why the regime is so dependent on a few select foods, such as cassia. Cassia is recommended because this tropical fruit eases the cleansing of the MNO (Non Original Molecules created in great part by the chemistry of cooking) in promoting biliary and intestinal elimination. > 4] What practical effect the pursuance of "perfectly pure" foods has on > the psyche of an instincto. It certainly depends on the individual himself but I'm not sure about the real meaning of your question, could you rephrase it? > 5] Mr. Burger's continued inability to refrain from seeking sex with young > boys and girls. This is indeed difficult to understand without having the proper frame of mind to look at it. But I'm going to answer your question differently : Keith Jarrett is the most offensive person I've ever met, but I still think he is one of the greatest jazz pianist of this century. > 6] Why the benefits are so often overstated (to the point of lying). > Examples: painfree childbirth, resistance to all microbal disease, clarity > of thought and freedom from neurosis which Mr Burger himself rarely > exhibits , etc.) Saying this as you do looks to me as exactly reproducing what you condemn. These examples are generalizations that apply to most people. Exceptions exist everywhere and someone that says otherwise is a fool, and Burger is certainly not one. > 7] Why several instinctos have had difficulty with malaria, including the > difficulty of dying. > 8] Why staph infections are so common among instinctos living in the tropics. > 9] Why the most vocal proponent/author for instincto in the USA nearly > died from an apparent trichinosis infection and wisely resorted to medical > treatment to remain alive. > 9] Why some European instinctos report the growth of tumors when animal > foods are consumed according to "instinctive pleasure" when > hunter-gatherer cultures, who average some 65% of their calorie from animal > foods (albiet not all raw in most cases) do not report problems with tumors. I am not aware of any specific cases. Maybe my friend Andre Paillet can help me on those points. From my experience, very few people really know how to let go their intellect and obey their instinct. From your tone, I sense that you fall in that category with the result that you may be confusing hedonism with anopsology. > 10] To what degree you agree with the tenets and practice of "meta" and > what value you feel these tenents hold for humanity. Meta is a revolution, but it is useless to talk about it when the principles of anopsology are not even understood and far less integrated. Anopsology : Science of man and life when are avoided culinary artifices, and more generally the characteristic artifices of conceptual intelligence. If the difficulty of application of this method is sufficient to make you deny its basic validity, your place may definitely be near the warmth of your cauldrons. Yours truly Jacques Laurin P.S. For those of you who read french, I strongly suggest Doctor Jean Seignalet's book which explains scientifically Guy-Claude Burger's theory along with his own view on the subject : Seignalet Dr. J. - L'alimentation ou la troisieme medecine, Collection Ecologie humaine, Francois-Xavier de Guibert, 1996, 452 p.