While freshly picked/killed is to be favored, cooking, freezing, fermenting, salting, drying are all compromises (IMO) we need to take at some point in our life.
Indigenous people as well did it and do it nowadays.
The key is to minimize, minimize, minimize..

I wish nobody to ever undertake eating 100% cooked food diet experiment. It won´t work, we already know that.

Cooked Food Topics should always go into the Hot Topics Forum. I´ll do that now.

thank you!

I´ve already debunked Wrangham´s notions re cooked food leading to bigger brains in other articles. I pointed out that the increases in human brain-size happened well before the advent of cooking, and that human brain-size had actually declined once we entered the Neolithic era and started eating a higher proportion of our diet in the form of cooked foods.

could you provide links? I am interested

That point is of utmost importance because mixing in the stomach is a natural way which has happened in our animals and hominids ancestors for millions of years. Eating foods one by one in sequence (as they are usually not found in the same place and at the same time) allows mammals to properly feel how much of each food they need.
On the contrary mixing before ingestion is a completely new method which in most cases requires some tools such as pottery — and pottery is  one of the most distinctive features marking the Neolithic separation from Paleolithic.

Right, thank you!   

Our adaptation to such food mixtures is certainly very incomplete, as we can easily experiment. For example, mix a few drops of lemon juice with oysters and the smell of lemon will completely mask the oyster’s own smell and deeply change its taste. It’s an efficient way to get poisoned by a bad oyster!

True. I ve personally experienced that. The guy squeezed some lemon (without asking me first) on my oysters and I got SO pissed off. I could not taste or smell anything else than lemon..

No, not necessarily and currently most of the times not. A few people do and I tried their method to eat several mono-meals per day, but I ended by eating always until late in the night. It deeply disturbed my habits and well being, so now I try to eat only twice a day, once around noon and once in the evening, as I and most other “instinctos” have done without problems for several decades.

I also eat twice a day but I stop eating around 15 pm.
Curious monomealing disturbed your well being.. I find it very calming and satisfactory instead. 

Do you mean mixing before or after ingestion?

haha, whatever!
Somehow I knew you (especially) would ask such question because I ve thought of that myself. 

I suppose you always monomeal, right? 


Ok, I ll be clearer with my combos:

peaches and onions : one mixed meal
mandarines and walnuts: 2 mono meals within a short period of time (maybe 40 min)*
banana and walnut: one mixed meal

* I noticed that in the past when I ate large amounts of acidic fruits, after a while I felt a particular attraction to fatty food, especially nuts or legumes like peanuts. Perhaps the fat was to countereffect the burning of the possible acidity in my stomach (even though I did not perceive any burning..)
 It is only after my last indigestion of walnuts that my body (or my mind..) is not driven anymore to look for fat after I eat acidic fruits.

Hi guys,
like I have anticipated above, today I have been to Josia house, one of the elder that knows about the forest.

We talked for 3 full hours and we parted with the agreement that he would take to the primary forest once the rainy season ends (in about a month)..

I was very impressed by the amount of first hand experience he gathered during the years spent in the forest.

Here is his story:

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Several years ago, Josia was working for some illegal logging companies responsible for having chopped down most of the original forest in this region but also worked somewhere in the deep forests of Para´state..

He would spend weeks or months in the forest, living and eating from it, healing with plants, improvising, surviving wild and poisonous animals.. During this period of his life, he met with many souls telling him to stop doing that horrible job but he did not want to listen: trees were just inanimated "things" for him, therefore why not chopping then down and make some good profit out of it? After all, he  - like most of us - needed money to go on with his life..

Many times during his work - that roary chain saw in his hands - he would still hear a particular specie of trees scream while this merciless sharp blade cut its way thru their trunks  but never paid too much attention to it; "perhaps it is just a trick of the mind" he said to himself and his collegues, "a weird noise from the machine.."

Today, recalling those times to memory, he barely can keep tears away from his eyes. I can read into his eyes that he always knew those were the voices of the trees he was killing. Josia the man in his 40s, with a family to feed and a mortgage to pay, did not allow himself the time to feel that for every tree he cut, a part of him was also dying with it.
Despite being heavily wounded, tortured and mutilated, Nature continued to do its job of spreading forth the seeds of hope into the soil and a spiritual one must have surely gotten  into Josia´s heart, to finally blossom in a latter season of his human life.

It was only after he retired, in the apparent calm and monotonous daily routine that his love and respect  towards nature  - and especially about ancient trees - came to soothen the old, violent memories of those days back then when he could not value the generosity of the forest enough, when he could not freely abandon himself to that invisible, impalpable, unconditional love that kept him alive..

The old Josia needed help now, to escape from those terrible ghosts lurking inside his conscience. His weak body, his restless mind, his broken spirit - like those screaming trees - were crying out asking for Forgiveness.
And Nature once again came in to help,  to relieve the pain of his spiritual scars, just like when she physically healed the scars of his body with the woody skin of one of her tree- creatures.

Today the Josia I met is a man totally confident in the wisdom of the forest, that found total redemption in the arms of Mother Nature, that exclusively cures himself with homemade plant/bark/leaf extracts, oils, resins and tinctures/medicinal wines made with the gallbladder of the "paca" .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowland_paca

He gifted me with freshly squeezed copaiba oil http://www.experience-essential-oils.com/copaiba-oil.html, truly raw, no processing, extracted exclusively on a full moon night.

I feel profoundly honored.

He also knows several allucynogenic wild plants from the forest he drankt the tea to heal from poisonous bytes. He told me of a leaf that makes somebody vomit out just the poison, instantly relieving from any symptoms..

Josia thinks the best natural medicines are the most bitter ones and if a medicine does not taste bitter or make you feel sick/stoned for a while, he would not consider the drug effective..

Because in his philosophy Nature needs first to clean you out for good, "purging" the sick for having strayed from her, sending this sinner to its sensorial hell, burning its guts like flames would, then finally heals you, showing abundant mercy , just like a caring mother does with her sons.

I asked how did he learn all these things about plants and he said to me the Forest told him.
Everytime he would get lost, needed to renvigorate the body and the mind, he would lay on the ground with his forehead touching the soil and just wait for the knowledge/strenght to infuse the spirit and the fleshes. That if I want to energize by embracing a tree, I should choose the ones between 120-150 cm in diameter. The bigger trees have less energy, according to him.

During our chat he kept saying: "we (humans) die but never learn". Looking at his grandchild, he feels sorry for not having preserved intact that valuable body of knowledge Nature stored in its creatures. He is left with little or nothing to show him, to validate the truth of his words, making sound his real experience like a fairy tale -  hard  to say where reality ends and fantasy starts.. Memories of the big Great Forest from another world, vestiges of our once original Home.

All this  story saddened me a bit but also fueled me with new energy to continue in my pursuit of reclaiming my status of "earthling", accepting my "true nature", fulfilling the purpose I was created for; a vessel to hold divine Light from above.

Just like Josia, I feel the need to totally surrender my ego that like a hungry chain-saw is deforesting the wild spirit of Nature within me.

Gratidao, Josia.

until my transition into this better diet, i would perform an annual fast of 10-14 days, with only water.  i can't imagine doing a citrus fast, especially for that long...  very acidic?

It depends on the oranges/citrus you have available.
Here there are such sweet (cheap) and ripe oranges I would easily mono on them for weeks..

i did an "accidental" fast of nearly a week last year around thanksgiving, not because i felt the need to, but because i ran out of food and money...  i think it's mentioned in my journal.

A blessing came in disguise

I hope you are being aware of the difference between true energy and anxious energy produced by bodies that are just barely holding on due to lack of nutrients, calories, blood sugar issues, fatigue etcetecetc. 

Hi Jessica, now that you make me think about, I m not sure which one it is..  ???Could you explain it a bit further?
I mean, I just wake up, feeling fresh, relaxed and feeling inspired, creative, wanting to dance, to use my body.. It does not seem to be the "anxious" type...

But I do believe I should increase my protein and fat from animal sources into my diet. I live with vegans here..  And I am stuck on this high carb freakin´low fat paradygm..

Sometime I worry that we live in a very hyper energetic productive world that makes us burn ourselves out because we think the more we can push ourselves the better.  Just take care and be aware.

Yeah, I totally agree.

Hi guys, yesterday I went to the lake in the property where I am staying and spent almost an entire morning bathing (in water and sun),  being naked, dancing and words came for me to assemble them and to form this poem.
I thought sharing with you would be a nice idea.

Enjoy!
(Critics appreciated)

I got warts for the first time ever one year ago.
A fruitarian friend of mine had them and passed on me..

I generously applied tea tree oil everyday over 2 months and they slowly went away.

Thanks for joining in Aura .

Maybe I dont understand, but.. are there more than one people than can be actual Love? Not just Lust?
See, Ive been attracted to alot of girls.. but I dont know if I ever loved them tho.
I thought.. maybe its because theres just one girl that I will fall in love with? I dont know  .

I do not know about you guys but I sometimes think none of us has really ever experienced anything like Unconditional Love. Because we are in the process of getting there.
Not sure about the mystics, the saints or great yogis as I never met one......

Anyway, I think we could have several partners even at the same time and with each one of them, to have a unique relationship.
You could still have a preference for one in particular but this won´t tie you exclusively to her/him..

Do not personally have experience about polyamory..

U think all ultimate is Love and I think its Sexual Desire.. but I have to say I hope it is Love.. so that I am wrong. But I havent found proof of this just yet  .

They are two and same thing.
Unconditional Love and Unconditional Sex. Cannot really be separated.

Selfish love and selfish sex are the product of human disconnection with nature/the divine, imo.

I certainly will! 

One more thought I had today.
As I was thinking about cultures from different parts of the world, I stopped and looked at my life and sensed I pretty much grew up with no culture at all..

I never felt a "national identity" nor a "family identity".

Always felt belonging to somewhere /someone else. Not really clear where/who though...

That gave rise to the following:

I feel white (and not by chance my skin is white as well) as a brand new canvas where I am now ready to write a totally new culture, this time a more right brained oriented, infused with ancient tribal knowledge but most important of all, infused with Consciousness.

Perhaps white is the color (or better the discoloration) of a human race spoiled of all its core values, waiting to be inscribed anew.

A processed race. Like  processed white rice where each individual is but a tiny grain of 100% starch which - by the way - resemble so closely the profile of today modern diets.

Civilization is dissecting people and food more and more everyday, trying to get to the "material core", thinking that by simplifyng we could get to understand ourselves and the world but by doing so, we are basically cutting out all the fundamental parts that makeup the whole.. and the inner essence of things slips farther and further away from us.

If only we could see this..

I believe the reason we left the forest (the Garden of Eden) was to get conscious and exercise the "free will" to choose between "good" and "evil".
The "good" being conscious co-operation with the technology of Nature, the second being the development of a finite, primitive and deadly man_made technology.

I aim to become a true Earthling, summoning the savage spirits of my ancestors lying dormant within the cells of my body.
Blood is the true imperishable legacy to this Planet. The Vessel of our primal identity.

My skin will embody the essence of fire and it will be red at the sight.
It will be finally one with the soil. The same soil that hath created it.