| Your body's secret wisdom is as ancient as | | | | cheese was done to protect the child from |
| humankind and encoded in every cell. It knows | | | | unseen dangers, and to bestow good fortune |
| the perfect food for you to eat at any point in | | | | through life. Rich in calcium and protein, it is no |
| time. Yet we have lost touch with that perfect | | | | wonder that our ancestors revered cheese as a |
| knowledge in this industrial society. We have lost | | | | gift from the Goddess. |
| touch with our birthright of absolute health. | | | | In ancient Rome, the horn of plenty or cornucopia |
| It doesn't matter how old or how young you are. | | | | was originally a cow's horn, overflowing with all |
| Your body can heal and rejuvenate itself from | | | | the fruits of the earth. The cow was considered |
| the inside out, and does so throughout your | | | | the caretaker of humanity. We still use the |
| lifetime. If that is true, why is there such an | | | | expressions "holy cow," or negatively, "sacred |
| epidemic of obesity and chronic illness plaguing the | | | | cow." |
| wealthiest society in the world? | | | | In some of the earliest creation stories, the great |
| We wear our suffering and lost connection to that | | | | Goddess, mother of all the Gods, was the cow. |
| secret wisdom in the form of excess fat, | | | | The Great Lady of the South gave birth to the |
| diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. We no longer | | | | sun, and created the essence of Gods and men. |
| appreciate the sacred quality of every food we | | | | We now know that the complete proteins and |
| eat, or the myriad life forms that compose our | | | | overall nutrient content of beef and dairy |
| physical nature, our cells. | | | | products make them some of the most nutritious |
| This Do in Remembrance of Me | | | | substances on the planet. |
| One way to reconnect is to take a little time to | | | | Paradise Lost |
| reflect on the food you are about to eat. What | | | | It is sad that the modern industrialized society |
| does my heart want or need today for its health, | | | | treats its food supply with so little reverence. Our |
| and pleasure; my lungs, liver, pancreas, blood, skin, | | | | apples are never fresh from the arms of a |
| teeth and hair, etc? Meditate and ask these | | | | generous tree. They are gassed, irradiated, |
| questions within before you put something in your | | | | fumigated, refrigerated, and stored for weeks or |
| mouth. | | | | months before arriving at your grocery store. |
| What does the food you eat say to you? Does it | | | | The beautiful apples you see in the produce aisle |
| say, "I'm ready to become a beautiful part of | | | | are no longer the purveyors of healing that nature |
| you-- to sacrifice myself to nourish and energize | | | | intended. |
| this human being, because this human being has | | | | Your body knows you should eat more apples, |
| seen me as a sacred gift of energy?" Or does it | | | | and other fresh fruit. But buy certified organic |
| say, "I will insist on being recognized," by causing | | | | produce, grown the way the Goddess intended. |
| this too-busy-to-care person indigestion, elevated | | | | Non organically-grown apples have some of the |
| cholesterol, or diabetes? | | | | highest pesticide levels of all fruits. |
| The sacred approach to food will change your | | | | Our own government found 36 different |
| perceptions and your tastes. In centuries past, | | | | pesticides on apples tested from 1992 to 2001. |
| every food that humans consumed carried with it | | | | The apples were washed before testing. Many of |
| a sacred symbolic meaning which modern | | | | these pesticides permeated the entire fruit or |
| civilization has forgotten. And in that forgetfulness, | | | | vegetable, and could not be removed by washing |
| we find that we have also lost the ability to | | | | or peeling. |
| successfully utilize the gifts which the Deity has | | | | From Sacred Foods to Superfoods |
| given us. | | | | In addition, many of the nutrients which our |
| What was the Sacred Fruit of Eve? | | | | ancestors received from this most sacred fruit |
| Eating food is a sacred experience. Consider the | | | | have faded before it gets to your table. |
| spiritual and sacred qualities which ancient man | | | | Supplement your fruits and vegetables with the |
| attributed to his food. | | | | green tea polyphenols, apple polyphenols, and |
| Christian lore made the apple a symbol of original | | | | pharmaceutical grade phytonutrients, available in |
| sin, even though the Bible never mentions an | | | | capsule form. These supplements can help your |
| "apple." The tree of the knowledge of Good and | | | | body to detoxify some of the harmful pesticides |
| Evil bore fruit, but not necessarily apples. The little | | | | and ingredients added to our food. |
| apple was vilified by the patriarchal system | | | | Apple polyphenols are six times more potent than |
| because it displays a pentacle in its center, when | | | | vitamin C in protecting against environmental |
| cut sideways. | | | | toxins and disease. Green tea polyphenols have |
| The pentacle is one of the most ancient and | | | | been shown more effective in the treatment of |
| magical of symbols. It has been associated in | | | | cancer than some forms of chemotherapy. |
| Christianity with the star of Bethlehem, and three | | | | Our cheeses, unless labeled organic, are created |
| kings' star; in Paganism, as the Star of Lorges, the | | | | with additional chemical processes which leave |
| devil's sign, the witch's cross, and the goblin's foot. | | | | toxic residue in the final product. The milk, which |
| Even before these interpretations, the pentacle | | | | our children also drink, may contain radioactive |
| meant good health, or life. | | | | elements and bovine growth hormones. And we |
| Healthy to the Core | | | | wonder why our precious youth, suffer from |
| This earlier interpretation was attributed to the | | | | various learning disabilities, hyperactivity, chronic |
| apple core pentacle of the earth mother goddess | | | | illness, and obesity. |
| Demeter, and represented her unborn daughter, | | | | Cannibals and Cows |
| Kore. To this day, we still call the center of the | | | | Even our wonderful cows are pressured into |
| apple the "core." The torso, or center of the | | | | maturity and sacrifice prematurely with growth |
| human body, is also called the core. And lately, | | | | hormones, and cannibalism. Mad Cow disease is |
| scientists have begun to discuss the health | | | | caused by supplying cows with processed cows |
| significance of the "apple-shaped" body, which | | | | as feed. This generates a very dangerous protein |
| holds more fat around the organs, or belly area. | | | | called a prion. The prion acts like a virus, replicating |
| In Romanian Myth, the goddess appeared as the | | | | itself slowly. This causes a disease in cows which |
| fairy Magdalina, sitting in a cosmic apple tree, | | | | is quite similar to Crutchfield-Jacobs Disease in |
| whose branches reached to heaven and whose | | | | humans. This same disease was originally seen in |
| roots reached into the ocean's abyss. It was | | | | tribal peoples who had the custom of eating their |
| believed that a holy name written on an apple, | | | | dead relatives. |
| and eaten for three consecutive days, would cure | | | | It can take years for the prion to cause the |
| a fever. | | | | symptoms of Mad Cow disease. Perhaps this is |
| Today, science is proving the miraculous curative | | | | why we slaughter our cows before they are 3 or |
| powers of certain phytochemicals in the humble | | | | 4 years old. We are assured by the USDA that |
| apple. Perhaps the apple is the fruit of the other | | | | our beef supply is safe. Yet non-organically fed |
| tree that grew in Paradise: the Tree of Immortal | | | | cows eat the same thing as the cows in other |
| Life. | | | | countries, infected with Mad Cow disease. |
| In Russian labs, apple polyphenols extended the | | | | Only nerve tissue is affected by these prions. |
| life span of mice by 56%-- the human equivalent | | | | Stay away from ground beef, which could be |
| of 35 or 40 years. "It is quite possible," said one | | | | processed on the same equipment which |
| of the Russian biochemists, "to extend people's | | | | processed brain or spinal tissue from cows, unless |
| lifespan by 20-30 years without even having to | | | | you know for certain how the ground beef was |
| invent anything." Nature, it seems, already has the | | | | processed. |
| answer. | | | | Re-experience the sacred mystery of beef. Find |
| Researchers in the U.S., Finland, and Sweden have | | | | out how it was fed and treated before slaughter, |
| shown positive results in 8 different types of | | | | and then how it is handled on the way to your |
| cancer, when treated with apple phytochemicals. | | | | table. Or raise your own. |
| Like the scriptures, the old religions and myths | | | | Give Me Health and a Day |
| hold secret truths which we are only beginning to | | | | If you think the world has gone mad, reconsider |
| decipher. | | | | this axiom: you are what you eat. And remember |
| Sacred Cows | | | | the creation myth of the cow whose milk curdled |
| Cheese is another food with ancient spiritual | | | | the Universe into existence. Mad Cow disease, |
| connections. The Egyptians believed the body was | | | | obesity, and chronic illness in young children may |
| created from mother's milk, which curdled into | | | | be like the canary in the coal mine-- signs and |
| solid form as children put on weight and | | | | omens within our own homes and families, which |
| developed. This same idea is expressed in the | | | | may all begin with the food we eat. |
| Bible: "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and | | | | Insist on food which is grown organically, with |
| curdled me like cheese?" (Job 10:10) | | | | care and love. Treat it as a divine blessing. |
| Cheese also served as a surrogate mother in the | | | | Cultivate a renewed sacred connection to |
| British countryside. A newborn child would be | | | | everything you eat. The secret wisdom of your |
| passed through a hole in the center of a large ring | | | | body can guide you back to the blessing of your |
| of cheese, called the "groaning cheese," as part of | | | | birthright- absolute, radiant health. |
| an old christening rite. This passage through | | | | |