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Today soils are tired, overworked, depleted, sick, poisoned by synthetic chemicals. Hence the quality of food has suffered, and so has health. Malnutrition begins with the soil. Buoyant human health depends on wholesome food, and this can only come from fertile and productive soils. Minerals in the soil, said Carrel, control the metabolism of cells in plant, animal, and man. Diseases
are created chiefly by destroying the harmony reigning among mineral substances present in infinitesimal amounts in air, water, food, but most importantly in soil. If soil is deficient in trace elements, food and water will be equally deficient.

Carrel then came to the point: chemical fertilizers cannot restore soil fertility. They do not work on the soil, but are forcibly imbibed by plants, poisoning both plant and soil. Only organic humus makes for life. Plants, said Carrel, are the great intermediaries by which the elements in rocks, converted by microorganisms into humus, can be made available to animal and man, to be built into flesh, bone, and blood. Chemical fertilizers, on the contrary, can neither add to the humus content of soil nor replace it. They destroy its physical properties, and therefore its life. When chemical fertilizers are put into the soil they dissolve and seek natural combination with minerals already present. New combinations glut or overload the plant, causing it to become unbalanced. Others remain in the soil, many in the form of poisons.

Plants that are chemically fertilized may look lush, but lush growth produces watery tissues, which become more susceptible to disease; and the protein quality suffers. Chemical fertilizers, said Carrel, by increasing the abundance of crops without replacing all the elements exhausted from the soil, have contributed to changing the nutritive value of our cereals: “The more civilization progresses, the further it gets from a natural diet.” Our present diet consists of adulterated and denatured foods, from which the most precious essential factors have been removed by coloring, bleaching, heating, and preserving. Pasteurizing milk kills the enzymes vital to nutrition, leaving only the rotted corpses of bacteria. White bread has its germ, which contains the vital nutrients, ritually removed, a deliberate castration.

Anyone alive before World War II, especially in Europe, knows that bread, fruit, vegetables, and meat bear no relation to what they were before the war. Our crop yields may have doubled or even tripled, but their nutritive quality has diminished progressively. Visual impression of foods has become the most important factor, though anyone with a glimmer of second sight will pass up, as no more alive than the products of Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum, the cosmetic and congealed displays of the grocery store today.

Abundance does not mean the food contains a sufficient amount of needed elements and vitamins. There is no doubt, says Dr. Melchior Dikkers, Professor of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry at Loyola University, that malnutrition is the most important problem confronting mankind at the present time. The United States, despite its boasted food production, is grossly undernourished. And, though the per capita expenditure on health care in the USA is the highest in the world, so is the incidence of cancer, obesity, heart, and circulatory diseases.

But doctors in general know very little about food. Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine—described as a member of a small fraternity dedicated to freeing the healing art from the domination of drug companies—lays the blame on the plethora of misinformation on nutrition put out in medical schools, suggesting they might do better not to teach the subject at all.

Even more amazing, Dr. Weissman’s research reveals that many of the killer diseases have developed only within the last hundred years, demonstrably through toxic chemicals introduced into the environment and food supply as by-products of the Industrial Revolution—chemicals such as chlorine and its compounds, coal-tar derivatives, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and so on.

A hundred years ago coronary heart disease was virtually unknown in Europe and America. The first case described in medical literature surfaced in 1910. Today it is the leading cause of death. Cancer, which today is responsible for 3.4 percent of all deaths in Europe and America, was responsible for only 1 percent a hundred years ago. Today even newborn and very young children are victims of cancer and leukemia. Diabetes, the third most common cause of death, once struck only one in fifty thousand Americans; now it strikes one in twenty.

Water, in primitive lands—as was the case in developing countries before the late nineteenth century—needed no disinfection. Where there are no industries or factories pouring waste pollutants into the environment, plants, marine life, and land animals are not tainted by dangerous chemicals. Now, not only water but soil and air are everywhere polluted, a pollution that is transmitted via plant and animal to man. In the developed world, says Weissman, there is virtually no clean soil or water left: toxins are in all the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe. Fruits, vegetables, grain, fish, poultry, meats, eggs, dairy products are all affected. And some foods are concentrators and magnifiers of the pollution, the greatest concentrations of toxins occurring in animal fat and cholesterol. Mother’s milk could not be legally sold in the supermarket; it would not pass the government’s safety test.

Protection against disease, says Weissman, is more important, and more effective, than later therapy. And protective medicine starts in the soil.

We cannot put the blame on anyone but ourselves; we created this society, and support it. The idea that life is static is unreal. We are still evolving just like the universe has been for billions of years. Many believe that we are at the brink of a major evolutionary change of great magnitude. That fact that there is an increasing tonnage of ice on the poles can be attributed to the deforestation and pollution. But for many, its nature continuing its evolution and we just might be heading towards another ice-age. There are some real sound solutions to abating this from happening, but we need to act now. We are all part of this, you do make a difference.

The further we move away from nature and all its forces, the further it gets away front us. This past century and a half has taken us to the extreme. Nature will survive our playing around with chemicals and continue to evolve, with or without us. The sooner we “tune-h” to the natural forces, we will evolve with them. All of this recent past may have been designed by nature in order to give us this wake up call, to reunite with it, because we are a very important part in its evolutionary process, and nature is letting us know this in a very unique way.

We live in a society that’s economic base is petrochemical, and we are all products of this system. It would be a grand thing if we could all “live off the land,” but somewhere between the world we are now experiencing and that grand “utopia,’ we can choose a new way to restore and connect with the forces that make life possible. We encourage you to investigate, study, and implement some of the vast, natural methods and “new age” ideas that exist in the realm of natural living. We are all part of the Natural Spirit.

Health

So long as one feeds on food from unhealthy soil, the spirit will lack the stamina to free itself from the prison of the body.   -Rudolf Steiner

We’ve all heard before; ~You are what you eat”. Now take a minute to think about this, If we are what we eat, then we are preservatives, artificial additives, chemical fertilizers and the giant list can go on and on. But before you throw in the towel, remember, HOPE is in your hands!

To understand how to heal ourselves and maintain a preventive lifestyle, we need to study the effect of energy, or the “life force” of all living things. Healing is the process of removing the cause of and thereby the symptoms of discomfort experienced through the malfunctions of energies which constitute the body, mind and spirit.

The one thing we all have in common is energy- Energy is a vibration, constantly moving, expanding and contracting in a continuous spiral of life. All realization of being, the essence of consciousness, all awareness, is the function of energy. Our consciousness of the world around us is manifested by our response to energy.

The sounds we hear are at the lower range of energy. If you should doubt that sound is energy, note the destruction of sonic waves, which may be incurred by low-flying aircraft, which can be as devastating as a tornado. These are sound vibrations. At the other end of the spectrum is light, as evidenced by the laser beam. Optically, we become aware of our surroundings when light strikes the retina causing an impulse translated by the brain to create the illusion that we have seen a picture. In reality the brain has created a picture as a result of the impulse of light energy activating a complicated process involving the interpretation of this stimulation of light energy.

We hear by the similar process of such interpretation of sound waves of energy striking the eardrums. Our bodies are roughly 80 percent space and 20 percent atomic structure. The seemingly solid objects around us are similarly constituted. When we touch these objects we are in reality sensing the difference in vibratory energy levels. If energy levels were compatible, we would simply integrate the two substances.

Our sense of touch, our means of tactile awareness, is simply the detection of the differences in the vibratory levels of energy we come in contact with. In the Soviet Union researchers are teaching the blind to see through their fingertips. The first step in attaining this tactile awareness is to learn to identify the difference between color vibrations emanating from different colored materials of varying textures such as, paper, cloth, and tiles, usually starting with different colored samples of paper of identical texture. Eventually this process makes it possible to identify the energy or vibration to the point of “seeing” through the skin of the fingers as well as other parts of the body.

The body is basically comprised of energy and vibration. The malfunction of this vibration energy is the basis of symptomatic discomfort. The healing process is the return to normalcy of the energy of body, mind and spirit.

All elements in nature are designed to attract or repel. The structure of the elements is a natural combination of atoms which take form to emit vibrations or receive vibrations. Through their evolution, they have combined to form the basic elements that we take for granted, water, air, minerals and cells, We are made up of the same elements found everywhere in nature. For example, we share about 50 of the same elements that a tree is made up of.

The fact that we are all connected to the same “life force” is no mystery; it is quite easy to understand. All life forms are of the same basic elements in nature. The further we get away from natural elements in our diet, the further we detach ourselves from natural forces that are designed, by nature, to constantly replenish our life force. The more artificial food we consume, the more artificial we become, and the natural forces tend to become more distant from helping us.

An example is, the energy emitted by an angry dog, we just stay away or avoid this animal. The same happens with us when we detach ourselves from a natural diet. We no longer share the same natural elements, and our vibrations in turn, repel the natural forces and they no longer feel connected to us. There are many who believe that nature is responding to the energy or vibrations being emitted, and the results are all around us.

War, violence, indecision, pain, and disease are trapped in our bodies. These vibrations are unwanted by nature and blocks nature’s incoming vibrations of help. The outcome is social disorder, natural disasters and an out-of-balance condition that we see everyday. It’s easy to point the finger of blame, but in doing so, we are really pointing at ourselves.

The one thing to remember is that order follows chaos. If a bookcase has been knocked over, order will follow, as long as we begin to stand up the bookcase and start to organize the books. If we have been knocked down with disease or discomfort, look at it as an opportunity to reorganize and regain our health. As we start to “pick up the pieces” of our lives, we can take a closer look at each individual aspect and decide whether or not it is essential to put back on the shelf. When we are given this chance to reevaluate the elements involved in our personal lives, its a natural event, and natural changes will be made.

Making the change to a natural diet and way of life is easy.

Remember, without change, there is no progress.

Natural forces will help you, it’s what they want.

Nature is continuously evolving, and if we are degenerating, we need to stop our degenerative process right now. You’ve already made the first step, you’re reading this information. Our activation is information. If your bookcase is very big and you have allot of books to pick up, help is all around you. There are many natural solutions offered by alternative health care professionals.

The next step is the detoxification of our bodies. There are many toxins all around us. Many we do have control over, and others, as individuals, we do not. For now, we are going to focus on the elements that we can change to make ourselves healthier, happier and stronger.

The detoxification of our bodies must be done at a cellular level, not by cutting, burning or poisoning the body. Remember again, you are what you eat. The quality of your food is the most important factor in building quality blood, cells and tissue. It is very important to consume only fresh, organic products. The following chart points out some very interesting findings, as to the value of receiving full benefit from organically grown food, and just a little of why we contend that there is little or no benefit in processed food.