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Another great essay Guy. Let us shout out stories like these from the rooftops to spread the word. After living in joint pain for most of my adult life and being diagnosed with lupus and fibromyalgia, having my spleen removed, put on bagfuls of tablets. Not one doctor EVER suggested giving up sugar, not one. Without sugar I am 95% pain free and apparently no longer have lupus, fibromyalgia, clinical depression, a weak immune system. Such is the strength of the drug that people will do almost anything else but stop their 'treats'. They say "I am so good most of the time I deserve to spoil myself" and I want to point out that language, 'spoil'. The conditioned addiction has gone on for over a hundred years, with the last half of that being ramped up by a deliberate money making campaign and it has weakened our minds and made us easily controlled. What a shocking fact. My life without processed sugar has a sharper focus, like going from a black and white silent movie to technicolour! Looking forward to Part 3.

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yes! shout it out with a smile of the joy.

the level of joy I experienced in my skin still gives my skin goose bumps in remembrance of it. even as i write that now!

what is difficult for me to explain is the level of freedom that that cessation gave me. it was a complete release from a curtailment of life I didn't even know i had at the time. also a true measure of the hidden nature of 'addiction', being within the unseen samskaras that have initially pointed a path towards freedom only to subsequently become the rut that imprisons us. since those experiences my continued practices have even expanded that ecstatic joy of the skin to a similar joy of the entire body and into the freedom to be in this moment has expanded into something that may be approaching infinite. this now is now, not really time. amazing stuff.

and your story is to be shouted too! 95% pain free following the cessation of sugar. yes. please share.

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Just a quick hi Guy. Waaaay to much for me to respond to, can't even get to comments on my own short post. Tokyo just finished its first and probably only snow of the year, and no sooner than it had melted, hay fever hit me hard. Early this year, can hardly keep my rheumy eyes open or nose dry. Will be back soon.

Cheers buddy!

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Hola, Steve.

Thank you for dropping in late in Japanese time. All the best with your hay fever. I've seen your reactions here and there, which I enjoy very much.

It is dry here, a drought now. A big river is now dry and so are wells in the area. Rest, get well. (One day maybe I'll share food as medicine with you!) Great sleeping!

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A pleasure to read, informative as always and I so appreciate your self-honesty. I'm even tempted to give up the small amount of sugar in my diet just to see if I see any benefits. I don't know though - I resist restrictions especially given my moderation - they tend to backlash on me.

Looking forward to next segment.

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hola, kathleen.

gracias.

yes on challenge of creating freedom via restriction. another of those odd dichotomies in what we want to idealistic experience as a singularity and yet which couched with that is duality and opposites. as i wrote in the previous essay, the 'restriction' of a 40 day sadhana practice was anathema to my ego because it had lost that bit of control. facing that manifestation of mara and to say to it 'i see you' was one of the biggest steps forward into freedom. that was a significant part of part i of this sequence as i experienced and have wrote. jung put it well. there is no freedom without strength and strength requires a form of disciple otherwise life becomes a form of dissipation and enervation. does sound a lot like how our society runs.

gautama was adamantly opposed to ascetic practices being necessary or even desirable to discover one's own 'enlightenment.'

as i continue down this path i'll share my body-awareness process helped me to easily distinguish between an acquiescence to a samskara that has trapped me with a golden cage of ostensible ease and freedom, or something that is the next path to newfound freedom. sugar is tricky. like cocaine and heroin, both also originating in nature's ingredients as a medicine, sugar when refined become a powder whose purity is having serious consequences on the brain. sugar's ubiquity as a drug that has stoned us since childhood makes it difficult to see that we are a society of sugared stoners. something you may find interesting is to begin a three-way conversation of the play-full imagination: the you thing that formulates and uses words, your body that doesn't require words and yet makes itself known, and sugar to see the nature of that relationship: it could very well be that for this now-moment your small amount of sugar is the exact appropriate eccentric action. or it may be that rationalisation as samskara is 'tricking' you, mara-like, into a trap you don't know you are in. like all that propaganda being most effective to the people who don't see it. a grand adventure, see the truth-traps!

thank you for reading and commenting. all the best.

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"...it could very well be that for this now-moment your small amount of sugar is the exact appropriate eccentric action. or it may be that rationalisation as samskara is 'tricking' you, mara-like, into a trap you don't know you are in. like all that propaganda being most effective to the people who don't see it. a grand adventure, see the truth-traps!"

Exactly what I was wondering - you said it far better than I could have. Thanks, Guy.

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Da nada.

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Guy, I started writing about my story going plant-based and how it saved my life, but the AI bots started scrambling the words before my very eyes! I couldn't even use command-Z to undo!

It's crazy.

I wish you well, friend.💝

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hola, sharine!

thank you, and igualmente!

i am very well.

i've heard many stories of plant-based rescues. and i smile at that, because i accept fully that those work. and yet, not one of the plant-based people i've met think that a meat only diet can heal anyone. i've encountered dying dedicated vegans and dying omnivores. diet is one part of a complex interplay and that complexity is infinitely multiplied by the absolute uniqueness of our bodies and the mind-body complex. my healing diet will be toxic to you.

food is medicine! each of our medicines is to be individually dosed and likely followed for a time, even if that is a few or even many years.

blake really really hit the nail on the head:

one law for the lion and the ox is oppression. everyone needs to be injected is tyranny. everyone needs to eat xxx is tyranny. and all come from a place of control.

in my experience with people across the dietary spectrum there is a particularly irritating ethical virtue signalling shrillnes that poisons the words of some, perhaps even many, vegans. from them comes a repetitive denial that that people who heal with other diet are either liars and/or are working for big pharma. concomitant with those accusations typically comes an absolute deaf obnoxious tyrannical virtue signalling self-righteous strutting that is equal to that of the cabal. and, because of some weird destiny i have by chance met 3 dying vegans. the last one, met by the absolute most bizarre set of synchronicities you can imagine was thrilled to talk to us because we listened to her. she had been shunned by all her vegan friends. what did she want to share? how healthy she is at last, how wonderful her energy and poop is. seriously. she could barely contain herself for the joy of sharing her experience of improved health by including meat. and also her frustration and fear that her boyfriend is unwell and possibly dying of veganism and refuses to acknowledge that let alone the obvious to us physical evidence of even his girlfriend's experience. he is deaf to another person's experience.

on the other hand, the few keto or paleo people i've met who have had astounding physical healing stories equivalent to the vegans, do not oppress or judge or condemn or castigate or denigrate people who have healed themselves with other diets. i am going on a bit here, perhaps in part because of recent encounters with a couple of particularly militant vegans, one of whom i check out his facebook activity and each time the hatred and condemnation emanating from his liked posts and some of the comments are actual hate statements that could actually be chargeable because they include death threats.

now i have no idea if you are a militant vegan. and i have no doubt that you had a healing experience with your diet because i trust your experience in the same way i know that my experience is a tale of remarkable healing through a complexity and with twists and turns into and out of vegan-centric. i trust my friend mark when he says he also had a profound healing shift when he went vegan. and i watch him struggling now with different serious health issues he believes more veganism will cure. i trust the keto friends' experiences and see the effect that that change has had on their somatic, energetic and mental health.

one rule for the ox and lion is oppression.

i also anticipate that for anyone to fixate on that particular healing diet as more than a medicine required at a time for a time that allowed/gave their body recovery from morbidity are likely to discover troubles later on. that has been my experience, as i will elaborate in my current body-by-pass focus series moving towards fully trusting my body and distrusting every other diet guru-god, be it vegan, keto, carni, paleo or other.

thank you for reading my essays and for the comment. it seems you have asked me to free something from my self, and so here i have. i hope this finds you well.

salud, sante, health! all the best.

ps: how were the ai bots even with you?

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Greetings, Guy, thank you for sharing more deeply your profound experiences related to diet and health. I agree that "vegans" can be unhealthy, and that carnivores can be healthy. And, indeed, many factors are at play in each individual's mind-body-spirit complex and what they choose to do with it!

Importantly in this context, I am happy for you that you have regained good health!

I don't consider myself "vegan" any more because of the militant definition being used in the mainstream propaganda. I do not believe anyone can be truly vegan because plants grow naturally with the aid of animal poop! Also, I wear some leather items, although I acquire them second-hand. That's a big part of it for me, the Natural Law principle "Do not steal," which I interpret to mean not even stealing the life of an animal or its unborn babies (eggs) or the babies' food (milk). Plus, when I realized that humans are the only mammals that switch from drinking their own mother's milk to the milk of another mammal, it grossed me out big-time, haha. But this is where I'm at now.

I spent the first 50 years of my life consuming whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and I am done with that philosophy and lifestyle.

So I say, to each their own. I just don't want anyone to try manipulating me into eating or drinking according to their beliefs, nor do I consent to being deceived or forced into taking any action that doesn't align with my morals and values. I am hearing from you that you feel similarly in your life. And, after all, it is YOUR life, no one else can live it for you!

I greatly appreciate hearing your perspectives, even if/when they differ from my own. And I wish you excellent health, well-being, and a life filled with joy and joyful creativity.

P.S. The AI bots are in the internet🤖, which is run on harmful electromagnetic frequencies. I do my best to fend them off🗡, but sometimes, they find a chink in my armor, so I must fix that when it happens!💝

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yes. exactly.

my body turned vegetarian in 2014. i did vegan in 2016 for a few weeks and then went back to vegetarian for reasons to be disclosed. my body continues to reject meat an in feb of 2023 eggs too. so... some dairy in the form of cheese for me and fat in the form of butter until my body directs me otherwise. it has been a fascinating journey into my body and to now see, honour and respect it as the wisdom-truth moment that the mind and ego and ethical thinking can never be? lol! are we able to trust the body as ethical? or do we trust everyone who has told us the body is vile? hmmmm. that question points to what is likely the core of all trauma.

thank you for sharing you story so well, this time without ai-driven bots. (or is that really sharine who wrote that?) i know of bots, of course. i don't think they have actually invaded me. hmmmm. although, if i am a bot how would i know the difference?

all the best, night.

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Yes, it was me, the real Sharine! And the bots didn't invade ME, just the Substack platform in that weird moment!

You know you're not a bot if you have a body, a mind, a spirit, and true creativity. Bots are disembodied exotic-technology entities. Basically, they are little techno-demons summoned by cushy-job-keeping career clowns who lack true care and creativity, otherwise they wouldn't be coding fake shit by copy-catting the work of real full-spectrum human beings.

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😆🙌🤣🙌😂

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Great emoticons! Keepin' it real, Guy, as you do! Nighty-night.

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