The Primal Myth.

[Guest guest]

Dear Fellow Raws,<br><br>Once we lived in a state

of nature, the Garden of Eden, and naturally we ate

raw. But we fell from grace and ate cooked. If only we

can eat raw again, we can re-enter

paradise.<br><br>When an individual seeks to live the myth by eating

one hundred percent raw, they find they don't

re-enter paradise. But naturally there is nothing wrong

with the myth, so it must be all those other people

eating cooked.<br><br>So we rail against those who eat

cooked and we demonise the Multi-Nationals that sell

cooked.<br><br>Victor.

[Guest guest]

To everyone; Please forget everything I have said. I saw The Spy Who Shagged Me,

and I've decided to eat babies. GET IN MY BELLY!!!<br><br>Sorry; Doug

[Guest guest]

The tastes of raw food are certainly

paradisal.<br><br>The world would be far less screwed up if people were

raised (from conception) on raw food. While not any

paradise, it would certainly be a far better place than the

world today.<br><br>Another essential ingredient,

besides raw food, is daily swimming during infancy. The

un-natural helplessness we inflict on infants goes against

our aquatic-ape heritage. Swimming infants grow up to

be more athletic, more physically confident, and

less vulnerable to neurosis as adults.<br><br>The

people of the world suffer a double handicap: cooked

food and infant helplessness. Only when these horrors

are ended will the human race be truely happy.

[Guest guest]

Dear Bill,<br><br>What a good reply, particularly

infant swimming.<br><br>I am sure you are quite right

while I was trying to draw attention to the

underpinnings of our Raw Food rhetoric.<br><br>In particular to

the striking myth, that we take for granted. That is

the myth of the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve

ate of the fruits of the trees, of course, all except

one.<br><br>I eat primarily fruit. So I am living out part of

our common mythical heritage. And while I am

concerned about the experiential and scientific aspects of

a mainly fruit diet, I am inclined not to see

myself as a living figure of myth. And yet, that is what

I am.<br><br>Dare I say, that is what we all are.

We are in a living dream, and we are all attracted

to the dream of innocence.<br><br>We forget there

can be no innocence without guilt. We forget that we

are free to eat all the fruits of the trees except

one. The apple tree, the tree of knowledge. And once

eaten, we loose our innocence.<br><br>The lose of

innocence can lead to such grief and rage that we kill our

brother, Abel.<br><br>The seeds of our own destruction lie

in our dream of innocence. Just as apple seeds lie

at the core of the apple.<br><br>Victor.