Fast and slow.

[Guest guest]

I have noticed that as I get into the third day

of this fast, I have become very slow.<br><br>I have

also noticed that in a small country town, everyone is

slow. They walk slow, they talk slow and they think

slow. In a regional town they are faster and by the

time you get to Sydney, they are running and speaking

into their mobiles at the same time.<br><br>But the

striking thing, in each case: everyone is doing it

together. They are slow together, they are middling

together and they are fast together.<br><br>We conform at

the level of speed. And it's quite

unconscious.<br><br>No wonder we conform at the level of food. The

unconscious pressure to eat processed food is

irresistible.<br><br>That is what is so remarkable about this group. We are

going against, what is for most, an overwhelming social

force. The force of imitation. Or you might say the

trance of imitation. Or the group trance.<br><br>They

danger for us is that we form our own group trance. All

the more strident for being a very small

minority.<br><br>The opportunity for us is that we can wake up from

all group trances and become just

ourselves.<br><br>The raw food experience can be a pathway to full

individuation or, as you might say: growing up. Or it can be a

pathway to a new group trance to replace the

old.<br><br>As we proceed along the path we remember Yeats who

said:<br><br> " The good lack all conviction, and the worst<br>

are full of passionate intensity " .<br><br>That is,

those who wish to maintain the group trance are

passionate, while those who are moving out into their own

unknown individuality are uncertain and

tentative.<br><br>And yet what a beautiful flower each of you

is.<br><br>Victor.

[Guest guest]

I must say Victor, your email pleases me. Your

fast is clearly a good thing for you. We have argued

in the past about raw food lifestyle being no more

than just food. I said it was a pathway to a new

life... you said it was just food. I am tickled that you

are seeing it differnetly now.<br><br>I have found

that becoming a raw foodist was the fist step toward

honoring myself in everything I do. In honoring myself, I

am remembering myself. Tearing off the masks, waking

up from the trance.