Gabriel Cousens Workshop and Book Signing

[Guest guest]

SPIRITUAL NUTRITION: SIX FOUNDATIONS FOR LIBERATION AND AWAKENING

With Gabriel Cousens

The focus will be on how to alchemically transform the crude body and

mind into the subtle (sattvic) body and mind, so that our body-mind

complex becomes a superconductor for the Divine. Lecture, Q & A session

and Book Signing, along with Meditation and Shakitpat Initiation will

be a part of this unforgettable night!

 

This event is being held at:

Jivamukti Yoga Center

404 Lafayette Street 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10003

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

7:00pm-10:00pm

Cost: $45 advance, $50 day of, includes copy of Gabriel's new book,

Spiritual Nutrition, a $30 value

contact: info or call

(212)353-0214

http://www.jivamuktiyoga.com

 

Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H), Diplomat in Ayurveda is the founder

and director of the Tree of Life Foundation, Tree of Life

Rejuvenation Center, Tree of Life Health Practice, and the Essene

Order of Light in Patagonia, Arizona. Dr. Cousens serves as a

holistic medical doctor, a licensed psychiatrist and family

therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of

Arizona. Dr. Cousens uses the modalities of nutrition, naturopathy,

Ayurveda, homeopathy and acupuncture, blended with spiritual

awareness, in the healing of body, mind, and spirit. He is a best

selling author of many books, including Spiritual Nutrition,

Conscious Eating, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, Sevenfold Peace,

Depression-Free for Life, and Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in

Holistic Healing, co-authored with David Wagner. Dr. Cousens is

recognized through his books, worldwide role as a teacher, and as the

leading medical authority in the world on live-food nutrition.

 

 

Dr. Cousens has received rabbinical initiation from Rabbi Gershon

Winkler and serves as a spiritual teacher of the living Jewish way,

including teaching and guiding the whole cycle of Jewish holidays at

the Tree of Life. He is also a certified Senior Essene teacher and

Reiki Master, who has presented seminars on many topics including

health and nutrition, psycho-spiritual healing, and spiritual

awareness throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel,

Mexico, Costa Rica and India. He is a frequent guest on popular radio

talk shows, and is a health and nutrition columnist. Dr. Cousens has

published many articles in health journals and popular magazines in

the areas of biochemistry, school health, clinical pharmacology,

hypoglycemia and Alzheimer' disease.

 

A graduate of Amherst College, where he was captain of an undefeated

football team, Dr. Cousens was selected as an All New England lineman

and one of eleven National Scholar Athletes inducted into the

National Football Hall of Fame. He received his M.D. degree from

Columbia Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatric

residency in 1973.

 

Dr. Cousens is listed in the Who?s Who in California, the Who?s Who

Among Top Executives, the Who?s Who in Executives and Professionals,

the International Who?s Who of Entrepreneurs, Strathmore?s Who?s Who,

and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American

Holistic Medical Association (AHMA).

 

Since 1965, Dr. Cousens has been involved in humanitarian projects.

For several years in the mid-60?s, he worked with Afro-American teen

gangs on the South Side of Chicago. For three years, he lived and

worked in Central Harlem, while attending Columbia Medical School. In

his second year in medical school, as the head of the regional

student health organization, he organized doctors and medical

students from the nine different medical schools in the region to set

up an evening clinic at PS 175, a grammar school located one block

from Harlem Hospital. They examined over 500 children in one week,

and after analyzing the results, he developed a training program for

community mothers, with funding from the Department of Health,

Education and Welfare. This program was so successful that it spread

to over half the schools in Central Harlem. By the time Dr. Cousens

graduated from Columbia, the program became adopted and financed by

the New York Health Department. While in New York, Dr. Cousens also

developed a sickle-cell screening program with the PS 175 grammar

school in Central Harlem. The results of this program were also

followed through by the New York Department of Health.

 

After graduating from medical school, Dr. Cousens received an

appointment at the National Institute of Mental Health in community

psychiatry. He also received a commission as a lieutenant commander

in the Public Health Service where he served for three years.

 

During his medical internship, Dr. Cousens developed several

community programs in San Francisco supporting socio-cultural peace.

When he moved to Boston to complete his psychiatric residency, he

developed a teen center for white, working-class teenagers providing

family therapy and teen counseling as well as social activities.

After his residency, he moved to Petaluma, California, where he

became a consultant for the California State Department of Mental

Health. He also became the chief mental health consultant for Sonoma

County Head Start programs, which ranged over an area of almost 300

miles. During this time, he worked with white, working-class parents

and Pomo Native American parents and teachers in developing a Head

Start Program, which included teaching family dynamics to the Head

Start teachers and developing an innovative lead-screening program.

 

Over a period of several years, Dr. Cousens established the Petaluma

People?s Services Center, which is a community-controlled network

that provides social services for all of Sonoma County. It involved

organizing over 40 agencies, plus developing new programs and

networking to serve the elderly, a child-abuse hotline, and parent

crisis hotlines. This center is still operating 25 years later and

has been successful in its endeavors. It has become a significant

social service agency in southern Sonoma County.

 

In 1992, Dr. Cousens founded the Essene Order of Light, a non-profit

humanitarian service and educational organization dedicated to the

healing and transformation of the planet. In 1994, Dr. Cousens

developed the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, AZ and

continues to act as director. The Tree of Life is a multi-cultural,

spiritual, eco-retreat center for rejuvenation of body, mind and

spirit. In 2002 the Tree of Life Foundation was created which

encompassed all of these organizations under one non-profit 501 c (3)

umbrella.

 

Currently, the focus of Dr. Cousens? humanitarian work is creating

world peace on all levels. He has been leading peace meditations

around the world since 1985. He has established a Peace 21 meditation

where as many as 2,000 people have come together at one time to

meditate for peace four times per year on each equinox and solstice.

In 1996, while in Patagonia, he established this quarterly peace

meditation at the United Nations in New York where he regularly goes

to lead this meditation for world peace. This is all part of an

overall process to create peace and healing of the planet on the

physical, mental and spiritual levels. In 2003 he initiated the

worldwide ?Peace Everyday Initiative? to encourage all traditions to

work for peace. He has been working with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-

Shalomi, the grandfather of the Jewish Renewal Movement. The Dalai

Lama has given his blessings to the project.

 

Dr. Cousens works daily on an individual level with people who are

seeking to consciously cultivate peace in their own lives and within

their families and communities. In this context, as part of his work

with a Lakota Sioux Chief with whom he has Sundanced, Dr. Cousens has

created the framework for a program to assist Native Americans in

healing from diabetes. This is a program that will eventually benefit

all indigenous groups whose health has degenerated because of not

following their traditional, healthy diet. The world literature

clearly shows that diabetes becomes epidemic within twenty years

after eating a diet of fast food, junk food, and large amounts of

white sugar and white flour. With the holistic techniques that Dr.

Cousens has developed, people are able to heal from adult-onset

diabetes in as short a time as two weeks. This natural healing

technology is simple and highly effective. By returning people to

indigenous diets, and with the help of certain nutrients, a great

service is being provided.

 

The Tree of Life Foundation has also created the idea of building

holistic orphanages and eco-villages for 200 children, developing a

garden-centered school with a holistic health component. The larger

plan is to extend these holistic orphanages and schools throughout

the world. The mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil and sites in Mexico, Costa

Rica, Puerto Rico, Egypt, Israel, and South Africa are interested. A

complete program has been developed, but is waiting for the Tree of

Life Foundation in Patagonia to reach its next level of operation

before this can manifest.

 

At the July, 1999 Native American Sundance, Dr. Cousens had the

vision of the possibility of feeding the hungry children of the

world. Using technologies that are being incorporated at the Tree of

Life Rejuvenation Center, such as EM (Effective Microorganisms), low

water, and dilute salt-water technologies; agriculture production can

be increased from two to ten times. With these agricultural

technologies, and using the holistic orphanages and other EM-based

farms as food production sites, enough food can be produced to feed

the children in every region where these programs are implemented.

Dr. Cousens looks forward to the long process of establishing these

programs on a national and international basis. After the four-year

Sundance commitment, he was adopted into the Lakota Sioux Nation.

Presently, the Tree of Life Foundation, in conjunction with his

Native American brothers and sisters, is sponsoring a multi-tribal,

multi-cultural White Buffalo Spirit Dance for the healing and

transformation of the planet. At the first dance in 2002, people from

many Third World tribes in Mexico, Native Americans in the U.S.,

people from all states in the U.S. and Europe participated in this

eight-day world peace event. Gabriel has now established a White

Buffalo Spirit Dance at the Tree of Life as an outgrowth of the

earlier Spirit Dance.

 

Since being initiated as a Rabbi in 2001 by Rabbi Gershon Winkler,

Gabriel?s peace and spiritual teachings have taken him to Israel

where he has become a popular teacher. Part of his humanitarian

mission is to support the peace process in the Middle East.

 

Dr. Cousens has committed his life to world service and to

establishing these fledgling programs on an international basis so

that he, and everyone who chooses to help, can participate in the

healing and transformation of the planet.