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Dietary Resume

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Date	material veil	spiritual Gain	Diet
May 11 1969	Born and Raised Irmo, SC	raised Southern Baptist. Became interested in Hinduism around the age of 18. quit eating meat because all th religions I studied were vegetarian.	SAD diet
Aug 1987 – May 1991	Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. computer science major	hardly any. a bit of Shambhala Center Tibetan Buddhism. a bit of Islam. a bit of a prana transmission meditation called Sahaj Marg off and on.	SAD vegetarian - oreos, coke, pizza, potato chips, you name it. Just no dead carcasses.
August 1991 – Dec 1993	Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. computer science grad	did Sahaj Marg off and on. some Qi Gong and hatha yoga.	SAD diet. Some exposure to vegetarians with Sahaj Marg and Vedanta
Jan 1994 – Jun 1994	Taught English in Taiwan. Studied Chinese.	learned Tai Chi from a person who could grab your mental attention by thought power. He was also impossible to push over – he would always win in a push hands bout.	Taiwanese diet
Aug 1994 – May 1995	Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA. Medical Neuroscience grad school	did Qi Gong and Tai Chi. a bit of shamanic flying would ensue at night. a bit of Shambhala Center Buddhism. read Christmas Humphreys “Concentration and Meditation” and began to try to control my thoughts.	SAD + taiwanese (egg fried rice, noodles, shrimp balls)
Aug 1995 – May 1999	Southern Cal Computational Neuroscience grad student. Lived at the Yesss Intentional Community.	Yang and Chen Tai Chi. Some Zen and Tibetan buddhism. American pop tantra (1 year). 3HO Kundalini Yoga. Became aware of health food. Some work with Samael Aun Weor's gnosis and Stephen Hoeller's gnosis. Some spiritualism. Some fasting. Some rebirthing.	SAD
May 1999 – Nov 2001	professional computer programmer in Southern and Northern California and New York City	personal use of mescaline, Salvia Divinorum, DPT, calamus, LSA, ayahuasca, cannabis. Involvement with Santo Daime, Temple of the True Inner Light, DMT Temple. This ended in 2001. Feldenkrais, Hakomi, the Relaxation Response.	SAD. Taking Acorus Calamus led to 8 hours of vomiting and defecating. Took raw juices after that. Then back to SAD. Some experimenting with macrobiotics.
Nov 2001 – Dec 2001	none. went to Madre Grande Monastery in Dulzura, CA	31 day insight meditation retreat. For the first time in my life, I had thoughts without acting on them.	vegetarian. ate junk food the one day we left the monastery.
Jan 2002 Aug 2002	public school substitute and normal teacher	none. fooled around with Sanskrit chanting a bit	fruitarian alternating with meat eating. being in the deep rural south, meat eaters abounded.
Aug 2002 – Dec 2002	professional programmer in NYC	got into macrobiotics and worked with Lectorium Rosicrucianum	macrobiotics
Jan 2003 – Dec 2003	some public school training and professional programming in Los Angeles. Lived at the Ganas Intentional Community and Int'l Buddhist Meditation Center.	Ashtanga yoga, Christian Science, Johrei, Buddhism, raw foods, spiritualism. not sure why I won't settle on Christian Science and drop everything else.	meat eating while doing Ashtanga Yoga. Vegetarian later. Found cooked mexican food enabled me to run faster than a diet of juiced fruits. Bought Juliano's raw cookbook. Could awaken earlier on raw foods. A bit more alert on raw foods. Tried ginseng products.
Jan 2004 – Oct 2004	public school teaching in South Carolina and Florida	Monroe institute astral projection, sungazing, Tibetan Buddhism, Karl Welz rune, orgone, and computer magick studies.	read Victoria Boutenko's "12 steps to raw foods"... became arw foodist. raw goat cheese led to major constipation and fatigue. drank lots of orange juice.
Oct 2004 – Sept 2005	programmer in Thousand Oaks, CA	sungazing, pranayama with Sankara Saranam and the Solar Logos Foundation. Theosophy. Practicing Ernest Wood's concentration led to the 2nd time that I had thoughts without reacting. Himalayan Yoga under SwamiJ.com (his Yoga Nidra technique led to the 3rd time that I had thoughts without identifying with them).	17 days on only orange juice. many days of just fruit. many times was beset with cravings and ate cooked foods. had gag reflexes from eating pseudo meat dishes at Follow Your Heart in trendy bohemian Canoga Park. Macrobiotics for a few days. Cannabis preparations here and there.
Sept 2005 – Dec 2005	programmer in El Segundo, CA.	chiropractic, fruitarianism, Buddhism. lived at International Buddhist Meditation Center in Los Angeles.	fruitarian diet combined with chiropractic open up my spine... one day I really felt like I was barely touching the ground. But the second I felt that way, I went out and ate cooked food... dont ask me why! Tried the warrior diet (raw juices during day, cooked meat at night). One day I was picking open the chest of a chicken and said "man, this is just gross" and gave the chicken to the dogs. Of course meat bloated me and made me constipated. It also affected the circulation in my lower limbs. But the oils circulating through my skin felt good. And I was not low on energy.
Dec 2005 – Feb 2006	jobless	Tibetan Tantrism, Reiki Tummo (merges Tummo/fire from lower body with Reiki/cool from crown). afraid of instant enlightenment “diksha”	fruitarian. When I first got a job, I had job training in Mountain View, CA. I was fine for a few days but then ate meat ate lunch from an open bar. I had a public retching incident and generated and spit out mucus for hours afterward.
Mar 2006 - June 2006	Las Vegas, CA to work as a programmer for FriendFinder.	As I write this, my daily focal points of training are: Self-realization, Dahn Yoga (Korean Yoga), Open Source Order of Golden Dawn Magick.	fruitarian but fading. Involvement with the Synchronicity Foundation led me to try the Zone diet. This led to diarrhea and constipation. And bloating. And weird gastric secretions. And fear of death from mad cow's disease. I ate all sorts of lobsters and oysters and shrimp until 42 told me they were bottom feeders and ate shit. That retched me out. vascillated between raw and cooked. Had a 24 hour belching spell. I ate rice and steamed veggies then followed it with a chocolate zone shake... I was belching up those grains for 24 hours and it did not taste good.
June - 2006 - July 2006			I resolved to bring in the 30th anniversary of Biotrophic Protocol by 30 days of fruit. I met rump during this time and he helped me out a lot. But then on my last day of training in King of Prussia, PA, I went to Arnold's Way. he had been doing raw vegan for 30 years. So I ate and of course had a gag reflex. Probably due to the old counter tops or the air or foreign substances in a pure system. So I blew the 30 days at 20 or so. I really was reaching some physical highs.
July 2006			Got to Florida. Had to taste test all the latest Glaser Organic Farms Raw Treats. too much salt but I ate them anyway, in hopes of having a fun and healthy and tasty diet. Sorry bub. Then pure fruit for 35 days. Then blew it on all kinds of things. Then vegetarian.
November 2006			now, I am fixated on wheatgrass and green superfoods. So, if it makes a messy kitchen then forget it. I have a lot of brown rice. I guess I should eat it. And of course fruit and tomatoes for the vitamin c and lycopene that green foods lack. I had a veggies and cheese from the deli and publix today. it made me sleepy. Today I had a bunch of peanut butter chocolate bars. I wanted soda but that damages me too much. Wish I had got some ginseng cola. I had plain brown rice for lunch. I sauntered into Borders Books and felt a sense of desperation as I stared at 3 shelves full of every diet book you could imagine. But it didn't take long for the "Paleo Diet" book to jump out at me. And so I am chomping on a turkey sandwich with peppers and tomatoes and it tastes way better than those inflated-fat indian meals, macrobiotic meals, and most anything else I've had for quite awhile. Hmm, this meat has my whole body buzzing. There is no pain, but there is an incredible sense of activity in the body... perhaps the ginseng colas did this? I'm not sure. One or the other has me scared.
Dec 10, 2006	Computer programmer in Tampa, FL at utek. I really just shook up things at work because they are understaffed and overworking people and they are too ignorant to setup the department the way they should.	Spiritually, my 0=0 initiation in the Magickal Order ov thee Golden Dawn shall occur on thee day before the solstice. I have added rebirthing breathing and subliminal money programming into my morning majik rituals. So yes rebirthing impresses me, but I'm not so sure about the possibility of physical immortality. But hey, rebirthing works. I am attending the AHAM.com advaita vedanta calls... Ramana is really quite something else. I'm also taking "authentic kabbalah" with the Bnei Baruch organization. Their descriptions of the worlds and phases of ascension are startlingly precise.	I think I have hit the final word in diet. Doug Grahams "80/10/10" book is going to be a smash hit. His command of the science of diet is terrifying... the cat is TIGHT. T-I-G-H-T... the fruitarian world needed this book 30 years ago. So to summarize, everything seems stable on the hidden planes of diet and spirit. But I made the "mistake" of trying to purify my funkified workplace... let us see how that plays out.
December 31, 2006	Still a computer programmer in Tampa, FL. They fired some people, but my neck was saved! I cant imagine they want to keep me. I am tardy for work and somewhat belligerent. But they would find it hard to replace me. I am studying Haskell and HTML/CSS. Jane St has a lot of OCaml job openings, but I cannot get involved in a mass of nested letrecs that look like chicken scratch.	spiritually, the goal of transforming my idea of what I am to Thetan/Self has presented itself. Quantum Touch is good healing system... hmm Dianetics had made tremendous strides in knocking out psychological blocks but Ramana has made it clear that the more comfort you get, the harder Realization is. Dianetics eliminated my constipation problem. It opened me up as a person. Ramana beilieves in going for the 7th dynamic only.	cute. I took a Quantum Touch workshop at Sentient Temple and he muscle-tested me and proved that sugar was the worst thing for the human body. beets remove constipation from a neurotic soul such as I was... I was tightening myself into a ball... that's why I was constipated. it was not cooked food versus raw so I went to cooked food. then Sally told me I needed some protein before a Auditing Session so I ate some and then went out and bought some lean meats. One thing. I am overeating on cooked food. Overeating a mono-diet does not create the issues that I create with cooked food. Oh well, whatever!
1/15/07	Python, SQL, some Haskell. Still working at UTEK in Tampa, FL.	Dianetics, AHAM, lyrical satsang.	mixed diet. plenty of soda, chocalate, rice, tofu, supplements.... gearing up for the purification rundown. interestingly, I have been trying to avoid salt and meat.. the purif is going to require additional salt intake or you will die of a stroke... be careful what you do on this purif or you will be dead.
1/18/07	UTEK	Dianetics and AHAM... Milton has taken me on as my FSM	Interesting how the above says I have been trying to avoid meat. For the past 2 days, I have had an urge to have a tender sirloin steak. I went to applebee's last night to have one, but they took too long and I vascillated between Mimi's and Old Chicago and ended up at... Wendy's! I ate some undercooked piece of meat and some fries (where the hell was the ketchup?!) and felt sick right up until now where I am eating some celery. I am scared stiff about cooked foods and especially meat. I start the Purif today and given how bloated my cooked diet has made me, I cannot see or justify much more cooked food eating - except for the burrito in my fridge and to finish out my current food supply. Raw it is from here on out unless there is a good reason for cooked. But my raw will include salt for the next 30 days since much will be lost in the sweating.
2/18/07	UTEK	Scientology Only	morning: 10 wheatgrass tabs, 1 tbsp superfood (vibrant green of berry green) and fruit. lunch: green salad dinner: a soy zone or other "heavy" meal
3/23/07	GSI Commerce - King of Prussia, PA	Finished with the Church of Scientology for various reasons. Achieved much case gain here, but overall, the minuses are starting to outweight the plusses. Freezone Scientology and RonsOrg are starting to look good, but I can never forget how AHAM came to my rescue when I was suffering in the sauna. I'm just afraid of becoming like a zombie or something if I drop Scientology and return to Advaita. But under the circumstances, since there is no freezone Scientology in the NE, I may as well put 100% into AHAM.	i am being forced back to raw foods... today will mark the first day of 100% raw and in fact just fruit. But the key is 100% raw. Let's see how long this lasts.
4/8/07		Silva Mind Control Method	raw foods - raw gourmet is not as easy on my digestive system and plain raw, so I am being forced back to plain raw... it is 40 degrees here... I may be forced into rice and other staples during the winter. But we will see. Unclogged veins will keep you warmer than veins clogged with starch.
4/13/07		Silva Mind Control is nice. I was about to spend 500.00 on a course. However, I went to a VIBE machine session last night and it knocked my socks off. I ordered a few RIFE machine CDs and got a copy of Ernie Vega's Cybershaman program. I have a little crush on the lady who runs the VIBE sessions. But then again, I can find an excuse to have a crush on any women... I'm just desperate and not selective.	right after the VIBE session, there was a strong urge for meat. I saw the Country Buffet place, but passed it. Wendy's passed it. Passed em all and went home.. the VIBE had cleared me of blood acid and meat waste and the urge for meat was just an addictive urge to fill the old dirty hole with dirt again. hmm, browsing the Ormus list pointed me to Zivorad's PEAT process... looks good.
5/5/07		Still VIBE'ing. Returning to Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh's Esoteric Kabbalah. Silva puts me to sleep even if I try to do it with eyes open! Standing up works.. until I sit down! Scientology interest is waning - as is spiritual technology interest - anything which involves depending on or talking to someone else is not so attractive to me.	raw gourmet is taxing. the garlic, the onions. it tastes good. breaks the monotony of all-fruit and nuts. but it takes its toll on me. I wonder how Columbus will suit my raw gourmet urges.
5/10/07 (my birthday is tomorrow)	Leaving PA for somewhere the Scientologists dont need to know about	Axiatonal Alignment. Amazing. Reverend Deborah McComas rarely touched me during the hour session. However: I felt a strong constant sensation like a battery current running down both sides of my spine. Also, when it was finished, I had much the same sensation as a Feldenkrais, Chiropractic, Alexander, or Bowen Technique session. Again, the amazing thing is she was mainly running her hands above my body 98% of the time.	Still 80% fruit, 20% raw gourmet, though I cannot tolerate a lot of raw gourmet. I'm ready to do a water fast.
5/26/07		Christian Science, Silva Ultramind, Homegrown Self-Inquiry, Hi-tech Healing / Radionics. And today, the most melancholy bittersweet phone call I will have during this lifetime. I called Kathleen, a student of Lectorium Rosicrucianum. She just is. No intellectual concerns. No philosophical debates. She has been a student for many, many years. She takes care of her daughter. She does some drawing. She is happy and free. But morethan anything she has a way of life. LR is not a dabbling, an experimentation. It was still and quiet as she said: "take care" and bid me farewell. The words to the Rush song arose in me: "what would touch you deeper...." I'm happy she is content. I am sad I must keep searching. The night I spent at her house when I was doing LR was quite something else. It is now 15 minutes since I spoke with her. And a quiet is settling over my room. I know her peace is deeper than this. WHen I began to ask her various philsophical questions, her only answer was: "I just am" I have met many gurus and done many things, but whenever I think of Kathleen, I always think that she is the greatest person I ever met. It is sad that we must part ways. That she has found her Way and I am forever seeking. But Camus would say that what is, is. And is it not so? But of course another part of me can't quit laughing. She was so easy to laugh with. Anything I thought was funny would make her laugh and we would laugh together. For us to be together would be nice.. But all meetings on Planet Earth "end in separation" with both parties disintegrating into dust. I know one day when I get spiritually evolved, she will be alive to see me. I will say "I want to take you out to dinner" and she will say "I dont want to be around a crowd of people" and I will say "That's OK, we can just get something and head down to the beach. It'll be cold, so I'll have to hold you." And she will look me into my eyes and 1000 years of recognition will spark between us. Then she will smile a childish innocent little smile and say "OK". In all honesty, that's my dream. In reality, she would probably just say "No thanks" and forget about me.	I have had diarrhea from pre-made Tasty Bite Indian delicacies for 2 days now. I also see that daily food consumption is a complete overfeeding. I am happy for this pain. I seek no outside support. Maybe you will learn your lesson about playing with fire.
5/27/07		Somatic Trauma Resolution and Violet Flame Teachings
6/4/07			Liquidarian - chewing seems to be a skill lost on most humans, me included. The Juiceman Jay Kordich once said: "your body is a juice extractor. nothing larger than the size of a hair enters your blood stream."
6/12/07		Falun Gong
6/15/07	I'm sick of being indoors programming computers. I want to be a polarity therapist or physical fitness trainer.	Polarity Therapy	Polarity Therapy will soon be my diet too, but I need to work with colon cleansing for a while here.
7/12/07	Still working here. The Egoscue Method seems like a good way to escape from the ol' desk job.	Christian Science, Sant Mat, Charles Berner's (Yogeshwar Muni) Natural Yoga, and no time for Falun Dafa.	well, fruit and cleansing herbs. the urge to eat cooked food is strong, but it will make me sleepy at work, plus stop up my gut... plus who wants to indulge in the senses anyway?
7/23/07	Still working.	Sant Mat	after a long period of ascetic fruitarianism, I began to wonder about salt. I almost ate my rice and tofu. I almost ate my tofurkey with mustard and ketchup. But my text on Natural Hygiene saved me from common table salt. However, further research into salt led me to David Favor, and I now consider myself a Sattvic raw vegan of the David Favor flavor.
8/12/07	still here.	Audinometry	sattvic raw vegan, but a bit tired of processed raw gourment. back to more whole row. Doing usha paana chikitsa - water therapy.
10/07	still here	Falun Dafa	confused omnivore
1/11/08	still here	Floatation Tank - Falun Dafa had made me neurotic. So one Saturday, in the middle of the day, I packed a bag and drove to Chi-town to float at Spacetime Tanks. One hour of floating exceeded my expectation and melted tons of built up tension. In the tank, I immediately saw that my body was locked into a knot. Over 4 days, it began to unwind, deeper and deeper.	The Warrior Diet
2/9/08	still here	Viewed Level 1 and Level 2 of Nicolai Levashov's Healing videos. I ordered my Stalker e-meter to receive Freezone Scientology web auditing from Alpha Org (a spinoff of Rons Org) and am eager to start. Received hand and foot reflexology from my girlfriend-to-be, Patricia Nichols.	The Warrior Diet. For the raw side, I have been over-indulging in raw gourmet during the day, leading to lethargy. Good thing that sleeping in my float tank is a good thing.
2/11/08	still here	Still floating. Had a profound experience last night. Tempted to keep doing reflexology. Not sure what it can add to floating overall.	I went to Whole Foods and bought a ton of produce. I'm going to give Charlie Abel's diet a try
7/1/08	still in Columbus, OH	Swami Nithyananda	Warriot Diet, Indian Food, totally vegetarian.

NOI diet

Posted by sun devil at 2006-11-09 03:28

I am very impressed by the words of Honorable Elijah Muhammad concerning diet. He emphasizes more than anything, ONE MEAL PER DAY...

I just downed a handful of nuts (FORBIDDEN) but I see no reason not to try for just one meal per day.

timing is everything

Posted by sun devil at 2006-11-09 03:34

I really do agree with his ideas about timing. And I do think it is the overarching factor. Time plays into when women can give birth, when they menstruate, etc.

hmm forget calorie restricted dieting

Posted by sun devil at 2007-01-18 05:42

Right after the NOI diet, I tried calorie-restricted dieting... for about 3-5 days. So between Nov 2006 and December 10, 2006 I tried it.

Emmanuel's Book

Posted by sun devil at 2007-03-27 16:55

Hmm, Emmanuel's book is taking a strong hold on me. My interest in Sacred Sexuality is re-kindling.

Meat Years, Veggie Years

Posted by sun devil at 2007-06-20 15:09

69-87 - Meat
87-91 - Veggie
91-93 - Meat
93-01 - Meat
01-03 - Meat
03-05 - Veggie
05-07 - Meat

6 veggie years, 31 meat years.

Both Falun Gong and Suma Ching Hai and SantMat require a veggie diet. I feel like I have been wondering in the wilderness for 10+ years and am very ashamed.

On the other hand, its good to have narrowed the scope of acceptable diets away from meat.

Of course, that alone will not guarantee health.

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