The Age of Information is surrounding us, embracing us. Through the fantastic information available to all of us through the Internet, libraries and transformed individuals we now have the ability to create a whole new paradigm of health, wealth, happiness, success, prosperity and possibility!
It is my goal, in this book, to bring you up to speed on key transformational technologies, especially in the area of nutrition, now available to us all.
Throughout these pages we are going to participate together in an opening of opportunities that everywhere surround us.
The material contained here is designed for all people, whether you are healthy, sick, searching, curious, looking for the next level and/or seeking success physically and spiritually.
I cannot express how excited I am to present this information to all those interested in personal development and self-improvement. By availing yourself of this information you fulfill your destiny and simultaneously help fulfill my destiny of bringing The Sunfood Diet Success System to the world.
How I came to write this book is an interesting story. Both of my parents are medical doctors. My father had a general practice, then became an osteopath over his 35-year career. My mother was trained as an anesthesiologist. As a child, I spent a lot of time at my parents’ office. I used to play with my brothers beneath the chairs in the waiting room. I even used to travel with my dad on house calls.
I have observed the inside of the medical profession with a unique perspective. What I noticed was that people, over the long term, did not get better taking medicine. Instead, they got worse. When I was about ten years old (probably younger), I decided I was not going to take medicine anymore for any reason. And though I fought with my mother over this for many years, I did not submit. What I noticed was that when my two brothers and I would get sick, I would only be sick for one or two days, while their flus or colds would drag on for four or five days with the medicine. I learned then to just rest and drink only freshly-squeezed orange juice all day and soon I would feel better. That was a major revelation to me at that age and set me on a path that would markedly transform my destiny.
In my late teens I found that I was reacting to certain foods. I finally narrowed it down to dairy products. So, without really knowing anything about nutrition at that time, I cut out dairy products completely. I immediately lost 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) and felt amazingly better! I soon reached a point where I would not eat any food that contained any dairy products whatsoever — even if it was the tenth ingredient.
It was the discipline of completely letting go of all dairy products which set up a “blueprint” for more dietary progress. Therein I learned a valuable lesson: all disciplines affect each other. A powerful discipline can transfer over from one area of your life to any other area.
Fortunately, I had been turned on to self-help, personal development and spiritual literature at the age of 14 and somehow was graced to have an insight that reading could help unveil the magic in the universe.
After letting go of all dairy products, I started to read every book and listen to every audio tape in the field of nutrition that we had in my house. I quickly found the book Fit For Life by Marilyn and Harvey Diamond that confirmed what I knew about the danger of pasteurized dairy products. I adopted the Fit For Life Diet and gradually moved over to a vegan diet by eliminating animal products from my life (the vegan lifestyle contains no animal foods or products which impact animal lives).
But I kept reading, I kept searching. All of my life I could not escape the feeling that I was missing something, overlooking something so obvious it had managed to escape me. Ever since the earliest days I could remember, I had a sense that I would one day stumble onto some great secret. Obviousness seemed to be the key, like the ancient allegory of the gods on Mount Olympus:
When the world was new, the gods on Mount Olympus enriched the Earth with the animals, the creatures of the sea, the plants, and all living things. After many eons of time, the gods at last looked upon those curious humans tampering with the forests and gardens of the world. They decided they would hide the Secret of Life until humans had grown and evolved in consciousness to the point where they would be ready for it.
The gods on Mount Olympus argued about where the Secret of Life should be hidden.
One said, “Let us hide it high upon the tallest mountain, they shall never find it there.”
A goddess replied, “Humans have insatiable curiosity and ambition. They will eventually climb the tallest mountain.”
Then another goddess suggested, “We should hide the Secret of Life at the bottom of the deepest ocean.”
“You don’t understand,” said a god, “Humanity has a boundless imagination and a potent desire to explore the world. Sooner or later they will reach even the greatest ocean depths.”
Finally, a goddess came up with a solution, “Let us hide the Secret of Life in the last place humans would ever look. A place they will only come to when they have exhausted all other possibilities and are finally ready.”
“And where is the that?” asked the gods.
To which the goddess replied, “We will not hide it at all.”
Through reading I found out about raw-food nutrition. When I first discovered that one could live primarily on raw plant food, it was a revelation to me. It resonated with my core — it sent chills throughout my body. Within three months of eating raw foods, I knew I had found a great key that could open and create many doors. I felt as if a great secret of the ages had been revealed. For me, it was an Earth-trembling discovery. I knew this was the way for me to achieve my maximum potential. I knew instantaneously that it was a major part of my mission in this life to bring this message to the world. I knew in that sparkling moment that I could and would revolutionize the personal-development world with this information. I saw massive potential. Within three words — raw plant food — is a major key to unlocking humanity’s dormant powers.
I quickly found that this wonderful truth was not so evident to other people. And again I learned a great lesson. The greatest truths of the world, the ones which have shaken civilizations to their core, always appear insignificant to many other observers. But to the discoverer, the philosopher, that truth is priceless. To the one who has acted upon that truth and taken a new vantage, everything is clear and obvious. Through experience, a guess becomes knowledge, speculation becomes certainty. Part of the true world reveals itself and that in itself is a revelation.
I found out that just knowing to eat raw plant foods is not enough: variety is critical, peer pressure steps in, breaking addictions plays a role, the proper mindset is important, detoxification is a factor, as are emotions and balance. After many years of experimenting, reading and communicating with thousands of others on this path of eating raw plant foods, I finally perfected what I call The Sunfood Diet Success System and wrote the first edition of this book. That was in the summer and autumn of 1998.
The release of The Sunfood Diet Success System radically transformed my life. Book and lecture tours followed in early 1999 and continued unabated for years. The book attracted absolutely amazing people, events and circumstances. So many beautiful moments filled my days. Profound teachings found my ears and advanced my health education in exceptional ways. Extraordinary foods were laid before me. Adventures abounded in exotic locations all over the world. I feel so graced and fortunate for all these awesome gifts — all brought by this book!
As you read through these pages, my hope is that you find yourself discovering the tremendous importance of this message for the future of the world; this information allows the Earth to heal and prosper. You may find new wonder and hope. You may perceive that your life can be transformed in a most profound way.
At this moment I am overcome with the emotion of gratitude for having reached the level of health I have been blessed to experience and for having the opportunity to present this health information to you. Thank you for choosing this book. I invite you as a guest into a new realm of possibility. I wish you the greatest prosperity.