Mr. Carey,
I couldn't agree more with your statement about those of us with too little experience and too much enthusiasm, and I'll tell you why. In late Dec. 2004 I spent two weeks at CHI, and about a month later my wife spent two weeks there. When I came home, I had it all figured out. I had stopped eating meat, which I am proud to say I still do not eat, and I just knew that I was a strict "raw fooder" forever.
A year and a half later, after consistently taking one step forward and two steps back, I realize that I must commit myself to this way of life for the long haul. It is just not something that we figure out in two weeks or even a year. While I have kept a diary since leaving CHI, when I read back over it, I see more that I don't know than I do know.
The one positive aspect of the whole experience, though - and it is a big one - is that where my wife was scheduled to have both knees replaced in Feb., 2005, she has been able to cancel that surgery. Today, while not totally pain or symptom free, she is able to work 35 to 40 hours a week, where before she could not be on her feet for more than 2 hours at a time.
No, we did not learn everything by coming to CHI, but it all started there, and a year after the exploration that started there, we are much the better for it.
Sincerely,
Bill Cowley
P.S. Tell Mr. Haughey that a revelation came to me the other day. That is, the reason that eating raw food is not the same as eating meat is that when we eat a living food, we do not kill the plant. Rather, it lives on as part of our living blood. It becomes part of our life force.
Don Haughey's response to Bill's letter: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/2006/09/natural_wellnes.html
Posted by: Jim Carey | September 24, 2006 at 07:09 AM