i've been fruitarian for 2 months now. i eat mainly fresh fruit but also nuts and seeds. i'm still drinking soya milk and taking a multi-vitamin but i'm trying to do away with these. prior to that, i was vegetarian for 20 years.
my reason for going fruitarian was primarily for my health. i realised that the periods of my life when i ate mainly raw salads and fruits were the most healthy. i also read the 'essene gospel of peace - book 1' much the same time as i went vegetarian. alas, i didn't realise how true it was at the time and there didn't seem to be the information about in those days to support it. but the intenet has changed all that and there are also numerous books on raw food now too.
and that's basically why i use forums such as this, apart from my own advancement along this path. i want to help make a bigger raw food 'footprint' in the world in the hope that others might see it and stop and think.
i do, of course, also have spiritual motives for my diet. i love animals and i hated eating their flesh, which is the way i was brought up by my parents, who knew and still know no better. so many problems in the world seem to stem from the fact that nearly everyone eats a diet that corrupts both their bodies and souls. it's so sad.
i'll give a little bit of my life story here.
i was brought up in a small villiage in the chester area. i attended the local church of england (C-of-E) promary school. looking back, i can see how fortunate i was because i gained most of my spiritual backround from my early schooling.
one of my earliest memories was sitting in church on sundays listening intently to the preacher's sermon. i always felt there was somthing very important that was missing in my life and hoped i would learn what it was. but somehow i never heard what i though it was. then, and this is the embarrassing bit, i read lynda goodman's 'star signs' and there was what i felt i'd been looking for all those years - that mankind is not supposed to eat meat. so i became vegetarian, thinking that being vegan was too difficult for someone with no culinary skills whatsoever!
and now i've decided to go fruitarian, to further improve my physical and spiritual potential.
i'll just mention that i was formally an aerospace engineer. whilst i loved engineering with a passion, i absolutely hated the politics and the commerciality, they just didn't fit well with my ethics. which is why i'm no longer engaged in that field of endeavour. i tend to see this now as a largely misguided area of activity now too. it's all about chasing profit, whereas i saw engineering as facilitating people to live better lives. i can't say i see it that way at all anymore in practice.
it's quite a lonely world for those that are sufficiently enlightened to see through its illusions. there aren't many such people at all. there were only a handful of people i knew in engineering that were on a similar path to myself. but i guess that's the price one pays for spiritual growth.
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