The Raw Food Diet: What’s In a Name?
The raw food world does this really interesting thing to make the raw food diet appeal to the greater masses and the tentative novice: it gives everything names that evoke cooked food versions of itself. Exhibit A: Not Tuna Salad. Exhibit B: Rawmesan Cheese, Exhibit C… I could go through the alphabet. But I’ll stop myself. All these things sound more than vaguely familiar, right? But are they? I think not. Have you ever had raw pizza? I rest my case. Now, on some dimension, I understand this trickery. Because on the base level what we are all trying to do is fool ourselves into not feeling cheated out of…
Meditation in an Un-Meditative World
Meditation is a quandary in this world. Trying to find tranquility is anything but tranquil. We are all about competition, ambition and speed – none of which exactly inspire peace. Hell, my own home seems to be defined by its own brand of insanity, bred of the sheer volume of people who reside within these walls; personalities virtually colliding into one another with meteoric force. Peace and calm are hard to come by. What happened to the simple life? Where did that go? Simplicity seems to be something we have to retreat back into, something that we may have had long ago but strayed from in the quest for More.…
