Interview with
Dr. Gabriel Cousens
3. Is nutrition a step towards a conscientious life? Nutrition is an important step toward a conscientious life. The word “conscientious” is well chosen. In the research on longevity, the longest study in the world, which includes 1,500 people over 80 years-old, found that the most important psychological characteristic for longevity found in children was conscientiousness. The word “conscientious” denotes an approach to life where people were persistent with their health habits, organized, prudent, and focused on healthy lifestyle. Conscientious eating and living are associated with longevity and the ability to transcend the fivesense bio-computer mind.
4. What other benefits are there to eating conscientiously?
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1. Why are so many people suffering from diabetes?
Conscientious eating also helps the ecology. Animal agriculture uses 75% of the world’s water and contributes significantly to carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Animal agriculture also contributes to the majority of nitrogen in the atmosphere, which is up to 300 times more warming than carbon dioxide. Animal agriculture uses 10 to 29 times more energy than plant-based agriculture. A vegan diet plays a particular role in healing the world and returning us to the Culture of Life and plays a key role in the healing of diabetes.
Diabetes is a symptom of a world out of balance. In dramatic terms we can say that it is a symptom of the “Culture of Death” where competition, profit, money, control, power, and pharmaceuticals dominate. This culture’s diet is junk food, white flour, high fructose corn syrup, and white sugar, all of which activate diabetes. It is the result of us moving away from the Culture of Life where soul, spirit, oneness, and cooperation are at the center. The Culture of Life is a culture where we have organic, whole, real food grown with values that support ecological living and the evolution of human consciousness. Because we are not following the Culture of Life lifestyle, we are instead stuck in the Culture of Death consciousness and have created a lifestyle that brings on Type 2 diabetes as an outcome.
5. Could a vegan diet change the world?
2. What do you propose to solve this problem?
6. Why do you use the term “living” food?
Return to our natural, holistic, organic ways, which infuse meaning and value into our lives. Place the soul and God at the center of our lives rather than power, money, sex, and control. Return to these natural ways and eat a diet that supports health, wellbeing and the elevation of consciousness. When our five-sense bio-computer mind is jammed with junkfood, pesticides, herbicides, genetically engineered food, and pharmaceuticals, we cannot transcend it to experience the truth of the Divine that lies beyond the mind. When we return to our natural ways of living and eating organic vegan food, we then heal and upgrade the five-sense bio-computer mind and are able to transcend it. 42
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A vegan diet protects us because it is lower on the food chain. It brings a moral and ethical understanding to our cuisine because it avoids cruelty to animals. It sets a positive tone in the world, having the potential to feed the world and rid humanity of starvation. A vegan diet improves our ecological status by healing the planet. It has the potential to bring peace to the world because it calms and quiets the mind. Because of the resources that veganism spares it ensures the likelihood of fewer wars and conflict over resources. It is a diet that helps elevate spirit. When we observe the enlightened beings in many traditions, they are not killing and eating animals. For many reasons a vegan diet is the diet for the future and evolution of humanity.
I use the term “living food” to draw attention to the fact that food in its whole form contains more energy than when it is cooked. In Dr. Breckman’s study with mice, he fed mice the same food, cooked and raw. On the raw food the animals had three times the endurance. Living food refers to the energy existing in the raw, whole food as opposed to stored food, which has lost its energy after it has been harvesting. Living food is fresh, organic and non-GMO.
7. Is organic nutrition fundamental to good health?