What’s so special about the way live foods nourish us?
Our traditional view of food is based on a mechanistic framework, and assumes that food just brings a mix of biochemical building blocks: proteins, carbohydrates and essential fatty acids, as well as vitamins, minerals and ‘special’ substances like antioxidants and phytonutrients that fight disease. And food does indeed provide these substances. They have an essential role to play in maintaining our physical structure, and do contribute significantly to our physical, mental and emotional states. BUT new research is showing that these biochemicals are not our primary source of nourishment. Life force energy is our primary form of nourishment. This comes from many sources, the sun, the air we breath, the energy field that surrounds and connects us to everything else…and our food. Gabriel Cousens describes a new paradigm in nutrition in his book “Spiritual Nutrition”. He and many other researchers are exploring new concepts that challenge our old view of nutrition. Cousens suggests that o
