RE: Elchanan: Jan's request for personal background/info [s]

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I sent this post last night,but bounced it back because I sent it

from the " wrong " email account. Apologies for the delay.

 

Elchanan, PC

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:26 AM

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RE: [Raw Food] Elchanan: Jan's request for personal background/info

 

 

Jan writes:

 

I'd like to know what your credentials and

educational background are for dispensing all your

raw food and healthful living advice - and now

proposing to hold classes and workshops?

 

Your email address says " Vibrant Life INFO. " Are

you connected with the Web site?: <http://www.vibrantlife.com/>

http://www.vibrantlife.com/

 

and in a later email:

 

I do find it troublesome ... that you are dispensing so much

advice while so little seems to be known about your qualifications.

I think you owe to the group to come forward with this background

information.

_____

 

Thank you very much, Jan, for inviting me to share about myself personally.

 

Te begin with, I sense among your questions that you are really asking one

underlying question, which may be:

 

Elchanan, why should I trust and believe you?

 

I appreciate the need for such a question. We live in a deluge of

information, opinions, etc., and it is indeed difficult for any of us to

figure out what or whom to believe, particularly when communicating via the

Internet. So much information is missing.

 

My response is divided into 5 separate messages. There are 4 reposts,

including one from the SFLiving Foods group. In each of these messages, I

share some aspect about myself and my background. I did write a couple of

other messages, but apparently I did not save those. This represents what I

have.

 

This, of course, is the fifth message.

_____

 

Each of us has certain special gifts. Among mine are a capacity to attract,

filter, and synthesize information and somehow create understanding. All my

life, people have come to me, rolled their marbles (their data and

information) onto the table (so to speak), and asked me to tell them what

they have in front of them. This has been the case in my journey with

health, raw food, etc. (REPOST 1 of 4 adds a bit more.)

 

I am not a practitioner of anything. I do not practice, I create health for

myself and for others willing to walk with me. I distinguish between

creating health and treating symptoms (acute illness, chronic or

degenerative disease, etc.). I do not diagnose, for I do not label people. I

do not " prognose, " for I do not try and predict the future for other people.

And I do not " treat " anything, as I accept that I have no power to heal,

cure, etc. anything or anyone other than myself.

 

I live and teach personal responsibility and self-reliance. I create my

health or lack thereof, and you create yours. Not the government nor the

doctor (regardless of philosophy or orientation) nor anyone else can ever

make me -- or you -- healthy.

 

I do my best to share, with those interest in listening, information,

insights, experiences, etc. about how to create health. I do the same for

people interested in living their lives in service as a ministry, and for

people interested in achieving their goals and living in accordance with

their consciously chosen beliefs, values, intentions, and goals. In other

words, what I do is broad and integral in scope; what generally appears in

this group is only a slice of it.

 

So where do I get my " information, " understanding, etc? It is true that I

have a varied academic background. I have, at different times, studied

various periods of history, the Bibles, several languages, computer science,

business, human nature, natural law, common law, modern law, the Law of

Nations, physics, a bit of chemistry, biology, some psychology, etc.

 

And having said all that, I strongly encourage you not to believe a word I

-- or anyone -- says solely on the basis of any such background or

credentials. For the most part, they are meaningless. The more people we

license or certify, the less the licenses and certificates mean.

 

Long ago, I realized than if I really want to understand a field of study,

there are two things I MUST do. These are:

 

- Seek out the MOST knowledgeable people I can find, and go learn directly

from them.

- Seek out the ORIGINAL texts in that field, read those, forget all the

textbooks etc.

 

In other words learn from present masters and past/present originators. To

learn about the principles upon which America was founded, I read the

writings of the founders, not some textbook. How many of you who are

Americans have ever read the Declaration of Independence or the

Constitution, much less any of the Federalist Papers? Well, if you haven't,

and your liberties are disappearing, you haven't far to look for an

explanation!!

 

The same is true of health and nutrition. During the 1800s, there was a

great " battle " of sorts in this country and in Europe, between various

scientists who had great faith in Nature's design, and those who placed

their faith in modern science. The former created the fundamental theories

of raw foodism, among other things.

 

For example, Professor Pierre Jacques Antoine Bechamp, the great French

chemist and pharmacologist, studied fermentation, among other things. He

completely refuted research by Louis Pasteur in the area, proving that

certain living organisms (later found to be yeasts) were required in order

for fermentation to occur in sugared water. Bechamp also created the whole

model of acid-alkaline balance for health. This is the very foundation of

health and raw foodism. Using the pH model, each person can EASILY take

responsibility for his/her own health via nutritional choices, among other

things.

 

In contrast, Pasteur completely misunderstood fermentation, and he also came

up with " germ theory. " Although Pasteur later recanted his own work, the

medical world now had an " enemy " to fight, and we have been fighting germs

ever since. In contrast with Bechamp's work, using the germ theory model,

mainstream science has come to perceive our species in a perpetual war with

Nature, constantly under attack by germs, then viruses, now defective genes,

and who knows what in the future.

 

And based upon this underlying perspective, we are deluged with drugs,

treatments, etc. all designed to kill, suppress, etc. our body's own natural

and brilliant responses to conditions. This thinking is literally deranged,

in my opinion, even though it is reflected in an almost universal majority

of experimental research in progress today. And so, while I look at various

studies, undoubtedly more than most people, I see their flaws, I have the

math/statistics background and the language background to rip almost all

present-day studies to shreds in a heartbeat. Most of them really are that

weakly designed and executed.

 

But then you have to read the original -- the published studies themselves

-- and not articles about the studies. The articles are almost always just

plain garbage, if for no other reason than that reporters know just as much

as everyone else about science, namely, almost nothing.

 

Anyway, only by understanding the work of these two men, among others, can

we properly understand health, nutrition, and raw foodism. So what college

or university might you attend to gain such knowledge? Beats me! You have to

study THEIR work directly. Just as you have to read the Declaration of

Independence if you actually want to know what it says.

 

So that's how I seek knowledge, from the very best people and from

originators of things. And as a result, I perceive almost everything

differently than most people do, which probably shows up in what I write.

 

I search extensively, time permitting. My friend Laurie Masters adds her own

truly massive research talents. Between the two of us, and various others,

we come up with an amazing collection of material most of the time. For

example:

 

- Laurie has some incredibly valuable work coming in the future, just for

RFs, based upon all kinds of research around nutrient data. The bits of data

I drop into my various messages almost always originate in her work, as I've

acknowledged on a number of occasions.

 

- I am working on a study of salt, but not from a nutritional science

perspective, because this is basically worthless. Instead, I'm going back to

the underlying physics and chemistry, looking at the nature of water and the

relationship between salt and water. (Blood is mostly water.) This material

will also be available sometime later this year.

 

The point here is this: when this material comes forward, it will be built

upon but will not duplicate previous work. It will make new understanding

and insights available to many people.

 

This is my/our life's work, our calling to serve. I do hope this message

addresses, at least to a degree, your questions about me. Please ask more if

you wish!

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

 

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