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Fasting
for 21 days on Prana and Water
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Fasting
and Living on Prana - Living on Light is
a concept propagated by Jasmuheen and the Self Empowerment
Academy in Australia. We were inspired by her writings,
in 1991 she claimed to have been living on Prana for
7 years, taken no solid foods. We went to her workshop
in Wales
to learn about Living
On Light, and we were
inspired. We felt that it would be a tremendous forward
step on our path of spiritual evolution if we could
learn to live on Prana. The process to achieve this
goal is known as The 21 Day Process, where for the first
seven days nothing is consumed, except air, the next
seven days some water and diluted juice, and the last
seven days diluted juice and water. Along with this
meditation and visualization of a cosmic drip, and surrendering
to the Divine within.
The
concept is that with this 21 Day Fast there will be
a realignment of the body's energies, and afterwards
there is no need to consume any foods, the body will
be nourished by cosmic energies. Apart from the Spiritual
benefits, which was our reasons for wanting to do it,
there are also some practical benefits, no more shopping
for food, no more dishes to wash.
Both
Anne Karine and Frank felt that effecting this transformation
would be an extraordinary achievement and both decided
to do the 21 Day Fast in the fall of 2001. Here is Frank's
daybook of his experience with this process. This diary
was written for his own personal use, and upon rereading
it prior to publishing it on the web, he was tempted
to edit many entries. However this was not done, what
follows is the exact experience and the emotions felt
and recorded during the fast.
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MY
EXPERIENCES WITH THE 21 DAY PROCESS
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Day
1
We
had decided that day one would start at 12
midnight on October 11 (2001). However I was running behind getting the last few
things done. As the clock was approaching midnight
I was informed
that there was no water anywhere in the house.
I had to switch over from
the borehole to the barragem
water supply. I had not expected this to happen. I had
shown Jem and Koram how to do this, but had not
made it an important item, as I did not expect
it would happen, and I think they would have had
problems trying to figure it out. So it was a
good thing it happened when it did, but it did
put me further behind with my paper work.
However a little while later I was informed
that there was no hot water. It took a while to
figure that one out, in the end I had to change
batteries on the hot water heater. The last time
we had to do that was two years ago so this certainly
was not one of the things that I had instructed
them in.
With
all of the above it was 1.30AM
before I was finished and down to my room. So
day one started not at 12 midnight but at 1.30AM.
I had really intended to be very pure during the
last few days before entering into the process.
I was fairly good with the food, although I was
snacking more and more as I was getting a little
frustrated and stressed last night. And with the snacks came several glasses
of wine. Not what I had intended, but that was
what I did. So this morning it would have been
very nice with some water. My mouth does not taste
that good.
I
woke up at daybreak and had a really nice long hot
shower. Such a pleasure to
have a decent shower room. My shower at
the house is terrible. I meditated briefly with
the sunrise, and then started unpacking and getting
my room ready, finding extension cords, picking
flowers etc. I also decided to pick up the laptop
and to write this report on the computer rather
than using the writing block that Anne Karine
had supplied me with. With my handwriting nobody
can read what I write anyhow, and I would have
had to rewrite it all on the computer later. So I do not feel that having the computer
is wrong as long as I restrict my use of the of the computer to the writing
of this report.
By
10 AM
I am all ready and I relax in the sun on the terrace.
Total peace and playing the
Dolphin Radiance music. For a short time
I went into deep meditation. It is so beautiful
and tranquil here. Looking out over the valley
with the old mill ruin to the left, I can not
imagine a more perfect setting for doing the process.
I am really looking forward to these three weeks.
I started
rereading the Living on Prana book. It
had been my intention to completely reread this
book before going into the process.
But with all the things happening the last
few days, particularly having to unexpectedly
complete the Association accounts for the past
three month, there just was not any time. But
in starting to read it now, I soon realized that
I should slow down to allow the process to happen.
So I am feeling fine, with lots of energy,
but that does not mean that I should run around.
So
the afternoon and evening was spent in quiet.
Some reading, some just being.
Decided to have a clysmatic.
I know that Jem felt it was not correct to do
a clysmatic during the first week, as some moisture
could enter through the intestinal wall. I do
not exclude that possibility but I feel it is
so important to have the intestines clean and
to do whatever I can to eliminate the toxins from
my system to facilitate the easiest process. I also had another long hot shower. And
showers are recommenced in the book. The moisture
from the shower on my lips was enough to satisfy
any thirst, and I was careful to spit out any
drops that entered my mouth. But some moisture
has to be absorbed by the skin. Earlier in the
day I had also asked for an etheric drip, but
I feel that for me the connection should be in
the neck and not in the kidney region.
Shut
off the lights and went to sleep immediately around
10.30.
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DAY
2
Woke
up around 6.30, before daybreak.
I felt quite different. It is hard to find the
words. Not heavy, yet heavy, not weak, yet weak.
I started doing my regular morning pranayama
and meditation and then remember that I should
discontinue any regular practices like this
during the process. So I put on Jasmuheen`s
pranic breathing meditation disk. Played half
of it, and then stopped to go outside as the
sun was coming up.
For the first time in several months
it had been raining heavily during the night,
and the air this morning was so bright and clear. I let myself be filled with this brilliant
morning light.
One
of my caretakers, Koram, came early this morning.
Among things that we talked about was the concern
that my other caretaker, Jem, had expressed
when they both visited last evening. Jem had
noticed my several holobulbs and asked me weather
I needed them. I got a little surprised as I
thought he wanted to borrow them, and I told
him: NO I do not need them, but I want them.
It turned out he did not want to borrow them,
but he was concerned that by having the holobulbs
in the room I was stopping the process from
happening. I do not think so, or I would not
have them here. I believe that they help to
facilitate an easier transition of the process.
I hope so. I know that many or most get extremely
week once they enter into the process. Jem could
not walk anywhere after a few days, and Koram
told me that at one stage he was so weak that
he could not even make it to the toilet.
I
realize that if there are any problems during
the process, headaches, stomach pain, constipation
or other physical symptoms, one cannot run and
get external help. If you do then the process
will stop.
But I also wish to explore the possibility
that with the proper preparations and aids the
process can be made easier. Is
it necessary to get so completely weak in order
for the process to be happening?? I believe that anything that I can do at this
early stage when the body is being purified
before being transformed will facilitate an
easier transition. Thus in July/August I did
a 40 days juice
fast, and in the 17 days preceding the start
of this process I did a semi fast. No meals,
only juices and broth, but not as pure as it
could have been as I was indulging in some snacks,
coffee, wine and a few cigarettes.
Ideally
this should not have been so. Maybe I should
have continued my 40 day fast right up to starting
the process. But I broke my 40 day fast because
it seemed as if I was doing the process without
doing the process. I certainly was not in peace
and quiet as I was running around from morning
till night doing all sorts of things. With what
I know today, (day two of the process) I think
I should have continued my fast. But I did not!!!!
In this I was also influenced by Jem who had
broken his fast for two weeks prior to going
into the process as he was worried about having
lost weight and being weak. I also seem to have
read somewhere someone else expressing the same
opinion. However today (day two of the process)
I believe them to be completely wrong and for
the ultimate test of this I should have continued
fasting up to starting the process. (Later on
during the process I was to completely change
my mind on this, but for a very different reason).
I
did not do everything I could have done to be
as free of toxins as possible prior to entering
into the process. So I hope that using our
technique for taking out my heavy metals
and toxins, tuning my chakras and having the
holobulbs on will facilitate and easier transition
of this process. I did all this yesterday.
Time will show.
I
my also decide to use the Gbox later if I get
permission to do so. But I will be very careful
here to make absolutely sure that I have permission
to use if.
I did use it once during the 40 days
fast when it felt as if my ribs were coming
loose from my chest. Same feeling that I had when I was in intense meditation in
India with my Sufi master. Using kinesiology
I confirmed that it was appropriated to use
the Gbox, and within 24 hours the problem was
cleared. But it may not happen again.
Spent
the afternoon in quiet continuing to reread
the book Living
on Light but as much just relaxing in the
sun. Drifting in and out and really enjoying
just being in the sun. Thought about doing some
yoga but then did not feel that I had the energy
for it. I have none of the symptoms listed in
the book to be expected on the second day, except
feeling weak. I have now definitely accepted
the fact that I am feeling weak. Finished the afternoon with a nice, long hot shower.
Felt
tired and sleepy in the early evening, and had
about an hours sleep between 7 and 8. Turned
the lights off to go to sleep again a little
after ten. After some time I was no longer sleepy
but awake, and I could visualize how all the
different projects that we have on the agenda
could be accomplished. Got out of bed, got dressed
and wrote it all down. Finished
at midnight .
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Day
3
Dreamed
that I woke up during the night, and my neighbor
had been killed during the night. He was a doctor.
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN I, BUT HE WAS KILLED INSTEAD.
Was this a warning, or was this to tell me something?
At 2.59 AM I woke up thinking it was morning.
And now I had been killed. I got up to
write this down right away, in case I should
have forgotten it in the morning.
I
believe that dreaming that I woke up and my
neighbor the doctor had been killed was to tell
me to stop using any help like lamps or others.
I will discuss it with my caretaker in the morning.
I think that dreaming that I was killed means
that the soul has left.
There
was a list, and the person next to me was killed
instead of me. The question is why?? It was
I who should have been killed. When I woke up,
I had been killed and this was as it should
have been. The
reason that I thought it was morning was because
it was bright and clear with almost a full moon.
I
had only turned on my bedside light, just enough
to write the few lines above, as I expected
to go back to sleep right away.
But I did not go to sleep. Instead I
got very clear instruction how to retrieve our
India tickets from the travel agent in London,
without us having to go there a couple of days
before hand. Also what to instruct our travel
agent here with regards to tickets to
London.
All of this I have written down somewhere else.
As
it was so bright, and I was not sleepy anymore,
I got up again, went outside for a few moments
to look at the moon, and then returned to reopen
this notebook. I am so glad that I decided to
have it here with me as otherwise these notes
would probably never have been written down
completely.
Went
back to bed, but I was not sleepy. Got up, got
dressed and went outside to lie and absorb the
moonlight. Lovely night. However even with the blanket on after a while
I got a little chilly. Came back in and decided
to have a shower. NO WATER!!!! Sheice!!!! What to
do now? Go
back to bed and worry about what has happened
to the water? I am not supposed to be doing
anything about these things.
BUT I FEEL GREAT!!
According to the book I am not supposed to,
but I do. So I decide to get dressed and to
see if I can locate the problem.
I find out that the switch for the pump
for the barragem
water is malfunctioning. I change over from
Barragem supply to borehole supply. Will have
to remember to get Anne Karine to write a note
to the gardener not to water till the problem
is corrected. I am
very glad that I did this. Solved
a lot of problems for everyone. Maybe
it was in order for me to do this that I had
all this energy this morning. Now for a hot shower and then back to bed.
I
just realized reading the copies from the book,
that the spirit is not supposed to leave the
body until tonight. After all this is only my third day, although it seems to have been
going on for a long time.
And
I am continuing to receive and download information
and ideas about the future of Moinhos Velhos.
It is all being very clearly mapped out with
several different options. It is rather exciting.
But
back to the spirit leaving the body last night.
If it was not my spirit leaving my body with
my death, then what was it????? Must
remember to discuss this with my caretaker.
Did
some yoga this afternoon.
My body feels rather stiff, but part of this
is from my fall the other day.
Also
today I have none of the symptoms that I should
have experienced according to the book. Not
feeling as weak as I did yesterday.
This is the same as my juice fasting
experiences. The first couple of days are usually
very tough. And then it gradually gets better.
Not having anything to drink is of course is
very different, so it will be interesting to
see how I will be in
the next few days.
On
a completely different subject: some days ago
when Prem had done
my horoscope, he told me among other things
that I should not speculate or gamble because
I would loose. Well I have already in the past
proven that to be so. But then he also said
that I should not be afraid to borrow money
for any project, because the money to repay
would be there for sure.
It told him that this was perhaps nice,
but of absolute no interest to me, as I had
no intention at all to borrow any money whatsoever,
for any purposes at all. I was more than happy
to be totally free of debts. I have been that
way, more or less, for the past many years.
No that is not quite true.
I did borrow money to buy the house in
Norway.
I did borrow money to buy Surfpesca.
But in both cases I did have collateral which
when liquidated would cancel the loan. Anyhow,
I had no intention of going into debt. Could
not see any purpose or reason for it.
But
here now we are going to expand. And to expand
we have to go into debt. And if I have to commit
myself to a debt, that feels perfectly OK now.
Interesting is it not?
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Day
4
7AM
and it is still dark outside. I have set my
first rest period to be between 8 and 10AM
but maybe I have to put it back one hour till
9 o'clock .
This
morning certainly is very different from yesterday.
I feel very weak,
feel like I have been in fight. Woke
up the first time a few minutes after midnight
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Some major shift had happened at 12 o'clock
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spirit leaving. I felt very weak and
tired. Went back to sleep again and slept
for about three hours. I was dreaming heavily
but I am not very clear about what. Something
to do with death, and that we had to go and
post a card about it. JEM WAS VERY
MUCH IN THE PICTURE. He offered to take me/us
sightseeing
through middle of Lagos.
I was very much against it at first, as I
was not supposed to leave this safe area. Jem explained that it was OK, we would be going
in a safe car, and we would go around
Lagos
rather than into the center. But it was important
that we get this card to the post office.
So we went. There were a couple of
other people in the car, but I do not know
who they were.
I
felt very weak and went back to sleep again.
Was dreaming a lot but what I do remember
does not make any sense. Cars
and t-shirts, false teeth and fishing?
Woke
up at 6.30. Still felt tired and weak, but not as badly as
I had during the night. Got up and had a nice
hot shower. How I enjoy those showers.
Lazy day. Not much energy. Felt weak and shaky. The flies
irritated me much. Felt restless. However
enjoyed the sun very much.
Started
my 2 hours realignment periods today.
Had the first one from
8 to 10.
But that is too early as the sun is
not up yet at 8
AM.
So I am changing it to 9-11, 1-3 and 5-7.
The
weather has changed. It is rather cold in
the evening. But for a while, all rapped up
in sweaters and blankets, I really enjoyed
the fresh air. And then in to a nice warm
room. All my senses are already so much more
acute.
Felt
thirsty this afternoon and asked for
an increase in my drip and the thirst went
away. Have not felt hungry but I would very
much enjoy a cigarette and a glass of port.
Ah well, one can not have everything.
Felt
a very slight pain in the kidney region for
a couple of hours. I was also belching and
farting as if I had consumed a meal. I probably
had, but of a different nature.
Went
to sleep around 10.30-11.
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Woke
up at 5.30 after a perfectly normal night
sleep, but my mouth was glued together. I had slept uninterrupted through the whole night;
I did not even get up to pee, which I normally
do at least once. As a matter of fact at no
time so far during the process have I being
peeing a lot, unlike Jem who peed the whole
time. This is also what the book says one
could expect. I have been peeing less then
normal for me. Except for my mouth feeling
as if it was glued together I felt fine and
normal and I was therefore quit surprised when I got out of
bed to
see how weak I was. Had my first nice long
hot shower. Among the many things that
I enjoy with the shower is the few drops of
water which enters the mouth, and I am very
careful not to swallow but to spit out again.
But here as I am writing this my mouth again
feels as if it is glued together so I think
I will have to ask for some ice today.
I
am certainly glad that we have Koram and Jem
here as care givers. Prior to going into the
process I did not really appreciate how important
a care giver was. Yes I did see how weak Jem
got during his process, but I did not think
that this would happen to me.
In my superiority I felt that with
my many years of fasting experience, and my
recent 40 and 17 days fasting
I would go sailing through this process like
nothing. How wrong I was. I was partially
influenced in my belief by Jasmuheen`s statement
in her book, that with her preparations she
went flying through the first week with a
high level of energy. I was expecting something
of the same. Ok.
I have not been wiped out like Koram was,
who could not even get out of bed. Or
Jem who was very week for a few days.
But I am very glad that they are here to support
us. Because this has nothing to do with fasting,
this is a very different process. The fasting
and purification before the process is certainly
a must to facilitate this transformation.
Koram proved that it can be done without,
but what hell he must have gone through.
Anyhow
it will be interesting to see what the next
few days will bring for me.
In my dreams last night I dreamt I was on
a train. I had a look into the first class
section, which was compartmented off into
very exclusive compartments. We were raveling
second class, but a young man who was with
us had joined a young lady in the first class
section. They had hit it off. Apparently her
parents approved of the young man, but the
conductor did not as he only had a second
class ticket, and kicked him off, back to
second class. Here he was able to promptly
find/produce a first class ticket and was
able to return to first class and his newfound
companion.
Otherwise
we were copying music CD's and writing the
titles on the labels. That is all?
The day has gone fast. In my first realignments
period this morning, I was very restless.
The thoughts and ideas were running around
in my head, and I could hardly wait for the
period to be over so I could write it all
down.
In my second period I had a very important
thought about 15 minutes after starting and
thought it was better to write it down right
away, rather than to lie there and anxiously
await for the period
to be over, so I could write it down then.
This was OK. About 30 minutes later I had
another thought, which I thought was also
necessary to write down. I got up but by the
time I sat down by my notebook I had forgotten
what it was. The message came through very clearly. Once
was permitted. But this is too much and do
not let it happen again. Get you busy mind out of the process.
The
session this evening was just beautiful. I
felt like a new person coming out of it. Shortly
after going into the session I asked for the
angels. And they came flying of course. Angels
of course have wings
and fly. But in the forefront were three black
angels. Black angels!!! Who has ever heard
of any such thing? They looked more like Ravens.
I asked: Are you an angel?? The answer was
Yes. A
black angel. I have never heard of
a black angel!!! Yes we are black because
we are here to absorb and extract the toxins,
the poisons from all of your bodies, physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual and all and
any other bodies. We are black because this
is the best way to absorb this. Later on we
will transform and transmute it into love
and light.
Different and interesting.
I
came out of the session this afternoon a different
person. I thanked God for the peace and
blessings of this valley. We have been
so busy in the last few years that we have
not had time to stop and really appreciate
the valley, and what we have created here.
It is so peaceful and lovely. I feel that
I have been born again, and I thanked God
for providing me with this wonderful opportunity.
Everything I have done in the past has been
leading up to this moment, the most important
time in my life. I feel truly loved and blessed.
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Day
6
Could
not go to sleep last night.
At 10.30 I was feeling sleepy and shut off
the light. But
I was restless and could not go to sleep.
Tossing from side to side.
Not that my head was that active, maybe a
little, but I just did not go to sleep. After
an hour I turned on the light again and started
reading. At the moment I am reading The JOY
Book which is very interesting in some of
the parallels to what we are doing. However
he cannot have the answer. Anyone who needs
to walk around with an alarm clock to go off
every 15 minutes to do his affirmations has
not made the right connection, regardless
of how effective his program is otherwise.
At 00.30 I got up and had another 20 minute
shower. I am feeling almost guilty
about all these showers I am talking. Using
so much water just for me. In the past
a five minute shower has for me been a long
shower. But how I enjoy
indulging myself in these showers.
It reminds me of my last visit to
India
when I had to start every morning off with
buckets of hot water.
Got
to sleep around 1.30 and awoke already at
4.30. Not sleepy any more. I got up but did
I feel weak and wobbly!!! And my mouth was
glued together. Ugh!!! I feel as if I have
been in a drunken brawl. Even weaker this morning than
yesterday. Staggered
off for my first of several showers for the
day. What a blessing. And this shower
head is particularly good. We must get these
Norwegian shower heads for all our bathrooms.
The
moon is still almost full, very clear from
the Moinhos beach area. So I got a cushion
for the beach stool and wrapped myself in
with blankets. Very crisp
morning with high humidity. Beautiful
to be bathed in the light of the moon.
Later as it was becoming light I
moved up to the terrace to great
the sunrise.
This
process certainly is very different from our
juice fasting program. Wow!!
There is no comparison. This is something
completely different. However it makes me feel that in the future,
when we have the extra accommodation, we may
offer a water fast program as well as the
21 Day process for those who want to do this,
if they have already done our regular 2 weeks
juice fasting program or something similar.
This will become the fasting valley of the
world. I can see offering a water fast program
for those who wants something different than
our juice fasting program but is not ready
for the 21 day process. Something
in between the two.
At
the beginning of this process I wrote that
I was sorry that I had not continued my 40
day fast. Today I have completely changed
my mind about that. If I had entered into
this process after having juice fasted for
100 days, my ego would have said. Hei-
I have fasted for 100 days and few days without
water should not be a big deal. Fortunately
I misbehaved in the last few days before the
process with wine, coffee and cigarettes.
The book says that all alcohol should be eliminated
one week before the process, and at the very
latest three days before the process. I think
one the last evening, as I was dealing with
one emergency after the other,
I consumed almost half a bottle of port. (It
was supposed to have been one glass), and
I smoked my last cigarette (
which I had pinched from Nani
earlier in the day, as I should not and did
not have any) at 1.30 AM
on the first day. I wanted to have that last
cigarette.
The last of the last cigarettes. Let us hope that this time
it really is so. So having broken the rules,
I expected to have to pay for it. Fortunately
that I broke the rules, otherwise I think
my ego would have been fighting the process
the whole way and refusing to surrender. And
surrender we must. This process has nothing
to do with fasting. I can fast any time. But
these 21 days are the most unique and important
days in my life. And it is a once only opportunity.
The same situation and circumstances will
never happen again I thank God for this blessing.
For as I have heard and repeated so many times,
this process has nothing to do with eating
or not eating, drinking or not drinking. This
is a spiritual initiation. But to read it
and repeat it is still not understanding it. Only one who has experienced
the process can understand it. And this is
only day 6.
I
am wobbling around like a drunk and my caregiver
Koram is very happy. He says I am truly in
the process now. That makes me happy.
But
apart from being extremely week, and having
a mouth that tastes like a sewer, I have none
of the other symptoms listed. Nor
any of those experienced by Jem. Well
we will se what the next few days will bring.
I know I can have my first drink tomorrow,
which would be lovely, but if I can manage
to withstand the temptation, I will put it
off till the next day.
I
only had one contact during the realignment
process this morning. For most of the time
I was very restless. But then I had been meditating more or less since
5.30 AM . The contact that I made was 12 men or so sitting
on a bench and dressed in black business suits.
When I asked who they were the answer was:
We are your realigners
for today. What!! BEINGS OF LIGHT DRESSED
LIKE BUSINESSMEN AND SITTING ON A BENCH LIKE
JUDGES? (First black angels
who look like ravens and now this?) Yes this is part of your realignment process.
You have been running this place like a hobby
for you and Anne Karine. This has been fine
up till now. But things are changing and part
of your realignment process is to learn how
to run Moinhos Velhos as a businessman.
When
I attempted to make contact with them a little
later there was only a brief glimpse, and
then my mind wandered off.
Had
a real peaceful afternoon realignment.
Completely different from
this morning. The flies were just as
persistent as yesterday, but they hardly bothered
me. The sun was warm and beautiful, and when
I opened my eyes to move I was surprised to
see that there was only 15 minutes left of
the session.
I
am now getting greedy with the showers. Whereas
I till now have been very happy with a nice
long hot shower to be finished off with a
cool one, this afternoon I began alternating,
hot-cold, hot-cold, hot- cold. For
half an hour. I felt that I was rinsing
away all my impurities not only of the physical
body, but of the aura on the bodies surrounding
the physical body. Only a shower could give
that feeling.
As hot as I can
take it and then full force with pure cold.
Ah what bliss. And the whole time the water
drops are falling into my mouth and I can
continually rinse out and wash out my foul
tasting mouth, being very careful not to swallow
but to always spit out.
Physically
I am totally wiped out. I have no strength
at all. And I can hardly believe it. I want
another shower before my next realignment
session. Ah well - for the special pleasures
in life.
Did
my evening realignment out on Moinhos beach.
We have created these gems and we have never
had time to appreciate it. This little garden
has truly magnificent energies. There is the
100 year old olive tree behind me, the Zen
garden in front with the fish pond to the
side and the wind making the bamboo talk.
As the sun went down and the crisp
evening air was flowing through the trees
I could feel the purity and the prana in the
air. It was magnificent. And this is the first time I have had the
opportunity to just lay
down and appreciate it all. I had the feeling
I was being filled with prana.
I
went into deep meditation for the first part
of the realignment. Then the sun went down
and immediately the air became quite chilly.
I am so happy that we are doing the
process now.
I feel that with the rain the air has
been cleared and purified. During the day
the temperature is perfect for sunbathing,
and in the evening there is a sparkle to the
crisp air.
However as I noticed that it was getting
chilly and
I was afraid that I would get
cold, I asked if it as OK for me to get up
and get another blanket.
The answer was no. Stay put and you will not get cold. We will keep
you warm. I will not get cold, and you will
keep me warm? Answer: Yes we will keep you
warm. I did not get cold. But then I noticed
my feet getting cold. I looked at my watch
and it was two minutes past 7. (Evening
period 5-7).
The
day has gone fast.
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Day
7
Woke
up already at 3.30. I thought: This is too early to get up... But I
was fully awake and unable to go back to sleep.
So I got up. Feeling very
different from yesterday. My mouth
still feels shitty, but not as glued together.
My body feels more normal and I definitely
have more energy. I am trying to remember
my dreams but can only remember the last part.
It has to do with legal and illegal deliveries
of blocks of ice. Together with another driver we are on the
docks with a horse and carriage delivering blocks of ice to various ships. Something is illegal, but I do not know
what it is. As when we come to the checkpoint
the guards shout out. It is OK. They have legal deliveries! And
they let us through the checkpoint and on
to the dock. The deliveries apparently are being made not
on to the ships, but to a storage shed on
the dock. As I swing around for my first delivery
of two, I pass the second delivery shed. They
shout out. Hey!! That is for us----Williamson.
But no. I have
to make the other delivery first. It would
be something illegal if I delivered to Williamson
first. Or rather the situation is that the
Williamson delivery is actually an illegal
delivery, but to give it the appearance of
being legal I have to make the other delivery
first?
I
am in the shower and I worry that maybe I
am showering too much. I am continually rinsing
my mouth when I am in the shower and although
I am very careful to spit out the whole time,
it is inevitable that some drops get into
the throat. Is this an illegal delivery, and
is this why I want to shower so much.
I
am feeling so good this morning. Reading Jem`s report he felt as terrible on the seventh and following
day as any of the others.
I am feeling so good. Is it that I
am going through it faster or has the processed
stopped because of too many illegal drops
of water in the shower? And delivering big
blocks of ice, and illegal deliveries? I have only asked for ice once, and decided not
to ask for it again as it seemed very difficult
to avoid swallowing some of the ice water.
In
the shower this morning I enjoyed the cold
water even more than the hot. It did not really
seem cold but refreshing.
I told Jem yesterday that I would not
have my first drink today, as is allowed,
but wait until tomorrow.
He told me that yes; this was the right
thing to do. This is what he had done, waited
till the morning of the eighths day before
having the first drink. But reading his report
from his experience it is very different story.
Here he clearly states that he had his first
glass of water at 7AM and continued to drink water the whole day?? I
wonder if Jem sometimes is fooling himself
between what he wants to do, and what he does.
Like when he came out of the process he was soon
drinking as much juice as I and taking twice
as much soup? Or when he later on made what I considered a stew but because
it had water in it he called it a soup??
As I see it the real test is after
the 21 day process is over. It is relatively
easily to not eat and to drink limited amounts
during this period of doing nothing. Afterwards
when I am back in the busy world running around
doing this and that, this is when the real
test comes. If you then as Jem is drinking
3 lifters of juice and 3 to 4 large bowls of soup, how do you then know that
you are living on Prana and Light and not
on liquids ???
I think one has to be very careful of this
when coming out of the process or the system
could be completely confused. Am I living
on Prana or am I living on liquids?
I
understand that Jem is doing very well now
with Koram here.
Please
let me make it clear that I am not being critical
of Jem. After all 95 % or more of all the
people who have done the 21 day process go
back to eating in some form or another. It
is only that Jem had declared his intention
of living on Prana for a period of 2 to 6
month. And as we were all juice fasting and
Jem joining us at the table, I can see how
easily and natural it was to go from a small
glass of juice to a big one, then to a mug
and several bowels of soup. I can see myself
in the same situation and how easily it is
to fall into this trap.
Not that there is anything wrong with
it. On the contrary.
But then the declaration and instruction to
the body should be such.
Let
me hereby make the following declaration:
I
FRANK JENSEN HEREBY DECLARE
THAT UPON COMING OUT FROM THIS 21 DAY PROCESS
IT IS MY INTENTION NOT TO PARTAKE IN ANY SOLID
FOODS OR MEALS IN ANY REGULAR FORM. IT IS MY INTENTION TO BE SUSTAINED BY PRANA
AND THAT I WILL REGULARLY PARTAKE IN VARIOUS
LIQUIDS IN MODERATE AMOUNTS, INCLUDING NONALCOHOLIC
BEER AND VINE , ALL FOR THE PLEASURE OF IT.
MY INTENTION IS TO DO THIS INITIALLY FOR A
MINIMUM PERIOD OF 2 TO 6 MONTHS.
Last
evening I had to turn off the gas heater as
my eyes started to burn. I thought that maybe
it was because the gas tank was started to
get low. The way I was feeling yesterday .I
certainly did not want the bother of having
to relight my hot water tank, which is so
difficult and temperamental to start that
I did not even bother to show Koram and Jem
how to do it So to be on the safe side I switched
over to a full tank yesterday evening, before
the gas ran out. But it did not make any difference.
I had slept with both windows and doors wide
open, so the room was completely aired out.
But obviously I am becoming more sensitive,
as this morning again my eyes started to burn.
But I have also been suspicious about the
heater in this room wondering if it was functioning
correctly or not.
I shall try one of the other rooms
and see how I react.
At
5AM
I bundled myself in with blankets and lay
down on a deck hair on the terrace. The moon is still very large and bright, and
the fall air is so wonderfully crisp and invigorating.
Completely bundled up in blankets I lay there
experiencing an empowering feeling of absorbing
the prana and the moon light. I fell asleep
for a very short time. I went into a deep
sleep or more like a trance, and felt completely
recharged. Wow! It was so fulfilling.
But
let me also clarify that I am still feeling
week, particularly in the legs. And my mouth
is sticking together, my tongue is white showing
clearly that I am still detoxifying, and there
is a whitish spit on my tongue. But everything
is relative, in comparison to yesterday I
feel great.
I
do not remember much from my first realignment
process. I
was restless and did not really tune into
it. I can remember that in the end when I
said good-bye and asked the team if I would see them again at
1 PM
the answer was no. Our job is finished,
an other group will be there at 1.
I
am still enjoying my showers in between the
realignment sessions. But what is surprising
me is that I am enjoying the cold shower as
much or more than the hot one. That is rather
surprising, after all it is the middle of
October and not as we are sweltering in the
heat.
But my body is able to take the cold
shower so much more than before.
And
I am certainly not having an etheric temperature
rise. One of the problems while normally fasting
is that the body gets very cold and certainly
cannot take a cold shower for very long. And here I am standing under the very cold shower
for as long or
longer than the warm one, and loving it. Something
has definitely changed within my body. Great!
It
has also become very clear to me in the last
couple of days that
the care giver should be somebody
who has done the process himself/herself.
Only someone who personally has experienced
the process can be a proper care giver. I
was the care giver for Jem. My attitude was
more or less:
I
am fasting, he is fasting. I have fasted a
lot longer than he has. The only difference
between his fast and my fast is that for a
few days he is not having anything to drink.
So big deal??
I
was not a proper care giver, because I did
not know. Only someone who has experienced
and done the process can be a proper care
giver. Definitely!!!!!!!!!
My
eyes are getting sore again, so maybe it was
not the gas heater. However I will try another
room tonight. Then we will see.
Well
I have come to the end of the seventh day
with no solid foods and no liquids by mouth.
According to medical science I should be dead
or near death. And I have never felt better
in my entire life. The body is still weak
and the knees shaky, but I feel totally empowered.
I feel like a million dollars. And this evening,
as I was absorbing the energies, the prana,
the peace and the beauty during my final realignment
process, I began to understand what Koram
means when he is talking about feeling it
from the heart. I felt my heart overflowing
with Love and Beauty and Power.
In
my two realignment sessions this afternoon
and this evening I had some very different
experiences. This evening when I tuned in
to what was happening in the process I observed
African witch doctors.
Yes, witchdoctors and they were dancing.
Well they say that everyone's experience is
different. First I had black angels looking
like ravens. Then angels
looking like businessmen. And
now African Witch doctors dancing around,
humpa!!humpa!! uh!! When I asked the witchdoctors what they were
doing I was informed that they were empowering
me. They were not what I in my preconceived
ideas would have expected angels to look and
behave like. But I certainly would not complain about
being empowered
with native energies and healing
powers. I am feeling so blessed anyway and
appreciating
that I still have to more weeks of
this perfection.
I felt some strong love for Anne Karine
earlier so I asked Jem to get
the biggest bunch of flowers for her, which
she has received this evening. Should
be quite a bunch for 5000 Escudos.
My
afternoon session was somewhat different (My
eyes are getting very sore again, so I will
now move to the other room and continue writing
there, but I have not quit finished setting
things up there yet).
I
did not get further with my writing last night.
By the time I was finished setting up and
getting the room ready is was getting on for 10PM
and I did not feel for writing anymore.
So
I am continuing here the following morning.
When
I sat down for my afternoon session, without
thinking about it, I sat down in a meditation
crossed
legged position. I had not been
able to do that for the past 11 days.
My right knee has been giving me problems
for the past 15 - 20 years, and for the past
2 or 3 years it would often click out while
sitting crossed legged. So I
had to be very careful how I moved in this
position, when the kneecap locked it could
be quite painful as I would try to straighten
the leg. It had improved a lot, was almost
normal, during my 40 days fast, but as soon
as I started putting toxins back in the system
the movement of the kneecap deteriorated
and got worse. With the last group, on Friday
evening, we had been to Sally's Casa Grande
in Burgau to celebrate the completion of the
2week fasting program with a meal. Jem,
who had already done the 21 day process and
I who would start my process in 4 days were
only having clear soup.
Also as I was driving I was being moderate
with the wine.
On
the way home everybody wanted to stop at every
bar. Well, maybe not everyone, but several
in this particular group were suffering from
having been restricted to only juices and
broth for two weeks, and now, having been
let out of the barn they definitely wanted
to celebrate. I wanted to get home, but OK,
it is the last day of the group, and it is
the last group of the year. So we stopped
in Cotifo (the last village before Moinhos
Velhos) for a final drink. And then safely
home. Having delivered everybody safely home,
I sit down to relax. Final
day, final group of the year. Now we
can have a brake for a while and catch up
on all the things that have to be done. When
we are with a group from seven in the morning
till nine in the evening we do not have any
time to get much else done.
And in some ways this has been a difficult
group, with some of the people whom we expected
to be totally with the program, turning out
to be very undisciplined,
straining like wild horses to get out of the
barn.
And
now it is over, last day, last group. I decide
to celebrate with a Medronho
with herbs (a very strong local drink). And
then when everybody have gone to bed, the
final illegal cigarette. VERY ILLEGAL
as this whole area is strictly
a nonsmoking area, and I am one of the leaders
of this retreat.
Earlier
I did not have any cigarettes, after all I
am not supposed to be smoking, I
would never ever smoke in front of any of
the gust, or Anne Karine for that matter.
But when we stopped in Cotifo I got one cigarette
from Stephen, who was also there at the bar.
And now out and down below the lawn
to enjoy this final illegal cigarette. I am
feeling quite guilty.
As
I was coming back to the house the automatic
sprinklers had come on. Trying to avoid getting
hit by water from the the
sprinklers I tripped. That final Medronho
was not such a good idea after having fasted
for two weeks,
it had gone to my legs. And as I tripped my
knee clicked out and I fell flat on my face
in the flowerbed getting regularly drenched
by the sprinkler as it swung back and forth.
It was only one meter away from my face. As
I tripped and fell my glasses flew off my
face, I did not find them till next day. And
I could not move. My locked knee had totally
immobilized me and it would not go back.
I lay there face down getting drenched
by the sprinkler each time it passed.
Finally I managed to crawl out of the
position and drag myself up the path. My knee
is still locked and I am just dragging it
along getting out of the drenching from the
sprinkler. Eventually the kneecap moved and
clicked back in.
But in the meantime what a strain I
had put on it. The next day and the following
days the knee was very sore and I had to be
extremely careful how I moved or sat.
I
never told Anne Karine.
However
since entering into this 21 day process the
knee has been getting better every day,
and today I had forgotten all about any problems
with it. So I just sat down in a normal cross
legged position, but it was a little too early,
and the kneecap clicked out. However it was
fairly easy to straighten the leg again, the
kneecap popped in, and afterwards no pain.
I feel quite confident that by the time this
21 day process is completed my problems with
the knee will be a thing of the past.
Because
of the knee popping out it took me a while
to get into the realignment process, but then
I was able to go into total surrender.
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Day
8
Woke
up at 1AM.
Now this is absolutely too early.
Got up and had a pee, and went back to
bed. It is chilly. As my bed in this room is
only 1 1/2 meters from the wide open door, it
is almost like sleeping outside. And so invigorating. I managed to go back to sleep and awoke
again at 3AM. By now I am not sleepy any more, but I am also
somewhat groggy.
I get up and have a shower. And this
is the day when I can start drinking again.
But instead of having a glass of water for the
first drink, I allow myself to do that which
I have been denying myself to do the whole week.
My first water is to swallow some of the water
in my mouth as I am rinsing out my mouth. As
it flows down the tube I can feel every drop.
It has been a struggle for the past week to
ensure that this did not happen accidentally,
temptation was there the whole time. And now
it is allowed to have water, and there is such
pleasure in swallowing a very small amount.
I
have definitely not being hungry this past week.
In a way I have not really been thirsty
either, although I have wanted water because
of this horrible mouth, which is glued together.
About
one hour after swallowing the small amount from
the shower I have my first drink of water in
a glass. It was like nectar from heaven. I know
that the book says that I can have small glass
of juice. But I cannot imagining
wanting juice at this state. As
Jem said a couple of days ago: After this you
will have a different appreciation of water.
How true, at this time I certainly do not want
any juice, I am in bliss with sipping the pure
water.
Although
I am sitting right next to the heater my eyes
are only a little sore this morning. They were
however sore last night when I was reading in
bed. So
I did some of my eye exercises earlier. Out
on the terrace, in the moonlight, bundled in
with blankets, I
did my eye exercises. And it seems to be better
already. I have never had any stinging in my
eyes like this before. But then I am very short
sighted and maybe something is been done with
that? I really however have no desire to be
quit my glasses. They have been hanging on my
nose now for 61 years, and if I am without them
I feel naked. Many years ago when I was trying
contact lenses, I had to wear sunglasses as
well because my eyes felt so exposed. They were
used to the protection from the glasses.
On
a completely different subject: Having just
cleansed my nose with the neti process, I think
that this is definitely something we should
add to our fasting program. We are cleaning
everything else, but we do nothing about these
channels in the head. And when we do the pranayama in the morning,
it is so much more effective having cleansed
all the nasal passage. So I strongly propose that we start our
program 15 minutes earlier, and include the
neti process.
It
has been a very quiet day. I have just been
resting. I do indeed feel like a convalescent.
I feel very different from the other
days. Empowered
and totally at peace. I have only had half as
many showers today, and for a shorter period
of time. I was drinking half a glass of water
every hour till 11AM
and everything was fine with no problems anywhere. I have been talking a full glass every hour since.
And just resting, enjoying
the sun.
I
have been observing my urine being curious to
see if I will have a similar strange discharge
that Jem experienced. But so far I have only
peed three times. The first one was early in
the morning and only 1 cm in the bottom of a
glass. It looked very clear but had a strong
taste to it. The second time was around 2PM
. It looked
very dark; about two cm in the bottom of the
glass and it had a strong smell. But
no impurities. Third time was around
five, and the same. In each case it was the
cold water shower which made me want to pee.
Otherwise the body is retaining the fluids.
For now anyhow. And
I have been enjoying every mouthful of water
like nectars from the Gods. Not slurping it
down, but one loving mouthful at the time. Maybe
tomorrow I shall wish to have some juice, but
for now I am more than happy with the water. And like Jem I am preferring
the water from the borehole rather than the
reverse osmosis water. Later I will get some
water from our spring, and it will be interesting
to make the comparison.
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Day
9
Got
a bit of a surprise this morning.
When I got up I found that I had no energy.
I went to the bathroom and then straight back
to bed and stayed there the whole day.
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Day
10
Same
as yesterday.
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Day
12
Still
no energy. Very weak but managed to have my first shower in
four days. Watched the sunrise and did some
sunbathing later for three hours. Rest
of the time in bed.
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Day
13
Still
convalescing. I am surprised at how little energy I have. Definitely
not enough to take a shower.
Forced myself to get out of bed for the sunrise, but I am shaky with wobbly
knees and it takes me a long time to move. When
I do manage to move I feel dizzy.
It is almost frightening.
I
also had my first bowel movement in 14 days
today. I was quite surprised as it was quite
a substantial movement of old, putrefied stinking
shit the likes of which I have not seen or smelt
since one of my early purification fast. I thought
I was pretty clean and that I had prepared well
for this process with a 40 days fast in July/August
and a two week fast just
before starting the process.
Since
day 8 I have been burping and farting the whole
time. I also have a lot of pain in my right
shoulder. Fortunately the pain does not keep
me awake at night.
My
whole right arm is cold most of the time.

The
terrace outside my room
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Day
15
I
felt a major energy shift during the night.
I had a very restless night with some funny
dreams and I can not see the connection. It
had something to do with our neighbor and a
local supermarket. After the energy shift I
was expecting more energy today, but it is not
so. I
am still just as weak and shaky. This has been
quite an eye-opener and has certainly made me
more humble with a different understanding and
view of how Jem and Koram experienced the process.
I remember watching Jem being weak, and saying
to myself I am not going to be weak like that. I
have prepared myself properly and just watch
me. I
am an experienced faster and have fasted for
at least one week with every group this year,
I will sail through the process without any
problems.
How
wrong can you be? This process has nothing to
with fasting or not fasting, eating or not eating.
And each person experiences it in his own way.
Anne Karine went straight into the process already
on the second day and
stayed in bed for a week. Now
she is up and coming down to visit me, who hardly
has enough energy to get out of bed and go to
the toilet.
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Day
16
I
was awake half the night. Reading for part of
the time and generally feeling good but during
a morning shower found my knees very shaky and
had to support myself.
Enjoyed
the morning sun but found myself quite dizzy
when moving about.
Anne
Karine came to visit again. She had a big lump on her head after she had
passed out and fallen down.
Her blood pressure, which normally is
low, is way down. But she is feeling fine with
her energy coming back.
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Day
17
I
am afraid that my Ego has been seriously deflated.
Every day I wake up expecting to have some of
my energy back, felt fairly alert this morning,
but I just continue to be as weak as a chicken.
Spent the whole day just lying in the sun doing
nothing, not even reading, and instead of getting
stronger as the day progressed I just got weaker.
Anne
Karine came to visit again. I feel very loving
towards her. I also feel loving energies for
Moinhos Velhos.
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Day
18
I
seem to be over the hump with a little more
energy today. I take a Clysmatic and was relieved
of some old stinking, putrefied deposits. Uhhhh!!!!
Horrible smell.
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Day
19
I
am getting towards the end of this process and
I am amazed that I still have so much old shit
to get rid of. Got up at 12 o'clock for a
bowel movement and again at 2
o'clock.
I felt as if I was plugged and had another Clysmatic
with the resulting passing of more stinking deposits. How much
of this can I have, and where does it come from??
Amazing. Some of us just have more accumulated shit of
get rid of than others. But I have fasted on
and off the whole year.
Anne
Karine is getting stronger every day. She told
me that apart from feeling dizzy when she is
standing up, she feels so filled with energy
that she could run up the hill to her room.
But she has to be careful with her low blood
pressure.
I
however seem to be staying weak so there must
be a lesson her for me. I have definitely been
weaker than the others, and although I did not
have any of the common symptoms in the early
part of the process, which I secretly was feeling
very proud of, I am certainly making up for
that now in the end of the process.
I
felt very irritated this morning. First I could
not get the blanket right watching the sunrise,
and then a fly kept on bussing me. Crashed back
to bed and stayed there the whole day.
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Day
20
I
was asleep by 8 o'clock
last night but woke up several times to urinate
and/or empty my bowels and each time I felt
as if I was getting stronger. Wishful thinking
perhaps because in the morning I had hardly
enough energy to get out of bed. I had hoped
and expected to be stronger. After all in the
guide lines it says: " The healing is coming
to an end. You will start to feel stronger."
Not me.
Perhaps
because in the beginning of the process I did
not surrender but was busy doing all sorts of
things, both physically and mentally, whereas
Anne Karine went directly into the process,
I am lagging at least a week behind her. I am
certainly not getting stronger.
I
watched a magnificent sunrise.
As my two care givers Jem and Koram have
left, and Rose Maria who is now our caregiver
does not know about it, I had to feed the fishes.
Going down the few steps I almost stumbled and
had had to sit down. Fed the fishes, crashed
back into bed and stayed there the whole day.
I
have remained weak but apparently this was necessary.
In one of the realignment and integration periods
I was informed that the Masters were keeping
me weak in order for the process to be completed.
I was far too active in my mind and instead
of tuning into the process I was busy planning
all the things and activities were are going
to do here. Last night I was dreaming of and
planning the foundation for the new cottages.
So
in order to facilitate the success and integration
of the process, I had to be kept weak in order
to be quiet. Well I may not like that, but I
do accept it. I mentioned to Jem the other day
that I had begun the backwards countdown to
the end of the process. Jem meant that was all
wrong of me, I should be
in the here and now
and not be looking into the future or the past.
I should be totally in the Process now, and
with no judgment. Well he is probably correct,
but I am getting tired
of being weak. And I did have such high expectations
of sailing through the process with no effort.
Well
so much for pride. While I am in bed resting
Anne Karine is down working in the greenhouse.
So
I accept the situation as it is, but do I also
have to like it? I look upon it more as being
out at sea caught in a full storm in
a small boat. I am wet and cold and miserable
but I accept that as there is nothing I can
do about it but let the storm blow itself out.
In the meantime I look forward to calm waters
and warm and sunny days.
In
the same way I look forward to the return of
my strength and energy. Only one more day and
the process will be completed. But will it be?
I have the feeling that for me with my late start the process will
continue beyond the 21 days.
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Day
21
So
I am coming to the end of the process. I have
a little more energy today but still very weak.
A 5 liters water jug is almost too heavy for
me to lift. Spent
most of the day in bed but managed to do some
typing on the laptop. My right arm has been
bothering me a lot, and I have not been able
to use the keyboard. Maybe a lot of this shit
I have been passing in the last few days comes
from blockages
in the shoulder. I first dislocated this shoulder
50 years ago, and then again 49 years ago and
for the next 25 years or so I could not throw
a ball without feeling pain in shoulder. I have
had very restrictive movement in this arm. Maybe
this is being cleared up now. So
on the eve of the completion of this unique
transformation I look back at the process. It
has truly been a unique experience, probably
the most valuable 3 weeks in my life. I have
never felt any hunger during the three weeks.
A few times when I felt the need for something
I just asked that my etheric drip be increased,
and immediately the need disappeared.
I
truly feel that I have been reborn, that I have
been given a completely new zest on life. I
am now eager and anxious to complete all the
new projects that I have been given. And there
is a wonderful new nearness to Anne Karine.
For the last few years our relationship has
been somewhat in the doldrums. We had a wonderful
working relationship but our sex life has been
nonexistent for some time. There were periods
when I felt: What is the point anymore? I have
had a fulfilling and exciting life; I have done
everything I wanted to do. But now I have lost
over half of my teeth, my sexual powers are
gone, maybe it is time to check in and get a
new suit. After all, once a man loses his sex
drive and his teeth maybe his time in this incarnation
should be up.
Our
fasting programs were doing great with a long
waiting list, but the spark had gone out, there
were not as many miracles anymore. There was
not the same enthusiasm as in the early stages.
Time for a change. And the change has truly come. A complete transformation with eagerness and enthusiasm to get the
expansion rolling, and complete clarity on how
to achieve it.
It
really started before the process with our astrologer
friend Prem completing my horoscope. With complete amazement Anne
Karine and I were listening to Prem
defining my characteristics and needs, as compared
to hers. It did remind me of an old saying.
A woman needs to feel loved to have sex. A man
needs to have sex to feel loved. Right there
and then we both became aware of our different
needs, and there was again the closeness between
us that there used to be in the good all days.
Having
both completed the 21 Day Process at
the same time has to be a unique experience
which not many couples can be privileged to
have. I feel a deep love for Anne Karine now,
I am truly anxious for us to continue this journey
together and to have a lot of fun doing it.
And to do it with love and
laughter and joy.
Do I also expect our future sex life
to be great? Maybe yes,
maybe not. You see, it does not matter
anymore.
We
are thankful to be among the select few to have
experienced the transformation of the 21 Day
Process. And we are most grateful to Richard,
the editor of Kindred Spirit, for having first
published his interview with Jasmuheen,
and bringing the concept of living on light
into our awareness. Well it really was not such
a new idea, in the 27 years as a yoga teacher
I have always emphasized the importance of prana,
that prana is the life force that sustains everything.
And ever since coming to this valley I have
been directed to channel down the light, to
fill everything and everyone with the pranic
energy of light. But one thing is to speak the
words, another thing
is to actually experience the concept. I am
now fully convinced that I am being sustained
and nourished by light, and Anne Karine has
the same conviction. We do not need to eat solid
foods in order to maintain a healthy body. We
are truly living on light. It was our lovely
Jasmuheen from down
under, who had the courage to stand forth in
a world that said it was impossible, and declare
I am Living on Light. When I first
met Jasmuheen in
a workshop in Wales, my reaction was: My God,
if anyone as cute as that can do it, maybe I
can also do it. And upon meeting some of the
others who had completed the process, and feeling
the love and the energy in the group, Anne Karine
and I decided there and then to do the process
as soon as our last fasting group of the year
was finished. The date was set for October 10.
We
only had 2 days between finishing with our fasting
group and the day set for starting the process,
but this was not enough. In two days we did
not manage to complete the many chores that
needed to be done before going into seclusion,
and thus we began one day later.
We
had been warned by several well meaning friends
not to go to the workshop in Wales.
Total waste of money, she is a fraud, only after
the money, you know that it is not possible
etc, etc. And by our standards the workshop
was expensive, we paid more for the seven day
workshop with Jasmuheen
and friends than people did for a complete two
weeks fasting and detox program with therapies
etc. here at Moinhos Velhos. But in the end
we decided we had to go and find out for ourselves.
Thank God for that, I have never made an investment
that paid higher dividends.
Funny
thing was that the very word INVESTMENT used
in the promotional literature for the program
turned me off the workshop. I felt that if the
program could not stand on its own merits, but that it had to
be considered as an investment from which one
would receiver future returns, there must be
something wrong with the program. We call the
cost of our programs cost, and I told Jeff that
the word investment had turned me off. However
we have a totally different view on this issue.
He
thinks it is a clever American way of doing
it, and I simply do not like it.
As
far as doing the program itself we were warned.
"Do not even think about it.
People die from doing that." Nobody
has ever died from doing the program and following
the guide lines laid out in Jasmuheen`s book Living on Light. But you do not set out
on a 21 day hike if you are doing the process,
when the guide lines very clearly states that
you must surrender and rest with a minimum of
activities. This is an absolute must.
We
were very fortunate that Koram, whom we met
in Wales, and who had being living on light for 1 ½
years came down to be our care giver. Neither
Anne Karine nor I had any concept of what the
process was all about. The 21 Day Process is
something which one can not explain, it can
only be experienced. My ego certainly got a
slapping down. Here was I, the master faster,
who was not going to be weak at all like Koram
and Jem, being weaker than anybody. I have not
experienced such muscular weakness since having
jaundice in Jamaica
in 1950. Oh well, maybe my past many years of sinful
living was catching up with me. Anyhow we were
blessed to have both Koram and Jem here as care
givers. Originally when Koram offered to be
our caregiver, we thought, That would be very
nice, but we did not realize how essential it
is to have a caregiver who has done the process.
Thank you Koram and Jem
for your support and Love.
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After
Process Reflections
In
the two weeks following the process Anne Karine
and I both felt great. Both our spirit and energy
were high. Anne Karine however was concerned
about her weight. She had lost 7 kg doing the
process and the weight was not coming back on.
She did not have seven kg to lose; she had already
lost 4 kg during the previous fast. During the
Process she went down to
43kg and felt that she looked like she had come
out of a concentration camp. I lost 6 kg. during the process but as
I had already taken off 10 kg in the juice fasting
program prior to doing the process, I felt that
I was at my ideal weight
of 68-70 kg at the beginning of the process.
What I did find was that the additional weight
reduction had primarily come from the muscles,
and I certainly did not have the physical strength
that I was used to having. This bothered me.
However we were both quite happy not eating
anything solid, but taking boxed juices during
the day, and a clear
broth in the evening.
One
day our Portuguese gardener came with some olives
for us. We had tried to explain to the gardener
that we no longer needed solid foods, but it
was too much to expect him, who can neither
read nor write, to
understand this. As a matter of fact, most people
can not accept this. The olives were from a
tree in our own garden, they had been specially picked and prepared by the
gardener. Anne Karine who used to be very fond
of olives, had to try one. She said they were
delicious. I normally do not like olives, but
I also had to try one. It was delicious. And
that was the beginning of the end.
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End
of Diary
We had arranged to meet with Koram and his friend
in Goa in India in December. When I discussed
with Koram my visions of the future of Moinhos
Velhos, he told me not to give it another thought.
It was all been taken care of. His friend who
was visiting Moinhos Velhos during the time
we did the process, had sold his company for
a great deal of money and he wanted to use part
of this money for the preservation of the valley
and the expansion of our programs. We were all
to meet in Goa when it would be explained to
us how this was to be.
When we got to Goa Koram's was there, but his
friend did not show. It was all forgotten. It
was indeed a good thing that we had not counted
on him for any expansion plans. But Koram now
presented us with the latest great program from
Jasmuheen. They had found these wonder Prana
Pills, which would replace the 21 Day Program.
It would no longer be necessary to undertake
the 21 Day Process, all one had to do was to
take the Prana pills, and one could then Live
on Light. This would solve all and any hunger
problems in the world. The products would be
distributed through a multilevel marketing network
program, and we would all become very rich.
Jasmuheen was collaborating with the worlds
leading experts, who had won a series of awards
for their products.
I
could not believe it!!
When I read the promotional literature
I found little information about the prana pills,
they were just very expensive vitamins, minerals.
and other supplements. Yes, t he
awards had been won, this was clear, but not
for having a wonder product, but for being the
most successful multilevel marketing company
in the world. Sh......... At this point we completely
disassociated from Jasmuheen and the Self Empowerment
Academy.
I had believed, because I wanted
to believe. I had accepted because I wanted
it to be so. But now, critical, I began to investigate,
and found all sorts of discrepancies. I found
for instance that when Jasmuheen did her one
week controlled supervised fast for a TV program,
she lost one kg. a day. What happened to the
mental power of being able to control the weight
with the mind? There were many other unsupported
and conflicting claims. I have actually never
met anybody who lives on pure prana. I hear
about them, but I have never met one. There
is always some water, juice and soup. And a
little snacking. And to maintain the muscle
structure and strength, hours are spent on body
building practices. I do not have time, nor
inclination for that.
After Goa we went to Jaipur,
where I met with my Sufi master. I proudly told
him about the 21 day process, and that I did
not have to eat solid foods anymore. He asked
me: And why did you do that?. My answer was
"for spiritual advancement" He said:
You are a fool. I could have given you that
in 5 minutes!! There are Yogis in the Himalayas
who have been doing that for a thousand years,
and have not made one step forward on the spiritual
path. It is all for the body! Whow...
So how do I reconcile this with my enthusiasm
for the program while doing? To quote myself:
"This is the best investment I have ever
made." I have fasted a lot, as a matter
of fact one year I fasted with every group that
we had. But while fasting I was also facilitating
the programs here. That meant leading the meditation
and yoga, doing the therapies, looking after
administration and maintenance, consulting with
and supporting the clients. There really never
ever was any time for me. Doing the 21 Day Program
was the first time ever, in my whole life, where
the time was just for me. In 1991 I probably
fasted for almost 100 days, but apart from the
time of the 21 Day Process, I was busy as a
little beaver. All the time full of energy,
facilitating the fasting programs, collecting
stones, building rock walls etc. etc. Only once
during my 40 day fast, while at the beach collecting
stones for the garden, did I feel that my physical
strength was not up to par.
My
conclusion as of today (May 2005) therefore
is: Juicefasting is the best. I no longer believe
that it was the deprivations of liquids and
healthy juices that was instrumental in my experiences
during the 21 Day Program and my enthusiasm
for same. In retrospect I firmly believe that
similar or even superior experiences could be
achieved doing healthy juice fasting, without
loosing so much weight and strength as we did,
nor loosing our sense of balance, which even
as of today we have not completely recovered.
I believe that the experiences during the 21
Day process was primarily due to having three
weeks of solitude and meditation, with no outside
disturbing influences, a time to surrender,
a time for connecting with the divine within
and the cosmic energies, 24 hours a day, and
had little to do with the absence of healthy
liquids. We know that a juicefasting diet can
effect a total healing of diseased organs, and
my experience with the 21 day Process can explain
why so many of our clients experience a complete
transformation during our two weeks fasting
program. Three weeks would probably be better,
but not many people can commit to this. One
week is not enough.
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