FREAK N RAW

Always Learn, Learn, Learn. :)

2010-03-14T13:13:00.001-07:00

Yes , I haven't been blogging since a while - gosh!?

I've been vveery busy on my Road, moving from Vienna, visiting home, friends, mountains, parents and relatives, re-traveling into unkown directions and finally grounding in a new area that I now call HOME!!

It took me little time to get in touch with this POWERFUL AERA somewhere in the South-West of Central Europe (makes sense?)...

It somehow (strange to say) reminds me of the North of NewZealand, AOTEAROA.

I had been sojourning in the North in 2006 among a Maori Community. The character of this area and place somehow resembles a similar strong indigenous accent. It is not a case that this landscape once was witness of celtic traditions and tribes living here. You can still feel it in the air, and in the people you may encounter. A strong pagan, mystical and beautiful tone.

So what Em I doing? I had people wondering about this on recent emails. Truly, I'm on a good track involved in many projects, situations, relationships (hehe, dont get me too wrong), people, working on many fronts, levels, dimensions and qualities surrounded by bliss, we ALL are. And to stay aligned with it, taking each level and step, actually waiting for it to unfold is really THE MISSION. Not as many people out there willing to resist to a Higher Purpose? It can be tremendously disheartening to SURRENDER to a higher and unkown will - with all its implications he! But not, not if you know that every day has every day its everyday purposes, gifts, tasks and activities. The best part of my life, is that every day as every week and every month are and can be so amazingly different, new to the previous one that I'm never getting bored by a ROUTINE and NEVER really knowing what's NEXT besides GOOD. I know we have to wake up everyday, with all SENSES, and usually have some sort of Break-Fast as Orange Juice w/ Lemon and/or Fruit, and then see which kind of people/energies to work with. I was very surprised to observe my levels of energy lately finding myself in vigorous health and waking up to the Day everyday early without any feelings of discomfort or signs of age etc. HEHE, im just 28 but seriously I have friends that at this age already seem to have EMPTY BATTERIES TO LIFE. I feel this is a gift of RAW LIVING FOODS, the longer you are RAW and the BETTER you have learned to manage and master its challenges the stronger and powerful its benefits will come into your life. Some (wise) people speak about a cycle of 7 years, I'm approaching my 6th year this year so I can testify it!

On a practical note , speaking about work:

Last week we were building some big fences around a property for a good friend that wants to keep chooks. Its a permanent sustainable local project done for nice peopole with nice energy and that counts very much! I was having my regular lunch with its nice family and I found it great to be able to share what I live in such a un-judgmental environment. A few days a week I set off to move 40km from where I live to meet a friend and do some carpentry at her place. The homestead she is living in is in very bad conditions. Bad to say, cause it needs to be transformed ''THE ORGANIC WAY" and in just one week amazing steps forwards have been already achieved despite the COLD WEATHER. Restore the walls, level the ground, move the dirt, clean up the gardens, set up no-dig ones, build and break walls, much has been done. The hours are long and the work is physically empowering and rewarding for you sleep well at night! Indeed while living here few days at week I em fortunate to sojourn at another friends place, a single mother of 2 wonderful, angelic, kindred-spirited guys/children. We live in a very small-small wooden hut surrounded by forests, silence, fresh air and MAGIC SYNCHRONICITY! The blissful connection with this NEW FAMILY just happened, actually it did not happen it already WAS and IS if your familiar with this kind of SITUATION. Certain people, actually very SPECIFIC ONES are attracted into your life for a SPECIFIC REASON. I feel so blessed to experience this ONENESS and PATTERN so often in my life. Moreover I have been able to visit an amazing alternative SCHOOL Project where this new friend, Myriam, works as a teacher for autistic children. We've been introducing Raw Foods in form of WRAPS in the School and the Children, the Parents, the Teachers really LOVE IT!

So life is exiting, We just Keep on the GOOD WAVE HEY?!

I have a few other projects coming up soon in various location of Austria, I will up-date more information as I have done here and in my other Travel-Blog THENOFRONTIERS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Unfortunately I have no Camera yet to share some pictures of all this places, only a few and recent one uploaded with a lend camera on my other BLOG.

This being more raw-food, natural health, diet oriented will continue to cover more of such relative TOPICS, and the latter one focus as always on more travel-political-and-and topics...

Well to date my current DIET SITUATION, i'm at the moment experimenting with a wide range of FOODS compared to my early beginnings as RAW BREATH_FREAK...

I'm still A RAW FREAK hey, not a COOKED ONE, just my BREATHARIAN APPROACH has changes due to environment, circumstances and situations, needs.

BETTER OR WORSE , NO QUESTION.

Change is always healthy, to be stuck in one Pattern, Way of thinking, Living is Unhealthy in my Eyes ALWAYS...

Might be the reason I Love to travel, Might be the reason I Love RAW FOODS...

YOU CAN EAT A BIG VARIETY OF RAW FOODS, OVER A BIG VARIETY OF TIME, IN A BIG VARIETY OF WAYS...

AND ALWAYS

LEARN, LEARN, LEARN

NEW THINGS,

ON THIS ENDLESS ROAD,

AND RIDE...

LESS SHOPPING, MORE BEING!!

2009-11-25T06:12:00.000-08:00

Food Log Day 6 - Monday 23/11/09

I had no sleep for 24 hours , so my energy was somehow bizzarre i'd say...

Foodwise i eat a yummo fruit salad, banana, apple, pear... 2 plates of it, very satisfying...

various cups of teas during the day...., fennel, roibosh, and 1 green tea

thats all and nough

Food Log Day 7 - 24/11/09

2 apples, 1 banana, and 1 pear..., teas and teas :)

helped out in the kitchen, doing vegan food preparation and cooking...

Its funny when your on raw foods, the detachment you have with the fire,

i mean the change of relationship you have cultivated in years towards what other people

use to destroy , can be seen also in the end=product, "you cook with a sort of easiness"...

I had a few bites into a salad , a green salad, with olives, toms, cucumbers and the taste of it just made me say : YUCK!!

I remember how when i started on raw food , one of my main problems was the binging on fatty, greasy, chemical laden, possibly not raw dressings, and conventional produce... If there is one thing I avoid nowadays is this: to eat Conventional Dressings and VEGS, fruit not a problem, but Dressing you'd better avoid them at all, you'd better go for whole fats as creamy avocadoes, keepn it simple, since the stuff they sell is just NOT MAKING YOU FEEL BETTER , its just altered in aromas and and going to touch your endocrine system, your spiritual CPU!!

all in all a very positive day with lots of laughter in the streets...

Day 8 - WED 25/11/09

I was thinkn and missn Avocados yesterday, and realizing how great they are from time to time... I mean the creaminess, shape and green colour is just yummo... today walked in the kitchen and here you are boxes and boxes of perfectly ripe creamy fruit arrived...!! I just eat one and nough..., that should do for a while... avocado is the Best Butter on Earth... :)

Foodwise: Sunshine in the morning, ahhh the sun broke trough the clouds, so i did a meditation/yoga exercise for about an hour, surrounded by other people studying/conversing/being...

my legs really felt happy about it,

I had 3 bananas hey! See i'm eating as THE UNIVERSE PROVIDES, if the Universe gives and provides i dont reject, when the Universe does provide less, I take what it has to offer...!! There always something For Freegans like me. The idea of buying food really is obsolete at the moment, it just doesnt make sense, i'm saying this AT THIS MOMENT IN LIFE, i'm able to manifest, live it, and since life is change , and change is healthy , i'm open to the dynamics that i will encounter proximately in my life, so not saying NEVER AND NEVER, but surely conscious that the quality and progress i'm experiencing in life right now, will hopefully accompany me further on my path...

LESS SHOPPING = MORE BEING!

have a g'd one :)

Day 5 - An Orange and A Pear... My Life Knows No Fear :)

2009-11-22T11:27:00.000-08:00

Today I didnt even wake up in the morning ?

How come ?

I just didnt go to bed at all!

We had an amazing literature=night here filling late hours with poetic and theatrical rush , I cant go to bed on such occasion :)

The funniest things I didnt even felt tired or anything like that, since I'm MINIMALLY EATING so much energy is freeing Up..., I somehow feel a bigger need to actually calm my mind and rest, well i'm getting there, its gradual as said... in 1-2 weeks i'll be more SETTLED IN THE VORTEX ENERGY... :)

I just slept aprox. 3 hours, from 12 pm to 3 pm... and em since back actively and very focused!

At the moment i'm working in the Office sorting out people with informations, contacts, directions, and help them organize and formulate their events... I'll be giving a few lectures too in the upcoming time, I'm Excited, right now i'm working on the presentation... It wont be just Diet Related but surely cover in grand part such topic... More in time! :)

Today I eat One Orange, One Pear, Cause This Life knows No Fear :)

and 1 cup of tea too!

I'll be having more cups in the next hours... Not sure if i'll be going to sleep this night... Joking... I'll be going but much earlier and meditate too!!

Wow, I'll keep you posted, So much more things are happening soon! I'm Busy,Busy,Busy!!!

Life is Good!

Ciao!!

Ivan -The Raw Freak :)

Check Out This Song, The Lyrics Are Actually Very mmh Human, and Questioning, Nice To The End, And The Music, mmh, I'm musically fallen in Love with John Mayer!! :)

Day 4 - An Orange A Day...

2009-11-21T12:19:00.001-08:00

Food Log:

Morning: Various cups of tea...

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Today I was super-organizing things/projects, I downloaded a lot of e-books from the internet... I love to organize and plan, the Virgo within me loves to plan/organize/tide up...

Well in the afternoon I eat 1 ORANGE...

And various cups of tea...

Not many really...

I observed that the way I'm living at the moment is a kind of SEMIFASTING...

Eating 1 piece per fruit a day, of course I have no rules really, but 1 seems to be enough!

It somehow works better at the moment to eat VERY LITTLE..., Not feeling yet ready to go with nothing at all, but this small, thiny portions are keeping me going well...

Mh, I just have to keep consistent on the path, usually the first 10 days are the hardest...

I've done previous Juice=Fasting, 90 days in the Tropics of Australia,,

It was a profound experience, and CLEANSING!!

But this way of semi-fasting , seems I can manage it easier...all can be managed...gradually...

It might be that in a few weeks I can go without solid at all... At the moment however I'm enjoying 1-2-3 pieces of Fruit A Day...

day 3 - I'm A Freakn Freegan :)

2009-11-20T13:42:00.000-08:00

Food Log:

Morning:

1 banana,

some raisins,

few dates,

various cups of Yogi Tea... :)

Afternoon...

I walked in to a shop with a friend to help him make shopping (him)

While watching around the Fruit section I observed 1 ripe spotty banana along with some rotten tomatoes in the 'organic bin'

Well, I did not hesitate a second and voila the banana was mine :)

My friend obviously starred me with open eyes, while I was enjoying the creamy yumminess of the fruit...! :)

''I even observed if someone observed'', but no-one did... It doesnt happen often to meet people in the shops who are eating fruit, so I might have passed easily as a THIEF!!

But I'm not, I do not Steal at all, I never did, I'm A Freegan, Ever heard about, do you know what that means?

Here Wiki:

Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources". Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed."^[1]The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as dumpster diving. Freegans salvage the food for political reasons, rather than out of need.^[2]^[3]

If there are ways to get 'free food' , reduce consumption of resources, and create positive networks in your community... well then get in touch with FREEGAN GROUPS,, they are likely in your city or district... just google it... So much FOOD gets wasted Everyday In Our Society, where on other sides of the Planet people are starving to death...

A (dear) friend of mine just recently suggested : FRUIT SHOULD BE MADE FREE... I find this idea so ''revolutionary correct'', and ethical, as economical sustainable and applicable, I mean, Fruit trees really need little care, All they need from time to time is some good composted matter (which we would anyway make out of the food scraps and minerals), care of course in the first years, as water and some pruning/training , and harvesting... :)

If people all over the World would start to EAT what we are designed by NATURE: namely Fruit and Vegetables in abundance, Nuts and Seeds in Season, and the Rest 20% whatever they want to, well I guess, already then 90-95% of our social,political,environmental,health problem would be gone! Imagine a world covered extensively by FRUIT TREES and Organically Grown GARDENS... No need to kill innocent creatures, rob the Earth of its resources, no need for wars and people dying of hunger, no depletion and desertification of sacred soil, no anymore so much horrible waste products and garbage ending in our water supply and everywhere, polluting the Earth, the Air we Breath, and extinguish rare species of plant, animal and mineral Kingdom! ITS SIMPLE HEY!?!?

Yet we have lost the connection, we totally have lost the connection in our ''CIVILIZED WORLD''! We run around with cars, live in boxes called houses, live a life that DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, eat food that has been destroyed not only once, but gets processed, packaged, irradiated, pasteurized, sterilized, chemically treated before ending on our Tables! We are hardly capable of social communication, this excluding the fact when we're drugged, doped, or drunk, We are Desperate For Love, Not Knowing How to Love, Nor How To Receive It, How Miserable, yet how Great to be free and liberated from such AGONY , and How Great and Good to See that people despite this Are still living on Earth and somehow positively reacting when you Set the Good Example (yes they do)...

Well let me go back to the food log:

In the later Afternoon I ate ,, Nothing! :)

I even had no cups of tea all day...

Gosh , seems i'm already into breatharianism... :)

But this story , I wont share it now...

Next time i'm gonna do it... if It feels right!! :)

Of 4 a cuppa now, Its late!

Ok I love this song...

2009-11-19T11:11:00.000-08:00

Since this Is A Freakn Raw Blog,

I thought to share Some Good Freakn Music...

I love this song,,,

As little boys we used to go around the streets with comb in the pockets and grease on our heads...,

trying to mimic the famous musical...

Of course I was playn Johnno he-he :)

Pull Up the Volume and DANCE!

day 2 - Eat Light Not Ground :)

2009-11-19T07:40:00.000-08:00

Morning:

Woke up hungry, and tired, yesterday I had a VEEEERY late night...
So I Eat a cabbage, carrot, avocado, flax-seeds salad , that was my breakfast he, with bit of oil and salt...
Did like it but it pulled me way down to ground...
I usually eat only fruit, fruit keeps me LIGHT and CLEAR,,,
I can eat little amounts of fruit and feel better than on such salad meals... ah,
Well, I guess I have to really keep strong WILL and DESIRE for simplicity and take care
of the logistics, like havn some more apples in my pockets... LOL

Various cups of tea keep me going well too,
I feel better leaving completely complicated meals out of my plan a the moment
and have to set goals and aims... reason I start this blog...
EAT FRUIT, LITTLE, THATS ALL YOU FREAKN NEED

LOL, welcome to the FREAKN RAW BLOG...
This is a space for hippies, punks, freaks, sluts, saints, no discriminations hey...,
you can be even a conservative asshole, a banker, as long your
keep YOUR MIND OPEN, I'll be not intolerant
haha LOL
(And feel free to comment...)
I'll be showing you my gentle side in the next coming time...,
PROMISED...

Afternoon:
Various cups of tea, and 1 apple... Mhh, the apple made me feel Very Good!
I did meditate also 20 min...
Will do more before going to bed...
Later On Again 1 Apple and 1 Pear,
I had some interactions, and met a guy , incredible,
a guy whom I first met 1 1-2 years back
while I was living in Australia?!?!?
He was my guest, that time living on an organic farm...
and we had somehow an interesting encounter...

Mh, I'm just grounding this space: More things to follow...

day 1

2009-11-18T09:09:00.000-08:00

Food Intake:

Morning..

1 Warm Cup of Carob Shake, 2 cups Yogi Tea, 1-2 cups Fennel tea,

Afternoon:

1 pear, 2 cups of Tea, some water, 1 Erva Mate

Evening:
Lecture