Living Naturally
 After
studying native cultures for many years, Weston Price
wrote of the people he had come to know:
“One wonders if there is not
something in the life-giving vitamins and minerals
of the food that builds not only great physical structures
within which their souls reside, but builds minds
and hearts capable of a higher type of mankind in
which the material values of life are made secondary
to individual character.”
The fundamental difference between
the way most people live today and the way most people
have traditionally lived can be understood in that
one sentence. Today, traditional foods and the great
physical structures they build are for the most part
gone, and with them hearts and minds that place primary
value on individual character.
To live naturally is first and foremost
to act consciously to evolve and promote a way of
life that embodies these age-old values, in a world
that mostly does not – no easy task. It is said
that one becomes what one thinks about often enough
and long enough. As our thoughts shape us, so too
do our foods. Food is perhaps the most direct choice
we have to profoundly change ourselves and influence
our culture. We will become what we choose to eat,
as individuals and as a people.
So
to live naturally, choose food carefully. Support
farmers who nurture the earth. Drink raw milk. Think
about the land, the sea, and the animal life of the
world. Until modern times, most people have lived
together with animals and the land. “When you
have a cow, you have it all,” wrote William
Corbett, a nineteenth century essayist and farmer.
It is not practical to have a cow, you say? Well,
in many ways living naturally is profoundly not practical.
The norm today is highly unnatural. To find the peace
that living even somewhat traditionally may bring
requires breaking the mold.
The nutrients, formulas and special
foods described on this website have been of great
help to us in breaking out of the mold of mainstream
medicine. We think of them not as panaceas, but simply
as useful tools. Our hope is that you too will find
them useful in your own path to greater heatlh and
living naturally.
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