Yes, following in Daimian's footsteps, I too will sample the untold delights of the chocolate variety of the Smooth Move herbal tea this fine evening. And in another coup of blessed, undeserved, God-given variety arriving in my life, I discovered today in the fine print of the regimen that we can drink occasional cups of mint tea! Hell yeah, baby! Watch out! Mint tea, I'm coming for you! Git in my belly!

Speaking of the regimen and the writings of Stanley Burroughs himself, I'll write more later, but there's quite a lot of fascinating material in his 1941 opus. Consider:

Man's mastery of disease will only be final when ignorance and fear are overcome by proper observance of all laws pertaining to the creation of bones, flesh, and blood.

Through eons past and on even into the present, man has been held and still remains in bondage of misery and suffering while witchcraft and quackery, whether licensed or not, have run the gamut of the healing field of mis-information.

At last, the basic cause of disease is no longer a mystery. The basic cause is the habits of improper diet, inadequate exercise, negative mental attitudes, and lack of spiritual attunement which combine to produce toxic conditions and malfunction of our bodies.

Also:

To be complete, a healing system must be able to cover the entire field of human experiences - physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Any system which denies any part of this trinity fails in its attempt to heal to the same extent to which it denies any part or parts.

Anyway, I'll write more about his many ideas soon.

I've had better energy today, much better. I worked out and felt great doing it.

Walking around the neighborhood afterwards, an obvious thought about this hunger occurred to me. What if it weren't by choice? What if this were my daily experience whether I wanted it or not? It strains my imagination, even now. To live hungry, and not by choice--it would be so destructive and debilitating to every aspect of being alive. In perpetual hunger, hopes and dreams, loves and passions feel dulled by a gray cloud of need. Unchosen, hunger could only be a nightmare. How much more power must lie within us as a species to create a better world, to create anything we can imagine, when none of us is slowed by hunger? What possibilities await us when we do finally end world hunger?

Of course it's a political problem, not a problem of resources. Food is plentiful. As Arundhati Roy and Mohandas Gandhi and numerous others have explained, we rich countries could easily feed the world, if profit and empire were not our top priorities. Gandhi summarized: "Earth provides enough to satisfy all men's needs, but not all men's greed."

--tony

Today has probably been the most consistent day so far in terms of how my energy level is. I think my body has had enough time to adapt to the situation. That being said I think the hardest time of each day is right around lunch. I work in a small architecture firm and everyone buys lunch and brings it back to work. All the smells floating around are at times a bit trying. However, I will say Roberta, my boss, was so kind as to bring me in lunch yesterday -- a single meyer lemon she had got from a job site. Funny? Most certainly.

As for the rest of my energy, the late nights I have had the last couple nights will soon take their toll if I don't get some quality sleep this weekend. As Tony was referring to as well, we are kinda tied to the lemonade drink. It really is true that if we are hungry or low energy, one sip of the drink removes all of it. However, if you are too far away from the drink for too long your body starts getting weak, and my extremeties have started getting a little cold/light. I am sure I was quite the site at the concert, standing outside while everyone else is smoking chugging what I am sure looked like a cocktail and straight vodka, but was in fact the lemonade drink and water.

As for the senna leaf tea we drink at night, it is really quite yummy. It seems senna leaf is a natural laxative and this particular tea company has a sense of humor and called their tea "Smooth Move". Catchy and accurate. Tonight, though, is when I feast...feast on the other "Smooth Move" flavor - "Chocolate Smooth Move". Ain't nothing like a little variety.

Medium-length natural laxative sidenote: Growing up my mom would only buy foods which had zero sugar in them. For me as a little kid you can only imagine this was torture. For a good 5 years in there (probably from 6th grade to 11th grade) I was a little obsessed with cereal. Initially my mom would only buy 2 types of cereal: Uncle Sam's and Grape Nuts. The thing is, though, that I think these are cereals for the elderly because in the past (they have since widely rectified this marketing snafu) Uncle Sam's was plastered with "With Flaxseed, A Natural Laxative!" Now this can't be appealing to a large demographic, and especially a 13-year old kid. However, in all openness I will say that now 2 of my favorite cereals happen to be...yep, you guessed it: Uncle Sam's and Grape Nuts. Nature vs. nurture my ass!

Well, happy poops around!

--daimian