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Prelude: A Look Inside Temple Food
To seek and f nd the perfect diet is to know sustenance for the body temple that houses
one’s self! This search is an exploration of the Soul? What sparked my life-changing experience
deepest roots in the garden of our being. Food. one memorable night as I encountered the
Love. Life. Such small words with enormous “living consciousness” that was within the food
implications, applications, and practices—words I was preparing for dinner? And how did Spirit
that are often intertwined and synonymous guide us over the course of many years, always
with how they make us feel. leading us to greater levels of health, awareness,
and reverence for life? This section condenses
what we both have experienced since 1969
I believe that every person carries a unique
blueprint for health that acts as a guide to when our diet changed and we became
vegetarians, and years later, raw vegans. These
discover the best foods to eat. When this inner
acts opened a gateway for our journey of self
intelligence arises from within, and its wisdom discovery with three main components: food,
enters our hearts, we have the opportunity to
awareness, and compassion.
respond to its clear voice of truth. If we listen
to the messages and take action, we may soon The second section, the Temple Food Recipes,
feel a sublime ease in the body.
contains 121 delicious, raw food recipes from
my website, The Healing Feast, made from the
Temple Food opens with the chronicle of the freshest ingredients to boost health and vitality.
various stages and changes that my husband,
If you enjoy these and would like to see more,
Rex, and I have experienced with our diet, and I invite you to visit the website at http://www.
the effects that these shifts have had on our thehealingfeast.com.
lifestyle and state of mind. How did we come
to view food as a gift that we could bring The third section of Temple Food is a feast of
to a temple as an offering of gratitude and “painted poems” that convey what food has
celebration? What inspired us to understand come to mean to me physically, emotionally,
that the foods we eat are temple foods— and spiritually. Hidden aspects and metaphors
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