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Survival Into the 21st Century by Victoras Kulvinskas
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 Survival Into the 21st Century - Victoras Kulvinskas. Now in its 34th printing, this amazing book is like the bible for raw food fadists. Kulvinskas was a computer programmer who healed himself with a raw food diet. It offers a range of information about the nutritional value of raw foods and supports the notion that there is something essential lacking in the typical American diet of cooked and processed food. This revolutionary book will totally change the way you think about what you eat.
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Posted by Lou Carbone on 2006-12-17 03:18:46
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Comment: I bet not one of the "debunkers" followed through on Victoras'' advice, in which case they can get stuffed. He is and was a seer.
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Posted by G. Anderson on 2006-01-08 21:32:56
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Comment: I recently re-visited the "Planetary Healers Manual" aka Survival into the 21st Century. As I thumbed through the yellowing pages and the myriad of so-called "hippie" views, I recall the challenges he made to the way we thought about nutrition, exercise ,etc. back in the 70''s and 80''s. The currrent debate over organic vs non -organic foods, global warming , the toxins being spilled into the enviornment, the cancer pandemic . etc which directly affect our the industrial world, etc.make "far-out" thinkers and natural order practitioners like Kulvinskas so valuable.
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Posted by Roger Lovejoy on 2004-08-13 00:05:32
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Comment: Hi. Alan. Whereas what you say rings a bell it''s only one bell. Space is full of light but as it travels only in one direction, if you are looking the ''wrong'' way you will not see it.
There is no darkness, just the inability to see the light and it''s also very true that facts invariably distort the truth.
If you are looking to the world for your answers, Victoras Kulvinshas is no one Guru, but it''s cheering to see someone unafraid to try reducing there inhumane humane consuption.
I was for a while, after reading this book a frutarian, but it was too difficult with children. Now i limit my food to plants and I don''t like killing them either.
It just dosen''t seem right that my continued existence is dependent on the death of others.
So good luck Alan and good luck Victoras - wherever you are.
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Posted by Mark Edited on 2004-02-12 07:45:07
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Comment: My comment is directed to Alan:Sadly, Victoras also predicted the coming wave of terrorism, the continued polution of our planet and the need to be able to survive for several days without food and water. You may laugh now but I am still a vegetarian who at nearly 53 everyone guesses my age to be in my 30s. I was carded on my 42nd. So laugh about the bankrupt new age while you sift through the now debunked meds in you cabinet or the read the long list of the millions who have died after suffering through conventional treatment since Victoras wrote this book. Seriously there is still much good info here for those who are willing to try something besides their factory grown and slaughtered grease burgers and fries. I hear the protein guru died obese and in bad health after years of his diet.
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Posted by Alan on 2004-01-06 23:57:37
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Comment: Ahhh!!! A trip down memory lane! I remember this book from my early 20s the late-1970s. I dipped into this book often during a period of intense spiritual seeking. (I eventually recovered from this condition, which causes degeneration of the critical faculties.) I poured over this book for hours, discussed it endlessly with friends, and laughed about it for years afterwards. In one edition, the author (who seems to believe that he is a prophet) made dramatic predictions about what would happen in the coming years. These passages were removed in subsequent editions, undoubtedly because his predictions had failed to materialize!
The author catalogs a wide-range of crank medical systems and dubious alternative healing practices. He seems to take most of them seriously, even ones that are unlikely to be true (e.g., the ideal diet consists of food that falls from trees that have been fertilized "naturally") and those that researchers have debunked (e.g., iridology and the Bates system of vision correction). The author''s seriousness and earnestness heightens the enjoyment of reading this book: much of the material is so outlandish that it is hard to believe that anyone, much less the author, could take it seriously.
Highly recommended for everyone who delights in intellectual bankrupcy of the New Age thinking!
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