Joe Alexander:
Joe Alexander
Biography:
- Born 1951 in Chicago
- Read Arnold Ehret in 1973, took up transition mucusless diet
immediately, went all-raw in 1976, have been very close to total
raw fooder ever since.
- Author of Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda
- Makes living as a sign painter, landscape & mural painter &
commercial artist.
- I consider that my most outstanding discovery in life is the value
of raw food diet in increasing the beauty, clarity and strength of
one's artwork.
- Currently living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, have been here since
1980.
Lecture:
"Joe Alexander's Handy-Dandy Low-Budget Comprehensive Self-
Help Program for Physical, Spiritual and Emotional Rejuvenation."
Description:
This talk is about my search for higher vitality, better health and
higher consciousness, with emphasis on 3 things that I have so
far found most valuable - raw food diet, Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites,
and Toning.
Here is Joe Alexander in his own words:
Hello to all you Web-Surfers out there who have landed your boats on this island! My name
is Joe Alexander. I've been a raw-foodist since 1976. I got started when I read Prof.
Arnold Ehret's Book:
"Mucusless Diet Healing System" in 1973. I immediately took up his
"transition diet," which included cooked vegetables. After 3 years, I went
all-raw. When I did that my energy shot up to a point past
anything I had imagined before was possible (It's remarkable how limited imagination is.
You can't really imagine anything you haven't already experienced, and if it's not fresh
in your memory, it's still difficult
to imagine.) and I felt a oneness with Nature such as, again, you can't imagine without
experiencing. I'm convinced that raw food is the only natural and normal diet. Cooked-food
eaters never know a single
day of real physical or mental health, and that's why we've got such a mess on our hands
in this world now, after thousands of years of a 100% cooked-food poisoned population
getting worse and worse.
All raw-food eaters seem to develop a strong interest in organic farming and gardening,
and I'm no exception. I grow various sorts of fruits and vegetables. I make my living as
an artist, commercial and fine
both. I do sign painting, calligraphy, portraits, landscapes, have done some book covers,
and other forms of illustration. For me one of the best things about The Raw-Food Diet has
been the improvement it
has caused in my artwork. As a raw-foodist, my colors are brighter and more beautiful; my
drawing is clearer and better proportioned, my compositions lusher and more intricate.
Before becoming a
raw-foodist, I was into surrealism, weird and bizarre stuff with barren landscapes, dull
color, figures all misshapen and out of proportion. Now I know that that stuff was a
projection of my own poor health.
You see a lot of weird, bizarre, grotesque, depressing, and ugly stuff in the arts today,
and it's all just cooked-food poisoned, junk-food crazed people showing off how unbalanced
and devitalized they are.
Since regaining my health, I've felt inspired to do paradisean landscapes with plenty of
lush trees, flowers, birds, fish, etc. and healthy-proportioned people. Nature's creative
forces strive to create a
paradisical world and the healthy artist feels motivated to do the same.
Besides The Raw-Food Diet, I'm interested in the whole subject of ascension; I've found
various forms of yoga and other practices of spiritual science, of great value in healing
and revitalizing myself. I've
gotten convinced that physical immortality is a real possibility and I want to see how
much progress I can make in that direction. Some people say death is natural -- but so is
the desire for immortality! So
how can you say that one is more legitimate than the other? I've personally had an
especially huge problem with repressed emotional traumatic emotions, you know, those
things that cause nervousness, guilt,
depression, and shyness. So I've put a great deal of effort into learning how to solve
that one. I've gotten help from rebirthing, from re-evaluation counseling, Reichian-type
work, Dianetics, dynamic
meditation a la Rajneesh, and Toning, among the various systems that have been developed
to help people overcome this problem. Toning has been especially helpful I've developed
some techniques similar
to Toning myself. I've found the greatest benefit from Toning and similar self-help
methods, which anyone can learn in less than 5 minutes and do all they want for free; I've
found this sort of simple self-help
approach to working on the problem far more effective than the expensive and complex forms
of bodywork and regression therapy that require professional facilitation that I've tried.
Anyone wanting to know
my methods should listen to my Audio Tape "The Raw-Food Diet, Orgonomy, &
Immortality".
Another thing I've found very helpful in pursuit of ascension is The Tibetan Rejuvenation
Rites. These are a series of 5 simple exercises that take less than 10 minutes a day to
do. The story goes that they
were developed by Tibetan lamas to enable them to remain strong, vigorous, and active at
ages well past 100 years. I began to feel a remarkable increase in my energy after doing
them daily for 21 days, and
many other people have too. I have enclosed illustrations of them in my first Book
entitled: "Blatant Raw-Foodist Propaganda" originally published as "Beyond
Vegetarianism."
Also, as I had mentioned, I have recently recorded an Audio Tape entitled: "The
Raw-Food Diet, Orgonomy, & Immortality" which contains my latest thinking on The
Raw-Food Diet, Wilhelm Reich's
theory of Orgone energy, Toning, and the possibility of Physical Immortality, "the
only cause worth dying for!" I am currently writing a semi-autobiographical Book:
"New Age Perspectives On Art" which
discusses my entire theory of The Raw-Food Diet, releasing suppressed emotional energy,
art, and Beauty. My new Book contains lots of my new artwork.
