Yes, this is turning into a pure philosophy blog.
SO. I've been on a raw foods diet now for 2 months for health reasons. One of my favorite cookbooks is Gabriel Cousens' Rainbow Green Live food cuisine. Not only is the food great, but you feel good after you eat it. I have some influenced recipes on my other blog (www.karensrawkitchen.blogspot.com)
Anyway, the first half of his book is all about different diseases/ailments and how raw foods can cure them. I don't know if that's necessarily true but that's the assertion. The guy is an MD so I don't know whether that makes him more credible or less so. His main premise, as I ascertain it, is that the majority of people have fungus living in their blood. Apparently the way he developed this hypothesis was to take a 'field microscope' with him all the time. The craving for sugar and sweets -according to him- is due to the needs of the fungi. The waste of the fungi, mycotoxins are what he claims to cause most ailments.
I started thinking about this. Last year, I kept getting mushrooms popping up in my yard. Not 'toadstools' but 'stinkhorns'. They are nasty and gooey and stink to high heaven. My dog loved to gobble them up. Disgusting. So I started to research the whole 'mushroom' thing. Apparently the mushrooms are just the 'fruiting body' of the mycylium. The main part of the mushroom is tiny hair thin (or less) strands in the earth. So pulling them up is like picking the apples off a tree to try and get it to die. Not happening.
So what if we were to view this whole construct of 'reality' as a structure similar to this "mycilium web" ( for lack of a better term). If we and the events of our lives are the 'fruiting bodies' and the web connects us to all of the other fruiting bodies, then we have a biologically based visual for interdependence.
