Funky Raw Magazine Interview with David Wolfe
November 13, 2004
1) How would you define 'detoxification'?
In my experience, detoxification seems to be a conflict followed by a resolution between higher frequency thoughts, emotions, spiritual beliefs and physical nutrients and lower frequency thoughts, emotions, spiritual beliefs and actual physical toxins. When the higher frequencies are introduced into the body, they push out, like two magnetic south poles meeting each other, the lower frequencies. This "pushing out" is when symptoms of detoxification occur.
2) What is in your opinion the best way to detoxify old accumulated toxins from the body?
Mental detoxification: bombard your brain with success, self-help information in all forms: DVDs, books, audio, live performances of success speakers. Smiling.
Emotional detoxification: breathwork. Breathing. Rebirthing. Yoga. Laughing.
Spiritual detoxification: connect with Mother Nature directly by growing gardens, walking in forests, breathing fresh air in the countryside, connecting with individuals who are authentically spiritual.
Physical detoxification: eating raw, organic foods, juicing, juice fasting, drinking high-quality fresh-from-the-source spring water, colonics, enemas, herbal cleansing, chewing everything well, eating less, water fasting, MSM powder.
3) How important is it to look at the emotional and mental process of cleansing when embarking on a detox program?
Emotional and mental cleansing is a critical part of detoxification. In fact, these factors are the main things to be detoxified.
4) Once one has cleaned away the old shit, what is the best way to deal with the unnatural environmental toxins that most people have to deal with daily?
One way is to build up an internal level of vigor that nutritionally looks like having a balanced raw diet that contains more seeds, green-vegetable juice, seaweeds, herbs, superfoods (spirulina, blue-green algae, chlorella, maca root, cacao beans, goji berries, bee pollen, etc.) and certain supplements/foods such as MSM powder, camu camu berry powder (massive natural vitamin C blast), digestive/metabolic enzymes, sea salt or pink salt, vitamin B12 and ormus minerals.
Other factors that help involve getting all the toxins out of the home (cleaners, detergents, cable television, clutter, etc.).
Also helpful is having an attitude of gratitude and approaching things with a smile by realizing that it is all a cosmic joke.
5)When one has become purer in body do they become more sensitive or more resilient to toxins in this man made environment? Is there a risk of being 'too clean'?
This depends on the person. There is a risk of becoming too clean and becoming "porous" to environmental toxins. Some people should not live in cities. Their constitution cannot handle it.
You can pure without becoming overly sensitive by adding more the ideas listed in the answer to question 4.
6)In your opinion what is the best way to deal with heavy metals?
Grass juice daily.
A shot of cilantro juice with chlorella three times a day.
Massive doses of MSM powder and camu camu berry powder daily.
Green vegetable juice daily.
Infrared saunas.
Homeopathy.
Oxygen therapies (read Ed McCabe's book Flood Your Body With Oxygen)
Chelation by replacement (let the good wholesome raw foods push out the bad stuff over time).
7)Where would you say you were on your own detox journey? What tools have you used and what have you found most helpful? Would you change anything about your own journey in hindsight?
I feel that I am completely detoxified of the residues of cooked-chemicalized foods and other toxins from my old life before I was raw. I still do cleansing programs that I put together for myself every now and then because the cleansing process is a proactive, prophylactic phenomenon.I have used every tool in the book to get here (everything listed above and more). Hindsight is always 20/20...lots of things I would think of changing, but I wouldn't because it is all perfect.
8) How important would you say detoxification is when one wants to gain a spiritual energetic connection?
In my opinion, detoxification is a critical part of gaining a spiritual-energetic connection to the whole dynamic of life on Earth. Mental, emotional, spiritual and physical toxins seem to be the cause of humanities disconnection to the whole fabric of life and the nonsense called civilization. Removing these toxins would then appear as the appropriate strategy to reconnect.
9) (and finally)What are your best tips to help someone who wants to go on their own detox journey?
Begin where you are at. Tune into the detoxification program that most appeals to you. In the beginning for me it was fasting and colonics. Whatever program you decide, it should create some excitement for you and actually be fun! Use your sensibilities: motivate yourself into an uncomfortable zone, yet avoid stretching so far that you could lose your center.
Answers by:
David Wolfe (davidwolfe.com), author of The Sunfood Diet Success System, Naked Chocolate, and Eating For Beauty, CEO www.rawfood.com, founder of the non-profit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (www.ftpf.org)