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News and viewsAfter finishing my epic seven year online journal, I thought I'd just give you a roundup every month. Raw female John Craven, I am. And I know I said I'd do it as a vlog, but to be honest, I've not got round to being so technical. Yet.
January 2007Vote for us!
We're up for an award, and you can vote for us by clicking on this banner and then you may win a prize, so it's well worth doing. We as in my company, not me and Evie or anything. Speaking of Yaoh...
Media stuffIf you missed the show on Radio Norfolk the other week, you missed some shakyup stuff. The DJs booked me there and then for an hour's sesh on March 5th in the morning some time. You can listen to it on broadband or t'wireless. We'll be doing phone-ins and everything. Fun. My boobs are in danger of becoming a national obsession as they've appeared in two newspapers in January. Check out my articles pages for more details. I've also got to do something else booboo related in the media soon. Am a bit umming and ahhing about it. I think I didn't sign up to be a booboo girl! The world's first raw pantoI'm reeling from our Christmas panto, even now. Me and Kate Wood (Cake Does, as I've renamed her) wrote it, and all the players are totally word perfect and spot on. There's a great sub-plot with Evie if you listen carefully! It's in 3 parts because it's so big! Oh no it isn't. Oh yes it is. Etc ;-)
And our post panto cake moment. How many times does everyone say "cake" or "pudding" or "chocolate"? You have to watch it 2 or 3 times to get it, it's a bonkers little insight into our lives. I really don't know why I had to say "to go" 500 times, either, must have been my human arm jewellery causing it.
Empress and I love UI made two new chocolate bars. One is just for Valentine's Day and the other is here to stay. I love U is for you to give to your sweetheart or just to deliver as a random act of love to anyone. I'm going to get Karla to send one to Russell Brand. I actually had a dream that he was my boyfriend the other night. What can I say, other than I didn't want to wake up!!! Empress is very posh and snooty, and actually has real 23 karat gold stuck on it. Muth says it's a faff to make but she loves the way it looks. Personally, I love the way it tastes, as I'm in love with antioxidant rich food. Oooh, the FSA didn't endorse or approve of that statement. EventsI've got two big announcements for you: Total Detox Magic is happening on 10th February 2007 in Hove (nr Brighton). Sexy loved up raw food for Valentine's Day. The UK's top raw food goddesses, all in one place, all with their pinnies on, all giving you love, love love. Shazzie, author of three books, including the groundbreaking Naked Chocolate. Kate Wood, author of the UK's favourite raw recipe book Eat Smart, Eat Raw. Food. Lots of. Alchemy. Chocolate. Superfoods. High energy living. Aphrodisiacs. Love food. Live food. And David Wolfe is booked for October 1st to 4th 2007! We're 99% sure of the venue -- somewhere in the south east of the UK. We'll get a great yoga teacher, we'll have raw foods, demos, love, superfoods, cacao, dancing, love and more everything. Of course it'll be our best retreat ever.
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I love this video. It's so inspiring, so real and so powerful. I feel it's the best youtube video ever. I really do. The guy talking is Rev. Graylan Hagler. Bless him for being such a messenger of truth and love.
We're
all so proud of my nephew Charlie. He's currently not being "educated"
at school, and so was in my dad's garden one morning while all the other
local kiddies were being told to sit down and shut up. He saw something
in the stream at the bottom of the garden and went over to have a look.
He thought it was a duck but then realised it was a newborn llama who
was drowning. He pulled the llama out with my dad and got him back to
his mummy. Click on the picture for a readable version of events. Home
education saves lives!
I honestly have never felt so optimistic about the state of our planet as I do right now. I guess part of that is due to the fact that I only surround myself with inspiring people these days. I made that decision earlier this year, and it's helped me stay in my truth so much. I've been having a great time, half living in Brighton with Kate, Dani and about a million other people. Loving it so much. Am gonna build a big bridge from my house to my mum's house though, as my family are too far away now. Evie is a different person since we moved. She's developed so much more and is much less clingy. I knew it'd be great for us. Oooh, it is damp down there, though. Never realised that Cambridge was so dry and Brighton was so wet until I was puzzling over my sopping wet towels.
So my mate and fellow superbeing Adam was all set to do a live interview on Channel 5 news the other day when something else cropped up and he couldn't do it. He asked me to step in. So I was on there for all of a minute and managed to say the word "revolution" three times.
I was in a different studio to the presenter and the dietician Catherine Collins and so couldn't see her. If I'd have known she look so non-vibrant I may have asked her if she follows her own advice, because clearly something is amiss with her. She says that children's blackcurrant drink (which she called juice, though it isn't) is as good as blackcurrants, because "it's the purple stuff that matters" (ignore the toxic refined sugar and/or aspartame in there, Mrs). She's a very meat and two veg kind of dietician, and it's clear she doesn't understand the power of eating real foods at all. I was going to send her some superfoods as a gift of love but I feel she's too programmed even to accept it, so I just wish her well and hope for her sake and the people that she advises that she wakes up soon.
It's unfortunate that people still believe "authorities" like her when it's crystal clear that her diet doesn't work, otherwise she'd look healthy. I've heard her speak before and she uses this "position of authority" to say some extremely dubious statements. Thankfully, this is just the system talking, and many millions of people are now realising that the system is all about control and fear. Mrs Collins does probably believe what she says because she is so deeply programmed, but all over the planet, millions of other people are seeing through this kind of misinformation and are understanding reality.
Anyway, I feel so strongly about superfoods because I know what they've done for me, that I've put together a series of short videos on them. Ooh, you gotta love technology while it's still here...
Part 1: Local and free
Part 2: Exotic and revered
Part 3: Go go go chew
Part 4: Wild at heart
If you're interested in urine therapy, check this video out that Kate made. Me and Dani are in it, too, talking about our experiences.
Congratulations,
Tony!Raw fooder consciousness writer Tony Wright has broken the world record for not sleeping. He's been practicing this for years, and is 100% dedicated to the effects on the brain of sleep deprivation. Check out his web site and offer him your love and support. He's doing a fab job.
So that's it for May from me. I'll see you at the Bristol Vegan Fayre if you're going. I think it's going to be the best weekend of my life!
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I can't believe half the year's gone already. I've so enjoyed this year, like no other, and I know it'll just get better and better. Me and Kate are still writing Ecstatic Beings, and when we work on it we go "This is the best book ever", honestly, it's going to blow everyone away. I've never seen or written a book like this. I'm also running through the first edit of Evie's Kitchen. I've a fair way to go still but it's now taking shape. By the end of this year, I'll have acheived the goal I set for myself seven years ago of writing five books. My mum says I've cheated by co-authoring two of the five, and that I should write another one! Anyway, I am actually planning on doing that but it'll be a novel -- something I've wanted to do forever. And I'll take my time over it, too. It's gonna be fab, I've already outlined the plot.
How do I do all this while running a business and looking after Evie mostly on my own? 1) Delegation: If it doesn't have to be me doing something, I get someone else to do it. Except my web sites and designwork, I still do all those as I love doing them. 2) Superbeing: I'm not making this up! Superfoods turn you into a superbeing! I don't know any normals who can keep up with me, normal food doesn't cut it, it makes you ill, tired, unhappy and fat. Superfoods give you your life back, and don't I know it. So here I am after a full on day's mothering, at 11pm, in bed with the lapboy, Evie's asleep by my side, and I'll work for a couple of hours. This is normal for me, and I just don't get tired any more.
Really, if we are serious about saving this planet (er, tick tock), then we have to become superbeings to be able to be catalysts for change to tip the point. We do!
I was on the telly on Market Kitchen with Tom Parker Bowles and Matthew Fort on July 5th (Revolution Day). It's a prerecorded interview about raw chocoalte. We had such a hoot. They were both really buzzing on the chocolate, and turned from skeptics to fans of raw chocolate in minutes. It's going to be a great piece of telly. I got this email from a cameraman on the show:
"Hi,
I'm a camera operator on a show called Market Kitchen - your chocolate
products were featured on the show this week and after you had left we
all tried some. After an initial shock at the bitterness of them, several
of us found ourselves going back for more - the shelled cocoa beans in
particular became very popular, so much so that I put some in a bag to
take home. My girlfriend and I are now strangely addicted to them and
their morish bitterness!
So, thanks for opening our eyes! I'll definitely be exploring more raw
produce.
Cheers,"
Owen Billcliffe
Isn't that amazing! And one of the researchers said she's been eating
raw chocolate for weeks now ever since Richard and Judy's (my heroes)
daughter Chloe introduced them to it. This is the revolution guys, this
is what we've been waiting for! Raw food and raw chocolate is in the mainstream
media filtering down to everyone else right now, and lives will change
dramatically as a direct result of it. How beautiful.
Here's the vid:
Jennie's
40So my big sister had her Pirates and Princesses 40th birthday party on June 16th. I don't know where the years have gone. I still vividly remember her running round our house in St Ives making rubber lips at me with straw on her head (her impression of me). That was about 30 years ago! What on earth happened?
So I danced and nattered with Becky. Evie danced from about 7.30pm til about 1am, dragging people onto the dancefloor! She's a little fun bubble. Jennie looked stunning, she'd had her hair pinned up for two hours in the afternoon. Loads of the rellies turned up, despite Yorkshire flooding and most of them being delayed.All the men were dressed as pirates and my mum bought a lifesize cardboard statue of Johnny Depp. I danced with him. Jen didn't get jealous, though.
Oh, something else I've been doing recently is getting handy with my digital SLR. I got it a while back but I hadn't had time to really explore it. Now I have, I've been doing the most cracking portraits of people. I'll post some in my photo album soon. I'm so into this, though. I studied photography at art college (all those years ago) but was never comfortable using film because of the gelatine, so I restricted myself with it. Now I don't have to feel guilty and can snap away all the time. And I do.
Me and Kate Magic are doing a joint event on The Raw Chocolate Revolution in August in Hove (near Brighton). It promises to be as fun as all my events so I hope to see you there.
We had a cracking time at the fayre. I went with Jennie, Charlie and Evie. We all stayed in a hotel room for three nights, so it was a bit of a holiday for us, too. Though you never actually get a break what with all the "networking" that goes on. I did two talks, one was Life as a superbeing and the other was The raw chocolate revolution (what a suprise). I loved them both, and so did the audience. I finally feel like I've got my brain back 100% for the first time since having Evie. That's largely due to the fact I've recently been megadosing on DHA. I'm taking six a day for this twitching thing I got (it wasn't a magnesium deficiency after all -- which never made sense to me!). It's actually called BFS, don't you love acronyms. It usually lasts two years, so I'm almost half way through it. The DHA really helps, I don't get the tremours very much now, and it all still happens when I'm going to bed or asleep. There's so little known about it, other than stress brings it on. Well, I guess I did stress myself out last year! Never again, I totally am so relaxed with everything now it's untrue. So, it's weird having this thing that happens to me, but it's not harmful, and it will more than likely go away in another year. Funny though, as I don't get ill!
Our mate Gela just made this most fab video. Prepare to be inspired. I love youtube...
If you're a fan of The Secret, then check out this Oprah special, where she interviews some of the stars of the DVD, including Rhonda, the vageniyummy who created it.
How long have I wanted to make this video!!!?
you go too far
you go too far
you think you're a porn star
but you're just a doxtor
better than not going far enough
better than never feeling the love
better than hiding all of my light
better than being forever uptight
you go too far
you go too far
you hang out with a rock star
but you're just a doxtor
better than having friends who hate
better than not understanding my mates
better than living my life as a lie
better than always asking myself why
you go too far
you go too far
you talk like a rapper
but you're just a doxtor
better than keeping my mouth shut
better than staying inside my hut
better than never speaking my truth
better than acting all posh and aloof
yeah I'm a doxtor
and sometimes I'm a porn star
i love to talk to rock stars
and me best mate is a rapper
I used to work with Mary years ago, and I sell her two videos. She's done a YouTube short on the importance of omega 3 in the diet when pregnant. Essential watching!
I rarely send out newsflashes, but I just had to let you know about this, as it's such a unique opportunity to experience the top health experts in the world for free
Presenting...
The Raw food World Summit
Starts August 7th 2007
"Discover The Secrets These World Renowned Experts
Use To Get
Boundless Energy, Reverse The Aging Process, and Fight Disease --
All From the Comfort of Your Living Room"
Mark Perlmutter, producer of the film Raw for 30 days, and Kevin Gianni, founder of Live Awesome, created this project which features 12 of the most sought after health, wellness and living food experts in the world.
These 12 people include doctors, health-educators and nutritionists, such as David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens and myself. We were chosen because what we do really works! Consistently through our dedicated work, we've shown the world how to live a life full of 100% health and bliss -- and now, you get to experience all 12 of us for free.
"Never before have so many incredible living and raw food minds shared the same stage!"
I'm inviting you straight to the VIP lounge! Normally retailing at $29.95 USD, you can click this link, register and have full access for free! There's no travelling, queueing, packing of wellies and stashing of nori, either!
Your experience happens right on your phone line. All you pay for is the cost of the call. Even if you don't want to do that, you can listen for free on the Internet at the same time as the call is scheduled.
And, as an extra bonus for you, you get the chance to buy CDs, MP3s and transcripts of the talks, so you can listen over and over again, creating a brigher, shinier new you each time.
It's so easy! Just follow this link and register, then you are officially my guest.
This twelve day event is due to start on August 7th 2007, so you only have a few days to preregister and find your comfy spot.
I'm so looking forward to sharing my health and ecstatic bliss secrets with you, and I can't wait to hear what the others have to say, too!
Please pass this email on to anyone you think may benefit from hearing such transformational information.
Granting you a dozen dreams that have already come true.
Here's the phone in line up. Remember that if you miss it, you can always buy CDs, MP3s or transcripts of the entire series to keep forever and ever.
Tuesday August 7: 8:00 PM EDT - David Wolfe
Wednesday August 8: 8:00 PM EDT - Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Thursday August 9: 8:00 PM EDT - Dorit
Friday August 10: 8:00 PM EDT - Mike Adams
Saturday August 11: 8:00 PM EDT - Victoria Boutenko
Monday August 13: 8:00 PM EDT - Brendan Brazier
Tuesday August 14: 8:00 PM EDT - Brenda Cobb
Wednesday August 15: 8:00 PM EDT - Matt Monarch
Thursday August 16: 8:00 PM EDT - Angela Stokes
Friday August 17: 8:00 PM EDT - Happy Oasis
Saturday August 18 8:00 PM EDT - Rhio
Monday August 20 8:00 PM EDT - Richard Blackman
Tuesday August 21 8:00 PM EDT - Shazzie
Tuesday August 22 8:00 PM EDT - Special Wrap Up
Er, this looks like 13 guests to me. Aren't you the lucky ones....?
On a clear day, wherever I am in the UK, I see chemtrails. They are not contrails, they are not clouds. I feel that we cannot alter these by changing or lobbying our government. These issues are presented to us so we can change ourselves. More than ever, we need to see that these are signs from the Universe to change from within, to beam love to everything and to know that when we revolutionise ourselves, our world will also revolutionise. And I think that's so much easier than protesting... Tip your point today...love it all.
Yeah!
I did it! OK, so you may be wondering why exactly I made Duriasm? I've
had some great comments about it, and I've been called everything from
a slut to a saint (incidentally, all of us are both of these things and
everything else inbetween, so I really am not offended!). I never intended
to upset anyone, especially little uns, and I'm truly sorry if I did.
I made the video as tasteful as I could, while still getting the effect
I wanted. Er, you don't see any of my bits, even though I don't think
there's anything wrong with that either (oh, preconceptions, preconceptions,
preconceptions)...
My intention was as it always is: to introduce raw food to an audience that are not searching on YouTube "how to grow your own wheatgrass and cure your own cancer"! Get me? We need to move outside our circle of rawness to contact the masses. I wanted to create a viral video, one that would be looked at by "outsiders" who would then maybe go off and find out more, like "Who is this Shazzie woman?" "What is durian? Can fruit really make you feel like that?" "What is raw food?" And it's worked. In just a week, it's been watched 2,000 times! I'm ecstatic (well, I always am anyway!), this tactic has worked. Of course it would, as will all my forthcoming videos. Though I think this is the last one where I smother my toes in a fruit ;-) (Yet you may also be surprised at what I have in store!) Onwards and upwards... raw is getting mainstream, guys and we are all playing our part in doing it the best ways we know how. People are taking responsibility for their own health and it's just the beginning. What a beautiful future we all have. Goddess bliss YouTube and all who eat fruit on her!
Do you think you can cure a malignant tumor
With that ridiculous sense of humour?
There are millions of people dying of cancer
Do you think raw porn is really the answer?
Yes ecstatic living makes disease go away
Yes erotic being makes you better every day
Is it possible to build strong raw muscle
By fawning over that big mouth Russell?
Do you think people can cure their painful piles
Just by dosing up on more ecstatic smiles?
Yes stressless dreamy loving makes you well
Yes unsuppressed grinning gives good cell
The world's in a really serious mess
And all you want to do is undress!
There are starving folk everywhere
Yet you eat your food like you just don't care!
Yes being naked's good for your health
Yes everyone can attract equal wealth
In fact, YES to all my life does bring
Coz ecstatic being is the cure all for everything
A while back I did a fun test on Dr Internet to see how left or right brained I was. It said 86% of my right brain was functioning, and only 12% of my left brain was functioning. I wasn't at all suprised by this, in fact I was thrilled. I know that people who are dominated by their right brains are very different to those who are dominated by their left brains. As we're not as common, we're seen as the different/wrong ones. In fact, we're sometimes called stupid as we just can't do some simple left-brained tasks.
Here's an example of what I have to go through, being almost entirely right brained: I've lived in my house for over two years now. I've only just got round to reading the gas metre. For two years, I've been paying estimated bills. Not suprisingly, when I did the automated gas reading on the phone, it didn't understand the number, probably because it's been way overestimating me.
Another example. My lapboy's desktop is a mess of text files. Poems, to do lists, ideas, more poems and many more to do lists. Here's an actual to do list (except the file was called xxx.txt, not to_do, as I've already got a million of those), totally unedited...
I can't make sense of it and I wrote it! Can you see how hard it is to be right brained? It takes so much more energy, but only because we currently live in a left-brained world. Luckily all that is changing. Goddesses rise and take your right brains with you. Wheat, agriculture and patriarchality are all dissolving. No more gas bills, no more to do lists. Just yoga, writing, gardening and loving. Thank you, lordess for making it the way it was always destined to be.
"You'll never feel enough when you're not being yourself." -- Anthony Robbins, superbeing
"May the road rise with you." -- PIL, supergroup
"Contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you want." Wayne Dyer, superbeing
Kate Magic and me went to a wedding in a mansion. Before dinner was served, we played with Jonny...
We love you
I won't be at this. Wish I was, but am still breastfeeding and won't fly to the USA with Evie being so young. Yet I know loads of people who are going and speaking, and it's going to be the best raw food event in the world ever. Check it out.
Another one I won't be at is the Festival of Life, the weekend of the beginning of September. I was invite to speak, but am just so full of other stuff I couldn't do it. As is normal at these events, we've sent lots of gifst for people down so look out for freebies from us dotted around the place or in raffles. There are some amazing speakers and stalls so it's well worth anyone interested in ecstatic living going. Wishing the organisers and speakers love.
I've had a great month, the best of all year. I could die now and be really happy about it, I feel so fulfilled. And that's not to say I want to die, I'm just saying I feel so at peace with everything. Major stuff goes on day to day, it's full on and never ending but I sit there in the eye of the storm observing and loving.
I
just completed my Reiki two course with Rochelle. my mates Carl, Twinkel
and Lucifer were also there so it was full of big time energy as we're
all into raw food and superfoods. It was the longest I've been away from
Evie, which was odd for us both, but I needed to do it. I wasn't away
from her overnight -- that's still to come! I'm going to Reiki the mice
out of my house when I get home. Nothing else has worked. I've spent a
fortune on humane traps and ultrasonic and magnetic devices. Rubbish,
the lot of them. Humane traps just trap breastfeeding mummy mice so their
babies starve or baby mice that their mummies then release. Reiki will
work much better. Gonna get some power into my home now.
Evie turned three this month. She had a lovely raw spread of fruit, dips, crudites, a raw chocolate cake (Quantum cake from Kate's shop) and chocolates. Everyone had a great time and I manifested perfect weather. I actually got changed three times (one for each year), wearing less and less every time as it was getting hotter and hotter. Then it rained a few days later and hasn't picked up much. Funny weather we're having, anyone would think there was something up with the planet.
So the Raw Summit was great. I've had some lovely feedback from it. I appreciate all the emails... bless you. If you missed it, you can buy transcripts, CDs or MP3s still. I don't know if the prices are going to rise soon, I've heard they will, so if you're thinking of buying them for you or a loved one, it's probably best to do it as soon as you can.
This
was a really exciting project me and Skippy have been working on for a
while. I've got these parts of my personality that keep coming out and
they wanted to be in some pictures. There's Shazzle Dazzle, The Doxtor
and The Ecstasist. They're all very nice, but the Doxtor is also a bit
naughty. I don't know what to do with her, she's obsessed with tissues
and enemas! Anyway, I wanted to continue giving you free stuff this year,
as I've been promising, to replace seven year epic blogitis. So now you
can send an ecard
for free to as many loved ones as you want. We had such fun making these,
I hope they make you smile.
Me and Kate have just delayed the publishing of Ecstatic Beings, our book to rock the world. I've just got too much on and want it to be the best ever, so we're going to get it out in the New Year. We wanted to release it on 11/11/07 because of the magical numbers, but we'll do it on another great date. It'll be perfect and so worth waiting for...
I'm
not supposed to tell you about this yet, but as usual, I'm overexcited.
Karla's been trawling through all my writings and has come up with about
400 quotes from me that will inspire you and make you stick to your promise
to yourself to make your life ecstatic in every way. You'll be able to
subscribe to it in a few days and the first mailing will go out a few
days after that, one quote a day. We're going to add more all the time
so hopefully it'll run and run. 'Citin. Check on the free
products page in a few days for sign up details... it will be
there soon, I promise.
We have this ongoing harassment issue with our local Trading Standards Institute. For years, they've been causing my company a lot of grief in so many ways you wouldn't believe. They don't believe in health foods, and have said that to us "Personally, for one who lives on a diet of burgers and chips, I find all this very hard to believe." -- their words. I'm not one to create a battle out of every situation, and it's taken me forever to lose it with them but today they crossed my line. We're doing the right thing by getting our new raw, UK-made nut butter labels checked by TSI so we're complying with the law (yeah yeah yeah, something made up that's not right or real or necessary but it keeps the cog wheels turning and the system in place -- for now), and do you know what they said? Do you know? We can't call nut butters nut butter!!!! Here is what they said:
"Names for Hemp Seed Butter/White Almond Butter are not satisfactory. The word "butter" is a reserved description for dairy milk-fat products. The product will have to have a name that clearly described the nature of the product to a consumer. Please think of an alternative."
So we checked with our manufacturer and his TSI says it's OK, so it's not the law, it's Norfolk TSI's interpretation. And er, peanut butter??? Don't you see that everywhere? And I checked the FSAs web site, they say: "It's illegal for labels to have false information or misleading descriptions, but a few well-known foods are allowed to keep their names because we know what they are. We know, for example, that swiss rolls don't have to come from Switzerland or Yorkshire pudding from Yorkshire, and cream crackers don't have to contain cream." So if cream crackers don't have to contain cream, then nut butters don't have to contain butter! Reminds me of the way soya milk can't be called milk because someone with red tape all over their bedroom walls decided the only legal term for milk comes stolen from an animal. Not sure how they clasify coconut milk... They certainly have crossed my line and I've told them I'll go to the media and the European court for this. They've been victimising and harassing my company for years and I've allowed it, regardless of the time it takes for my staff to comply with their over-the-top, non-legal demands. No more. I will send them love and some of my newly learned Reiki symbols and if that doesn't work, I'll get a grey curly wig and a hammer. It stops now.
Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes came over the other night for tea. We had such a perfect time and even chose Matt's new book cover out of all the entries he'd had. Hope he uses the one me and Kate loved the most, it's super stunning. Won't say what it was like, in case he chooses another. His new book seems like a fascinating read and he talks all about those issues people don't like to talk about. Great. Gela was as beautiful, funny and clever as ever, and she treated us to a rendition of her ext YouTube song. Watch out for it, as it's fab, funny and sooooo good. What a voice that girl has. She's nicely sliding into the mainstream media with her story and experiences, and brought round a magazine where she was on the front cover. I'm so happy that raw food is going mainstream, it's one of my biggest dreams. People like Gela are doing so much to get it there. I think I'm overexcited and ectstatic again. Ooops.
So my house didn't sell. Am not shocked, my last one took nearly a year to sell... I think it's something I do! I've decided to move back in from the end of September for the winter. I need to hibernate a bit and get a stack of backed up piled up work sorted. And I want to be in my own home with my own things for a bit. I'll put it on the market again in the New Year and then work out plan B with where I'll live. I've totally loved living at Kate's house, though. It's so great having someone who makes you laugh all the time there. It's also great for Evie having other kiddies to play with. And of course it's so great not having to do everything all the time myself. Will need to get home help for my house in Cambridge... if you're interested, let me know (about 10-15 hours a week... to do cleaning, putting clothes away, making juice and general faffing).
I think that's it for August. A bit of a hefty update, but hopefully all very interesting and useful to you.
Big love and kisses
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Skippy put this on YouTube, they're the outtakes from my Raw food delights DVDs, which I did in 2003. Good for a laugh. Never work with onions or children. Oh, and you get to see Skippy, too! He's my GBF.
How do you have a social life with raw foods? Gela asks the really important question.
Jonny did some messing about with our Doxtors In The Mansion video. I've almost got rhythm. Almost, I said.
Kate Magic and me have been having far too much fun doing our photo sessions
for Ecstatic
Beings. Believe me, there is no book on the planet like this.
It will be a collector's item and a coffee table book. It's art, it's
fascinating and it's so real. Sometimes it's beyond words. I'm overexcited
about getting it out, but it's going to be a few months yet, though we
both have a little taster coming to you soon... so keep an eye out.
Already filling up, our Ecstatic Beings Xmas Party 2007 is going to be fun and overexciting all at once. We've just secured a raw cocktail bar, which I'll tell you more about when I have all the right words. It's fab.
So last month Evie started sleeping in her own bed. She loves it, she goes to sleep in the normal way (on the booboos) but in her princess four poster pink bed, not mummy's bed. Then she usually wakes up when I go to bed and gets in with me. She knows. I've yet to wake up alone, and that's lovely, still waking up with the most beautiful person on my planet in my arms. Love it.
I snuck out of my routina and stayed with Evie and a mate in a yurt the weekend before our retreat. God. I breathed. Must do more of that one.
Our
retreat and evening eventWhat can I say? I get blown over by the magnificence of our guests every year, and this year was no exception. Except I was even more blown away. Oxon Hoath was the perfect venue. David, Kate, Dani, Gareth and myself gave the best we could give. My mum, The Beautiful Warren and my dad and Charlie were the best ever, and Super Goji Girl was just perfect in every way. The OH staff, our guests, us and all the wild food and animals all over the place made it an ecstatic event, for sure. It was always my intention to create The Best Retreat Ever, and I did it. The feedback has been so great, and I love it when people leave these things as changed.
We had a talented guest spot on our party night, because last year a load of people kept coming out with great things. So we had poetry, songs, prayers, stories, performances, music and other exciting things. Everyone had something amazing to offer at the retreat. I've never met such a crowd. I really loved all of it. Especially the sweat lodge that Gareth had organised as a surprise. That was something else. One of the guests looked after Evie while I did it at like 2am or something. I think we did all become family at one point.
So with that in mind, this was also my last retreat ever. At least in this incarnation, in the capacity that I'm working in now. I also did the last event ever, as David wowed over 100 people ain Brighton, a day after the retreat ended. I did a warm up talk, then David talked for about four hours. Everyone had a superfood kit and coconut water to get them into that space. Again, the feedback has been phenomenal. I just love it when everyone's happy!
It's a great turning point for me and David. We discussed the fact that we won't be doing more retreats. I'm just at that place where I've done it, so I don't need to do it again, someone else can do them now. David's at that place where he wants to come to the UK again, but in a different capacity, speaking to a different audience, so it's worked out perfectly for both of us. I'm really feeling that now Cary owns the Fresh Network, he'll do something outstanding next year and there'll be that sorely missed unity taking shape in the raw food UK arena. Yeah, I'm just happy to do a Christmas party here and there and speak at other people's events now.
Here are the pictures. Enjoy!
Make
raw food mainstreamYou may know how much I love my cucumbers. If you've ever sifted through my handbag, you'll have seen the remains of at least one. Now, because I think the whole nation could do with a few more cucumbers in their lives, I'm making it my mission to get the UK into raw foods by bringing it to EVERY HIGH STREET in the country.
Yes, guys, it's about time everyone started to make love, make raw.
Here's Plan A. Get raw food into restaurants. I'm going to put together three menu plans with details on where to buy the ingredients, hints and tips, a photo of each recipe and a brief overview of raw food, all in a PDF. This will go onto Shazzie.com for you to download and take to your local restaurants and cafes. They can then check the menus out and decide what they want to put on their own menus, either as they are or modified. The idea is to get raw food into everyone's consciousness. Though it'd be great for us to eat in restaurants easier, I'm not doing this for us! There's no motivation for restaurants as there are still so few raw foodists. I'm doing it so *anyone* can choose that meal, knowing it's full of ecstatic foods, enzymes, life-force, gluten free, vegan, and maybe even low-calorie. We'll word the introduction on the PDF to make it so enticing, it will sell itself.
So this is where you beautiful ones come in. Want to see your favourite recipe on the menu? Want to win a Shazzie's Naked Chocolate bar as a thank you? I'm looking for three starters, three main courses, three puddings and three drinks to begin with, all of varying simplicity or complexity. I'd love it if each one was contributed by a reader of my web site and newsletter. Please send us your recipe or recipes (you can send as many as you like) to karla at detox your world dot com or by clicking here. The recipes must be all raw and all vegan, and the ingredients must be available in the UK. Please also add your name and where you live as you'd like it to appear on the credit of the recipe. The closing date for this is: October 25th 2007. We'll make our favourite recipes up, photograph them, test them out and choose the final twelve.
And of course I have a Plan B and Plan C, but you'll have to wait a bit for those.
Goodness, how I love my job!
So, just as I was glad to be home for the rest of the year (being bored of living out of a suitcase), I was also ecstatic that Kate was going to get a long awaited holiday in the USA. She was due to go to Raw Spirit Fest and then to meet a beautiful chocolate boy. This is what actually happened.
I've been to the USA many many times and I've never had anything like this happen. I've even took books to sell (gosh!), worn "unconventional" clothes, and had food in my bag that wasn't burgers an fries. I guess the officials who "took care of" Kate weren't doing the same job as the officials I've ever come into contact with. Kate isn't letting it lie. She is talking to all the powers that be and will be documenting and publishing this ordeal so others may get some respect when they just want a holiday in the US.
I spoke to her today, and in true Kate spirit, she says "Well, there are plenty more countries to visit". I 100% agree. I'm not up for going back there any time soon after what my best mate's just been through. Not worth it, is it?
So me and Kate are doing an hour's talk about raw food at The Synergy Project in London on November 23rd, from 10.45 pm. We'll then probably hang out and boogie a bit. We'd love to see you there, hope you can make it. BTW, the flyer was written without us knowing what they were writing so I feel driven to let you know we'll be talking about *very* exciting things. It won't be a "Raw food for beginners" talk at all.
Ecstatic
Beings Calendar 2008So Kate and I have created our first bit of EB merchandise. Wait til you see what else we have up our sleeves...! I don't ever remember having this much fun BK (Before Kate).
Exclusive, amazing and unique, Miss Magic and The Doxtor proudly present you with our 2008 calendar. 12 special photos with 12 exceptional poems. Dates were never so exciting with traditional raw food.
The calendar has alternating poems by Shazzie and Kate Magic, all fully photographed and magicked up! It's got full colour stunning photography, it's about A3 sized, and is printed on beautiful linen-textured paper. It really is overecstiting to get it through the door. I was jumping for joy when I got mine! Available only from Lulu and selected Brighton shops, delivery takes about 5 working days. Dates have never been so exciting.
Buy it here, direct from Lulu and get us on your wall so we can beam love at you 24/7.
I don't know where to start this month. I've had such a great time that I can't remember anything. I guess the highlights are:
I finally stopped drowning not waving when Ellie walked into my life. She's full on into healing, raw food and living naturally and she's revolutionised my time. I have so much more playtime with Evie now, instead of going "Not now, I'm busy cleaning up the mess you keep making". I don't think I coped before. And Ellie's going to be working on other projects for me, so am overly ecstatic.
I decided I needed a new lapboy as mine hs never worked properly and I was getting frustrated with it. I thought I could hand it down to Karla and she could get frustrated with it instead. So I went for a smoothie at Rochelle's house and she showed me her spanking new white diddy mac. I wanted one. There was a mac shop below where she lived. This is the age of instant manifestation after all. So I toodled off, bumped into a guy called Joe who I always bump into in the streets of Brighton and said "Is the mac shop here" Yes, it's just there he said" and then laughed "If you'd have had your skates on, we could have bumped into each other in a shop for a change." So I bribed Evie with a cheap bit of jewellery from a cheap shop so it'd keep her happy while I perused. I forgot the mac standard. "17' lapboy? Yeah, here it is. Any colour so long as it's silver." "But my mate's got a white one. I want a white one. It'll go with my car and my house." "Not in this size" So I got a silver one, knowing they'll bring a white one out like tomorrow or something. So I got back to my hotel room, fawned over mac for a bit and then my PC went weird. Guys, this is The Rise Of The Machines. And it actually is coz I kept saying it and then it was on the telly the other night when I was at my mum's. Two days later it died. I've got a man fixing it because my work's web site is on there and I can't alter it. So I thought I'd relearn the mac in a leisurely way but the great conscious machine thought otherwise and threw me in at the deep end. the verdict? I love it, though I wish I could drag and drop onto Photoshop's background, not just that tiny icon at the side. That's weird. And I don't dig Entourage, but thought it'd be easier than the mac email programme. May change mind there. But the actual vibe of the mac is so much lovlier than the PC.
I got some ecstatic shocks in the post last week. One was a copy of my new Ecstatic Beings calendar, which is massive! It's bigger than A3 and on linen-type paper. Such amazing quality, and every page is full on amazing. Am so over the moon with it. I wondered if £20 for a calendar was too much but it's so worth it as it's such great quality and totally unique. Love it..
The other was our new annual magazine, the first one. Karla's already planning the next one to make it better and bigger. It was actually over exciting, because it's so beautiful and we've got loads of special offers in there. We've had great feedback from it. We called it Passion because we're passionate about what we do and my work's logo is a passion flower. And I was on the cover because I always wanted to be a cover girl and I make my own wishes come true as I'm a fairy godmother. No, really because I didn't have any other images and didn't want to do a special shoot this time round (read, we didn't have time). So, if you got it, hope you liked it. If you didn't get one and would like one, request one when you next order from us as we have spares to see us through 2008.
So me and Kate were due to talk at The Synergy Project on Friday 23rd of November. It was so chaotic I can't say. We had one mic between us, and that was broken more than half the time -- going on and off. There was so much background noise as it was in a club and it was just anarchy. I almost walked off a few times. We know exactly what to say and we couldn't get going because our mic was all Norman Collier. So we got a bit heckled and I just put a cucumber on my head and shouted (coz I had no mic) "You're all worth more than burgers and chips". It was so bonkers. We won't be going back there, even if they sort it out. BUT, we did have a lovely time afterwards and I had a great weekend. I had my first night without Evie so of course I didn't sleep at all, because I can't remember sleep much. Matt said that he and Evie got no sleep either, and he couldn't believe it because he's never been there at night with her before. Welcome to the world of parenting, I thought to myself.
Something really great like always. If you get notes from the Universe you'll know that it always comes up trumps and tells you exacty what you want to hear. Well, today was no exception. It said that even though you don't have everything you want right now, you are still allowed to be fully happy. How great does that feel? Having as little or as much as you want doesn't affect your ability to feel 100% happy or ecstatic at all times. Great. Ta for the heads up, Universe.
Defining myself in a professional capacity has always been tough. This is because I'm more than one thing (I'm everything... er except an accountant and cleaner...). I'm not a raw food promoter, though I promote raw food. I do it in ways that help me express myself, in artistic ways, from creating and designing my books to creating and photographing recipes right to *that* duriasm video. To me, it's all ways of expressing Who I Really Am and probably doing something a little bit useful in the process.
You see, the objective of my life is not to become this or that or to be the best at something or the most famous at something. That's really really boring for me. I turn down so many TV and media "opportunities", you wouldn't believe. My objectives are much more simple and much more satisfying at a soul level. They are to live ecstatically. To turn every event into an ecstatic experience. To see the wonderful and expanded beauty in everything. To love it all, always. Those are my goals. That's why I say "love, life and liberty". There's no ego in those goals, though I believe women especially in this world need to reserve some ego as it's tough to get to that place of love with all the harshness that exists around us.
Can we still feel 100% ecstatic when things "Don't go our way". My answer *now* is yes. I'm going through it right now with something and instead of *thinking* about what to do, and instead of trying to control the situation or get angry, I'm just attracting the solution with the wise old words “I have the best ******** ever”. Fill in the blanks in your instance. Best ever is from my dearest friend David Wolfe. It make so much sense. You don't need to engage in manipulation or what ifs or anything when all you are doing is saying to yourself *in any situation* is “Today, I have the best ****** ever”. I have a whole list of them and read it every day. No wonder my life's so great.
That this life isn't for martyrdom, suffering and sadness. It's for celebration of all we have, all we are and all we can be. By raising our vibration, we raise the vibration of the planet. We can individually make a difference because we are all God. We are all there is, it's all here. So let's do our job with love, grattitude and grace. Now.
With enough hormones in it to make the receiver ecstatic, for sure, breastmilk is nature's first ecstatic food. So underrated in our culture. So misunderstood. Somehow many people think that fake milk is as good an option as breastmilk, or even better for the sake of convenience. However, it's not convenient to deny your baby and toddler of love hormones, of skin to skin contact on a regular basis, of natural immunity, of hard to find nutrients, of the building blocks for the brain, of allergen-free nutrition, and of a food designed for small mammals with big brains. It's not normal to choose to deny this. Of course there are those who actually can't breastfeed, but if you ever make the choice not to, you're shortchanging your child, big time. Evie's nearly three and a half and is still breastfed. My milk supply is low, regardless of attempts to increase it and it hurts when Evie tries to suck more than I have. There is something odd in my body because I never even missed a period since giving birth, though I exclusively breastfed for seven months. Yet, though my body acts a little strange when it comes to mothering hormones, Evie will get full-term breastfed (well, as much as I can muster) because that's what she's designed to have. In many other cultures and in days gone by here in the UK, that'd be seen as normal, but for some reason at the moment in the UK, it's seen as weird. Not weird to stick a dummy in your child's mouth, give it fake food, force it to sleep alone and let it cry, though, is it? Ah, the return to paradise is so close -- thank heavens!
So Kate was on the telly, showing all the world how to make a raw cake. She didn't look like she had a business and three boys to run, what's all that ecstatic laughing with your tongue hanging out on the telly about, Kate? Are you actually allowed to be so happy? Check out the end bit where she keeps her books. There were two of mine in there! If she was any kind of friend, all three would be there. Anyway, it's only there for a short time, then this link won't work, so check it out here. Except if you're on a mac, because it won't work. Well, it didn't for mine, I had to plod over to newly mended PC. I don't care if the rest of the world isn't compatible with my computer, it's clear there's a good comparison to be drawn there...
Goodness, I know how to throw a great party. And so does Kake-mate. We just had our Ecstatic Beings Xmas party in Brighton. I realised very quickly that the 50 most ecstatic people in the country were going to be there. Nay, it wasn't to be. Some of them came from overseas just to spend the night with us. The highlight of the evening for me was when The Doxtor and Miss Magic did an hour long lecture -- in bed. We got willing participants to join us and we ecstasised them. We put the world to rights, talking about the multiple revolutions we're having. Evie nagged me because she doesn't like me spending too much time with Miss Magic (I can see why, her make-up is much better applied than Evie's). We read ecstatic poems from our calendar. The audience asked questions which we skillfully avoided answering, and we had the most ecstatic time ever.
And one of the other bestest moments was when someone I'd never met before walked in and said "Hello Doxtor." Yes, people are getting it, they're getting the Doxtor thing. Finally. Thought I'd gone too far for a second there. Every single person there was beautiful, gorgeous, lovely and really really switched on. They came because they wanted an ecstatic time, not because they wanted raw food. It works, ecstatic living works. I love being a revolutionary. Thanks to all our guests and to those who helped out on the night, and to the Galaxy of Vitality boys. Amazing. And Lucy, total star.
It all keeps reminding me that I'm so over "raw foods" and so into "ecstatic foods" of the highest order.
I'm also noticing that I'm looking less and less human every day. I'm not sure what I'm turning into. My current MySpace profile pic is just an alien me... I think we're all zooming into other beingness now. Phew. Was really bored being a person, there's too much superhuman action to be doing to be a person.
And I'm also realising and coming to terms very rapidly that 2008 will be massively different to ever before. Like, things we've never experienced will be upon us, acting like they were always there. Well, they were, we couldn't see them in ye olde worlde. Goodness, I feel so loved up and connected to everything right now. I don't think Shazzie actually exists as a seperate entity anymore (except she probably does as there's a mess left behind her wherever she goes...good clue, that).
Love is for life, not just for Christmas2007 has been a year of giving so much love, that I'm so full now from all I received. Thank you to all who gave and received. You are all amazing.
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I created the best fairy for my tree ever this year. It's a mash up of Russell Brand and an Emogoth fairy. I did it Photoshop, then printed it out, stuck it to some card, and then cut it out. It's great on my tiny white fibre-optic tree. If you want to do the same, (like who wouldn't want a Russell Brand fairy???) click on Russ's face for a printable version. I've heard he likes it like that.
"I can't go to sleep, I'm too excited. Am I allowed to see Father Christmas" Oh, the joys of having a three year old. Matt's staying the night, and thinks Evie will be awake at 5. He can be mummy then.
I just decided to make an Amazon store. Not sure why. Probably avoiding thinking about having yet another Christmas as a single mother. Didn't think I'd be single this Christmas. Jesus, the Universe must have the best man ever saved up for me. Wish it'd bloody deliver him to me. Getting impatient now, Universe.
So I woke up on the 26th and looked outside my mum's window. I think she does have the best view in the world, living opposite a field of llamas. Then I saw a fox running from one end of the field to the other. I've never seen a live fox before. Wow, how totally beautiful it was. Its tail was bigger than its body, like a large squirrel. So it wasn't boxing day, it was foxing day. And not of the hunting kind, either. Wow, why would someone want to kill a fox? Let's not kill beauty. Let's soften our hearts to love instead. Much more constructive.
On the subject of animals, Evie's getting increasingly aware that she eats differently to her family. Charlie, the 12 year old cousin that she idolises was microwaving some sausages wrapped in bacon (microwaving!!). She was asking what it was. I said "dead piggies, love" So she sat next to Charlie as close as she could get while he was eating, all cute and pointing "Piggies, little piggies" she kept saying, as thought they were like chickens eggs before they're chickens. When she sees eggs in the stupormarket she says "Where are their mummies?"
So I wasn't looking forward to Christmas. All that nonsense. All that everyone being a family and me being a single mother. All that "So haven't you got yourself a boyfriend yet, you Sharon? Why don't you try being more normal?" But after wavering slightly on Christmas Eve, it was actually good. I made a lovely meal that even Matt (Stag Chili eater) enjoyed. And then we went to my parents. My auntie Shirley was there with her dog Lady and a guide dog on holiday Connie. Connie is so utterly lovely and we've had a great time givng her a good holiday. Must be odd signing up to be a guide dog.
So I'm going to make a list of twelve things I've always wanted to do and do them next year. 2008 is going to be amazing in every way, better than ever. I've already got a new year's revolution (that's not a spelling mistake), and it's the best ever. Will tell you about it later...
Hope you all had a wonderful Xmas. It's always great to make the most of every situation, isn't it? Aren't we lucky to have a choice?
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