Subject: Starvation sent: 31 Dec 97 Your statement about the body being able to live a long time without food is real to me. I think we need to detail how best to do this for after polar shift survival. I don't have all the answers but I might have a starting point. Some observations and thoughts on starvation: I am currently on my 10th day of a cleansing fast with no food. I plan to go 12 days this time. I did this during last years Christmas vacation for 10 days total. What I have observed both times is: 1) After a few days the body thermostat turns it's self down to conserve energy. What this means is you get cold much more easily. I feel like I am freezing in LA when it's only about 65-70 degree weather. 2) The bodies energy and feeling of well being goes up for x days. It may go down after that, however, I haven't reached that point yet. Body no longer has to spend energy to process the food, and begins to repair and detoxify. I am constantly amazed, that the body actually feels better, more energy than when it eats. I am beginning to think food is a suppressant, and that only the concept of it being burned by the body to give energy is what we all bought into, or agreed to long time ago. Note: It's not much fun to go to my friends house as I did during this Christmas day and see every one there complaining about being sick from what they ate. Me being the only one that felt fine. This subject is an out reality for many. 3) The "headache, sweating, shakiness" talked about above are to the best I can tell due to toxins and mucoid plaque in the intestine - colon trying to be digested by the body for energy. If one begins to get these symptoms as I did last year on my fist cleanse then: Give your self a deep enema once or twice per day. Deep enema means - head down ass up - praying position - gently allow in as much water as you can - take your time. I am currently getting in one gallon of water. Make a 1 tablespoon of Bentonite clay and 1 tablespoon of Psyllium Husk Powder in about 8 oz of water, shake an take. Do this 5 times per day. The clay will help keep the poisons from being assorted back into the body. The Psyllium Husk helps move the stuff out. In a pinch other fine particle clay (or dirt) may work and as a substitute for Psyllium Husk sawdust or other ground up fiber may work. In this case you would need to use more quantity to get the same effect. Now just to be complete there is more to this if you are doing a cleansing fast. One needs to take a certain combination of herbs (some are considered weeds) to help break up the mucoid plaque that has accumulated over the years. Mucoid Plaque is the result of mucus secreted to encapsulate and carry out foods that the body considers has toxins and does not want to digest. This mucus gradually lines the colon, and can get up to 7" thick of a black rubbery material with a 1/4" hole in the center. Over time this barrier causes toxins to build in the body and nutrition to not be delivered to the body. If one cleans this out so that what little food we will find and eat can be delivered to the body then - one, we don't have to eat so much and - two, our bodies will repair themselves, due to being able to now get the nutrients it needs and - three, The body will detoxify it's self, being able to now dump toxins it was storing. The old saying "death starts in the colon" is true. Note: On my second day 22 Dec 97 I got out a 20" long tube of mucoid plaque, and many more smaller lengths. Each day it amazes me that the stuff still keeps coming out without taking any food in. Much of this mucoid was built up since last year. 4) Part of the cleansing technology is to be able to drink all the juices you want. I currently drink organic apple juice about 1/3 gallon/day. Weather honey-water could be successfully substituted for this in a survival situation is beyond my knowledge right now. I currently don't take in any sugar of any kind including honey. By the way you don't get much hunger doing a fast it this way. Every time you get the slightest bit hungry it's time for another shake or herbs. Your taking one or the other 10 times during a day. Last year was my fist time and I felt so good, I went 10 days. I only stopped then because I had to go back to work. Sorry about getting into the mechanics of a shity subject, but it's only a body (the shell), not the thing of value the spiritual being. My concern here is to help each of us tune up our bodies so that it's failings do not interfere with our (the spiritual beings) need to get things done and help others.