Coming to the R.A.T Gallery in Gardenville, PA…

Freedom and Vibrant Health Through Nature

With Matthew Warner

What does freedom mean to you? To me freedom is independence of anything outside the domain of one’s self.  In a spiritual or an emotional sense this would mean that everything we need to satisfy our desires must be sought from within. In a more gross physical sense, the domain of one’s self would extend to the entirety of the physical body and include the elements of the earth and all other beings with which we share our existence. This is the domain that I will refer to as “Nature”. Nature provides us with air, water, food, sunlight, love, affection, touch, along with all the tools and intuitive knowledge we need to enjoy the pinnacle of healthful joy. Anything created outside of this “Nature”, often through manipulation and manufacturing, creates a void between ourselves and our inherent opportunity for total freedom and sustainability. When there is an apparent necessity for something outside of nature, i.e. medicine, supplements, refined micronutrients, drugs, alcohol, stimulants, etc., it is merely an indication that the principles of nature are being ignored in some other aspect(s) of one’s lifestyle. Our bodies are fully capable of every task necessary for vibrant health provided we maintain enough awareness to remove all obstacles that arise due to the self destructive lifestyles that have become convention.

Learn how to remove all of these obstacles and more importantly how to avoid allowing new obstacles to crowd your path to total freedom. We will explore and discuss practical lifestyle aspects from an anatomical, physiological, biological, mental, emotional, ecological, and philosophical/spiritual perspective. Of course not everyone is ready, willing, and/or able to make such a total reform, but gaining an understanding of this perspective is sure to provide a beneficial shift to some part or parts of your lifestyle and outlook.

Our philosophies tend to be geared toward an honor and reverence for nature because we can intuitively identify with the power and peace found in the miraculous natural world. The more you align your actions with that philosophy the more of that power and peace becomes accessible to us as individuals. When we are able to fully embrace a truly natural lifestyle we may find that all of our greatest desires are fulfilled without any boxed, packaged, bottled, electrified, digital, or destructive outside influences. We are able to joyfully experience and appreciate all that already is and break our attachment to fleeting material distractions. Optimum health and infinite joy is the natural state of being. Open your mind to the possibilities of a return to nature and the natural state of Freedom. (more…)

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In our society we place a great deal of focus on our appearance. We spend as much money trying to make ourselves beautiful as we do trying to become healthy. In truth, beauty is as natural as the state of health. This is why we collectively share the same basic model of beauty. We are attracted to the beauty in others, and we strive to cultivate beauty in ourselves. Some would say that judging such beauty is wrong. I would say that to not do so would be unnatural.

Beauty is a indication of favor in all aspects of life. What we inherently see as beautiful will teach us to cultivate that beauty in ourselves. What we perceive as physical beauty is a visual indication of health. Bright clear skin, lean fit build, muscular tone, straight white teeth, and bright white eyes, are all characteristics of a healthy efficient human being. Of course these characteristics can be attained unnaturally and therefore hold no bearing on health. Through starvation diets, cosmetic surgery, and makeup some would attempt to fool our intuition into perceiving natural beauty. Such attempts would be futile however to anyone who truly understands the essence of beauty. (more…)

Does a raw food diet create Health?

Raw food does not so much create health as it allows for the Natural State of Health to occur. The Natural state of Health is the condition that we are meant to experience at all times. The Natural state of health is not static. It has infinite potential that is realized more and more as we grow and evolve ourselves.

The foods we eat, the environment we live in, the activities we participate in, and even the thoughts we think can either impede the natural state of health or allow it to flourish and bloom. Obesity, disease, and deficiency only exist as symptoms of poor health. These symptoms are manifestations of our lack of attention to the natural way of life. When we do nothing more than treat these symptoms we are ignoring the messages being sent by our bodies.

Most often we think of this system of symptom treatment as being an exclusive trait of the medical model. This is false. Herbalists suppress symptoms with herbs, homeopaths suppress symptoms with tinctures, and raw foodists suppress symptoms with supplementation. In some severe cases the afore mentioned practices can be used as a means to temporarily provide comfort for a person who is working towards correcting the root issue of health. However, by and large, these methods of symptom suppression are used to ignore the messages of the body so that one can continue an unnatural lifestyle under the illusion of health. (more…)