The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

Journey of Transformation / 265
practicing inner silence is a powerful combination! I found, for example,
that I was able to teach a full load of courses at the college and
simultaneously take a full course load at Berkeley, so that I was typically
juggling eight to ten courses at once. Not only did the teaching go
wonderfully well, but I had only As and a couple of A-plusses in over
sixty units of doctoral coursework, and my dissertation, The Role of
Intuition in Education, was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award.
There is nothing for me personally to be proud of or take credit for in
this, because it’s just one of countless human illustrations of the underlying
principle that all of us have an enormous potential that can be fulfilled
as we understand and live in accordance with our intrinsic nature.
The main hindrance to this is the inherited food-enforced mentality of
competition and exclusion that keeps us distracted, paralyzed, and
unable to make meaningful connections.
After teaching college for about six years and enjoying it immensely,
I felt guided to take up an itinerant lifestyle giving concerts of original
piano music and seminars on developing intuition. Though the college
offered me a salary increase to stay on, I felt a strong calling to
return to the open road. I had found that in the years since embarking
on my pilgrimage from New England, uplifting and swirling new music
had begun pouring through me on the piano, and as I focused more on
the music and played publicly, it got stronger and was received with
enthusiasm. Through the music, I felt my heart and inner vision opening
to an inspiring spiritual energy that connected me with the earth and
with the plight of both animals and our human family. The music,
emerging from the mystery of inner stillness, has always seemed to be a
vehicle for carrying elevating and healing energy and intuitive understanding.
Although I hadn’t been consciously aware of it at the time, while I
was switching to a plant-based diet at The Farm in 1975, thousands of
miles away in Switzerland, a young painter named Madeleine was
simultaneously making a similar change. In 1990, while playing concerts
in Europe, I met Madeleine fortuitously in a small Swiss village,
and since then I have been wonderfully blessed with her presence as my
life partner and loving companion.