“The man who abuses and the man who abstains are both ignorant. Saints and sinners suffer from the same disease.”

“You can go a hundred days gathering water in the reservoir, and the dam can break from emotional trauma.”

“Relinquishing the story level brings one to Paradise.”

Edmund Bordeaux Szekely’s version of the “Essene Diet” had some virtues, but it’s incompatible with the way I eat.

The same goes for the numerous other versions of the “Essene Diet” (there’s even a fruitarian one), if the few I checked out are any indication.

As for the Essene sect, I’d have never been allowed to join because of all their rules and regulations.

Maybe a lot of them reincarnated as California bureaucrats and lawmakers?

I do like Szekely’s idea of biogenic, bioactive, biostatic, and biocidal foods.

I’ve Mind Hacked several thousand people, and never found a single case of a so-called disease that wasn’t precipitated by either a psychological or a psychosomatic Cognitive Trigger Event.