Is transition dieting all psychological? Are the changes we make physically and emotionally totally dictated by our minds? If we master our minds, can we learn to skip over the “transition diet” and just be mucus-free right now?

Is the Mucusless Diet and Transition Dieting Just All Psychological?

Question

Since Fred Hirsch supposedly jumped right into a 30 day fast when he started working with Prof. Arnold Ehret [see article here], and people are doing long periods eating only fruit right away, is transition dieting and the ability to fast just psychological? If so, isn’t the entire system just a healing of the psyche through the body as a vehicle?

Prof. Spira’s Answer

Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

Although mind and body are certainly connected, I would propose that it is not “all” psychological. Is it possible for a 1 year old child to use their “mind” to speed up their own developmental processes? Can a 1 year old baby use their mind to transform the color of their own skin overnight?

If factors such as time, biochemistry, observable physical laws, etc., were not at play on this physical plane of existence, then one’s age, hue, height, hair length, gender, etc., could all be controlled at will by a person at any age and in any stage of development. Perhaps some believe that this is possible, but I’ve yet to see a 1 or 2 year old gifted with the ability to age 10 years over night using only the power of their mind.

In accord with physical laws on this plane of existence, these children must unfold at a certain rate over what we call “time.”

Although ecological, cultural, and other factors shape this development, certain things are not possible within the confines of current natural law. Evolutionary change is an observable natural phenomenon. The human unfoldment called “growing up” is indeed a “transition.”

No amount of mind power will speed the process up. And when physical aging is slowed down due to people eating a natural diet, this is not because of mental intention, but as a result of being in line with natural laws. Perhaps the intention of growing younger or healing oneself led a person down this path, but the path still has to be traveled over time.

Although it may be observed that the ways in which we perceive, experience, and understand time is psychologically relative. Yet, I propose that transition is not a question of mind, but a question of nature.

“Transition” is Natural and Easily Observable on Earth in Many Forms

Arnold Ehret points this out when he says,

“Everything is perfectly performed by Nature through evolutional, progressive changes, developments, and accomplishments and not by catastrophes. Nothing is more incorrect than the mistaken idea that a decades-old chronic disease can be healed through a very long fast, or a radically extended, strict fruit diet. ‘Nature’s mills grind slow but sure (Arnold Ehret, Mucusless Diet Healing System, All Editions).’”

I am currently working on analyzing the timeline of Ehret’s work, including translated works not yet published in English. What is interesting how how much Ehret’s opinion on long-term fasting changed from his earlier writings and practices.

In 1909, Ehret did his public 49 day fasting experiment, and in materials written soon after the fast he seems much more liberal about long fasts and all-fruit dieting. Yet, he rarely talks about “transition” in his earlier works.

One of the reasons I think the Mucusless Diet Healing System is the most important landmark writing of Ehret’s is due to the transitional methodology he developed between 1909 and 1920. Under “Fasting When Used in Connection With the Mucusless Diet Healing System,” Ehret wrote,

“As I have stated before, I am no longer in favor of long fasts. In fact, it may become criminal to let a patient fast for 30 or 40 days on water—contracting the avenues of circulation, which are continually filled up more and more with mucus and by dangerous old drugs and poisons, and at the same time rotten blood from their old “stock;” in fact, actually starving from necessary vital food elements (Ehret, Mucusless Diet & Rational Fasting, All Editions).”

By 1920, Ehret’s methods and opinions seemed to have considerably shifted to a process more systematic and gradual which mirrored Nature’s example of gradual change. The question is not, is it possible to do long fasts. Of course it is. But, what are the long-term transitional implications and prospects of sustainability?

Many people fail to understand that the length of a fast is not particularly special, but that the length of a fast + the period in one’s life/transition the fast is completed is an important combination to observe.

Although perhaps counter-intuitive, it may be much easier to fast for long periods of time in the early years of one’s transition, than 10 or 15 years in. After 20 years it may then become easier to fast again. A 30 day fast from someone on year 2 of their transition is not equal to a 30 day fast of someone who has practice the Mucusless Diet for 20 years.

The nature of that personals dietary change is also a factor. In my own experience, it was much easier to fast for long periods of time in the early years than it is in the current stage I’m in now. (Disclaimer: I do not promote or advocate long fasting. I am only sharing my personal experiences, which are not to be taken as a suggested course of action. I advocate Ehret’s fasting methods.)

Around my 3rd year of practicing the diet I started a series of yearly 6 month long fruit juice fasts for 3 years in a row, followed by a four month long fruit juice fast the following year, and then almost 6 months on mucus-free fruits the year after that.

I noticed that in the early days of this kind of extended fasting, it was as if I was “running” on the residue of my old waste. As the old filth was being burned away by the “purgatory (cleansing fire) of fasting and diet of healing (Ehret, Mucusless Diet),” it felt effortless. And I felt incredible. Years later, when the old meat and dairy residues were long gone, the experience of fasting changed. A 3 or 4 day fast felt like it had the same effect as the 6 month long fasts I’d done in years past.

The nature of fasting in my body had transformed into something else entirely. And the ease with which I could effortlessly fast for months at a time at will was gone.

Click HERE to see an example of transition dieting, aka a Mucusless Diet recipe. 

Brother Air (aka Willie Smart)seemed to have gone through a similar trajectory. The first 10 years of his transition was strictly mucus-free, with moderately long juice fasting periods. It all seemed fairly easy. However, 10 years into his transition he experienced a 4 year period of an intense addiction to peanut butter and jelly on well-toasted wheat bread.

He also mentioned that it was not easy for him to fast during this period. He continued to eat systematically, although the peanut butter toast was a staple not going anywhere anytime soon. He also dabbled in a bit of fried white potatoes and some “soy-burger” and “nature-burger” vegetarian items. Then, about 20 years into practicing the diet, he broke away from this period of vegeteric mucus-lean eating and did a year of eating only fruit.

Following this year of fruit, he started to perform his now famous long-term fasting periods, with 100 day fasts, 8 ½ months, 9 ½ months, and so one. He never again returned to the vegeteric foods of years 10 through 20. During the first 10 years of his long-term fasting, he only ate solid food for about 6 to 9 months (6 to 9 months out of 120 months). And today, he is still doing long fasts if he feels moved to do so, and is increasingly focused on extended dry fasting. I say this to try and illustrate the long-term trajectory of his transition.

I submit that Brother Air’s example is a demonstration of expertly applied transitional methodology, and not solely mental abilities or “Will-power.” Fasting and mucus-free dieting was easy for the first 10 years, then he went through almost 10 years of vegetarian mucus-lean transitioning, but after this, year 20 to the present he has been able to maintain long-term periods of non-eating and 100% mucus-free dieting. The point of focus is not the long-term fasts, but the mechanics of transition he applied over time that enabled him to do long fasts 35 years into practicing the diet.

Transition is Not a Choice. It is the Natural Law!

Ehret’s own practice was not a straight line. In “Life Issues,” written in 1909 following his 49 day fast, he wrote

“I have been a vegetarian for 6 years. For about 2 years I lived on fruit quite strictly, also in the cold winter. At times, partly for deliberate experimental purposes, partly out of indifference, I exceptionally consumed some meat, but then also a little bit of wine or beer along with the meat. In the weeks before the great fast I lived on a strictly vegetarian, almost exclusive fruit diet. I did not cut out coffee or cigars entirely. But to respond to the prejudices in this regard, I want to remark that I withstood an earlier, quite extended fasting test more easily and without considerable decline in strength because four weeks prior I had essentially eaten nothing but cherries (Ehret, “Life Issues,” 1909).”

I do not think that Ehret had yet refined or understood the importance of transition in 1909. I’ve often said that if he had transitioned himself properly, it would have been impossible for him to go back to any meat. I observed the same about Dr. Robert Morse, who said that he did 2 years on nothing but fruit early in his transition, only to break it and eat a piece of fish soon after, getting very sick. He also talks about the time he had an uncontrollable urge for a malted milkshake, and succumbed to the addiction and paid for it right after.

I mean not to criticize Ehret or Morse, but use their teachable experiences to show how lack of transition can make for seemingly profound tests of strength and endurance at first, but prove to be unsustainable long-term. In retrospect, my question is, how gradual would their transitions needed to have been to make it impossible for them to have craved or tolerated going back to meat or dairy products, the worst mucus-forming foods? We all fall off the wagon at some point, but with a gradual transition we might only stub our toe, and not break our leg, as it were.

After observing numerous people haphazardly transition, I can say that it is very possible for a person to do long-term fruit-based periods early on, which seem remarkable, but then end up at the McDonald’s drive-thru soon after. Of course this does not happen to all who take this path, but I’ve seen more people try to go down this road and fall off the wagon than be able to sustain these restrictive dietary levels. 

For me, the goal is to transition the body to permanently make it impossible to eat pus- and mucus-forming foods, to the point where it is not a choice of the mind but a physical reality. I could drink Clorox Bleach, but I’ll get sick and die if I drink too much of it. But would my getting sick be a trick my mind is playing on me? Could I condition my mind to view bleach as juice and fast on bleach? That has yet to be done, but observable physical dynamics suggest that the power of one’s mind could not allow them to fast on bleach. One would be better off “transitioning” to a bleach-based diet over time (this is a joke, please do not drink bleach).

Click HERE to see another example of transition dieting, aka Mucusless Diet recipe. 

Ehret was in the process of developing and perfecting his long-term transitional methods in 1922, but tragically could not complete his work. That is where I think there is much room for refinement. The power, beauty, and sophistication of Mucus-free transitioning is yet to be appreciated or understood. Even the so-called “mental” realm is ruled by transitional dynamics. Transition is not just at play on the physical plane, but also the mental and spiritual ones. Transition is not a choice. It is the Natural Law! Thus, our job as Earthlings, perhaps our primary job, is to learn how to best align ourselves with Nature. Transition is part of Nature, and our duty as human-beings is to align with Nature, or suffer the stress of non-alignment.

On the role of the mind, Ehret says “It cannot be denied that the condition of the mind has an influence on every kind of disease,” however, “It is rather difficult to believe in mental healing at all, after knowing as I do through actual experiences with thousands of patients that the average chronic sick, especially the well fed one, is in fact a “living cesspool.” Nature is the manifestation of the divine laws, and there are no miracles in Nature.

If you have eaten wrong for 30, 40, 50 years, thereby producing your disease, you must do the necessary compensation as reparation for your sins; you must do the opposite by eating clean, natural, divine food, which will produce health instead of disease. That is as clear as sunlight, and as logical as 2 x 2 = 4 (Erhet, Mucusless Diet, All Editions).”

Can most babies use their mind to physically and mentally unfold more quickly, essentially skipping over the “transition” called “growing up?” 

Ultimately, I urge that we look at transition and the transition diet differently. Not as an optional thing to play around with, but as the essence of life itself. There is no “growing up” from infancy to adulthood, body and mind, without transition. There is no learning new things without transition. What we call “seasons” in certain parts of the world are nothing more than the expression of Nature transitioning. Fruit does not magically appear on trees, but is the result of transitional development. Transition/change is inevitable, and we can fight against it, delude ourselves into thinking we can conquer or control it, or we can learn how to flow and get in line with it. I suggest the latter.

Peace, Love, and Breath!

Prof. Spira

The above article was inspired by a discussion in our Mucusless Diet Facebook support group from August 2017. Thanks to all who contributed to the fruitful discussion!