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RVML Resource Center 2002-2007 Calendar Archives 12 February 2005, Saturday |
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RVML will be closed today for remodeling.
Free Lecture: Diet and Consciousness by John Larsen
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
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Free Lecture: Diet and ConsciousnessBy John Larsen
Free Admission
Presentation Description:
Join raw food chef John Larsen for an evening of inquiry into the correlation between the food we consume and the state of consciousness that we experience.
There are numerous opinions on diet, in this discussion the focus will be on the foods themselves and their role on an energetic level in leading one to a higher state of being in the world.
The topics of discussion will include:
Different historical views on food and diet
Qualities of various types of food
Effects of food on consciousness
The vibrational spectrum of foods
Effects of consciousness on diet
The natural diet of humans
How to eat for ecological and social evolution
Presenter's Biography:
For Raw Food Chef John Larsen, the joy of creative food invention began many years ago. At a very young age, John would concoct different combinations of lotions and shampoos in his family's bathroom. Soon his mother recognized his innate need to prepare and mix, and gave him real food ingredients to experiment with. John began with traditional fare - creative egg dishes, unusual sandwich combinations, and different blends of fruit smoothies.
At the age of six, John tragically lost his father in a car accident. For several years afterwards, he sought to soothe the pain of this loss with sugary and fatty "comfort foods". Both John and his mother gained a lot of weight during this period, which was compounded by the ill feeling that results from consuming large quantities of unwholesome denatured foods.
John changed his pattern of eating at just ten years old, awaking one morning to announce that he was no longer going to eat this way. He wanted to lose weight and be healthier - he was swearing off sugar! No one thought that this whim would last very long, for how much will power does a ten-year-old have to avoid sugar and fat? A lot, in John's case.
Halloween came around along with holidays and birthdays. John stayed true to his goal, to the astonishment of his family and friends. He went on to become a vegetarian in high school and has remained very health conscious throughout his life. Not surprisingly, John gravitated towards work as a chef after high school.
During his 12-year career as a professional chef, John has cooked in four-star restaurants, catered for private events, and prepared different styles of cuisine up and down the West Coast. The journey to raw foods began while traveling in 1998; John's seat companion turned out to be a raw food enthusiast and chef. After talking for hours about this exciting new style of cuisine, John changed his approach to food, met and became a student of Victoria Boutenko, and later that year, ran the first raw food café in Ashland, Oregon.
John enjoys ethnic foods, especially Mexican and Asian cuisine, and has invested a great deal of his energy in creating raw recipes that replicate the cooked ethnic dishes that he and his wife Hamsa love. John's most recent endeavor was a large scale raw food restaurant in Ashland, Luminescence, which sadly closed it's doors this past summer. John continues to cater raw food for private events, festivals and individual customers here in Oregon. Friends and clients are constantly begging John to share his delicious recipes, relished by many in Ashland's expanding raw food community. Last year a sampling of his recipes were committed to print for the first time in The Complete Book Of Raw Food. John plans to publish an extensive collection of his own in the near future, as well as begin a course of training to enable others to prepare raw food in the same manner that he has popularized here in Ashland.
More information: Call John Larsen (541) 482-3049 e-mail: 3larsens@netscape.com
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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