Whole Life Times: Bottoms Up

May 2006 | Letters from Readers

Bottoms Up

The Body Beautiful

What a beautiful cover photo for the April edition of Whole Life Times! We are all born naked and certainly part of a whole life is to accept our whole body and those of others. This is the first time I’ve read your publication. I enjoy its content. I hope you will feature future articles on the benefits of naturism. There isn’t another creature, plant or animal on the planet that hides itself behind clothes, much less pass[es] laws mandating it. —Brian Kraemer, Altadena

WWJD—What Would Jesus Drink?

[This is about] the remark in your March, 2006 article, “If Jesus hoisted a beer to honor St. Paddy’s day, would he want it to be made with GMO grain?” That is a very irreverent remark. But obviously you do not know Jesus or you would not have written it. Jesus is the Son of God who came to earth to die for all mankind, that we sinners (all of us are sinners) may have eternal life with God. John 3:16—“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall have eternal life.”

For your further information, Jesus drank wine (not the strong alcoholic wine we know) with sinners because he came to save them. All the earth belongs to the Lord; he is not concerned with organics, but rather the souls of men and women. —Kathy, via email

Unhappy With Dossey

I was disturbed when I read in the excerpt from Dr.Dossey’s book, In Defense of Unhappiness (3/06) that Ramana Maharshi (not Maharishi), as he was dying of cancer, “would cry out in pain at night. His screams often prevented those who had come to study at his ashram from sleeping.” First of all, devotees didn’t come to study, they came to be in Ramana’s presence, since his favored mode of teaching was in silence—”the power of his presence.” Secondly, I have never read anywhere that Ramana screamed at night. In fact, his devotees wondered why he was so calm, hence his comment that, “there is pain, but there is no suffering.” Logically, why would anyone say that if he was screaming the night away? His devotees had no reason to “put the best possible face on things”—he died with extraordinary grace. If Dr.Dossey gets this much wrong in one paragraph, it makes me suspect his entire book. —Mary Romanek, Santa Monica

Pain in the Neck

Having been a migraine sufferer most of my life, I was happy to see the article about it in your magazine (4/06, “Mastering Migraines”). I thought I would share what helped me to stop them, hopefully forever. I started eating a raw food, vegan diet more than four months ago. Unfortunately it takes a long time to detoxify the body, so I still kept getting them. Somebody advised me to have regular colon cleaning. So I tried that and I am free of migraines for the last month and half! I still have several enemas a week and small wheatgrass juice colon implants after them. I had three little headaches during that time, but I never even needed an [over the counter med].

Thank you again for the wonderful magazine. —Daiva Houston, Santa Monica

Jewel on the Hill

I’m going to add to the countless accolades you are sure to receive as regards the inspiring article and interview with Julia Butterfly Hill. My sentiments exactly…Many, many thanks!
—H. Dowling, Encino

Farewell to Dutton’s

Excerpted letter from a devoted patron of the lamentably defunct Dutton’s bookstore in North Hollywood. Her words express the thoughts of the reading community.

Dear Dave,
Like thousands of others in the book world around [Dutton’s], I’m deeply saddened to learn about its now-inevitable closing, and I surrender to the impossibility of describing what its presence has meant to so many of us across the years. Said description is a soul-full matter, and for all the books I’ve read, I know there are certain things in life around which no words can—or should—be wrapped.

An old teacher of mine said that artists are the keepers of the collective soul; there are many kinds of artists in our lives, and I count among them you and Judy who long ago mastered the fine art of keeping our books for us. What you do is a holy thing.

On this next part of your journey may Hermes, the god of books and bibliophiles, bless you as you have blessed us. —Hadley Fitzgerald, Sherman Oaks

Sky Mysteries

I am so glad reader Alan Crane asked about chemtrails in your March issue. He is absolutely right that they are chemtrails, not contrails. True contrails don’t leave long lines across the sky. I have recently seen this phenomenon in Northern California, New Mexico and Texas also.

Chemtrails are only the first step in manipulating our weather. There is a huge installation in Gakona, Alaska, which bounces phased ELF (extra-low-frequency) waves off of the ionosphere to heat the upper atmosphere. It is known as HAARP [haarp.alaska.edu]. They move this heated air around, and by doing that [influence] weather patterns (including moving the clouds create by chemtrails). I’m beginning to suspect there’s a smaller [installation] in the LA area, because sometimes I see a chemtrail and 20 minutes later it’s been swirled.

I can’t help but wonder if this heating of the upper atmosphere is doing more to cause planetary warming than all other causes put together.

If readers want to verify for themselves whether there is something to it, do a Google search on weather wars (or go to weatherwars.com or earthpulse.com). You will learn to recognize clouds that are clearly manipulated. I often observe that the clouds over L.A. have been “combed.” —E. Bennett, Chatsworth

Correction: In our April story on eco-warrior Laurie David, the website she started with Sen. John McCain and Robert Kennedy, Jr. should have been listed as stopglobalwarming.org. WLT regrets the error.

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