Kate Magic - Raw Magic: Super Foods for Super People

Kate Magic

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RAW MAGIC

Superfoods for Superpeople

Kate Magic

These are a few of the people I am blessed to know and be inspired by: Reuben, Ethan, Zachary, Chris, Dani, Hudro, Red & Dan, Amy, Solla, Ani, Tonya, Ysanne, Annie, Urduja, Boris, Anna, Julia, Caroline, Nicolas, Erica, Soren, George, Jnsi & Alex, Alfred, Benji, Gilles, Charlie, Amelia, BA, Jo. If you think you should have been on this list and I omitted you, youre probably right; I did so for the sake of brevity, not because I dont love you.

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There are some foods that have the power to change your life.

There are certain foods that when you eat them, your body is in heaven, your cells start singing, your mind becomes ecstatic. Yes, they cry in unison, Yes, these are the foods that I have been waiting for. These are the foods that I have been craving, that my body has been missing my whole life. Sometimes, it is a particular nutrient you have been lacking. But more often with these foods it is their synergistic properties. They have a magical energy that comes not only from the synergy of their nutritional composition but from the way they are grown, the lands they are from, their history. Many of them are sacred plants in their countries of origin.

There are many amazing foods I have omitted from this book, foods that are more commonly recognized as superfoods: vegetables like broccoli, kale and cucumbers, fruits like cranberries, blueberries and grapefruit, sprouts like lentils, sunflower or alfalfa. I was tempted to include avocados and olives, buckwheat and oats, all foods I eat on a daily basis. But these are foods that most of us are familiar with, and if you are not then there are plenty of books out there that do cover them. This book is about the new breed of superfoods that are unique to the West in the 21st century. Never before have we had access to such a wide variety of plant foods. Some of them we are accustomed to in different forms, like cacao; others have been around for a few decades now, like spirulina; some are widely known in their country of origin, but novel to Europe and the U.S., like goji berries; and some others are utterly brand new to us, like purple corn extract. When I was a child, avocados and kiwis were considered exotic; now they are standard fare in every shopping basket. I believe that such is the potency and vitality of the foods in this book that as people catch on to them, they are going to revolutionize the way we eat, shop and live.

These foods are transformative. By eating such high-potency foods they change the very nature of our reality. They affect our consciousness and raise our energetic level to a degree that has profound implications in all areas of our lives. It is not possible to eat these foods on a daily basis and not feel altered. We live in a culture that is intrinsically false; fueled on junk food, media lies, false gods and political whores, we have forgotten how to be our true selves. These foods help us realign, connect with who we really are, and tune into our higher selves. The more we eat this way, the more we live in our power. This can be a hard adjustment to make in a world where the individual is fundamentally disempowered. Revealing our inner core is usually painful; as we let the masks of self-deception slip away, we have to let go of people and life situations which have been holding us back and preventing us being fully who we are. It is a scary thing to do, to step into our truth and reclaim our birthright when we have been taught our whole lives to avoid truth at all costs, to keep up the faades and not rock the boat. But the more of us who make these choices, the easier it becomes. And whats more, the more we attract into our lives people who have made the same choices and appreciate us for who we honestly are.

Rocking the boat is what we are here to do! Isnt it exciting and exhilarating when you stand up for what you truly believe in? Our time has come, and the old ways are not working anymore. Paradigms are crumbling and new ones are rising in their place. As we understand eternal truths, we see the world for what it is, and understand how desperately things need to change. We align with our higher purpose, the divine intelligence, and see what our lifes path is. What mission have we been given? What is our role here at this time? It is to wake the world up, to guide humanity through the massive shifts and changes that are taking place. And of course, that starts with ourselves. We must awaken ourselves. We must keep the balance between being masters of our own reality, taking full responsibility for our lives as a manifestation of our own inner state of being; and being of service, helping to awaken the sleeping masses, and doing everything we can to help people through these times. And you know what the best part is? Its fun. Believe it or not, the universe actually wants us to be happy, it doesnt want us to suffer. And the more we work with the universe, the happier we become, the less we suffer.

We are used to a duality in our minds over food. When I grew up, I had issues around my weight. I was trapped in a no-win situation. I could either eat and feel fat and sluggish, or I could not eat and feel clear and light, but spaced out and weak. As most teenagers do, I was worried about how I looked. I fluctuated between liking the look of my body and feeling happy about myself by not eating, or satisfying my instinctive biological need for food, but not really liking myself. I turned to drugs to help me see my way out of this duality, to escape into an artificially induced state of oneness and bliss. The chemicals I put into my body for years didnt do me any favors physically. But they did open me up to a higher state of being, an understanding that I could experience life the way I wanted to. I understood that my lifes path involved trying to find ways to recreate those highs naturally, to adopt lifestyle choices that could assist me in living in my highest truth. I turned to raw foods and yoga, and have been working with those disciplines for over two decades now. I can honestly say the process has been revelatory. It has been an arduous and at times painful journey, but the results just keep coming, and they keep getting better and better. Every time I am opened up to a whole new level of being in myself it blows me away.

This journey is like peeling back layers of an onion. You peel back one layer, you make improvements in your diet by adding certain foods and cutting out others, make changes in your lifestyle to move closer to having the life you really want. For a while you feel amazing, on top of the world. But then you uncover a whole other layer of issues, another set of physical, emotional and mental blocks to work through that had been lying hidden deep within you, but are now out and exposed because you have peeled off the rubbish that had been covering them. This process never stops, it is the path we follow as humans, and the more we are in it, the more we learn to love it, to accept it all, not to resist but to enjoy it all, the ups and the downs; the pain and the pleasure are equal gifts, two sides of the same coin.