10:00 AM
March 20, 2009






What would be the 101th Birthday of DR BERNARD JENSEN is five days away.
Dr Bernard Jensen was born March 25, 1908. He lived until the age of 91.
His life spanned into the 21st century. He died in February 2001, although
using the word "die" in reference to this eternal soul, seems hardly appropriate.

Years ago, I promised the good Doctor I would help to carry forward his work.
The first time I rode in his car at the HIDDEN VALLEY HEALTH RANCH
was between the old barn and the Grove where I lived in a cabin of oak trees
for many months. The work of Dr. Bernard Jensen was more than the
work of one man. Dr. Jensen represented a tradition. He kept alive
and spoke out for a quality of living--of seeing wholeness and the cycle
of life--that is rare today, and become rarer. He represented teachings
that understood the cycle of life.

On the first ride, a fall day in September or October 1972,
Dr. Jensen told me about the work of ALFRED W. McCANN,
a journalist who wrote the book called THE SCIENCE OF EATING.
Dr. Jensen blessed me that day in telling me about the work of Alfred W. McCann.
He wanted me to continue in that tradition of writing.
My highest aspiration is to do that here on the PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG.

This morning, I was drawn to THE WHEEL OF HEALTH, another book
that Dr. Jensen considered among the most truth telling in his vast
library.

KEEP The BEET Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant,
guided me to a reprint of this book originally published in 1938.
The copy I have was reprinted in 1960 by the LEE FOUNDATION FOR
NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH. My copy came to me through Dr. Jensen
personally. It was in his library.

It is a Birthday Gift from Dr. Jensen to you that I point out the existence
of this very special book, THE WHEEL OF HEALTH.

I encourage you to spend time reading from this book,
and awakening to the principles contained in this book.
If you read them closely, you will find more reason to
begin today to join the ranks of the BEET KEEPERS.






WHAT IS KEEP THE BEET ASKING OF YOU?

KEEP The BEET Media Star sezs:
One Pot+One person=You're a gardener!
So go get a fully grown beet from a local, organic farmer--
whenever possible. Replant your beet in the finest potting soil
you can find with materials from the land and sea.
Keep the beet. Eat the beet greens. Continue to harvest
the beet greens. They will continue to grow for you for many
months! Doing this simple health remedy, will give you confidence
that you too can grow food.

As you do this, it is the hope of Dr. Jensen and KEEP The BEET
that you will reconnect with
the beat of life, that you will have a Moment of Awakening
that comes from growing your beet plant.

It is time now for all of us to become gardeners again,
for in the metaphor of the gardener, we see revealed
the time tested principles that inspired Dr. Jensen, McCann,
and Wrench.

This book, I see, can be read on line.
Another modern day reprint is
also available at Amazon.


Here are a few paragraphs from the Online Reprint on line
that light me up:

FROM THE WHEEL OF HEALTH
by G.T. WRENCH M.D:


INTRODUCTION:

By studying the wings of birds in flight we have made our machines carry us through the air. By studying one of the healthiest peoples of the world we might so improve our methods of health as to become a really healthy people ourselves. A research in health is really promising. Well, here is one. Let us see if the promise is fulfilled.

PROGRESS BY RECOIL


Howard's two principal conclusions in this paper are so important that I have presumed to interpolate some italics. The two conclusions are:

"(1) Insects and fungi are not the real cause of plant diseases, and only attack unsuitable varieties or crops improperly grown. Their true role in agriculture is that of censors for pointing out the crops which are imperfectly nourished. Disease resistance seems to be the natural reward of healthy and well-nourished protoplasm. The frst step is to make the soil live by seeing that the supply of humus is maintained.

"(2 ) The policy of protecting crops from pests by means of sprays, powders and so forth is thoroughly unscientific and radically unsound; even when successful, this procedure merely preserves material hardly worth saving. The annihilation or avoidance of a pest involves the destruction of the real problem; such methods constitute no scientific solution of the trouble, but are mere evasions."

These words, especially those italicized, vividly express, not only the vegetable, but also the animal problem, and not only the animal, but the human.

The secondary conventional causes of disease are not the real causes of disease. Diseases only attack those whose outer circumstances, particularly food, are faulty. The genes of heredity are sound and eternally faithful to healthy life. It is not they who are the givers of disease and of susceptibility to disease, for "disease resistance seems to be the natural reward of well-nourished protoplasm." It is outer causes, not the inwardness of nature, that produce disease. Man is the author of his own destiny.

The prevention and banishment of disease are primarily matters of food; secondarily, of suitable conditions of environment. Antiseptics, medicaments, inoculations, and extirpating operations evade the real problem. Disease is the censor pointing out the humans, animals and plants who are imperfectly nourished. Its continuance and its increase are proofs that the methods used obscure, they do not attack, the radical problem.

Howard transferred the health of the soil to that of the vegetable, and that of the vegetable to that of the animal, and those of the vegetable and animal back again to the soil.

Transference, transference, transference--three transferences, that is the secret of health. These three transferences --soil to vegetable, vegetable to animal, animal and vegetable back to the soil--form the eternal wheel of health.






 

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