This is a story I wrote intended for the Natural Foods Merchandiser Magazine about Dr. Bernard Jensen, one of the elders of the natural healing arts. I am amazed that many have not heard of this amazing man who was born on March 25. I will be leading a tour of his ranch for any of us in the Escondido, CA area. Email me for a flyer and directions at PlantYourDream@Cox.net

Date:   3/24/2005 12:14:34 PM ( 19 y ago)

This is a story I wrote in 2001 about Dr. Bernard Jensen.
He is one of our elders. His birthday is March 25.

I am leading a Tour of his former "Hidden Valley
Health Ranch" that is now up for sale.

The Tour will be This Saturday from around 12.
With a talk at 1 and a vege potluck 1:30 -3:00..

Anyone who wants particulars about the Tour
please email me at Plantyourdream@cox.net

Here is the story I wrote:



Plant Your Dream!
The Heart and Soul
of Dr. Bernard Jensen

by Leslie Goldman, Enchanted Gardener

March 25, 2000, the third day of Natural Products Expo West was Dr. Bernard Jensen’s 92nd birthday. He never made it to the show. He was home in bed, semi-paralyzed, unable to walk. At this year’s show, I heard of his passing, February 22, 01. A man who loved his raw, fresh warm goat’s milk more than others love a hot Toddy, I name Jensen among the top five men of his time who turned more people on to organic living than anyone else over the last 100 years.

Speaking from a wheelchair at this his 92nd birthday celebration, surrounded by those who loved him, Dr. Jensen was happy as a lark. For probably the 100th time, he announced that his NEXT seminar would probably be his last.

Five days after his birthday, he was teaching a seminar two hours a day for three days on Iridology and nutrition-- two of his favorite subjects--to 75 or more doctors and health professionals who came from around the world to hear him. Once again, he was finding new ways to demonstrate why white bread simply doesn’t cut it as far as good health is concerned.

In January, 2000, Jensen had told his son Art to make alternative plans in case he died before his birthday talk. As usual, though, Jensen showed up, gave his message, received the love his students, beamed for photos, and was ready to take on life again.
Dr. Jensen, one of the truly LIVING elders of the natural food Industry, goes down in this Enchanted Gardener’s ‘Guinness Book of Good Housekeeping’ as “the man most told he had only six months to live.” He was told this no less than four times between the ages of 89 and 92.

As his wife of 40 years, Marie once said, “My husband was always hard of hearing.” This was, of course, unless there was something beautiful to be heard, someplace incredibly beautiful to go visit in search of ageless wisdom, or one more book that simply had to be written to add to his list of more than 50.

Jensen goes down in history as a man disease simply could not take. Reeking with cancer at age 89 (which he sometimes attributed to working too hard, or to one too many airplane meals on the way to the inner realms of ‘outer Mongolia’) Jensen’s healing is proof that heart, soul, and passion are stronger than any human disease.
He is living proof that when heart and soul and passion are hooked up with natural foods and organic living, ‘God’ can do anything.

An Aries ram born at the onset of Spring in 1908, the twinkle in Jensen’s eye has inspired more than 350,000 patients over more than 50 years of practice, and his writings and influence have infused life into a whole industry.
Once offered a job as a preacher, Jensen came to church and gave a talk on bowel management, one of his favorite subjects. In his early days, one audience threw ripe tomatoes. Jensen gathered them up and made tomato juice.

Although trained as a chiropractor, he preferred looking into the eye to see what foods the body needed. Jensen often said, as Hippocrates might have, ”The food healed them. I never touched them.”

Jensen has always relied on foods and ‘growing in harmony with nature’ as two of his favorite remedies. He has always been one of nature’s best friends, and she one of his.
Around the same time he was about to go down with cancer, 100 mile an hour winds created a fire storm on the outskirts of his Hidden Valley Health Ranch in Escondido.
Two weeks later I went to survey the scene. I stood with one foot deep in black soot from dead trees. The other foot was on lush green. The lush green ran the perimeter of his property for more than 1/4 mile. The fire simply knew better than to cross the line.

Stunning the medical establishment with his complete recovery from cancer, Jensen went on to walk again after a devastating and paralyzing car accident. A year later, once again finding himself in a wheelchair from old age and overwork, he was unable to control his own bowel. Jensen again stunned his conventional medical doctor by taking his own ‘medicine’--natural foods--to completely cleanse and return to improved bowel health-- at age 92.

I was one of his 350,000 patients. I am grateful to call him my spiritual father when I felt I had no other. I acknowledge him for carrying me from bed to bed, when I myself could not walk.
As we walk down the aisles of Natural Products Expos to come, choosing new products and our favorites to serve our customers, I know the spirit, heart and soul of Dr. Bernard Jensen will always be walking with us.

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