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Indigenous White Food Diet
I was watching a documentary the other night called “From the heart of the world. The elder brothers warning”. It’s about one of the last remaining indigenous tribes in the high mountains of Columbia called the Kogi’s. At the 1:06:00 mark they describe the process one goes through in becoming a head spiritual leader for the tribe. They are selected at birth and as an infant their mothers while they are breast feeding them are only allowed to eat white foods. The foods they mentioned are white beans, white corn, white potatoes, and white snails. It’s free to watch and I highly recommend you at least watch that part. I will post a link below to watch on youtube. Just fast forward to the 1:06:00 mark. Also I will attach a short write-up on the subject of Kogi's eating white foods.
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Extremely interesting @joshz!
Apart from carotenes and retinoids their diet excludes acrylamides, since boiling does not heat over 100 degrees C. This seems so important that they exclusively use clay vessels. Metal will go higher on the sides.
In Italy 50 years ago, the treatment for hepatitis was to eat "in bianco", that is only white foods for 6-12 months. This to leave time for the lkiver to regenerate.
I find that Grant's diet has much increased my and my husband's access to spiritual powers. Now I know we are not alone!
Hi @ourania
Isn't it interesting?! I think there is really something to it. The Kogi's also where all white naturally made clothing which they say is for purity. Of course they're not racist in doing this as their skin color is darker than white/caucasian people. Also they make the mothers of the priests also follow this diet which I believe makes it so the mothers breast milk contains less or no vitamin a or carotenoids(when breastfeeding). You bring up some very interesting points which I did not think about much before such as the clay pots and not exceeding a certain temperature. I would like to buy a clay pot now if I can find one, but if using metal and want to avoid exceeding 100 degrees c, perhaps just low simmering and not boiling could do the trick? What do you think. I am a curandero and Tobaquero as well trained in the Peruvian amazon and have noticed a lot of spiritual benefits from this diet as well. Oh and one last question for you.. Do you happen to know what specific foods they eat in the "in Bianco" diet?
Hi @joshz
You bring up another interesting point with the white clothes. The colors of magicians and religious clothes vary, both with seasons but also with different models of identification followed. For example Udasi yogis are dressed in white too, when some others are in orange etc. This is because the body is colored by the light crossing the clothes. If tomatoes and carrots can divert the metabolism from the right path, that is from the path necessary to keep centered on regeneration, from the inside, most probably the same can happen from the outside, not only through the eyes but also through the skin.
As to clay pots, we boil the food or cook it at very low temperature. I don’t use clay because I cook on electricity. I never bake because we noticed more and more how much even a little bit of acrylamides are detrimental to spiritual practices. If I eat the crust of the bread it slightly impairs my ability to tune my instruments. Not making me sick, but just less aware.
In Bianco nowadays means light food but when I was small it meant I saw my uncle who had hepatitis ate his spaghetti with a drop of olive oil while we had tomato sauce. The rest I would not know, I was too small then to cook.
I can think of a few other white food diets and I've talked about them here. The (skim) "milk cure" which was thought to help both chronic disease and TB. The BRAT diet (bananas, applesauce, rice, toast) (a modern tummy ache cure), the food blanc mange. (an almond pudding that was given to the sick in olden days). How about congee, which is a watery rice porrige that is thought to be healing and soothing.
Regarding the clothing, I think many pigments are very toxic. And some more than others. I've read that green dyes in the victorian times were especially toxic. During the industrial revolution here in New England, the rivers here ran different colors and the fish would die.When my health problems started I began to react to hair dyes.
Perhaps an interesting question to ask is are there pigments that are healthful?
Just a thought regarding the shamans of the Kogi, their white food diet may be protective of being raised in darkness. Lack of sunlight can make one more susceptible to Hypervitaminosis A since sunlight depletes vitamin A but perhaps more importantly lower levels of vitamin A can have a vitamin D sparing effect.
Quote from Ourania on April 30, 2021, 8:11 pmI find that Grant's diet has much increased my and my husband's access to spiritual powers. Now I know we are not alone!
That's an interesting observation you've made. I notice a greater yearning for spiritual things since going low on vitamin A. Nevertheless, there is still quite a lot of confusion there, and low-grade anxiety. If you're interested, please elaborate on your own experience as you find you're growing spiritually (you've mentioned also better awareness to tune instruments, low VA brings on a general increased awareness?).
Strengthened spiritual powers in the sense that we seem to have heightened awareness of reality. Better hearing , more detailed music enjoyment. Pieces I know by heart, have deep knowledge of, reveal fresher new depths. Better access to reality by discovering parts of my life which were forgotten, that is resurgence of past events, but also the ability to revisit the scenes and understand what was going on, even what the other protagonists were thinking.
This comes with a dissolution of the consequences of the scenes. I am free from what happened and it does not impact my life anymore. This is a well known effect of spiritual progress, indeed it is largely the main goal.
But this comes and goes, and in between the adamantine flashes there is a lot of depression, for no reason at all. I suppose vA nips in the bud my happiness. Also sometimes it is frightening not to be the same person as before. There is no choice really, because if we eat vA we lose the memory of our past. Better have that memory, but feeling it does not really belong to us?
That makes me think VA would be a great therapeutic tool for people struggling with mental illness. How much I wish I've discovered the idea of low VA much earlier. What bullcrap journey: SSRI's as a teenager until mid-twenties and other psychiatric drugs over my lifetime. Then a misguided attempt at a high metabolism diet inspired by Ray Peat.
I'm all for better memory, more understanding, and better psychic vision. That makes us more human, less primitive. That vitamin A could be involved in all this seems still extraordinary. Ask some doctors and they tell you diet has no influence on mental health or wellbeing. I can only laugh at such a statement. I know better now.
One might extrapolate the above with a couple of papers from Anthony Mawson on how VA affects one psychologically -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23762766/ Also https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23816449/