Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini Paperback – March 11, 2005

This is the best most well researched book you will ever find on this subject. Possibly the only book that covers this subject with such thoroughness. It is scientific and at the same time spiritually inspiring. I have no idea why some of the reviewers are claiming the author has an ego. I certainly did not get that impression. This book is priceless to those interested in spiritual growth like myself. It fits right in with my factual books on the raw food diet as well as my books on the chakras, etheric body and astral projection...and it merges nutritional facts with our true spirtual nature and how we may awaken it even further with a raw vegan "life-force" diet in one very comprehensive book.I am already 80% raw vegan and I am thrilled to take this journey a step further. I highly recommend it to those who are both scientific and spiritual like myself because that is what it delivers.

This needs to be paired w practice but the understanding of her technique is really a life changing. Bravissimo!

I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand better esoteric principals of spirituality, such as how the manifest emerges and we are born as multidimensional beings. We come to learn from the inspired author's spiritual experiences and medical knowledge the function of the chakras, nadis and other systems in the body and their role in wellness and wellbeing. I have not finished the book yet but am savoring every bite because every page contains some gem that clarifies and helps me go deeper in my understanding of Reality.

This book presents a great paradox: it contains much valuable information but at the same time it is undermined by the author's presentation of himself (and of his point of view) as a self-liberated master in the context of the transcendentalist, world-negating tradition of Kashmir Shaivism in the lineage of the Hindu swami, Swami Muktananda. Why is this a problem to be concerned with? The author may, of course, claim for himself with the best of intentions whatever he wishes, and I have no issue with his right to make such a claim or that he does make such a claim. But in a book on nutrition averredly formulated within holistic paradigm, he presents a model of health from a profoundly contradictory point of view which asserts that he, the author, and also the reader, is not the body-mind complex and that the ultimate purpose of "spiritual nutrition" is to serve the realization of this negation. This is the basic unwrapped thesis of the book. It is the typical thesis of a one-sided oriental spirituality which negates the meaning of the earth by negating the value of the body for the earth. He resorts in consequence to the gratuitous, if not pretentious, device of totally objectifying the body as such by referring to his own body entirely from the outside in the third person. One is regaled by way of a voluminous introduction to an account of unverifiable subjective experiences that have no objective value for anyone else in order to establish his spiritual authority. The author also labors quite strangely to establish his Jewishness and to prove, to no necessary end, the superiority of the Jewish religious tradition (by retroactive revisionist means, moreover)and this notwithstanding that his claim to "spiritual liberation" occurred in the context of Hinduism not of Judaism. That is, he finds dubious equivalences between Hebrew Kabbalistic and Hindu terms (on the basis of a mystical, and therefore questionable and certainly unprovable claim that all religions are one). For indeed, Judaism cannot and must not be outdone by Hinduism. I emphasize this point because a truly holistic paradigm rests on the presumption, not of a body-spirit duality, not on the exclusive value of an abstraction called "spirit", but of the non-dual unity of these two principles. That is to say, the spiritual transformation of the body rests on a presumption of its inherent divinity, its inherent unity with the spirit, which is negated by the idea "I am not the body", a negation which is invoked as an ultimate achievement. It could well be argued that this error, reinforced by thousands of years of transcendentalist religions and philosophy, is at the very basis of the degeneration of the human body. Consistent with this, Cousens equivocates about the idea of longevity, claiming and indeed advocating it as a potential of the body on the one hand but then immediately negates it with the transcendentalist cant that the only purpose of the body is to achieve "spiritual liberation". Cousens is therefore mired in a profoundly unexamined contradiction whose subconscious effects cannot but undermine in subtle ways precisely the goal of making the body conscious and fully alive with radiant well-being. Thus, the body is fundamentally undermined in Cousens metaphysics by its ultimate rejection as no more than a provisional and certainly inferior appendage to his transcendentalist posture. Despite all this, the concrete implications of which should perhaps not be minimized, the author presents much that is of value, for example on the subjects of bio-energism, raw (or living) plant foods, mineralization and living water. The reader is however advised to read with utmost discrimination in order not to be infected by what amounts to Cousens' de facto body-mind self-sabotaging, spiritualistic nihilism.

a couple things - I bought this book from kindle sometime agoAt some point when I tried to access the book, but no longer appeared in my kindle library and was not available for purchase as a kindle bookIt’s one of my favorite books on nutrition, and as soon as I found to be available in Kindle version again I purchased it immediatelyUpon looking through the Kindle version, I find that spacing between words seems to be random at best, and although it is readable needs to be edited badlyI’m surprised Amazon kindle would make such a poorly edited book available for sale

What an amazing book- FULL of every kind of information! From sacred dancing to mediation to raw vegan nutrition to every day balanced living, this book is the one!!! I have had it for several months, maybe even a year and still haven't read the whole thing as it is SO intense. It gives scientific backing to spirituality and eating to promote spirituality!

I have only just begun, but already I see that it correlates with other teachings that are coming my way--regarding receiving total health when you experience the Oneness of the Divine, and it corresponds with the practice of yoga and chi gong. I am understanding this teaching and all my other teachings in a deeper way.

Awesome book on wholistic and balanced living. I have just started reading and quite intriguing for a whole balanced diet that will change lifestyle and healthy living.