I grew up in the so-called Hippie generation. I was told that I was not to trust the "Establishment". Why was that? Were they bad people? Or was it not people but a system I couldn't trust? It seems to me that passing through time and gaining experience with this establishment or system, plus adding a little prayer to our Maker can shed a little light and wise one up a bit.

     I was told in college by my professor that there was no God. I was told by many that there was no God or that He just doesn't care about you personally. Yet then why is it that in my 2777 weeks on this planet, outside my Mom that is, so many times He would answer me when I asked Him for something, or He would communicate with me so often, just too many times for it to be a coincidence. And believe it or not Ladies and Gentlemen, He still does. For instance, when I was about 6 years old, at my Great-Grand-Fathers funeral, we were told to take our rosaries out so we could pray for him. Mine was in a bath of knots and had been for many weeks or months. Hey! I was a boy. We prayed the rosary every day in school and I kept it in my pocket. It was always in knots and I could never get them out. But this moment at the funeral was very important to me. It was my Great Grand Father. So I asked this God that so many didn't believe in to take out the knots. Before my very eyes they fell out. You just don't forget things like that. Could the establishment be wrong sometimes?

     Before America landed on the moon in 1969, many were saying that because the Earth was millions and millions of years old (I thought it was about 10,000 according to the Bible), the dust on the moon would be somewhere between 18 and 38 feet deep, and a spaceship would literally drown in it. So Nasa put these really long legs on the lunar module. You probably saw it on TV. There were a few saying that the Earth according to the Bible was only about 10,000 years old (didn't I say that), and there would only be a few inches of dust. You also probably saw that on TV in 1969. There was 3 inches. Could the establishment be wrong sometimes?

     The nightly news was always saying that Iraq is such a horrible place. We have no business interfering with that culture and it is all horrible violence every minute of the day virtually everywhere. But how come the soldiers coming home are telling a different story about the Iraqi people who love the Americans and are very thankful for our helping them? I guess it's those who make the most noise and have the biggest mouths are the ones that we the masses believe.

     We lost about a thousand soldiers in Iraq since this started in over a year. These are guys who voluntarily gave their lives for others. The so-called World news constantly reminds us that in the eyes of the nightly news they wasted their lives. But how come we never hear about the 300,000 people who die every year in the hospitals due to medical mistakes?

     The very big Dairy establishment or industry says that "milk builds strong bones" and if you don't want osteoporosis, drink lots of milk and eat lots of dairy. If that is true, how come China, who drinks very little dairy, has the least osteoporosis in the world while America, who drinks the most dairy, has the most osteoporosis in the world. Actually, milk does build strong bones if it is totally raw. But it's not and the establishment knows it and that's that. When I was in school, they had a poster with the food pyramid on it telling us to eat a good portion of meat and dairy. On the back of the poster, it said it was put out by the American Dairy Assoc. Isn't that interesting. Sometimes I feel like you just have to question things. I wonder if I, being a painter, should put out a poster saying that painted walls builds strong eyes and paneling and wallpaper weaken the mind? Got paint?

     I was told in my early twenties by other hippies that I shouldn't trust the establishment. I didn't trust the hippies. I figured the establishment was established. Many of them had some good insight. But now most of them have become the establishment. Why? Was it the lure of money or power or prestige? Why did they sell out to what they hated the most?

     When I was 42, I was told by the "Medical Establishment" that I had an incurable disease. There was no cure and no hope of recovery. I was told that I must come to the doctor's office every 8 weeks for the rest of my life and I would be treated to try to keep the disease under control. When I asked if there was an alternative I could at least try, like nutrition, I was told "NO". Nothing will work. I was told by a man who had told me he had totally been cured through nutrition of the same incurable colon disease I had to do nutrition (whole food, raw salads, raw juices. etc.). He said the bleeding would stop in 13 weeks and my colon would repair itself. Well, all the praise to God Himself, in 13 weeks the bleeding stopped and today I am well, eating stuff like chili, pasta with tomato sauce, pizza, all vegan of course. I don't eat some of the foods I used to eat and I have cut down my stress. When you play with fire and get burnt, you don't go back for more. Any way, why was the big medical assoc. wrong? Or was it they just needed the money?

     A lady came to me about four and a half years ago and told me she had asthma for the last 10 years. She asked me what she should do. Being a totally unlearned painter, I told her it seems to me you're lacking oxygen. Start eating foods with oxygen in them like raw foods, raw juices, H2Oxygen and plenty of it. Walk and do breathing exercises. She did this and the asthma was cleared up in 8 weeks.

     My Mother once told me, "Mark, if everyone else was jumping off the bridge, would you do it too?" I have to admit that there have been many times in my life when it seemed comfortable to follow the masses. It seemed comfortable to do what I was told to do just because it was the status quo.

     I am not a rebel. At least I don't think so. But I am learning to question most things I am told, and don't take it as the gospel truth unless it is.

     When Dorothy's father was dying of melanoma cancer stage 4, many were trying to get him on the Hallelujah Diet that his life might be saved. He said he trusted the doctor. (The doctor told the family there was no hope but he wouldn't tell Dorothy's father). At the same time Dorothy talked to a man in Florida who also had stage 4 melanoma with 6 months to live. He got on the Hallelujah Diet and 7 years later was living a normal life, healed of cancer. He questioned the establishment.

     Please don't get me wrong. I am not saying that all doctors are wrong. There are many good doctors out there, who are honest, compassionate, and have done their homework in investigating healing from all sides. Not just drugs and that’s it.

     I believe we need to question some things and take charge of our own lives. My Grandfather once told me I had a head like a stone. He was right at the time. I was pushed around like a tin can on the ground amidst a bunch of kids. I wouldn't think for myself. I'm a late learner, but I have learned to actually ask God if He is really God. I've questioned the medical establishment if they were really the answer for me. I have wondered if the food industry really has my well being as their top priority, or could it just possibly be profits.

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