Introduction
Hello there. You don’t think that you know me right now but you do. I am that ancient part of you that wonders what lies beyond this earthly world. I am the part of you that thinks this world, this life, is all there is. At the same time, I am that part of you that knows there is so much more than just this life. We are all one and the same.
This is the story of an atheist—a pragmatic economist—accidentally becoming enlightened. I never sought enlightenment, nor believed it to be a possibility; nevertheless, because of the dietary and lifestyle changes I made, enlightenment happened. This is not the story of a near death experience or physical trauma; it is quite the opposite. Not once, but twice I experienced different levels of enlightenment along with daily interactions with the “energy world.” Everything in the world and Universe is energy, vibrating at different speeds. As humans become healthy, we become sensitive and what appears to be the physical world gives way to the Universe’s true energetic nature. Physical boundaries blur and everything swirls together.
For years I suffered from chronic fatigue, asthma, candida overgrowth, eczema, and an inability to lose weight. After creating the Equilibrium Diet, I overcame every disease I ever had; in addition my mind and spirit began to balance too. I reawakened the instincts ancient people had, the instincts many primitive tribes and animals still have, and became a human lie detector. This is quite literally a sixth sense. It is the ability to feel energies outside of our physical bodies—like a storm coming, the toxicity of a plant, or someone’s emotions.
I suppose I should start at the beginning. This story begins in July 2010 in Greenville, South Carolina—the middle of the Bible belt. I had quit my job as an investment banking analyst to pursue my passion—economics. I was finishing up my PhD in economics at Clemson University. In college, I played volleyball and graduated summa cum laude with majors in economics and finance. My husband, Lance, played baseball in college and was a banker. We were two very ordinary Americans; we were overweight, tired, and got sick a lot. We had a dog—Theodore, a twenty-two pound Pomeranian. We ate the “Standard American Diet” of wheat, sugar, processed foods, and alcohol. Lance’s favorite lunch consisted of two Wendy’s bacon-cheeseburgers with just ketchup, French fries and sweet tea. I had his order memorized from countless trips to the Wendy’s drive-thru.
But then it all changed. One day in July, Lance, then twenty-five years old, got sick—really sick—and the doctors he saw could not figure out what was wrong with him. That is when I got frustrated. That is when I started asking questions and really wanting answers. That is when I started doing my own research and began searching for an equilibrium diet.
As an economist, I knew there had to be a way of eating, a way of living, that would provide the body with everything it needed to maintain health. In economic terms, I saw this equilibrium everywhere. I looked at nature and saw plants and animals and even people who never got sick. I knew there had to be a way to replicate this. So I searched and I found. I never found an equilibrium diet in all of the diets on the market because every diet was flawed in some way. But I had an eye for what worked and I had the time to test it.
Slowly, gradually, I took the best subsets of many of the better diets on the market and combined them with scientific knowledge of digestion and my instincts—what I will explain later as vibrational nutrition—to generate the Equilibrium Diet. After ninety days of internal cleansing and dietary changes, I had my first enlightenment experience. I went from an adamant atheist to a confused spiritualist in an instant; my atheistic reality was shattered and I was left looking at the pieces. It took months to process and accept that an energetic door had been opened and my life would be forever changed.
Initially, I did not want to tell anyone about what I had experienced. I was too afraid of what people would say and of what they would think because I knew what I would have thought only months earlier. For years, I lived in a quiet world of isolation thinking that no one could ever accept my secret and the vibrational world I had discovered. I told myself that I was happy, that I was content. But then I learned there would be no peace for me until I accepted the path the Universe had chosen for me, the path that I had chosen for myself long before I forgot my truth in the physical world of fear and ego.
This is the story of relaxing my stubbornness, my rationality, and of giving up the struggle. I finally stopped resisting what I was apparently on earth to do; only then did I calm my inner angst and find peace. In the process, I got out of my own selfish, fearful way and realized that this story wasn’t for me; it was for you. It is a blueprint to share with you so that you can discover your own story, your own true self. It is a blueprint to remembering.
Ultimately, this story of yours is a challenge. It is a challenge to you from you to remember who you really are, to experience and to know. To all people: the religious, the atheist, and the scientist—who are equally faithful to their own set of beliefs—I ask you:
What if you had the chance to prove to yourself, to know, whether or not your current belief system is the truth? Would you embrace that opportunity or would you be too afraid?
Ninety days. Ninety days is all it takes to know. What could you do for ninety days if you knew it meant knowing—if you knew it meant finding your true self? Aren’t you worth it? We both know you are.
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This story unfolds through massive shifts in consciousness. Part 1 begins with the health crisis Lance and I faced and then proceeds to my methodology in creating the Equilibrium Diet. Our health improvements are recorded, including overcoming every health issue either of us had ever had: chronic fatigue, candida overgrowth, eczema, prostatitis, asthma, excess weight and gallbladder disease. I then introduce you to my thought processes and the person I was before our dietary changes and before enlightenment. Then comes the story of the enlightenment experiences and their aftermath, including the realization of my awakened instincts and vibrational nutrition. Part II covers the cleansing program and the Equilibrium Diet. Part II walks you through everything you need to know to recreate the conditions for this experiment and concludes with a template for you to create your own ninety-day equilibrium program.
I hope you are so provoked, so moved, so angry or so fearful of what you read on these pages that you decide to discover the edge of your existence, to remember your truth or to prove me wrong; in either case I dare you to try.