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@Cocolove Wow that is ingenious! I played with that idea in my head that it is very likely that such communities exist, but I never did the research on this part. I´ll definitely put that on my research to do list (as if it wasn´t crowded enough hahah). Now that I´m seeing this I think I´ll definitly try out some of these communities in the future maybe 3-4 years down the road, since at one point I´d love to see the world. I have such inner sense for a while now, but for now I can´t do it due to my studies in university. I´m very grateful for this if you still have some more golden nuggets. I´m here I don´t mind a second Christmas Eve haha

@Cocolove Prepare yourself for being totally mindfucked several times, if you decide to go down this rabbit hole. Your perspecitve on health, living and diseases will change completely. Her is e a little teaser: But be careful not to become too idealistic, it will harm you greatly, because I fell in that trap myself. The raw vegan diet is in my opinion the superior diet of all but in order to fully commit to a raw vegan diet you need to have the infrastructure to do it. You need systems in place that provide you with very nutritious food. For this you need either a high income to buy high quality food or you need to grow it yourself in a garden or in your home with microgreens, otherwise you will fail definitely. I tried to force this step without the proper logistics and eventually hit a brick wall, where I was draining my body because I didn´t have high quality food, not the appropriate tools and insufficient knowledge. For now I went back to cooking my food and eating raw eggs for my protein demand, but I´m still eating a great portion raw. The difference now is that I´m intelligently maneuvering through this process, instead of forcing my way through. I go periodically out of my comfort zone to deliberately search for walls, so I can strategize how to systematically set up the logistics that I need to overcome this wall and by that I´m able to step my way up to a cleaner diet. It is important to seek out people who failed at a vegan & raw vegan diet, so you can destill the principles that these people ignored. It is crucial to know the traps along the way in order to avoid them. The core principle here is: Good Better Best This principle should be your guide through this process. Here´s a little example: I´m currently eating whole grains like buckwheat on a daily basis . It is way better than eating Junk food but eating mostly raw is still much better. But just because I´m not able to reach the ideal diet that I´m picturing in my mind, I´m not dropping all my progress and my good eating habits to start eating junk food once again, just because I cannot reach the ideal anyway. This seems very obvious but cleaning up your diet is a very emotional process, especially if you´re fighting a disease. If you become very emotionally invested, you become idealistic as well. And then it is easy to think that dropping everything just because you can´t reach the ideal at the moment, becomes a very reasonable train of thought to you. I hope I didn´t scare you too much haha I just want to point out the traps that I didn´t see coming. Happy research

"Do all vegans have deficiencies?" --> Definitely because almost everybody has nutrient deficiencies due to the changes of the natural environment and ecosystems. We altered forests, meadows and fields and with that we altered the systems that cycle nutrients, ultimately this alteration led to a shift in the availibilty of nutrients for plants. And if plants have nutrient deficiencis all subjects in the food chain above will aswell. Today it is almost impossible to gain the full spectrum of nutrients that you need if you do not supplement. Also consider that you have basically 2 nutritional needs: The first need is based on the perspective "What nutrients do you need if the human body is in ideal shape and in the ideal environment." So in other words what would your body need if you are not injured, if all your organs work on maximum efficiency, if you are relaxed all the time, if you work out regularly, if air pollution doesn´t exist and so on. The second need precisley deals with the problem if your body doesn´t have the ideal conditions to thrive due to mental, physical or environmental issues. This concept is extremely crucial for proper nutrition. Let´s assume somebody has thyriod problems, it is intuitively obvious that this man needs different ratios of certain nutrients than somebody with severe liver issues. It becomes less obvious and is therefore often overlooked if you compare the different growing location of the same food types. Let´s say you want to go vegan because you have seen people in asia do it and they are very healthy and energetic, so you follow their exact same diet plan, but instead of feeling healthy and energetic you feel exhausted and ill. This is easily explained if you know that the nutrients of the soil in your location and in the location of your role models can greatly differ, this doesn´t necessarily mean that this diet is bad, it just means that you have to add certain nutrients in your diet due to these differences in the soil quality. In a nutshell the first need discribes your fundamental requirements of nutrients and the second describes that different scenarios put different variations of nutrients on top of the fundamental requirements. Here are some great resources if you want to research this topic further. Even so they focus on a raw vegan diet the concepts and problems still apply to a standard vegan diet if not more. Don Bennett is a great resource and perspective on nutrition in general. His articles on his website give you a detailed and well researched view on several important nutrients as well as vegan issues in general. Heal Yourself 101 by Markus Rothkanz http://files.zelenepotraviny1.webnode.cz/200000358-5ad865cccc/HealYourself.pdf Also in my personal experiences it is almost a necessity to have a juicer for greens, otherwise you will definitely run into nutritional deficiencies. With a juicer it becomes fairly easy to drink the juice from 3-4 kg of vegetables, which would be a problem if you had to eat 3-4 kg of vegetables every day to make sure you get enough of rare nutrients. The Green Star Elite GSE-5000 Juicer is the one that I´ve been using for the last 2 to 3 years and it works really well.

Yeah, Naruto was also one of my biggest influences in my childhood and It made a huge, a really significant impact in my life, since it´s very easy for me to see myself watching destructive mainstream media like spongebob, family guy, southpark and so on. Well I did watch a lot of these garbage series in my childhood but Naruto counteracted these and in the meantime showing me a better and more loving alternative. So Naruto made a big impact in my life. @onacloudynight I would suggest to you that you create a huge interdisciplinary library of all animes, cartoons, short filmes, movies, books & real life experiences that you find inspirational and touching so you have a huge repertoire of diverse refrences. Once you have set up such a library you want to mix and match and recombine all of these scences to your own original and meaningful pice of work. Here are two great examples of how a novelist and a fine-art artist take a similiar approach to the problem but in their own ways. Maybe you can take something from their train of thouht. Stan Prokopenko & Marshall Vandruff Patrick Rothfuss *in a very low voice* If you haven´t read trilogy "The Kingskiller Chronicles" by Patrick Rothfuss you are missing out on inspiration, very badly, I would recommend you listen to his books on audible. I took so many great ideas from these books that it is astonishing. Just give the first book a try and you will see the magic.

Definitly there are many possibilites in which you can create high consciousness entertainment media. And this is certainly missing in our society. Nevertheless there are a few greate examples: Avatar the Last Airbender is surely one of the top ones. I don´t know whether you have already watched it or not but I link an example video that gives you a good impression of the qualitiy of the series without giving away to much of the story. This was my favourite series in my childhood it just felt that it had depth even from a perspective of a child. I recommend watching it if you are searching for inspiration