I've already posted some quotes from Stanley Burroughs' 1941 opus, The Master Cleanser, the treatise in which he devises the Master Cleanse, but I want to do a little more for the curious out there. His writings are definitely essential for anyone who's considering the Master Cleanse: he outlines an entire philosophy on being a physical entity on this planet. It's a cleansing philosophy, a meditation on healthy living as an internal and external lifelong journey, rather than as a diet. He writes of the natural way to live -- on a raw, vegan diet; and of the natural way to heal -- through cleansing the body and allowing it to heal itself, rather than through dependence on antibiotics, drugs, or other "poisons."

He writes of radical dietary consciousness and the possibility of a completely disease-free life; still, the things he writes, today, in the Bay Area, don't stand out as especially remarkable. But to realize he did his writing and investigating in 1941, before any of the modern health-food-store crazes or new age diets were even in embryonic form -- is remarkable and demands our attention.

I don't agree with everything he writes. But to be here, now, on the diet he recommends, taking in his holistic thoughts on health and wellness, I have to say, his words open up the possibility of living in an exceptionally powerful and healthy body.

Read for yourself, let me know what you think. I've posted his entire book (more like a pamphlet) here on theRelaxative:

The Master Cleanser, by Stanley Burroughs, © 1941

And here's a shortcut to the passage that details specifically the regimen of the Master Cleanse itself.

--tony

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