Chapter 1

SHIFT WITH THE NEW MOON

Most of us are sensing an uneasiness, as though something big is about to take place. Apocalyptic rumors are preoccupying people’s minds on seemingly every continent. Some are calling the times we’re living in the Great Awakening, others are calling it the shift of the ages, while some are calling it the end of the world; but whatever it is, an event of biblical proportion is unfolding before our very eyes. A spiritual slumber that has lasted for millennia is coming to an end. A new world is about to be born.

To prepare ourselves for whatever this shift is, it is imperative to understand how to become immune to almost everything; everything from the fear-driven contagious “bugs” in the air to the fear-driven contagious “thoughts” circling our globe.

The revelation I received one full moon night was this:

You must understand that your immune system is completely connected to the cycles of the moon. Im-mune means, I’m-moon. Like planet Earth, your physical body is made up of mostly water. Water ebbs and flows according to the waxing and waning of the moon, as does your immune system. For 21 days your immune system waxes (goes up) and for 7 days it wanes (goes down). It’s during the seven-day new moon waning phase that the viscosity of the blood thins, which allows the highest thoughts of who and what you are to crossover into the Promised Land of your heart. Fasting on an array of colorful plant foods, along with the lost art of forgiveness and prayer, for seven days during the new moon phase— three days before the new moon, the day of the new moon, and three days after the new moon—is the key to the freedom you seek. The veil between heaven and earth is lifting. The time has come to prepare your physical body for the shift of the ages—the shift from physical consciousness to spiritual consciousness!

After receiving this earth-shattering revelation, my conscious aware- ness shifted forever. I began to study the lost art of fasting, forgiveness and prayer like never before. Over the next decade, I traveled the world in search of hidden answers. The more I searched, the more I realized how powerful fasting truly is.

Throughout the ages, fasting has been used as a way to cleanse the body of toxic wastes and the mind of toxic beliefs and false perceptions that stand in the way between a seeker and the Divine. Ancient physicians and spiritual prophets from every walk of life were known to have fasted as long as 40 days and 40 nights in search of their connection with the Divine.

What these devout seekers discovered is that when their appetites shifted from physical food to spiritual food, the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds lifted, which opened the doorway to the Divine. Thus, as they communed at the table of the “Most High,” they were fed “hidden manna;” a bread they had previously not known of, for it was a food that nourished them to such a degree that their once insatiable appetites would come to an end. Their only hunger now was to “eat the bread of God!” 

Ancient Greek physicians, from Asclepius (8th century BCE) to Hippocrates (460–375 BCE), prescribed fasting as a way to heal the physically, mentally and emotionally sick. Devout seekers would pray and set a strong intention for the complete healing of the body and mind. They were then put into a dreamstate for days without food or water, only to awaken cured of diseases that the medical establishment of our times would have deemed incurable. It was in this type of deep, hypnotic dreamstate that their subconscious minds would be cleansed of any and all preconceived ideas or false programming that had veiled their oneness with the Divine; the veil that had covered the doorway into the secret place of the “Most High” where only the miraculous can occur.

Ancient prophets, from Moses (c. 1400 BCE) to Daniel (620-538 BCE), also fasted as a way to connect with God. It has been said that Moses fasted for forty days and forty nights before he was able to come face-to- face with the great I AM THAT I AM on Mount Sinai. Daniel used a form of fasting that simply eliminated rich foods, such as fat and meat. The only foods Daniel ate were an array of colorful plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds—foods he called pulse—uncooked foods satiated with a living, pulsating life force. In essence, Daniel “feasted while he fasted!” Because Daniel’s diet was so clean and satiated with this living life force, the veil that had once blocked the world of Spirit within him must have become so thin that he was now able to interrupt dreams and see visions of an end-time event to come.

And then, there was Jesus. The Bible records only one specific time that Jesus fasted during his walk on Earth. Just after his baptism, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness where He fasted for forty days and forty nights to be tempted by ‘the evil one.’ The tempter approached Jesus when He was at his weakest point, and said, “if you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered, “it is written that Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.”

Determined to glean a deeper understanding of the miraculous power of fasting, I traveled to the island of Kos in Greece to walk amongst the ancient ruins of some of the most revered healing sanctuaries in the world. The day after I arrived, I walked down to the ancient Tree of Hippocrates in the wee-early morning hours (even though it was a fenced-off no-no!) desiring to touch my Spirit with his. And that, I did. Moments later, I literally felt a visceral hunger growing stronger and stronger within me to better understand how to use “food as medicine.” 

A few hours later, I was introduced to a local botanist who had studied Hippocrates’s creeds and codes like no one else on the island. We walked together through the grounds where the hospital of Hippocrates once stood. Hippocrates‘s Spirit was still very much alive; you could even feel it around the various fruit trees and herb gardens that surrounded the hospital ruins. These medicinal plants were growing everywhere on this holy, healing ground I walked upon. 

As we walked, he expounded upon the fact that the physicians of Hippocrates’s time were unlike the physicians of our time. Hippocrates’s physicians were taught to simply assist the sick by teaching them how to heal themselves with fasting on an array of colorful plant foods and and the use of therapeutic remedies such herbs, sunlight, water, air, exercise, and treatments such as hot and cold baths and massage. The physician would simply stand by and observe as nature did its innate job… to heal the body and mind from the inside out.

What really fascinated me was that Hippocrates discovered that nature produced its own plant inoculators—BERRIES—and if we would eat enough of them during their growing season, they would inoculate us against almost every virus or flu bug known. In essence, Hippocrates believed in the power of using “food as medicine” to not only heal the body once sick, but to shield it against any possible outside influence. 

The last words the botanist left me with was… 

“Always remember what Hippocrates taught…
Drugs harm; as they always produce a negative side effect. Nature heals; as it always offers a cure. Natural immunity is the key to a long, healthy life. But you must work with nature, and not against it!” 

From there, I traveled to the Greek island of Patmos where Saint John had been given the book of Revelation in the Cave of the Apocalypse by the Holy Spirit around AD 81-96. It was during my initial six- month stay on Patmos that I began fasting on an array of colorful plant foods for seven days during the new moon phase every month. While I was still there, like the prophet Daniel, I also “feasted while I fasted” for forty days and forty nights on a small amount of colorful, freshly- prepared organic fruit and vegetable juices. It was a complete cleansing, life changing experience! 

As I was exploring the Cave of the Apocalypse early one morning, an Orthodox priest came up to me and told me that, in Greek, the word apocalypse doesn’t mean “the complete and final destruction of the world,” as most have been taught, but rather “to lift the veil; to uncover; to reveal that which has been hidden.” And the word sin in Greek doesn’t mean “to commit an immoral act,” but rather to forget. 

It’s when we forget who and what we truly are—divine beings made in the image and likeness of our Creator—that we “miss the mark” (sin) and wander around in the wilderness of life until the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds within us lifts—the time when our souls are finally free—the time when our true self has been fully realized! 

We are waking up from a very deep, hypnotic sleep!

The shift of the ages has begun. The time to LIFT THE VEIL is now. The 7-Day New Moon Transformational Fast is how!