Hello everyone and welcome to Wisdom of the Ages podcast show where we invite the sacred into modern day reality. So, let me tell you why you’re going to be excited about this episode. Have you ever wanted to meet a true priestess? I know I have. So, my guest today is a Holistic Nutrition Counselor and true medicine woman for the body, mind, and spirit. So, I would like to introduce Marcela Benson. This amazing woman has studied holistic nutrition with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Vedic science, Chinese tonic herbalism, Amazonian herbalism, healing with gems and vegan and raw food nutrition with some of the top institutes in the world. She’s also an Essene Priestess. She’s written a new book called Love, Peace and Vegetables, which will be published by Infinite Light Publishing and I’m super excited about this book. So welcome, Marcela.
Hi. Thank you for having me.
I’m so glad you’re here to share your wisdom with us. So, let’s just jump in. I’m going to throw a question to you that I think is really important right now. In your book, which I was able to read and I absolutely love it, it’s just stunning, the images, the poetry, it’s a work of art, it’s an incredible gift to humanity, but you connect Mother Earth with environmental consciousness. Can you tell us more about that?
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. I think it is time that we all start considering our personal lives, also the impact of our personal life, the impact of our collective life and the environment. So definitely in the book I talk about the environmental consciousness because everything you do for yourself, you’re doing for the environment. So for example, if you are not using chemicals in your house, basically you’re saving the environment from harmful chemicals. As we look at our lives this way, everything that we do for ourselves, when we feel healthy, when we feel vibrant, we do meet these and we do project this into the world and the world gets to be a better world for others. So that’s-
That’s beautiful. That’s absolutely beautiful. But I do have a question for you because lots of people are interested in nutrition. There are all kinds of nutritionists. I know you’re a nutrition counselor, but you’re a holistic spiritual nutrition counselor. So how is that different from the standard diet in the West?
Yes. I know that spiritual nutrition counselor, it’s a very, very, very, something almost not heard. Because I was trained with Dr. Gabriel Cousens as a Spiritual Nutritional Counselor, definitely as a stand in the world for understanding that peace is our birthright. And just the diet alone for me never caught it. I just never understood why, okay, if I’m thin, if I’m beautiful and if I eat whatever diet they tell you that should be best for the human being, everything should be happy and dandy. And for me, it just felt so fake always. So I went my whole life in a quest on the understanding is where has this fracture as from who we really are? So, in my practice, spiritual nutrition, as a spiritual nutrition counselor, I teach people how to come back into oneness and how the food we eat in our daily lives is not separate.
So, would you say this is more of a vegan, vegetarian lifestyle?
Yes. Yes.
And why? Yeah. Why would that be? Why would you-
Yeah.
Why vegan? Why vegan? There are all these different diets. There’s the Paleo diet, everybody has a different take on it. It can drive you crazy listening to all these people and why you should do this, that or the other. But why vegan?
Well, I teach a vegan nutrition because it’s definitely the highest vibration and nutritionally today we live in such a phenomenal time with all the movies and the documentaries, the game changers that we, the doctors, are now showing how the vegan nutrition is really the biggest upgrade you can do for your life and environment, which is phenomenal. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 15 years old because for me it’s always been a quest of spirit and not necessarily when you come to my practice, I said, you must do a vegan diet, but I don’t give anything else than that. To come around it in a holistic matter, you must connect your heart back into what’s going on. What’s going on in your life is not separate from the murdering that is happening with this regard of the environment in the world.
Which is everywhere, everywhere right now.
Exactly.
I mean it’s a global crisis and I think everybody wants to know, how do we deal with this global crisis without just putting a pillow over our heads? How do we actually show up right now today and go, how do I establish love? How do I establish peace? How do I show up in a way that I can really love and be proud of on this planet? How do we do this?
Put your focus on love. Put your focus on peace. Put your everyday life, center it in love. How do you center your life in love? Your life is centered around food, is centered around the people that you love. And by moving some things around, you can center your whole life in love and the vegan nutrition, the spiritual nutrition, it is a way of centering your life in love.
Would you say that there’s a shift from, gosh we’ve been in a culture of death for a long time and maybe the vegan, the vegan philosophy is more is more centered on life would you say?
Absolutely. Centered on life and centered on kindness. Everybody wants a kind world, but if we are sitting… One of the things that I say in my book, if we’re sitting in a table of horror, how are we going to… It’s a bit like this bipolar thing. We want kindness, we want love, we want a beautiful world, we want a natural world. So where do we start? We start with our own lives and this is what I propose is simple, and is difficult at that, loving yourself.
I actually had the honor and privilege of doing a cleansing program and I have to say that I was completely transformed by it and just really want to thank you for how that absolutely changed my body mind. So, I want to invite you to share how people might do a cleansing program with you also.
Yes, yes. Well, there is separate cleansings you can do. I don’t want people to go into an obsessive detox, obsessive detox thing. Yes, it is good to cleanse. It’s good to juice fast then it all depends where you are in your life. It all depends the state of your health, but there is one thing that I offer which is fantastic and it’s free. It’s a three-day cleansing food plan. In this three-day cleansing food plan, I offer a lot of wisdom in a very simple manner. The first day you eat without oils, the second day you add the oils and the third day you’re back on track eating a nice delicious vegan nutrition. So that’s one of the ways you can do. Another way is you just you have to reach out to me and see what I do, but everything else is basically private practice of Holistic Nutrition.
How would they find you? Do you have a website?
Yes. Yes, marcela.org
That’s beautiful. So, we’ve been talking with Marcela Benson and when we come back from this short break, we’re going to talk more about Love, Peace, and Vegetables. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.
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