After reading the introduction and some of the preceding pages it would be easy to assume that the author had an easy life right from the start and never had to contend with life's adversities as do we mere mortals. To contemplate the complexities of life and assemble the various theories of why and how seems to be the forte of monks in monasteries and not something that the average citizen gets involved with.

I'm sure a picture of the author springs to mind of someone with flowing robes and clacking sandals busily trying to guide others away from their erroneous ways of living.

Nothing could be further from the truth - hang onto your seat while we quickly skip through a couple of lifetimes rolled into one.

BORN 12pm (Midnight) ON THE 22nd AUGUST 1934

Until 1939 I was brought up on cereal, milk, sugar, cream, butter, bread and jam, I ended up with a small rigid bladder with no nerve sensitivity and consequently suffered from bed wetting until I was almost fifteen years of age. (refer "killer combinations" in diet section)

• Went to boarding school from 1939 until 1948 and was fed the worst diet imaginable. At that point in time I had a bladder capacity of less than 2 fl. ounces (Normal is 6 to 10.)
• 1947. At 13 years of age had appendix removed.
• 1948. Enjoyed a rapid increase of bladder capacity - then going to a school in a fruit growing area and having the opportunity to eat as much as fruit as I wished.
• 1949 At 15 years had bad dose of poisoning from eating figs that, unknown to author, had been sprayed with arsenic that morning.
• 1950 At 16 years of age had septums in nose operated on and I think the polyps in the nose were removed.
• 1951 At 17 years of age I had the rest of my teeth removed and replaced with false teeth, all this the result of a bad diet from birth.
• 1951 Also had to wear glasses.
• 1952 At 18 years of age had an horrific car smash when a milk truck ran a red light at 5am and rammed into the passenger rear side of my TC MG sports car, the car flying into a building with me under it. Survived numerous face, head, neck and spinal injuries
• !950 to 1954 working in the electronic industry I was subjected to carbontetrachloride fumes, inhaling them for 6 to 8 hours a day for most of the time. This almost destroyed my right kidney and did extensive damage to the nervous system on the same side. Fortunately, I moved away from that section of the industry in 1954, however, my fellow workers all died of leukemia by 1960 from this poison.

Around 1953-54 when I was in the electronic industry, I developed an interest in nutrition, ecology, comparative religion and language both from an eastern and western perspective. The eastern side by an Indian artist and on the western side by an ex engineer from Peugot cars in France.

All my spare time was devoted to researching, experimenting, testing, evaluating and monitoring of my bodily characteristics as they reacted to various diets. For almost eighteen months I experimented with diet. In the first trial I cut out all confectionery, all refined and processed foods, and avoiding eating complex carbohydrates with meat or eggs. I did this for a couple of months. Followed this up with a couple of months on a vegetarian diet, eating mainly fruit, salads and steamed vegetables plus a little cottage cheese and yoghurt at times. All the time noticing improving body statistics. Proceeded for another few months on a completely raw diet, followed by more improvements in body statistics.

Even at this early stage I knew enough about comparative anatomy and physiology to see it was obvious that mankind was exclusively a fruit and nut eater but as well may have eaten honey straight out of the comb when it was available. I then proceeded to live exclusively on a fruit diet. Always buying fruit grown by farmers using organic methods in and around where I lived, making certain I only purchased ripe, sweet fruit.

At the time I felt as though I was jumping out of my skin, feeling vital and alive, needing very little sleep, unlimited energy and never tired. However, more importantly I began to have an inner serenity. For the first time in life I arrived at a complete acceptance of myself, knowing for sure that I was OK. By that I mean I did not need praise or recognition from anyone else to know where I was coming from. The integrity was even more important than life. That physical health/wellbeing depended on integrity to one’s body, both the physical and the mental side. Of course many queries arose out of my experience living on such a diet for the best part of nine months, the two major questions at the time were:

All the meaning of the body statistics living on a fruitarian diet only became fully apparent 7 years later when I returned to a fruitarian diet and continued with my research. However this time, to begin with anyway, I was doing it out of necessity.

From the mid 1950s my business life necessitated me socializing extensively and a fruitarian diet was very difficult to follow.

From about 1956 and for the next couple of years I continued to live on a conventional diet. At first taking care to not mix complex carbohydrates with red meats and avoiding confectionery as much as possible. After getting married in 1958 to my school sweetheart, I proceeded to ignore all my experience and indulge in all that tempted me at any given time.

Since the mid 50s to the middle 60s I devoted part of time exploring how mankind can go about developing a new social and economic rationale that recognized the importance of living within the limits of the earth’s resources and ecological constraints. From 1968, I devoted all of my time exclusively to acquiring the additional knowledge, which I am now attempting in a haphazard way to share with you. I travelled extensively around the world and spent time with some of the greatest minds on this planet. When not able to meet them, studied their written offerings to mankind. I have been blessed with the time and where-with-all to acquire this knowledge. This knowledge covers the full gambit one needs for the salvation of this civilization, and probably more important the fulfilment of one’s being.

At the end of 1964 as a Director and Chairman of various companies I founded, I started to suffer a serious decline in health as a result of living the so-called good life. Annually I had to have a comprehensive medical check-up by a physician specialist (internationally renowned) for the loss-of-profits policies these companies had covering me in the event I could not fulfil my duties. When I went to him for the check-up at the beginning of 1965 he informed me that he would no longer be able to clear me for these policies the following year and I had better make some changes to my life-style.

BEGINNING 1965

First I went on a strict fruit diet for a couple of months. Followed by a further couple of months on a vegetarian diet. For the rest of the year I ate mainly fruit, some times with a little yoghurt, otherwise salads or steamed vegetables with cottage cheese and very occasionally a whole meal roll with the salads.

The following year after the check-up he advised me to continue with whatever it was I was doing because there was a dramatic improvement in my health.

It was then that I decided to revert to a fruitarian diet exclusively.

I had already come to the following realizations.

Sun/tree ripened papaya is what I lived on almost exclusively until the next check-up (and for most of the time over the next 20 years.)

END OF 1966

By now my eyesight had improved to where I no longer needed to wear glasses. When I went for the next check-up with the specialist he could not believe his findings. He put me through the full gambit of checks-ups not once but some of them two and three times, all taking place during and in between attending to other patients. When he had exhausted every way he could to substantiate his findings his response was and I quote:

MY RESPONSE WAS:

REALIZATIONS AT END OF 1966

I found that I had stopped dreaming and then almost never slept. Almost as though I was in a twilight zone, neither awake nor really asleep. Most of the day was spent in an Alpha-theta brain wave state. Very alert and with unlimited energy.

Another realization that came to me at that time: I felt that the most important word in the English language was the word ACCEPTANCE. Acceptance of what IS left me free to just BE. Sir Francis Bacon, the SHAKER OF THE SPEAR expressed the only question in life "IS TO BE OR NOT TO BE". In a state of total acceptance the brain wave pattern changes from beta to alpha theta level. Only returning to Beta as and when an unusual situation arose. At the same time there is a decrease in pulse rate. My pulse rate increased in direct proportion to the depth of my judgement/mental stress. The variation in pulse rates increased as your static/inactive pulse rate lowers. The greater the differential the greater the vital capacity. In the state of acceptance of what IS I experienced a deep sense of caring for all mankind and for that matter all living things. Hate could not exist. It was then that I made up my mind to work towards devoting my life to the objectives which I am now writing about.

My only purpose now is to stir the minds to make mankind think a little about other possibilities. I am not advocating you accept, agree or disagree with what I write. Some higher authority will tell or guide you what to do with these insights. It must come from inside you, a burning desire, a choice and not be done with will power, that’s manipulative. It needs to be want power, then the yoke is light.

Since 1968, at the age of 34 years, when I disposed of the many companies that I founded, I directed my energies exclusively to researching the possibility of mankind developing a livable and sustainable society.

At the end of 1968 I purchased a farm which became The Ben Adam Center. The main objective of the center was to establish the possibility of mankind creating a sustainable environment (Garden of Eden) that would provide all its necessary needs and bring to an end the need for agriculture which was increasingly turning the planet into a dust bowl.

It was too obvious even in 1970 that agriculture was unsustainable. The process of feeding a proliferating population and mass urbanism were the main causes of the devastating environmental degradation of the planet.

Since 1974 I have travelled extensively around the world having discussions with many socio-political leaders, attended hundreds of workshops, seminars and conferences and lived and worked in many societies gaining first hand experience.

I hereby express my gratitude to all those who have contributed to the formulation of this site by way of their writings or discussion. Many of the insights synthesized into the chapters herein have come from a wide variety of viewpoints.

1969 to 2001 Suffered extensively at various times from the following poisons - carbonic acid gases, cadmium, lead and another deadly poison which I cannot remember the name. Received extensive damage to lungs from slashing dry grass, spreading basalt dust and working without a mask in other dusty and polluting conditions.

1974 Fell out of an avocado tree upside down from twelve feet – further damage to neck, right shoulder and spine.

In 1977 I was invited to be the final speaker on the first world conference on Energy and Man. This occurred as a result of a conversation between the co-chairmen of the conference and myself which had taken place some months prior while on a lecture and research tour of Canada and the U.S.A.

That was last International Conference I ever attended as I had come to the conclusion that they were no different to a circus. It was a case of clowns training more clowns. In not one of Conferences I had attended over the previous 10 years did any one have any real idea of mankind’s essential physical needs or how to meet them.

The lack of this knowledge in the world of mankind and its relationship to the environment seems no different even now to what it was in 1960. If anything there is more confusion now than at any time in the past. We can no longer afford the muddling through approach of present society. Only an individual with and integrated knowledge of mankind, environment and ecology can offer any sound/realistic/lasting solution to mankind’s present predicament. All I hear is more and more iffy proposals, some scientific, but by and large all piece meal. Most of the time no one is sure whether the scientific discoveries are valid or have any long term value.

I need at this stage share an analogy with you. It is one I have used from time to time over the last 35 years.

IMAGINE a box that contained a million jigsaw puzzles each having a million pieces and each of these trillion pieces represented one item of information from the past. Now only one of these jigsaw puzzles will give you the integrated picture of how mankind and the environment function and relate. The chances are remote even finding two pieces to match up let alone knowing that when you started you had begun with the one jigsaw puzzle that would enlighten us and provide us with the solution to mankind’s present predicament and the way forward. Stated briefly, I know I am probably one the few beings alive that knows which of those jigsaw puzzles would provide us with the answers. That is not to say I have all the answers but I know the main parameters, the corner stones, the major determinants of a livable and sustainable future. As nutrition is the only essential need for mankind’s survival, it therefor would be the first determinant.

I have been the final or only speaker at the Annual General Meetings of Local organisations on health or specific agricultural crops. I gave the last major talk in 1988 at the Annual General meeting of one type of food crop and this resulted in me becoming a consultant to the leading International grower.

2001 Involved in major car accident with further damage to head, neck and spine.

2003 still around and still sharing the same stories on life which I began to do publicly in 1968. ALSO STILL USING MY BODY IN VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS AND THEN LOOKING AT WAYS TO CORRECT THE DAMAGE. Mainly because I am bored out of my mind and very frustrated for I am not permitted by the establishment to go out into the public arena and spread the truths about the subjects I am beginning to put together on this site.

2009 and still going strong - well, maybe slightly less of the strong but definitely plenty of going.