Posted by Ta'Shia, Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 09:22 AM EDT

Avocado's Raw Food Trial: The Bitter with the Sweet

I loved this trial, and I think it was of the utmost importance in determining who deserved to be the winner of this competition. Some people think that eating raw food is a simple thing, but it is not. To adopt a raw-food diet requires an enormous degree of self-love and honor for the temple of one's body.

It takes hard work to eat a raw-food diet, especially in the very beginning. It takes purification of mind, body and spirit to adapt to a way of eating and living that sustains life instead of destroying it. This is what Avo's final raw-food trial was all about: showing the Guests that they can sustain and nurture their bodies and their lives by eating raw foods.

Jamie and Nichole were steadfast in their determination to ingest the raw food that Avo placed before them, no matter how bad it tasted, no matter how difficult it was to swallow. They ingested the foods of the Gods, the plant forces of the Earth, into their bodies and hearts. This is symbolic of their passing into a realm of consciousness that will lead them to their destinies, if they remain willing to swallow the bitter of life in order to taste the sweet.

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