8-06-08

hey there i'm in minneapolis today to start tour with matt pryor.  it's been way over a year since i played solo.  i'm excited for the intimacy.  i've been getting lots of emails about song requests for the shows.  thank you, that makes it easier for me to choose which songs to play out of the hundred plus in our catalogue, and i'm sure it's fun for you guys too. 

when i woke up i took three deep breaths and walked down stairs and out over the highway to the gas station to buy a bottle of water.  walking back, i noticed how thick and slimy the air was over the highway from all the carbon dioxide.  it was interesting, i was just reading in a book called "the complete guide to chi-gung" that the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere makes it harder for our bodies to get enough oxygen, which in turn makes each organ work harder and exhausts the heart.  the author, daniel ried, was suggesting that when our bodies are not properly oxygenated, they get sick and irritable.  actually, he mentions an interesting discovery made in 1931 by Dr. Otto Warburg.  Dr. Warburg received the Nobel Prize in medicine that year for his discovery that "the primary condition associated with all forms of cancer is severe deprivation of oxygen to the cells of the affected tissues, and that cancer cannot occur in tissues that are sufficiently oxygenated."  pretty interesting, no? 

it's odd that a discovery like this is relatively ignored by western medicine.  have you ever had a doctor ask you about breathing patterns?  (although i suppose that would be pretty bad business for the big drug companies if everyone realized they could stay healthy by eating well and breathing consciously, instead of taking fifteen different pills.)  but essentially, the rise of cancer can be directly linked to the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  there's hardly any clean oxygen anymore, although taking conscious deep breaths will help pump whatever fresh oxygen is there throughout the blood system, and will alleviate exhaustion.

my theory is that our bodies get bogged down by shitty food and pollution in the air we breathe, and when our bodies are run down, we get irritable and depressed and angry and then we break down and feel like we can't do a single thing and then self-loathing kicks in.  in reality, we're just unhealthy.  so much of our mental pollution is caused by environmental and nutritional pollution.  and on that note, if anybody coming to the shows with matt would like to prepare a vegetarian or vegan meal to bring to me at the show, i will gladly sit down and enjoy it with you and we can talk about life and the world.  let's get together and hang!  fun times shall ensue!  love you!

chris

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