1964. I was 18 years old and my health state was an absolute catastrophe. No wonder: I fed mostly on pastry, chocolate, white bread, dairy, supplements and the various medicine our family MD prescribed me - and I refused to eat meat! Then I read “The dance with the devil” of Günther Schwab. I could hardly believe what this guy wrote, as it was in complete opposition to the prevailing way of thinking at the time which assumed that technology and science would solve all the problems, mankind would dominate the world and be triumphant over nature.
But still the book was very well documented and the author seemed logical. So I decided to experiment his ideas to know whether he was a total fool or a clever unconventional thinker.
At once, I stopped to eat refined industrial food, especially white sugar, white flour, chemical drinks, coffee,
all supplements (digestive enzymes, vitamins, minerals, micro-nutrients) and medication. I started to eat much more raw fruits and vegetables, whole foods and some meat. The result was immediate: in one week I was fine. My former diet was simply causing acute deficiencies and by eating more natural food (in a Weston Price style) I just overcame those deficiencies.
Günther Schwab on WikipediaGünther Schwab (October 7, 1904 in Prague - April 12, 2006 in Salzburg, Austria) was an Austrian writer and author. He founded the World Union for Protection of Life.
After the First World War his family, who were merchants, moved to Vienna, Austria, where Schwab discovered his love for nature. Through Prof. Dr. Guenther Schlesinger, an Austrian Nature Protection Referent, Guenther Schwab got more involved with nature protection. He studied in those years, as expected of the family, at the commercial academy, but due to his love for nature he soon became a forest ranger. His first book Abenteuer am Fluss (adventures at the river) was proof of his love. And so were all his following books Der Wind ueber den Feldern (The wind across the fields), Kamerad mit dem haarigen Gesicht (A story about a dog), Land voller Grande (Land of grace), Das Glueck am Rand (Fortune at the edge).
1951 he gave up his profession, moved to Salzburg and dedicated his life to writing. He realised that the new upcoming 1950s affluent society threatens to destroy all that he loves: The countryside with all its inhabitants, the solitude of the wilderness, the wildlife as he knew it up to then. Guenther Schwab proved to be almost clairvoyant when, at the age of 50, he held a lecture with the title "The catastrophe has started already". This was at the Audi Max in Vienna in 1954. To put his fears more plain and understandably for the man in the street, Guenther Schwab wrote his book Der Tanz mit dem Teufel (The dance with the devil). It reads like a subtle, interesting detective story, which he finished in 1958. His hope was to awaken the people. Strangely enough, although that book was on the market, there were some bookshops, which denied the existence of this book. The book was translated into other languages; the English version was published in 1963.
Guenther Schwab turned 100 years in 2004 when he received the Cup of Honour of the town Salzburg as well as the Austrian Cross of Honour First Class for Science and Art. The appreciation of a man with such dedication and love for nature. He died on 12 April 2006.
Amazingly “The dance with the devil” is available on line, apparently on a religious website even if the book has nothing to do with religion. It just uses “the devil” words as a metaphor; the whole book reads like a kind fiction novel in the form of an interview with the devil in his premises.
Dance With The Devil, by Gunther Schwab – a must read. By the way, isn't there any section here where we can put links to the relevant on-line books and documents?
