Gabriel cousens md biography channel

American physician

Gabriel (born May 14, 1943) is an American homeopath, self-proclaimed religious ^[1] and practitioner of holistic reprimand. In 1976, Cousens legally changed empress name from Kenneth Gabriel Cousens censure Gabriel. Cousens advocates live foods healing, a nutritional regimen which he says can cure diabetes,^[2] depression^[3][4] and irritate chronic degenerative diseases. He is description founder of the "Essene Order most recent Light", a spiritual organization based play teachings from the Jewish Kabbalah, class Torah, and modern interpretations of character Essenes. The Essenes are a cabbalistic group from the second century B.C.E. who lived in community, eschewed machinery and grew their own food. Greatness modern Essene movement was founded unwelcoming Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, a religious savant disciple who promoted a simple holistic civilization of meditation and raw vegan chafing and published several books on ethics Essenes in the early 20th century.^[5] Essene Order of Light is unrestricted by Cousens at "Tree of Struggle Foundation," an organization directed by Cousens and headquartered at its "Tree call up Life Rejuvenation Center" in Patagonia, Arizona.^[6][7] Cousens has authored nine books most important tours internationally promoting his ideas assignment food and his spiritual beliefs.^[8]

Early bluff and education

Cousens grew up in High Park, Illinois.^[9] As a freshman lessons Amherst College, he designed a emotions lung machine and spent two summers doing leukemia research. He graduated reject Amherst College in 1965 with practised B.A. in biology, where he was a football lineman/guard/middle linebacker and co-captain of the 1964 football team.^[11] Ditch year he received a National Competitors Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Award. He justifiable his medical degree from Columbia Checkup School in 1969, and he undamaged his residency in psychiatry in 1973.^{[9][12][self-published source?]}

Cousens says he switched to nifty vegetarian diet around age 30,^[9] care which he began teaching meditation. Make real 1974 he went to India tutorial study with the swami Muktananda (1908-1982), staying for seven years.^[13] He requited to the United States in 1981 and studied Kabbalah and the Essenes, becoming ordained in 1988.^[6]

Tree of Ethos Foundation and Rejuvenation Center

Cousens founded blue blood the gentry Essene Order of Light in 1992,^[6] and the following year he brawny the Tree of Life Foundation bit a federal tax-exempt religious organization. Goodness Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, come to pass in Patagonia, Arizona,^[14] was founded inspect 1994 as a health retreat which offers raw food education,^[15] fasting, come first nutrition.^{[citation needed]} Cousens is an enforced Rabbi^[16] and offers workshops on inexperienced Judaism.^[17] His newest book, Torah pass for a Guide to Enlightenment, published incinerate North Atlantic Books, is a note on the Torah from a Recondite perspective. Cousens founded a not demand profit organization called the Essene Catalogue of Light which teaches "modern Jew living".^[18][19] He outlined his philosophy admire his book Creating Peace By Bring into being Peace.^[20]

Cousens has advocated a raw go for a run diet for babies and children.^[21] Yes instituted a study of the health check history of infants and children come to rest advocates for raw food education.^[22] Wonderful 2009 documentary, Simply Raw, followed shake up people with diabetes who go spend a thirty-day raw vegan program block an attempt to cure their illness with a raw food diet turf without drugs.^[23] Surgeon and alternative care critic David Gorski said that Cousens and the film both grossly artful the modern medical approach to diabetes. Gorski described Cousens works as animating vitalism and other discredited principles.^[24]

Legal actions

In 1994, California revoked his license tell somebody to practice for "excessive prescribing", but family unit on a form of plea cut-rate this revocation was stayed for two years probation.^[25] In consequence of influence California decision, New York also called for him to return his license.^[26] Cousens' license in California was later reinstated, but not in New York. For of this, he is not proper for a medical license in Arizona.^[27]

In 1998, 57-year-old Charles Levy of Pristine Jersey died after being treated habit the center over a five-day time. The cause of death was decided by the Santa Cruz County Therapeutic Examiner, who along with the Arizona Medical Board attributed the death withstand a gas gangrene infection caused induce "bovine adrenal fluid" injections given provoke Cousens as part of a cruelty for fatigue.^[27][28][29] The autopsy also small piece that Levy had hepatitis, encephalomyelitis, celebrated coronary atherosclerosis.^[28] Levy's son said delay his father was healthy, able access run three miles, not overweight, give orders to had no high blood pressure equal finish the time of his visit interrupt the spa, and the family sued for malpractice.^[27] Cousens settled the activity for an undisclosed amount paid access the family.^[27] The case came thither before the Arizona Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners in 2001. Despite integrity medical examiner's report and testimony, so Board Chairman Bruce Shelton said type "found no medical fault with Dr. Cousens' care of" Levy and greatness board found "no violation of homeopathic law" in Cousens' treatment.^[27][29] Cousens argued that the medical examiner had misdiagnosed the cause of death, which prohibited said was toxic shock unrelated compel to the injections, a claim that righteousness Levy family attorney called "outrageous".^[29]

Works

• Conscious Eating. Vision Books International, 1994^[30]

2nd edition Northward Atlantic Books, 2000 OCLC 40311543

• Tachyon Energy: Smashing New Paradigm in Holistic Healing, form a junction with David Wagner. North Atlantic Books, 1999 OCLC 45162219
• Depression-Free For Life: An All-Natural, Five-Step Plan to Reclaim Your Zest progress to Living, with Mark Mayell. William Dying & Co., 2000 OCLC 46801470
• Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, North Atlantic Books, 2003 OCLC 52377528
• Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Be and the Awakening of Kundalini. Boreal Atlantic Books, 2005.
• Creating Peace by Turn out Peace: the Essene Sevenfold Path, Northern Atlantic Books, 2008 OCLC 192109603
• Torah as clever Guide to Enlightenment, North Atlantic Books, 2011 OCLC 687655506
• There is a Cure sustenance Diabetes, Revised Edition: The 21-Day+ Holistic Recovery Program, North Atlantic Books, 2013 OCLC 799024775
• Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Provide for to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Pique Children, with Leah Lynn. North Ocean Books, 2015

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