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What's it like to eat a pomegranate? You can see why the pomegranate was taken on long trips in ancient times and also why it is called "Nature's most labour- intensive fruit"! It is hardy, not given to pests or becoming rotten easily, and it's rather difficult to eat quickly... Have the experience for yourself. Buy a full, rich, round fruit and open it up. You'll find a labyrinth of white sacs around the groupings of seeds or arils, densely packed with an enticing deep, rich, scarlet colour. Your mouth will be watering by this time... But the peel is tough, as you must be to break it, and then you need to be delicate as you peel away the whitish membranes which hold the seeds. Then are the arils finally exposed, and you can just go at them, dripping red from the mouth, having made sure you are not wearing anything white, or delicate or easily marked. Yes, it's best to be naked while eating a pomegranate! Eat one witha friend, then have your shower. I guarantee you'll have an experience that conjures up the Arabian nights, sensual pleasures, long langourous stories well into the night... So you see, perhaps you can make this detour into sensuality once a week, but for breakfast on your way to work you might find that you are better served with the juice from a bottle, juice that unknown workers have lovingly extracted from wild- crafted pomegranates plucked from mountain hillsides. It is my strong recommendation that you find such juice, do yourself a favour and drink a lot of it. And eat the fruit on the weekends! oo scientific studies. 7. Lansky, E. P., "Beware of Pomegranates Bearing 40% Ellagic Acid", J. Medicinal Food 9(1):119-122, March 2006, http://www .liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ jmf.2006.9.119 8. Shaffer Fox, W., 100 & Healthy — Living Longer with Phytomedicines from the Republic of Georgia, Woodland Pub., USA, 2004 9. ibid. 10. http://www.pomwonderful.com/ carotid_thickness.html 11. http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/ Nutrition-Vitamins/6-08-24- PomegranateJuice.htm 12. http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/ Health/6-07-01-PomegranateJuice.htm 13. http://www.raysahelian.com/ pomegranate.html 14. Shaffer Fox, op. cit. Endnotes 1. Regardie, Israel, A Garden of Pomegranates, Llewellyn Publications, 1992 (first pub. 1932) 2. Wenig, Gaby, "Pomegranates: The Healthy, Spiritual High Holiday Fruit", 19 September 2003, http://www .jewishjournal.com/home/ searchview.php?id=1 1077 3. McTaggart, Lynne, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, HarperCollins, UK, 2001 4. Scott-Mumby, Keith, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing, Thorsons, 1999 5. Seeram, Navindra P., Risa N. Schulman and David Heber (eds), Pomegranates: Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine, CRC Press, USA, 2006 6. See http://www.pomwonderful.com for a wealth of information about pomegranate About the Author: Tom Storey is the pseudonym for a writer and natural therapist who has been involved in vibrational medicine for over 30 years. He works in Australia and South America, and can be contacted by email at tstorey1@gmail.com. 76 + NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2007 The Pomegranate: Fruit of the Tree of Life www.nexusmagazine.com