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Captain Doug Hines

is a former U.S. Coast

Guard licensed 100-ton

Motor Yacht Captain.

This is one of the boats I skippered. It was used in the Burt Reynolds movie "Stick."

Some of you offshore boaters may remember the Atlantic coast pilot guide I wrote back in 1992. It is entitled The Captain's Coastal Directions: Port to Port Course Plans for Ocean Going Vessels. I hope the book served you well. It is still around - through Amazon, Borders, and various other places. It's also on e-bay. Google it.

So... What's it like to be a motor yacht Captain?

Here's an excerpt from 'What Yacht Captains Really Think of Owners' by Chris Davis in Motorboat & Sailing Nov 1987

The scene is a 130-foot luxury motor yacht moored quietly at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Marina. Time: 2:00 am. The crew has been asleep for hours: The boat's owner, however, is keeping the bar open for a few die-hard guests.

Suddenly, the owner decides he wants to go for a ride. He wakes the Captain, who in turn dutifully awakens the crew, and within half an hour they have cast off and are underway.

The owner wants to head north up the intracoastal waterway. The Captain explains that boats this size can only go one way - south to the basin then straight out to sea. So they head south, but when they reach the basin, the owner decides it's a perfect time for a helicopter ride. The chopper pilot is awakened: He comes to the bridge, but refuses to go up with the owner. He tells his boss: 'You've had too much to drink,' an observation that costs the pilot his job on the spot.

The owner then orders the boat south along the waterway. The Captain protests: 'We draw nine feet. Look at the charts.' The owner says: 'THEN I'LL DRIVE,' which he does. But a few hundred yards or so down the narrowing channel, the owner decides to turn the yacht around. There is not enough room. The boat hits a marker, delivering $15,000 worth of damage to the hull's paint: then backs into the rocks, chewing up the propellers. The owner has one last drink and passes out at the helm.

The next day he wakes up, inspects the damage and fires the entire crew.

A true story (and typical).

Now you know why I'm no longer a yacht Captain. I:)

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Just a little personal info:

Aside from my immediate family and friends, there have been four significant people who have had a major influence on my life.

• The first is Werner Erhard, founder of The EST Training years ago. I had the privilege of serving for a short time on Werner's personal staff, and I came to realize that each of us can make a difference in shaping societal transformation.

• The second person who has impacted my very foundation is Randall Fitzgerald, author of The Hundred-Year Lie - How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health. That book opened my eyes as to how corporate greed dominates our society and how our bodies have become toxic waste dumps. Randall's book inspired me to begin formal nutritional studies.

• The third person who has made a difference to who I am today is John Robbins, whom I quote on my home page. John is author of Diet For A New America, Healthy At 100, and The Food Revolution - How Your Diet Can Help to Save Your Life and Our World. In John's books I found a new way of living my life.

• The fourth, and most recent, major influence on my life has been Dr. Aris La Tham. His work elevates simple eating to a transformational, life-changing act.

There are links to these people below.

People I Admire and Respect:

• my father - Douglas C. Hines

• Werner Erhard

• John Robbins

• Jimmy Buffet

• Howard Bloom

• Stan Deyo

• Nick Begich

• Randall Fitzgerald

• Jim Marrs

• David Icke

• David Wilcock

• Andrew Gauss

• Gerald Celente

• Walid Shoebat

• Catherine Austin Fitts

• Linda Moulton Howe

• Lynne McTaggert

People I Admire and Respect in the Raw Food Community:

• Dr. Aris La Tham -

SunFiredFood.com

• Karen Knowler -

TheRawFoodCoach.com

• Dr. Rick Dina -

RawFoodDoctors.com

• Dr. Jameth Sheridan -

HealthForce.com

I Like:

• Celtic Woman

• Apple Computers
• blueberries
• cats

• movies
• walks - anywhere

• bike riding

• CoastToCoastAM

• The Wizard Of Id

• rural country living
• Mother Earth News
• running backhoes
• motor yachts
• sailing

I'm Interested In:

• nutrition & raw food studies

• solar/wind/thermal/cng power

• self-sufficient homes

• electric vehicles

• dowsing

• maintaining a high level of preparedness for earth/weather changes and possible civil unrest, i.e. stockpiling non-perishables

I Support:

• the abolishment of the IRS

• total and complete tax reform

• international action for lost and missing people, especially children

• exposing corporate and governmental corruption

• caring for life on our planet, i.e. environmental issues

• bringing back the use of industrial hemp in this country

I'm Against:

• animal cruelty

• PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) I think their organization is completely misguided.

• throwing trash in our oceans

• the use of toxic chemicals on our foods

• the use of aspartame or any other form of artificial sweetener

• food irradiation and/or pasteurization

• water fluoridation and/or chlorination

• flu shots and vaccines

• smoking

• the corporate takeover of our country

It is My Opinion:

• that the Federal Reserve, a non-federal, private corporation, is the root cause of all of our economic problems. We should abolish the Federal Reserve and regain control of our country.

• that the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) is nothing more than a subdivision of the food and pharmaceutical corporate empire.

What's All This Vita-Mix Action On My Website?

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NOTE:

I have little formal nutritional training. I took some nutrition courses at the college level, but I had to leave school because I was in a financial crisis. I do, however, have hundreds and hundreds of hours in which I read countless nutritional books and university level studies. I would like to think that I know a little something about the subject. In the end, however, everything in this website is opinion and conjecture based upon my private studies.

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I have to tell you that I'm pretty satisfied with how my website has turned out. You see... I had to create it all myself. I don't have the finances to pay a webmaster or a web designer, so I had to do all the work myself.

I chose all the photographic images (I looked at over 80,000 images.). I did all the image editing, i.e. resizing, cropping, adding borders, adding text, etc. It took over thirty major steps just to produce the 'Eat Raw Organic Sunshine' header at the top of the page. I even had to add the Sunshine myself!

Then there is all the background study that went into the site information. That has taken me over two years to accomplish. All throughout that time I was in the process of writing the text, and rewriting the text, and rewriting the text.

To build the site as you see it today, excluding the study/writing time, has taken just over five months.

I did have some support along the way... The site is based on a template provided by GoDaddy.com / Website Tonight. All throughout the site creation process I was in regular contact with GoDaddy's outstanding technical service people. I had questions galore. I always knew that I could call or e-mail GoDaddy at anytime - day or night, and I always knew that I would always reach a smart, articulate company representative on the other end of the phone line or e-mail. That kind of service is difficult to match today.

So, if there are a lot of "I"s in this paragraph it's because my ego is showing. I'm pretty proud of the site so far, even if it might look amateurish to the pros. The real point is... I hope you like it too!

- Doug Hines

Some of My Favorite Quotes:

• "The world we live in is a direct expression of our collective quality."-Thomas Campbell

• "Our state of being accurately reflects the quality of our consciousness and the present extent of our evolutiion."-Thomas Campbell

• "We are the sum total of those choices made over a lifetime, or a series of lifetimes. The substance of our being and the rate of our growth are defined by the quality of our choices." -Thomas Campbell

• "Being healthy and owning a disease-resistant body is not luck; it is earned..."

- Joel Fuhrman, MD

• Who you are is limitless awareness. It is this awareness that will not be peaceful and satisfied, until it has achieved its potential, satisfied its inner need and drive, and expanded into the spaciousness of timeless existence." - Russell Targ

• "There is a unity and relationship between all things." "Cut the ribbons of reality. Stretch beyond that which is currently known. Believe that anything is possible and it will be. It is not only the key to good remote viewing, or psi-functioning, it is the key to tomorrow." - Joseph McMoneagle

• "Look forward to what are we capable of becoming." - Marilyn Schlitz

• "Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they aren't so they can change if they want to and they don't have to." - Werner Erhard

• "You don't get to vote on the way it is. You already did." - Werner Erhard

• "You don't have to go looking for love when it is where you come from." - Werner Erhard

• "I know that you know that I love you, what I want you to know is that I know you love me." - Werner Erhard

• To make sure a person doesn't find out who he is, convince him that he can't really make anything disappear. All that's left then is to resist, solve, fix, help or change things." - Werner Erhard

• This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. A master is someone who found out." - Werner Erhard

• "The essence of communication is intention." - Werner Erhard

• "Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from The Force" - Yoda

• "Although our bodies appear to be separate from one another, our consciousness is not." - The Advaita Vedanta, the oldest spiritual book of India

• "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

• "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." - Ellen DeGeneres

• "We hang the petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop

• "Laugh about the things that you can't change, and change the things that you can't laugh about." - Betty Wells

• On reaching your goals- "Remember, never take no cut offs and hurry along as fast as you can." - Virginia Reid, The Donner Party 1847

• "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson

• "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' - Don Marquis

• "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine

Wise Cracks About My Website (Eat Raw Organic Sunshine):

• "Well why not eat pigs? Pigs stand out in the sun don't they?" I:) - Dale Cooper

Well, since this is a personal website,

it's time to get a little personal.

This is where I publish my personal ramblings to the world.

Check back from time to time to see what develops here.

I had to laugh when I realized that the acronym for my website, Eat Raw Organic Sunshine, is EROS. Of course EROS, in Greek mythology, is the God of Love, the son of Aphrodite. The word literally means 'sexual love or desire.' That works for me!

From Me to You

- some things I've learned along the way -

"Eating should be a conscious, transformational process

whereby we use the energy of living food as the

foundation for the results which we produce in life."

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"Eating requires responsibility on our part. We need to be

responsible for choosing quality, life-enhancing foods, and

we need to be responsible to the food, that it's energy may be transformed into some positive, life enhancing result.

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"We've developed a mass-market food production/distribution system that is more dedicated to shelf life than to human life."

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"One day we will all come to recognize that plant-based

nutrition is not only the foundation of a healthy existence,

it is the cornerstone of all of our future achievements."

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"To those of you who think that genetic predisposition is

the ruling factor in your current health, here is an excellent

quote from a preeminent, esteemed medical doctor.

Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D. says,

'Genes load the gun. Lifestyle pulls the trigger.'

Instead of living your lives worrying that your dreaded

'inherited gene-past' is going to rear its ugly head and

bite you, rather live your lives contributing to your

health and well-being through diet and exercise.

Do that, and chances are better than not,

that the trigger will never get pulled."

This is something I put together awhile back:

The Holy Grail

I Will Live A Principled Life

JUSTICE AND MORALITY

COMPLETE SINCERITY

DUTY AND LOYALTY

POLITE COURTESY

HEROIC COURAGE

COMPASSION

HONOR

PRINCIPLES OF THE SAMURAI

- PLUS -

JOY

LOVE

PRIDE

PEACE

GRACE

TRUTH

HUMOR

CARING

BEAUTY

REASON

WISDOM

DIGNITY

RESPECT

PURPOSE

FIDELITY

HONESTY

MANNERS

HARMONY

PATIENCE

KINDNESS

EQUALITY

GOODNESS

HAPPINESS

INTEGRITY

INTENTION

GRATITUDE

SIMPLICITY

CREATIVITY

CHARACTER

SENSITIVITY

ACCEPTANCE

COMPLETION

EXCELLENCE

HUMANENESS

PERSISTENCE

LAWFULNESS

PARTNERSHIP

ORDERLINESS

CLEANLINESS

FORGIVENESS

COMMITMENT

VIRTUOUSNESS

DETERMINATION

SELF ACCEPTANCE

PHYSICAL FITNESS

INTUITIVE INSIGHT

EXTRAORDINARINESS

COMMUNITY SERVICE

ATTENTION TO DETAIL

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

APPRECIATION OF THE GIFT OF LIFE

ACCOUNTABILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS

RESPECT FOR THE EARTH AS A CONSCIOUS BEING

SERVING OTHERS IS SERVING YOUR OWN TRUE SELF

FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO

BE FULFILLED AND CONSCIOUS IN THE PRESENT MOMENT

DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU

My Amateurish Scribbles - by Doug Hines

Each Word Matters

Each spoken word causes something, some shift, some result.

The silence between the words is the distinction which allows the words to be.

Word, no word, word.

Silence matters too.

All of the words and all of the silence ever before now contribute to who you are, and

All that you speak creates, impacts, and matters for all the generations to come.

On How to Be

We're here as we are because all before happened as it happened.

Our very existence may not have come had one shoe string not parted when it did.

Start from where you are today and consciously build your tomorrows.

On Affecting the Future

Function on the thin possibility that you can, in fact, affect societal cultural norms.

Dedication is working to achieve your goals in the face of knowing that your work will most probably be in vain.

A Little Advice

There are no small moments.

Each moment is significant.

Pack your life full of life.

from How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life

by Michael LeBoeuf, Ph.D.

Focusing on long-term goals will keep you from becoming sidetracked by short-term frustrations.

• A young man's lifelong dream was to attend West Point. He was twice turned down, but applied a third time and was accepted. His name was Douglas MacArthur.

• Both Hewlett-Packard and Atari turned down the opportunity to buy the first Apple microcomputer. First-year sales of the Apple were $2.5 million.

• Henry Ford went bankrupt in his first year in the automobile business and two years later his second company failed. His third one has done rather well.

• Twenty-three publishers rejected a children's book written by an author who called himself Dr. Seuss. The twenty-fourth publisher published it and the book sold six million copies.

• In 1903 King Gillette invented the safety razor and sold a grand total of 51 razors and 168 blades for the entire year.

• A dry-goods merchant went broke with his first three stores before the fourth one caught on. His name was R. H. Macy.

Wizard of Id

Wizard of Id - Created by Parker & Hart - courtesy of creators.com

Used with permission - United Media / comics.com ® 2009 United Feature Syndicate

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