Beginning today and running all through next week (and even spilling into the following week!), we’ll be running videos from the Raw Spirit Festival (RSF East 2009) held in Upper Marlboro, MD, last weekend. If you’ve never attended a RSF event, you absolutely must. They’re the best ever!

Today’s installment covers the trip down, during which we stopped to visit Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, a historic spa town visited by the likes of George Washington and other famous folk. Of course, the spring there was in use long before this country was known as America. You can read the basics in this pic:

Yes, super fantastic, clean, pure, (and FREE!) mineral-rich water!  We haven’t yet written much here at Pure Jeevan about the importance of drinking great water, but it’s actually been a subject near and dear to our hearts for many years. When we first moved into our home nearly 12 years ago, one of the early imporvement projects was to install a whole-house water filtration system. We’re on the public water system here, and have never been big fans of fluoride, chlorine, and all of the other additives (not to mention the well-documented concern about pharmaceutical residues present in almost all water these days). So, we “upgraded” with a state-of-the-art water filtration system. But, that’s another post. Let’s get back to the Berkeley Springs story…

So, we were all sitting with our legs in the spring overflow, chatting idly, absorbing the fresh air and pleasant West Virginia sunshine, literally drinking the healing mineral waters there, when the subject of “ormus” arose. I’d been reading David Wolfe’s book “Amazing Grace” lately, and Berkeley Springs just seemed like a rather “ormus-rich” kind of place, based on what I’d been reading. Okay, so what is “ormus”?  Well, according to Wolfe, you could think of ormus as a kind of subtle energy present in things – a kind of “strange matter” made of high-energy metaphysical particles that you of course won’t read about in science books. This isn’t a concept that will sit well with strict rationalists. So, it’s naturally a bit “out there” to a lot of people. But, the water did have a living quality to it (if you were in the proper mindset to pick up on that) and, if you can imagine that the water really does contain some sort of magical awareness, then maybe you can see it too. Personally, I was loving it!

Anyway, Berkeley Springs has a wide variety natural and/or alternative shops. I found this quite surprising and unexpected for a West Virginia mountain town. (That’s a good lesson about stereotyping: Keep an open mind and try not to prejudge, eh?)  Luckily, there was a farmer’s market there that day. Only one of the growers was organic, which was a real shame because some of the peaches sitting at the conventional farmer tables looked amazing. (But, peaches are really one of the major no-nos when it comes to ingesting foods grown “conventionally” — i.e., using pesticides. So, we all looked but didn’t buy.) But, the organic farmer had some superior-looking heirloom tomatoes. I bought a bag of them and ate them right there in the street just as though they were apples or something. Absolutely delicious. Amazing cukes, too!

We then walked into an herbal shop (I can’t recall the name) and browsed for a while at their teas and books and various herbal decoctions. And, what do you think we found?  There was a salve available called “Ormusol.” And guess what? It was made right there in Berkeley Springs!  According to the shop owner, there’s a local man who takes the Berkeley Spring mineral water, processes it in order to capture and concentrate the ormus essence, and then uses that to make this salve.

So, I said, “Wow, this is a powerful salve. We should all try it!”  So we did.

Now, I can’t speak for everyone, but I felt supercharged after applying it. I’d been soaking in the energized spring for hours, had eaten some beautiful locally grown heirloom tomatoes (nonhybridized ancient tomatoes grown organically), and had topped it all off by rubbing some ormus-rich salve on my hands. I tell you, I was humming with miraculous possibilities.

Here’s the amazing part… A few minutes later, I walked into an antique shop on a lark and asked the guy there if any of the dealers sold old piano sheet music (a collecting hobby of mine). Over the years, I’ve invested countless hours into this hobby, having visited literally thousands of antique dealers all around the country. If I’m lucky, I’ll find a box or two of this stuff for sale. Usually I find none at all. But what did I find while soaked in supercharged metaphysical energy?  Try 20+ huge crates of it for sale! I’ve never been so overwhelmed. I could only laugh and remark to Dave Sokulski, “It’s the ormus!!!”  I think maybe he was skeptical, but it absolutely blew my mind.

So that’s a fun story from our trip down. Anyone else care to chime in on ormus?

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