Johnny Lovewisdom

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Johnny Lovewisdom (born July 23, 1919, died October 12, 2000) author of The Buddhist Essene Gospel of Jesus. He promoted a raw food diet called Vitarianism, a diet that includes raw yogurt, vegetables, and a great deal of raw fruit. As a youth he promoted a strict fruit diet but later changed it to the "Vitarian" diet with vegetables, raw yogurt and avocado. In 1998, inspired by visiting young fruitarians, he returned to promoting a strict fruitarian diet.

He lived as a hermit in the mountain crater lake, Quilotoa, in Ecuador. In 1943 when on a 40 day fast at Lake Quilotoa he was visited and initiated by Master Kut Humi Lal Singh, Maha Chohan, Prince O.M. Cherenzi Lind, Tashi Lama of Tibet, (the first Tibetan lama to visit the U.S. 1933). He founded International University of Natural Living in 1962 at Vilcabamba, Ecuador, an international correspondence school with many students worldwide, with its credo "build paradise and eat the fruits thereof." He was Patriarch Archbishop of Ecuador of Apostolic Gnostic First Christians, including ancient Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches as the Foundation of the Heavenly Ecclesia internationally. He authored over 50 books including Spiritualizing Dietetics, Vitarianism, and The Buddhist Essene Gospel of Jesus. Breatharianism was promoted only in the early 1950's in the book Spiritualizing Dietetics; Vitarianism, but he abandoned it as unnatural since we have physical bodies needing physical food and returned to the fruit and succulent vegetable diet.