Summertime News

Dear friends,

"To have better heads of our states, we must improve the states of our heads."

As we go through these summer months, people are increasingly realizing the importance of raising our collective consciousness. We are seeing it's essential to take responsibility for our ecological and spiritual footprints. How can we reduce our negative impact on the ecosystems here, and contribute to the regeneration and transformation of humanity's wounded but aspiring consciousness?

Here in Michigan, we just completed the first training retreat on exploring and disseminating the main ideas in my book, The World Peace Diet. I am happy to report that it was a terrific experience. In the words of one of the participants, "It was an emotional, informative, and inspiring weekend. There was lots of sharing of ideas and feelings. All left with the optimistic feeling that 40 more people would be out there actively sharing the message through the vehicle of Will’s book."

I am delighted that there are now more people who are inspired to contribute their unique and substantial talents and energy to the transformation of our culture. They will be facilitating courses on The World Peace Diet through local churches, colleges, and community groups, and in other ways helping to build a new world that reflects the vegan values of respect, kindness, sustainability, justice, freedom, and harmony with all life. If you would like to have me present a week-end World Peace Diet retreat in your area, or come and present a lecture or workshop in your community, please let me know. Madeleine and I are here to serve, and we are still, after 13 years full-time on the road, enjoying life in our rolling home.

I am also delighted to inform you that The World Peace Diet's missing index is now available as a free download at http://worldpeacediet.org. (Thanks to Amy, a vegetarian indexer in Alabama!) Lantern Books, the publisher, originally thought that including the index would make the book too bulky and expensive, but that has now been remedied. The book is now in its fourth printing! We have assurances that in the next printing, the new index will be included.

I would also like to let you know that on Saturday, July 26, I'll be flying to Los Angeles to speak at the Green Technology Institute's S.O.S. Climate Change International Conference being held at the Silver Screen Theater in W. Hollywood. The event will feature environmentalists and scientists as well as vegan activists and spiritual teachers to help raise consciousness about the connections between sustainability, compassion, and spiritual health. It will be televised live on http://suprememastertv.com, and will feature Howard Lyman, Dr. Elliot Katz, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, and surprise celebrities. See http://greentechnologyinstitute.org/ for more information.

After that, I'll be speaking at "The Power of Natural Healing" Conference (http://www.thepowerofnaturalhealing.org) in Wellesley, MA, outside Boston, and at The Peace Abbey (http://peaceabbey.org) there also, and then presenting several lectures and concerts in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area. Our late summer/fall tour schedule will take us through Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, with a side trip to San Francisco to speak at the S.F. Vegetarian Festival in early October. There are more events and further details on our Tour Schedule, at:

http://willtuttle.com/schedule.htm.

I'd like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to help make the events successful over the last two months -- in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and recently in Lincolnshire, IL, site of the uplifting and hip Young Jains Conference where I was blessed to present the keynote lecture.

I have posted a new 6-minute musical slideshow I made called "Our Fellow Mortals" on YouTube -- please sit back, relax, and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Qgb5R4-s4

I must also strongly recommend watching, when you have a spare 11 minutes, a great new video that is both uplifting and informative:

http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/veganvideo.html

Finally, we have been sending out our free daily "Veg Inspiration For The Day" since May 1st, so if you'd like to begin receiving that every morning, you can sign up on The World Peace Diet website:

http://worldpeacediet.org

That's it for now. The audio-book version of The World Peace Diet is not far off; it's almost finished!

Thanks for all your efforts!

Enjoy the summer,

Will & Madeleine