Dr Gabriel Cousens has a fascinating background. He's a doctor, a psychiatrist and a rabbi. He spent seven years with Swami Muktananda where he learnt yoga and meditation. He is also the founder of Modern Essene Order of Light and a Kaballah student. He is also a 4-year Native American Sundancer, Eagle Dancer, and Spirit Dance clan chief in the High Horse Lakota clan into which he has been adopted. He also studied at Shaolin Temple.

Foodwise, Dr Cousens advocates a raw vegan diet that employs oils and tends to be higher in fat and lower in carbs than a typical WFPB diet. He has written interesting articles on dairy products and how the food we eat affects our mind and spiritual progress.

Articles:

• Perspectives on Dairy Excerpts:

  For spiritual and environmental reasons, dairy has become 'ama'. For eye-opening and heart-stopping details and visual treatment of cows, watch the film 'Earthlings'. You will quickly understand how cruelly cows are treated before being killed for meat and 'Indian leather'. The relationship India once had with the 'Sacred Cow' has sadly changed the animal's milk from 'rasa' to 'ama' or pure toxins.

  … and Dr Cousens describes the cruelty and suffering in modern dairy industry.
• (2009) Spiritual Nutrition: Diet for Enlightenment is an interview with Dr Gabriel Cousens. Excerpts:

  My two gurus, Swami Muktananda and Swami Prakashananda, used to say that dairy, eggs, meat, poultry and seafood clog the nadis.

  In this interview, Dr Cousens answers questions like "Why don't you recommend dairy products?" and "Why did ancient yogis and sages like Swami Sivananda recommend drinking milk as part of a sattvic diet?"
• (2017) Food Effects on the Mind and Spirit

Books:

• (2005) Spiritual Nutrition (624 pages).
• (2008) Creating Peace by Being Peace: The Essene Sevenfold Path (264 pages).