Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H), Diplomat American Board of Holistic Medicine, Diplomat in Ayurveda, N.D. (hc), and D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation a religious 501c3 and Tree of Life Global. He is known worldwide as a liberated spiritual teacher and mystic, and leading expert in raw, live, plant-source nutrition. The New York Times calls him, “the fasting guru and detoxification expert”.

Dr. Cousens serves as a holistic medical doctor, a licensed psychiatrist and family therapist, a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of Arizona, and licensed M.D. in the State of California. He is also an ordained Rabbi, acknowledged yogi, Master Essene Teacher, Native American Elder and four-year Sundancer and Eagle Dancer adopted into the Lakota High Horse Clan. His unique multi-ethic background also includes studies in Taoism and study at the Shaolin Temple in China. He is a living interfaith holistic expression who functions as a physician of the soul.

Dr. Cousens uses the approaches of nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, Native American Medicine Way, Chinese herbal medicine and theory, and homeopathy, blended with spiritual awareness, in the healing of body, mind, and spirit. He is a best-selling author of thirteen books. His book There is A Cure for Diabetes is presently translated in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. His other books include: Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment; Creating Peace by Being Peace; Spiritual Nutrition; Conscious Eating;

Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine; Sevenfold Peace; Depression-Free for Life, Conscious Parenting; and Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing, co-authored with David Wagner. All his books have been translated into Spanish.
His newest and fourteenth book Into the Nothing, is a spiritual autobiography.

Dr. Cousens is recognized worldwide through his books and media, for his role as a nutritionist, humanist, and spiritual teacher and as a leading medical authority in the world on healing diabetes naturally through live-food vegan nutrition. He is a frequent guest on popular talk shows and has published articles in health journals and popular magazines in the areas of biochemistry, school health, clinical pharmacology,
hypoglycemia and Alzheimer’s disease.

In 1973, Dr. Cousens transitioned into a vegan lifestyle and began teaching meditation. He co-founded the world’s first Kundalini Crisis Clinic with Lee Sanella, M.D. in 1976. By 1983, he transitioned to a 100% vegan live-food lifestyle. Since 1985, Rabbi Cousens has been leading Peace 21 meditations around the world, including a quarterly peace meditation at the United Nations in New York City. His worldwide Peace Everyday Initiative (PEDI), started in 2003, encourages all spiritual traditions to work and pray for peace. PEDI has enrolled over 192 world organizations, and participants include spiritual leaders, rabbis, ministers, sheiks, and meditation teachers. PEDI has received the blessings of religious and spiritual leaders around the world.

One focus of Dr. Cousens’ humanitarian work is creating world peace on all levels. He has been leading peace meditations around the world since 1985. He has established a Peace 21 meditation where as many as 2,000 people have come together at one time to meditate for peace four times per year on each equinox and solstice. In 1996, while in Patagonia, he established this quarterly peace meditation at the United Nations in New York for world peace. This is all part of an overall process to create peace and healing of the planet on the physical, mental and spiritual levels. In 2003 he initiated the worldwide ‘Peace Everyday Initiative’ to encourage all traditions to work for peace.

Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H) has seen clients from over 128 nations and since 1986 he has taught and developed educational, spiritual, and service programs in 45 nations, including the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, France, Amsterdam, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Croatia, India, Bali, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Since 2008 Dr. Cousens has been working on diabetes prevention and food/water sovereignty seed projects with approximately 238 Native American tribes, twenty-five programs in Mexico, the Mexican/Arizona border, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ghana, as well as diabetes prevention projects in Brazil, Argentina, Israel, Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan.

Dr. Cousens is joyfully married to Shanti Golds Cousens. He has two children and three grandchildren. As a spiritual evolutionary visionary, he has committed his life to the world service of elevating planetary consciousness and of establishing these healing and
transformational programs on an international basis.

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