Drinking at the Source of the Fountain of Youth at Saratoga Spa State Park, NY.
Locust Grove, NJ. David Wolfe is probably one of the most knowledgeable, eccentric and radical superfood and health promoters out there in the world today. He's more than partially responsible for getting me into the ritualistic habit and practice of collecting spring water a couple of years ago. As it turns out, David Wolfe, was also responsible for turning the "Wild Water" advocate, Daniel Vitalis, on to spring water many years ago. Vitalis was so inspired by the practice of collecting and drinking spring water that he ended up developing and launching the online community-generated project, findaspring.com, an invaluable resource and user-generated website that enables you to easily access information and locations of cold springs from all around the world. (Mostly in the United States, but it's growing every day!) It's because of this website I was able to find many of the springs I've visited in the upstate New York and New Jersey areas.
The spring water I collect in my glass gallons and five-gallon carboy is the only type of water I'll drink when I'm at home in New Jersey. Spring water should ideally be collected in glass because you don't want to risk having the petrochemicals found in plastic to seep into the immaculateness of your freshly collected spring water, would you?
Both David Wolfe and Daniel Vitalis have been known to propagate the unparelelled benefits of drinking spring water. Because of the chlorine, environmental pollutants, deteriorating led plumbing pipes, fluoride, radioactivity (strontium-90) and the unfilterable and untreatable pharmaceuticals that trickle through people's bodies and pour into municipal water supplies, it's probably a good idea to start seeking alternative drinking waters. And collecting and drinking your own spring water is, I think, the highest way of going about it. Unless you're planning on taking semi-frequent trips up to glaciers and melt that water into your containers, or possibly setting up a bottling scheme to begin collecting drops of cave water, finding a spring near you is probably the more logical route. Although, I'd definitely be interested to hear about that water-collecting alternative. (You can share those stories in the comments below!) I've drank drops of cave water directly from dripping stalactites at a cenote in the Yucatan before and I would agree, that, yes, there definitely is a sacred aura in the experience of doing that.
The spring water I collect in my glass gallons and five-gallon carboy is the only type of water I'll drink when I'm at home in New Jersey. Spring water should ideally be collected in glass because you don't want to risk having the petrochemicals found in plastic to seep into the immaculateness of your freshly collected spring water, would you?
Both David Wolfe and Daniel Vitalis have been known to propagate the unparelelled benefits of drinking spring water. Because of the chlorine, environmental pollutants, deteriorating led plumbing pipes, fluoride, radioactivity (strontium-90) and the unfilterable and untreatable pharmaceuticals that trickle through people's bodies and pour into municipal water supplies, it's probably a good idea to start seeking alternative drinking waters. And collecting and drinking your own spring water is, I think, the highest way of going about it. Unless you're planning on taking semi-frequent trips up to glaciers and melt that water into your containers, or possibly setting up a bottling scheme to begin collecting drops of cave water, finding a spring near you is probably the more logical route. Although, I'd definitely be interested to hear about that water-collecting alternative. (You can share those stories in the comments below!) I've drank drops of cave water directly from dripping stalactites at a cenote in the Yucatan before and I would agree, that, yes, there definitely is a sacred aura in the experience of doing that.
In retrospect...
Collecting 14 glass gallons of Soul Water at Stokes State Forest, NJ.
In the video below Daniel Vitalis makes mention of the immense process of the hydrological cycle intrinsically involved in making spring water the purest possible water imaginable. When water evaporates, condenses into clouds and falls back as rain, the water trickles and percolates down through the living soil, grass, roots, microorganisms, fungi and into hundreds of meters of clay, sand, silt, carbon and rocks before finally settling into pockets of water known as aquifers. Then the water down in the deep, dark aquifers may take decades, hundreds of years, or in some cases even thousands of years before reaching a point of perfect ripeness and shooting back up to froth at the source-powered surface of where the rejuvenated spring water finally climaxes back into the atmosphere. (And potentially straight into your glass container or tongue?) Now, that's a hell of a trip that simply can't be mimicked in a three-inch Brita filter (made by Clorox) on top of your kitchen counter.
I'm not sure who the overly-excited Renegade Health guy is, but the interview with Vitalis is definitely worth watching. I'll be sure to post an equally interesting David Wolfe video some time next week. But enjoy this one for now, and, if you're inclined to do so, check out findaspring.com to locate a spring near you. As the old Zen adage goes: Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water.
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