hello everyone
Michael Lanfield here and thank you for
joining me I just want to show you this
place that I am I and I've been here for
many months and it's a great place I'm
gonna miss it
I'm going back to Canada for a few
months and then coming back here and
living in the jungle and on land that is
like paradise so thanks everyone for
joining me this is just a short live
video to ask me anything that you like
really just anything this is amazing
place I love it here and there are
hammocks and there are laundry and there
are beautiful trees and there are
buildings this is Costa Rica people are
busy doing things some people are out at
the moment as well and drea Robbins
thank you for joining me and everyone
else thank you for joining me I'm just
gonna be on here for a little bit as I
have to hit on out shortly but
everything is going amazing here I love
living in the tropics and just being in
this amazing place that I call home
actually everywhere his home because
we're on this beautiful earth
so what is new with myself I've released
a book as most of you know return to the
gentle sea for the love that lives in
everyone and it's it on camera
ah okay I've got a new to this and
Facebook was saying bring them on camera
I was like bring who on camera so that
actually lets you bring on the person
that is - is typing on camera which is
cool so I like that
otherwise I'm then good hope all of you
are doing great just a little friendly
chat
get to know what's new with me so
anyways I wrote the book return to the
gentle sea for the love that lives in
everyone and it's really about why we
shouldn't be seeing other animals as
property and how we should see instead
love and everyone in nature so yogi has
said where are you now and I'm in Costa
Rica and where exactly in Costa Rica
close to Coweta so on the east side so I
love Costa Rica even though it's not the
cheapest country to live in but it's not
the most expensive either
and I just find
you know I love it everywhere I mean
I've been to I've been to Belize I loved
it there as well
Costa Rica I loved it and I loved it too
but in the winter not so much because I
don't enjoy the cold and I can
definitely say
that
I'm just going there to work so I can
only say that everywhere is beautiful
and wherever you live in the world you
just have to be happy where you're at so
you're not happy then no place will make
you happy I mean yeah I guess Sun makes
sunshine makes people more happy but
maybe just temporarily so you got to be
happy inside that's the whole key that's
my friends tent up there that she sleeps
in a lot of things I find like really
really really exciting about living in
the tropics not just the warm weather
the bunnies of tropical fruit the fact
that people are just generally more
happy in places like these and find
there's a lot of beauty when you're in
nature there's just a lot of beauty but
you can't grow all your food all year
round and colder climates especially
tropical fruit and it's not all it's not
like warm all year round and so you're
not getting the proper nutrients you
need from the Sun so that's other things
that reason why so I'm in Costa Rica
close to Kavita in a small place and I
love it here go back to Canada there's
some a little bit of work there for a
few months and then to see my family of
course my mom and then I just come back
here basically so there's a place I'm at
I'm at right now it's called pure fruit
oh so pure fruit ah which means pure
fruit and I'm right here you seem to
enjoy the company of the people people
who are beautiful share a lot of the
same values and we really do get along
and we want to be self sustainable and
live on land grow all our food all this
stuff so this is where I am it's pure
fruit ah dot o-r-g web site eventually
will be revamped this year sometime so
that it's a beautiful thing and so what
do I do
Andy Rogers is telling me what I do here
I basically just sit and meditate all
day no no basically I write books and I
have written six books release
self-published them and release them
through Amazon and other platforms on
basically why we should be using other
animals seeing them as property and how
that great will create eventually the
world we really want to live in the
peaceful world
and so I'm promoting that but also
trying to get this community up and
running and as well just being here like
I want to like what we're basically
doing is just going to the land and
start growing as much food as possible
putting some building some you know some
shelters over there and some buildings
and just living as permeability as we
can but also we're gonna be installing
you know energy-efficient electricity
and water and so forth as best as we can
to not harm the earth or at least
minimize the harm on the earth and show
people that another way of living is
possible
you don't want to thank everyone for
joining me today so
also I'm trying to get away from using
and relying on corporations supermarkets
governments etc and of course at the
beginning of our journey it's hard
because we may need to use these
corporations and supermarkets and banks
and things so it's doing our best thing
trying to strive to walk away slowly
from our culture NE Rogers is asking me
is there any everything there native and
I haven't really been here long enough
to really know if anything is really
native or not a lot of the food that
there is here that's growing now
so-called natively it originally comes
from either Africa or Asia like Aki
comes in Africa in Asia there's a lot of
the fruits that are grown here so really
if you think about it there's not much
native to this region the only thing I
probably probably is is it's hot peppers
and a lot of hot peppers originated from
Central and South America so
and basis species and I'm not sure there
may be just like everywhere I'm not sure
yogi Edwin says where can I send you
love offering donation
I actually don't I really don't want
donations if somebody really wants to
donate to me then yes go ahead it's on
my website we are interconnected comm
and from there you just go to about
section and you can actually donate but
I really recommend going to Amazon
through my website we are interconnected
calm and just getting my books and this
is the key if you already have read my
books or you understand the messages in
my books just get them for four people
for birthdays or special holidays
whatever just get them for people
because really it's about sharing the
message and then of course I get a
little donation out of the books so
medical options I don't really care I
trust nature as mine for my medicine and
for my natural healing so when I really
am like sick like severely sick I know
that I have to like not eat much like
either fast or eat very little and eat
the foods that nature intended us to eat
which is fruit so fruit is number one I
somebody is really sick like on the last
stages of living fasting is good and
also greens so if you're juicing greens
in the beginning that's good and then
transition to eating fruit because I
think food is like the best thing now
there's varying opinions on what is the
best foods and I have so many videos on
that and I guess it also depends on what
you really feel within you so I feel
that fruit is the best some people might
feel sprout sort of us some people might
think
we grasp the best some people might
think this is the best or that is the
best so it really depends but medical
options like everywhere you know decent
medical options so again going back to
the donation if you really want to
donate something okay because this is
really something that I need basically
is food
everybody needs food to survive so the
one thing that helps me get food is of
course send food if possible or secondly
just get my books share the message with
people and of course understand these
ideas yourself and then eventually put
them into practice and then just share
the message with other people that's
that's it and then the money that comes
from that I buy food so I can survive
just to spread this message even further
and another thing to help is if you can
organize any kind of events any kind of
events in your area unfortunate the
moment I can't enter the US because of
it's a long story but I cannot enter in
the US so wherever you are else in the
world if you can organize an event all I
require is like some kind of
accommodations food
and transportation cost that's it I
don't require any payment or anything
like that and I will sign my books I
will offer them to people the rest of
the money goes directly in sharing the
message and the ability of course for me
to survive eating foods so my expenses
are like very very little so I put a lot
of money or majority of my money I
should say into either surviving eating
living and just just sharing a message
basically so for example I bought a lot
of books for events and for people and a
lot of times I just give them out for
free because I want to really share this
message to everyone so that's that's it
and I don't know how much time I have
left because I have to get going
shortly in about yeah well I got some
time actually so I'm here of some time I
was gonna go to this to the town here
and they do few one of two errands and
stuff so anything that people want to
know or just chatting or whatever so
any other questions or anything so what
is my vision my vision is utopia is what
my vision is and I guess everybody's
vision is utopia can we get there in our
lifetime I don't know I don't think so
but maybe we can at least strive for
that so let's align our values and our
life and our buying choices that
synchronize with this utopia society
that we all want to live in Thank You
yogi you are beautiful about to buy your
book now thank you so much yogi I think
my latest book returned to the gentle
sea for the love that lives in everyone
it's like one of my greatest books two
more books I write I could just get
keeps getting better and better and I
write from the heart which is really
where I like to do I write from the
heart I tried to plant seeds of love
within everyone try to reawaken them to
that love and it's basically what I do I
share light I help people
spark their light or to find our light
so Thank You yogi Edwin for that also
for people that do get my book or books
if you don't mind please do write an
Amazon review because Amazon reviews are
very important so that books like my my
own as well as other people's books get
found on Amazon so the way that books
are found is through of course keyword
search through the their description and
everything but also the more reviews are
added to Amazon so that's a really great
way for my books to be discovered so my
book the lost love actually has 15 and
reviews and
you probably need at least a hundred or
or thousands in order to be really
discovered and so if you can get em I
appreciate if you can get like multiple
copies and they can them out give them
out to people for birthdays or for
special holidays or things like that
that would be much appreciated cuz
that's really it's just a message that I
want to share with people and they share
it through YouTube and I share through
other means and the last couple of years
like I remember I tell you story and I
know people love stories so for the last
for the first few years I I went vegan I
was organizing many many different
events and I did organize a lot of a lot
of events my biggest the biggest event
that I did was an outdoor video
educational display where I had a big
screen TV and I was basically showing
undercover footage of slaughterhouses
and things and we had tens of thousands
of people like walking back and forth
like we had basically passerby and
watching these footage and that was a
great turnout and that lasted for
several hours then I did the Toronto
vegan Expo which originally was called
Toronto vegan Toronto animal rights and
vegan Expo and we got the second year we
had almost 2,000 people coming and going
so that was a really big event as well
one of the first events that I know I
did was one against seal slaughter
Canadian seal slaughter and that brought
out 30 volunteers and that was my first
big event that I organized and then I
did smaller events here and there with a
few people coming out and so
that is that is what happened like the
first few years I went vegan because I
thought yeah the message needs to be
spread to everyone and so I have to
share it and I did that through
demonstrations protests things like that
and now I do it for my books and videos
all that but I've noticed I focus now
more and more on trying to heal myself
because I think inner healing inner work
inner personal transformation is really
important and so that is what I now work
on is is a lot with my inner inner soul
inner intuition so I cultivate my
intuition and I do less videos but
continuing to write continuing to do
videos continue to do all these things
but working more myself because the more
that you work on yourself the board that
you're able to help others and so I'm
focusing a lot of my time on for myself
and I think I really do need it after
all these years though of course vegan
advocacy work is very important as well
so I did recently to talks in Costa Rica
and I did one at a love festival in
Puerto Bello another one in Puerto Viejo
I did a few talks there to a bunch of
people I'd walk in Jays hostel in Puerto
Viejo had manifest so that was really a
great event that took place for days and
so there's some things that I'm doing
here and
but if anyone would like to have me on
for their podcast or webinar or for
speaking engagement or interview or
something let me know because I'm always
available I will take whatever time off
necessary to do just that and again if
you do have me for a speaking engagement
if it's in person or if it's online or
something like that
all I require is transportation cost to
be covered and food and accommodations
to be covered as well I don't care at
all ballgame getting paid all I care
about is the message sharing the message
to other people and I can continue doing
that when I sign my books so my books to
people I can definitely continue sharing
the message so this is what time is it
now
1:28 yeah I think I got about 10 minutes
left so if anybody wants to say anything
talk about anything I'm just checking
again I think
I think it's important people like
myself will Tuttle KC Tov mango exact I
don't know all the other people out
there they're spreading message of love
and compassion for all life that are
actually promoting a vegan way of living
it's really beneficial to get the
message out and everyone has their own
unique way of spreading this message I'm
sharing it and I think the one way to do
that is through our stories and stories
is a really powerful and positive way to
get the message out so keep on sharing
your message of how a vegan keep on
sharing your message of of this life
there's one life that we want to create
which is our individual lives but also
collectively everyone on this earth and
so we have to share that message the
life that we want to live and we want to
live in Utopia and the Garden of Eden
let's get there let's at least strive to
get there and yeah I got about 10 years
left and then we can um I'm on my last
battery life so you I might cut out at
any moment but we're all on a journey in
life and let's see we have a question
here but I want to just finish the
thought that I had so we're all on a
journey in life and no matter what that
particular journey and a specific
journey that you're on just take it
slowly but also understand that we're
eating you know tortured animals and
we're eating their secretions of these
tortured beings that the faster we get
away from eating these beings the faster
we incorporate all the animals all
nature into our serve compassion and we
start sharing that message with others
the faster we're gonna get to creating
this world that we want to
paradise world so yogi was saying would
you in the future have hosts or a treat
in Costa Rica I would go and I think is
pure fruit ah it's thinking about
hosting retreats and so maybe a detox
retreat maybe some kind of touring
retreat on our land
so there's possibilities but we first
have to get some structures up and made
because there's no structures that all
made on the land we're right now in a
rental place that we're closing down in
September so anyways if anybody wants to
rent this place you can do so you can
rent it out just either contact me or
contact
pyrrha fruta tribe TR ib e @ gmail.com
and we're looking for people to rent it
out but also primary renter I can rent
this whole place and pay for it and it's
pretty pretty inexpensive so contact me
if you're really serious there's two
Cabana it's too big cabanas here one
behind me and there's other small rooms
around so if you really want to live in
Costa Rica but don't forget like this
period of time it's rainy season so
rains for at least a few months
McNall is not raining but the majority
of the days it rains and for the rest of
the months it does rain but not often so
thank you all for joining me here today
again I'm gonna be on for about seven
minutes longer and then I'm gonna close
this session so again thank you so would
I
so Yogi Edward Edwin was saying would uh
would you in the future host a retreat
in Costa Rica and I think is me
personally I don't know but pure frutas
thinking like as a
community as a gathering yeah we
probably would but we don't know when
that would happen because again we don't
have the buildings on there and we don't
have enough food growing to sufficiently
like be self-sustaining fully self
sustainable so we need that and we need
also electricity and water and all these
things so that is a challenge and we're
just basically waiting until our food
forest is sufficiently providing us with
all that we need and then we can start
slowly and slowly slowly we can start to
offer these retreats and things so I
stink none until at least a few years
time that some will be getting some food
from the land so there's already a few
trees that are producing something but
it's not enough we're probably producing
like five percent of our food is died so
that's unfortunate but they just bought
the land I think it was like last year
or year and a half ago so even though
pure fruit that technically has been
around for seven years Paul Vincent had
the idea for about seven years this is
my like first time first gathering that
I'm coming to this place so next year
I'll be here for sure in September I
don't know if I'll be staying
indefinitely but for sure so let's see
how much land are you on so this this
rental place right here is 0.3 hectares
not acres but Hector's which is I think
4,800 meters square I believe and the
other property which I don't really like
to call the properties it's earth so
nobody hands nobody owns that but we
basically are stewards of the land even
though technically we kind of kind of
doing it or legally we do own it
on that land there's I think 13 hectares
of land in Costa Rica you can grow all
your food year-round and you don't need
a greenhouse
so greenhouses are not required you can
have a greenhouse for things like
vegetables like greens herbs so that is
um that's something that you can do
possibly but otherwise you do not need a
greenhouse because people grow food all
year round here it's a tropical climate
it's in Central America it's Costa Rica
Costa Rica so technically if you are in
the north somewhere where you have you
know two seasons or three seasons or
four seasons actually no not two seasons
but three or four seasons then you know
you could technically grow food all year
round but I wouldn't really recommend it
if somebody's really really wants to
grow food all year round wants to live
in a perfect climate wants to just be
overall healthier and where there's like
Sun majority of the time and you're
getting the required nutrients from the
Sun like vitamin D for example and so
many other things like I stand as Sun as
much as I possibly can I don't use
anything on my skin I mostly fruit as my
primarily as my diet or in my diet and
that's it basically like I just take
care of my body I eat only what nature
provides and I'm even doing less and
less of like things like juicing and
smoothies and things like that but there
are of course times when you know we're
not perfect and we you know we have to
make exceptions so just do the best that
we can and that's just all you can do so
anything else before start closing up in
two minutes I want to thank everyone for
being on this call again don't hesitate
to get my book my new one which is
return to the gentle sea for the love
that lives in everyone and that is 82
page book both available as an e-book
Kindle and paperback on Amazon and
eventually it will be available
worldwide and like worldwide in
different platforms and different
websites and different stores as well as
an audiobook so hopefully this year I
want to get it out as an audiobook so
I'm like manifesting things and trying
to see if there's a way to do this
because I am currently living a very
minimal lifestyle so I have like very
minimal things I have like one big 55
liter backpack and that's all I have and
so I'm trying to live as minimally as I
possibly can and so I'm looking if I can
actually buy as I had a lot of things
stolen from me from bullies from the
plane most likely from the police I have
to buy again the recording equipment and
that's approximately five or six hundred
Canadian dollars that I'm going to be
have to be spending and to do like
recordings and things that I really want
to do and that's like decent recording
equipment for the least amount of price
basically so basically you can have a
whole studio under six hundred dollars
five or six hundred which is creating
DISA I mean yes you can definitely do
something on a hundred dollar budget or
$50 budget but for decent system it's
about five six hundred and so that is
why it's it's really key and then even
though I don't like buying things and I
want to kind of minimize my banks but
purchasing power I wanna like I want to
do these things I want to be able to
really say audiobooks and I want to be
able to release all these things and do
all these things that I would like to
while also being a minimalist so the
whole gear is like pretty small to a
size of a big laptop probably so
that's it everyone you can replay this
video if you haven't seen it from the
beginning not much just few little
updates on this video and things like
that
yeah I have to close it down now because
my battery is battery is going dead
almost plus I got a head out so take
care everyone thanks for joining me and
I'll see you soon
