Rebbe Gabriel Cousens M.D., M.D.(H), D.D. Bio

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Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H), D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), Diplomate American Board of Holistic Medicine, Diplomate Ayurveda, a physician of the soul, teaches and lives the sevenfold peace. To the process of awakening and healing, Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H), weaves a background as a holistic physician, medical researcher, world-recognized live-food nutritionist, psychiatrist, family therapist, homeopath, acupuncturist, Ayurvedic practitioner, expert on green juice spiritual fasting and detoxification fasting, ecological leader, Reiki master, internationally celebrated spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, culture-bridger, world peaceworker, to give a unique holistic approach to nurturing the hungry soul.

A honoree for lifetime achievement by the World Organization of Natural Medicine, Dr. Cousens has published research in Journal of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Psychopharamacology, School Health, and Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. He is author of the books Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini; Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine; Conscious Eating; Depression-Free for Life; Tachyon Energy; Sevenfold Peace; Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet; and There Is a Cure for Diabetes.

An ordained Essene teacher since 1984, founder of the Essene Order of Light, in 1993, Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., developed the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in 1994 in Patagonia, AZ. It is a unique center in the world which he continues to direct, whose mission it is to help individuals and the planet transform and heal physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually, making the transition from a culture of death and war to a Culture of Life and Liberation.

Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation, which trains Essene priests and priestesses (the Essenes are a meeting place of Jewish and early Christian traditions), and coordinates international humanitarian programs benefiting indigenous and disadvantaged families, children, and cultures through holistic education and the development of high-yield, high-mineral, low-water veganic farming methods.  He is presently working with the support of the Panamanian government to set up eco-health-organic villages for the economically disadvantaged and with LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) and Save the Children in Mexico to bring the nutrition and anti-diabetes message to the Spanish-speaking world.

Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., teaches throughout in the United States, the Middle East, Panama, Mexico, Ecuador, North Africa, Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Europe.

He is the founder and director of the Tree of Life at the Dead Sea, serving the Middle East and Europe, where his work is spiritual teaching, healing, and peace in the Middle East. His spiritual background includes seven years under the tutelage of Swami Muktananda Parma Hamsa and eleven years with Swami Prakashananda Sarasvati. He is also a four-year Native American Sun Dancer and has been adopted into the Lakota Tribe; he presently runs Spirit Dances for peace in Patagonia, AZ, and Israel. Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., was initiated as a Pastoral Rebbe in 2001 by Rabbi Gershon Winkler, and leads shamanic Kabbalat Shabbats around the world. Gabriel’s deep personal multi-cultural experience in the Jewish-Essene-Kabbalistic, Native American, and Yogic traditions allow him to penetrate spiritual life in a way that transcends the ego and ethnocentric perceptions.

Gabriel graduated cum laud from Amherst College, where he published his first scientific paper, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, was captain of an undefeated college football team, and was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Columbia Medical School in 1969, where he published his second paper in School Health based on his 3-year experience living in Central Harlem where he developed a training program that was accepted in half the schools in Central Harlem and eventually accepted by the N.Y. Department of Health. He completed his psychiatric residency in 1973.

While in New York, Dr. Cousens also developed a sickle-cell screening program with the PS 175 grammar school in Central Harlem. The results of this program were also followed through by the New York Department of Health. After graduating from medical school, Dr. Cousens received an appointment at the National Institute of Mental Health in community psychiatry. He also received a commission as a lieutenant commander in the Public Health Service where he served for three years.

Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., has been involved in humanitarian work since 1965, when he worked with Afro-American gangs in Chicago. During his medical internship, Dr. Cousens developed several community programs in San Francisco supporting socio-cultural peace. When he moved to Boston to complete his psychiatric residency, he developed a teen center for white, working-class teenagers providing family therapy and teen counseling as well as social activities. After his residency, he moved to Petaluma, California, where he became a consultant for the California State Department of Mental Health. He also became the chief mental health consultant for Sonoma County Head Start programs, which ranged over an area of almost 300 miles. During this time, he worked with white, working-class parents and Pomo Native American parents and teachers in developing a Head Start Program, which included teaching family dynamics to the Head Start teachers and developing an innovative lead-screening program.

Over a period of several years, Dr. Cousens established the Petaluma People’s Services Center, which is a community-controlled network that provides social services for all of Sonoma County. It involved organizing over 40 agencies, plus developing new programs and networking to serve the elderly, a child-abuse hotline, and parent crisis hotlines. This center is still operating 25 years later and has been successful in its endeavors. It has become a significant social service agency in southern Sonoma County.

Gabriel founded the first Kundalini Crisis Clinic with Lee Sanella, M.D. In 1973 Gabriel transitioned from a meat-eating lifestyle to vegetarian, and started teaching meditation. In 1983 he transitioned to a 100% vegan live-food lifestyle.  Since 1985, Rebbe Gabriel 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 received the blessings of over 130 enrolled world organizations participating including spiritual leaders, leading rabbis, ministers, sheikhs, meditation teachers, and the Dalai Lama. He has recently created an international sevenfold peace communication tele-network broadcast worldwide through the Whole Urth Network.

Gabriel is a spiritual teacher who is coming from direct experience. Gabriel is coming from the truth of his own life and light. Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini creates the conditions for experiencing the divine bliss, which is the primary motivation for liberation as it achieves the urge to live in an unending divine kiss. Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini gives you both the technology and the inspiration to do this.

Dr. Cousens is listed in the Who’s Who in California, the Who’s Who Among Top Executives, the Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals, the International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs, Strathmore’s Who’s Who, and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA).

Gabriel is married to Shanti GoldsCousens and is the grateful father of two children and two grandchildren. He regularly teaches workshops, fasts, courses, and retreats at his two centers, tours with his book releases, and appears on popular talk shows. He has committed his life to world service and to establishing these programs on an international basis so that he, and everyone who chooses to help, can participate in the healing and transformation of the planet.