Dr. Bronner’s All-One magical, regeneratively-grown chocolate

Chocolate these days is taking an other-worldly position on the grocery store shelves (and online) and there are many reasons why we revere the fermented fruit of the cacao tree. Plenty of small-batch companies now offer low-sugar, high percentage organic cacao in their chocolate. Some gives us a break mid-day and some like a sage or a mystic offer us gentle passage to knowing our higher selves. That’s what I have derived from attending a cacao ceremony. 

Like a chip off the old chocolate block, the Dr. Bronner’s brand we know and adore for its biodegradable castile soap, is now in the chocolate business. And like other brands we love –– such as Nature’s Path –– is making a commitment to regenerative farming. In bar form –– regeneratively farmed chocolate. 

When Dr. Bronner’s headquarters asked us to review their chocolate, we called on the biggest chocolate expert we know –– Raven Littleone for the expert testing. She guards a monastery of sacred water in a forest in Nipissing, Ontario. Some say hers is among the most sacred and ancient water in the world. Kings and queens and me and everything in between have made the pilgrimage to her place. The people who appreciate this fact and who also make fine chocolate today are Raven’s friends and neighbors, popping in with bags of ChocoSol (Toronto) and Sacred Heart Chocolate (David Wolfe, USA). 

A courier walked down to her off-grid cabin, powered only by the sun with a box of ALL-One Bronner’s chocolates. Here is Raven’s rave review:

“Like anything magic, Dr Bronner’s MAGIC All-One Chocolate bar begs to be experienced with that thrill, that excitement, of what dares such name! Reading Dr Bronner’s labels on any of his products, both inside and out, may require a capacity to decipher ancient texts… if one can wait that long just to take a bite. 

“The scent that wafted out as I ripped it open was a pleasant surprise. I didn’t know salt had a scent. The balance between salt, coconut sugar, and bourbon vanilla bean with a buttery taste felt just right; without the cacao overpowering the mouth. The taste kept on going even though I sipped kombucha in between. 

“The magic may be in the satisfaction one gets after two or three pieces of Dr Bronner’s organic cacao… a multi-sensory feel good, healthy food for the brain.”

Dr. Bronner’s Magic All-One Chocolate pairs world-class Swiss chocolatiers with fairly-treated cocoa farmers practicing regenerative organic agriculture to create a delicious dark chocolate. They sell a 6-pack in the flavors: Salted Whole Almonds, Salted Almond Butter, Crunchy Hazelnut Butter, Roasted Whole Hazelnuts, Salted Dark Chocolate, Smooth Coconut Praline — and vegan, almond milk versions too as Creamy Mocha Latte, Golden Milk Chai & Crunchy Hazelnut Butter.

We know the Dr. Bronner’s brand from the 90s when a friend had a bottle of castile soap in his shower. Mesmerized by the text, I’d go on to learn that the founder of the company –– Emanuel Bronner –– was a Holocaust survivor, who needed to spread the idea of unity and peace and that all religions should unite as one. Yeah, the text was unorthodox, but deeply refreshing compared to the sanitized industrial products I’d known like Irish Spring, or the Dove soap that my parents kept in their shower.

When I met Raven’s late husband Peter Steele –– the one who started speaking up for raw water in Canada, I knew I was meeting a Bronner-like entity whose wisdom and sparks of IN-sanity do heal the planet. Can a sip of spring water from Peter and Raven’s forest heal the world? I believe it can and that’s why so many are drawn to that place. Can a bite of Dr. Bronner’s ALL-ONE chocolate ignite the powers of the world to unite as one? Stranger things have happened. Let’s try!

As Bronner once said: “You are the captain of thy ship! The master of thy soul!

::Dr. Bronner’s

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18 resolutions from Dr. Bronner’s original soap label – 18 means “life” in gematria

1. Under one Eternal Father, I must teach friend & Enemy the full truth Moral ABC to unite all mankind free in One-God-Faith.
2. To get it all done: A Beast can only listen to its friend! A Human Being must teach-love his Enemy or that being is not yet human!
3. A shark can only love its friend. Lacking frontal lobes, it must avoid-fear-smear-hate-slander-dominate-dictate-distort-destroy anything it does not know, understand or disagrees with. That’s a shark. But a Human Being possessing the Kingdom of God’s Law, the Essene Moral ABC of the FREE within his frontal lobes, works hard to teach friend & enemy the Moral ABC, otherwise that being is not yet human.
4. A Human Being is a constructive working scientist who knows, loves, follows, teaches Full Truth, God’s Law, to all of God’s Children, friend & Enemy, otherwise that being is not yet Human! Exceptions? None!
5. The moment any being follows, tolerates or teaches earthen half-gods or half-truisms, that moment he becomes a godless, intolerant Beast, potentially 10 times more dangerous & destructive than any ordinary Shark-Snake-Rat or Panther!
6. If we really want Brotherhood-Progress-Peace, not war, we must not only listen to the neighbor whom we choose, but also to the one God sends! Otherwise we’re still Beasts, not yet Human! Exceptions eternally? Absolutely None! Jesus’ Manual of Discipline, out of the mouth of subway-builder Nikita Khrushchev, April ’56, London, England
7. “WE MUST TEACH LOVE OUR ENEMY OR PERISH! BEASTS TEACH ONLY THEIR FRIENDS!” But after 2,000 years it never got done! The godless beasts still disapproved! Result? These tremendous 13 words never got printed! Because the brilliant 48-year-young Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman’s book Peace of Mind was distorted after he dropped dead! Diagnosis? “Sudden heart attack!” Exactly as suffered by Rabbi Jesus, Spinoza, Thomas Paine, Samuel Friedman, Steiner-Prag and Rabbi Leo Baeck: 6 & 66 million “sudden heart attacks,” murders caused by us godless intolerant Beasts.
8. Always we’re our Brother’s Teacher of hardworking full truth uniting One-God-State or we decay being his Keeper by unworkable half-true intolerant hate!
9. He who risks his life teaching friend & Enemy the Moral ABC uniting all mankind free wins Eternal Life! He who does less than that perishes by half-truth strife.
10. I am the Son of God and so are you! I am the manifestation of God’s Eternal Law & so are you! I have learned great wonders: you shall learn greater wonders! I have done good work! You shall do better work! I have not come to change God’s Law, but we each came to find-follow-fulfill, print-protect-practice-preach-teach & enjoy it! Therefore, build you 1st the Kingdom of God’s Eternal Law within you, that is, memorize the Essene Moral ABC of the Free, All-One-Faith-in-One-God-State! To never yield to half-true hate! And everything you need shall be added unto you! Search & you shall find! Knock & it shall be opened! Sow & you shall reap! Work hard & you shall create! Speak up – don’t be afraid! Ask & you shall receive! But remember, only those enjoy Eternal Life in our all-embracing Father’s Kingdom that had the courage to teach friend & Enemy the Moral ABC to unite all free! Eternally One, All-One! Exceptions? None! These are the great Peace-winning teachings of the Manual of Discipline by the carpenter, the great Rabbi Jesus! Thanks to Mohammed’s Arab 1948-found Essene Scrolls, thank only God for that! But now came unto Jesus, the Disciple; his own Sisters & Brothers to say, “It is insane what does he say! Let’s put him away!” And answered he to survive free:
11. “Who are my Sisters & my Brothers? Only those that seek with me to teach full truth, the Moral ABC uniting all mankind free in One-God-State! Free of half-true hate! Those are my Sisters & Brothers! Others I know not!” But now his Disciples asked, “Then why, why are we God-loving Children of the great African shepherd Israel persecuted more than any other people! Why? Why? Why?” And answered he:
12. “God bless the persecuted! They alone are His chosen people! For those apes that did not suffer from persecution remained apes! Only those that worked hard to overcome untold centuries of Barbaric ice-aged persecution, reluctantly became Human Beings! Much, much too reluctantly! Exceptions? Absolutely None!”
13. To stay free: Only that full truth we have the courage to teach & give & give, can we enjoy to keep, evolve & live & live! Whatever we try to give at our death bed or take along, it absolute certain soon is gone! Exceptions eternally? None!
14. Let him who is without fault throw the first stone, for only God is always perfect! Judge no man unless you have walked in his shoes! So when your fellow man you measure, take him at his best! With that lever lift him higher, overlook the rest! But remember, unless a man knows the Moral ABC of the Free, none can help him to survive brave-free!
15. Let him who does not want to work with his hands, not eat with his hands either!
16. Put Father’s discipline, put God’s Law back at the head of your family, or you have no family-nation-team! Remember, every organization is the shadow of one constructive man or there is no organization, no construction, no man!
17. Self-disciplined timing is the skeleton of your intellect, the key to freedom, the basis of happiness, the foundation of Brotherhood! Without it, the most brilliant head remains useless-ineffective-small!
18. From every power enchains, each man can only free himself as self-control he gains! Therefore, he who conquers himself, conquers more than he who conquers the largest city!

THE MORAL ABC, INTRODUCED BY KIPLING’S “IF” & SOAPMAKER BRONNER

If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs & blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or being hated, don’t give way to hating! And yet don’t look too good nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the full truth that you have spoken, twisted by crooks to make a trap for fools; Or watch the things you have given your life to, broken, and yet stoop to build them up again with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it at one turn of pitch or toss; And lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss! If you can force your heart, your nerve, our sinew, to serve you long after they are gone, and so hold on although there is nothing left within you, except that voice which says to them: “Hold on! Hold on! “ If you can talk to crowds & keep your virtue; or walk with Kings—nor lose that common touch; If neither loving friend nor enemy can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much! Then, if you can work hard to teach each unforgiving minute the Moral ABC that unites all mankind free, come hell, hate, ban, you’ll enjoy God’s Spaceship Earth & do great work within it! And which is more you’l help unite the human race in Astronomy’s great All-One-God-Faith! For we’re All-One of None! Sure, they say: “East is East & West is West & never the twain shall meet!” But there is neither East nor West, nor border, breed nor birth once the Moral ABC unites all mankind free on God’s Spaceship Earth! Then, and only then, no matter how rough the trip, how charged with punishment the scroll, you are the captain of thy ship! The master of thy soul!

For who else but God gave man this sensors passion, love that can spark mere dust to life?! Beauty, in our Eternal father’s fashion, ecstasy—far above earthly greediness & strife! Poetry, uniting All-One, All-Brave, All-Life!

Who else but God can make love last, one trillion years of sweet eternities?! For when conquered after years of hardworking absolute cleanliness, toil, sweat, blood, love can strike like greased lightning sent by God to spark mere dust to intense blazing fire and create new love, faith-hope-guts-strength as only God inspires, create the unity of the human race in Astronomy’s Eternally Tremendous, All-One-God-Faith, as all mankind desires! Bronner’s Lavender Soap quart poem teaches ‘How to love’ uniting all-one above! Above! Who else but God!