About this archive

Raw Truth is a digital archive of Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1947–2013): forty years of recorded Q&As, workshops, interviews and writings, gathered in one place with synchronized transcripts you can read or follow along with while you listen.

The recordings and transcripts were preserved by the communities around his work. This site exists to make that material easy to read, search and listen to, with the audio aligned to the text sentence by sentence.

How to use it

Browse. Every piece lives in The Archive. Filter by type: Q&A, workshop, interview, video, book, newsletter, or misc. Choose a category first if you want to narrow things down before you search.

Search the full text. The search box reads inside every transcript, book and newsletter, not just the titles. Search a word, a symptom, a remedy or a topic. Results are grouped so the closest ones come first: an exact phrase, then pieces that contain all of your words, then related ones. Misspell something and it suggests the word it thinks you meant. You can search within the category you have selected, and if nothing turns up there it offers to look through everything instead.

Read while you listen. Open any recording and press play. The transcript follows along, marking the passage being spoken, so you never lose your place.

Jump to any moment. Click any sentence and the audio jumps to where it was said. The slim scrollbar on the right shows where you are in the recording, with a marker for the spot now playing.

Find every mention. When you open a recording from a search, every place your words appear is highlighted, and a small counter near the top steps you through them one at a time. Clear the highlights with the ✕ when you are done.

Focus on the words. On a recording you can fold the audio player away to read in full, then bring it back with the Player button.

Pieces without audio. A few Q&As and writings only ever existed as text. Those are labeled as such, and a short note explains where the transcript came from.

Light or dark. Use the ☾ / ☀ toggle in the top corner; the site remembers your choice.

Contact

This is a personal project, and it will always be a work in progress. If you have a suggestion, an idea, or a correction, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected].