Jim Walsh - Beyond the Ordinary Dot Net

~~~ Jim Walsh ~~~
"Chocolate is a taste of divine ecstasy on earth…It is our sensual communion,"
Jim Walsh says, adding, "What a wonderful outcome for one's life work-to share joy with the world."

Jim Walsh, Founder of Intentional Chocolate^TM started reinventing chocolate in 1982. After two years of planning and conferring with his wife, Marie, and a chance meeting with a Hershey executive, they decided to focus on a life in Hawaii growing America's first cacao crop.

In Hawaii, Jim gathered cacao genetics from around the world to create the first new cocoa variety in 100 years, as well as producing the first and only chocolate grown in the United States. The resulting Hawaiian Chocolate was not only due to special genetics he created, but also from his newly developed concept of varietal farming patterned after the wine industry. Vintage-varietal chocolate became the hottest category in gourmet chocolate in 30 years and has inspired even the largest chocolate manufacturers to follow him into this new retail territory. Walsh grew Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate into a gourmet chocolate company whose chocolate is used internationally by master chefs of the world, such as Alan Ducasse, Paul Bocuse, Emeril LaGasse, Charlie Trotter, Robert Del Grande, Stephan Pyles, and Roy Yamaguchi. The New York Times has called it "The best chocolate in the world." This chocolate is so special that the Dalai Lama's first bite of chocolate was Hawaiian Vintage, Bill Gates insisted upon it for his wedding, and it has been given by the President as a gift of honor to the Royal Family of Japan. In 1997 Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate became a public company whose stock symbol is HWVI. Jim and his HVC products have been featured in, among others, The Stamford Advocate, The Economist, CNN and most recently Time magazine, Intentional Chocolate(tm)

Food & Wine, Gourmet Magazine, and Sunset.

In 2007 Jim expanding his vision of chocolate even further... he wanted to produce a line of chocolates embedded with intentions yielding energy, vitality, and well-being. Having read Dean Radin's books Jim went to see him, long talks and research with The HESA Institute ensued. Through a series of clinical trials, Intentional Chocolate^TM has been scientifically proven to enhance the food's already powerful qualities with a specific favorable intention. This breakthrough will profoundly impact the way people relate to chocolate and offers unlimited potential for a wide range of foods, beverages and health care products.

For Intentional Chocolate^TM see: www.intentionalchocolate.com and Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate here: HawaiianVintageChocolate.com.

Dean Radin, PhD A BTO Guest, is Director of Research for HESA, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds. His study for Intentional Chocolate™ was published in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing in November 2007. Dean acts as the Company's Science Advisor. www.deanradin.com.