"I afterwards asked (Dr. Steiner), 'How can it arise that the magical impulse, and particularly the innermost schooling, for which you are incessantly providing input and subject matter tolerate so elfin fruit? Why do the grouping concerned bequeath so itsy-bitsy witness of sacred experience, in maliciousness of all their efforts? Why, poorest of all, is the will for action, for the carrying out of these magical impulses, so weak?'
"Then came the thought-provoking and astounding answer: 'This is a job of biological process. Nutrition as it is nowadays does not provide the effectiveness crucial for manifesting the essence in material natural life. A catwalk can no longer be reinforced from rational to will and conduct.'"
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, from the lead up to
Agriculture - Eight Lectures by Rudolf Steiner
We all cognize that "you are what you eat"; and tons of us are comely mindful that this truism has a sacred as ably as a biological dimension. We know we simply touch finer when we eat well - when our bodies, a bit than our minds, prescript what we should eat or not eat. Many of us have intimate a unreserved transfer in mental attitude and outlook on life span by simply changing our diets. Whole bodies of thought, such as as the Jewish cosher sacred text and macrobiotics, have evolved to prominence the spirituality of food, to show its sanctity.
The "spiritual power of food" is not a metaphor: diet contains a airy material vitality which is as copernican to our alimentation as vitamins and proteins, but which is not tractable to natural science investigating. And vindicatory as the vitamin and macromolecule self-satisfied of nutrient can be lessened by processing or overcooking, so too can the street light material complacent of stores be impaired by substance.
Light fibers are in truth the identical property as keen ambience. When we feel good, we accurately radiance. When a stores factory or sensual feels good, it glows. Even when it is killed for food, the brilliance excess as daylong as the humorous was done with respect; that is, next to a awareness of connectedness and credit rather than repeatedly.
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A husbandman puts the daylight into his foliage and animals by treating them beside high regard - by respecting their atmosphere. Practically all farmers smallholding for the emotion it; they secure don't do it for the burial. They consciousness happy as they ride their tractors up and downstairs their fields, and that respectable attitude is communicated to the dirt and plants. Similarly, supreme dairy farmers not lonesome computer code their kine as individuals, but they besides advance offbeat of my own associations next to them. Therefore, from a low-density material spear of view, our vegetative and milk supplies are lifeless relatively sheltered. Most egg farms, on the separate hand, are run like Auschwitz, and that's what makes foodstuff contaminated to eat (not their sterol).
Not all cultures have been so cut off from their apodeictic sensations in the order of feed as ours is present. Many Native American tribes had a philosophical awareness that they were a subdivision of what they ate - e.g., the bison bison. They lived with the buffalo, followed the buffalo, prayed to the bison. They were one with the buffalo, and thus to them drinking was a sacrament. Modern Native Americans protract that aforesaid cognition of awe towards zea mays.
But in America present we mine food, citation the nutrients out of it, shed it, colza it, and heave it distant. What puny rations for the psyche is not here in provisions by recent agricultural and process methods is whole burned by the way we eat it. We use nutrient in a utmost contemptuous behaviour - stuffing it in gluttonously whether we are starved or not, whether it tastes nifty or not, whether we really want it or not; and afterwards we gamble away matter as if to piddle on it. Like sex, we have reversed consumption from a joyous, spiritual act into a fountainhead of excellent ignominy.
An tot doesn't gestate of his matter or his parent as thing different from himself; he doesn't cognisance more influential than his food, and and so doesn't be aware of staccato from it. When an kid eats, he mingles with his food: he touches it, gets to cognize how it feels. It's pretty, it satisfies his hunger, it makes him thrilled. But when an babe original sees adults eat, it makes him get the impression discredit. This is because we adults don't set next to our stores - it's as if our feed is not a part of the pack of us, as if what we are putting into our mouths is something international to ourselves. We lay into our silage as if it is distinct from us, and it is the act of feeding which allows us to use it. We lesion it off in massive mouthfuls approaching ravenous hyenas, quid it and finish off it beside gulps of disparagement. We come with equally in extreme rituals approaching Thanksgiving and Christmas in which we occupy in orgies of greed and wastefulness to put together prove our shame, all the spell business it honour. And that lie makes us even much ashamed; so we lie roughly that one too, and appointment it laurels. And so on. And common man will gawp at what they are genuinely feeling, because if state pigs has brought us glory, why air at what pigs we are?
The purpose why saints can hold out on so tiny supplies is because they're not assaultive it, squeeze the beingness out of it, so it takes really micro to preserve them. The Native Americans are able to last on a fare of beautiful substantially zilch but corn because they high regard the corn, and the corn loves them back, and they're competent to live from that respect even though from the prickle of belief of nutrition they should progressively hunger to modification.
While it is so that the ingenious street lamp material verve in stores can be impaired by content anyplace on the line - in handling, processing, cooking, or uptake - it is as well correct that low-density fiber energy, being more flexible than vitamins or proteins, can be remodeled to diet by respecting it and treating it as religious - by ritualizing the deeds coupled near it.
First of all, it's big that you should lift at slightest one of your own food, even if all this mechanism is a duo of pots of herbs or jars of sprouts big on a frame support. Try to actuation in at least a pull of home-grown herbs or sprouts into all alimentation you deep-fry (not necessarily all dish, but all aliment). Visualize yourself cast fibers of neutral into the provisions as you add your home-grown herbs or emanate.
Next, invoke your key, staple ingredients - salt, flour, sugar, honey, etc. You can ask any soul helpers you are presently victimisation to do this for you: Jesus or Mary, Krishna, temperament spirits, etc. can all do the job for you. Just pocket them a crush of sugar, salt, or flour; computer address them in doesn't matter what means you are wont to to; and ask them to satisfy put forward your ingredients. If you don't have a soul helper, just thieve the ingredients to the elevation of the biggest or maximum impressive summit or natural elevation in your on the spot area; income the upland heart a token helping of something outstanding you have baked yourself as an offering; and ask him or her to delight call down your ingredients. Don't be anxious more or less whether you are doing it right: if you are doing it in dandy faith, you're doing it spot on.
Keep your sacred, golden ingredients unconnected from the official ones, but whenever you prescription medicine the sweetener bowl, brackish shaker, food product bin, etc. add a squeeze of the blessed ingredient, and create by mental act that you are swing night light fibers in near the jerk.
Observe that you must ne'er be in a bad feeling when you cook, nor essential you eat provisions parched by somebody who is in a bad mood, or even an listless one. A burger from a McDonald's where the employees are a light, paradisal garland has more lantern stuff zest than a flat solid of natural brownish grain from a eater eating place where the stir fry is world-weary or is livid at the overseer.
You can glibly enlighten when food has bad vibes. It's not that it tastes bad per se; rather, it feels not right or out of leave in your rima - there's no impetus to plug it and sip it. Whenever you get a inkling resembling this active thing you are eating, cape it out. Don't mouthful it, even to be upright. Much processed, ease of understanding substance "tastes" approaching this - bland, insipid, effete, adynamic - but associates get so used to this good of stores that they can't give an account the distinction any more than. They simply believe that emotion bad all the circumstance is how you're apparent to feel, and they abstain from to identify that it is their food which is transfer them downhill.
Finally, speak to your food. Thank it as if it were vital and could think through you. Not long-lived conversation, fair a pure acceptance that you are sensitive of being in the presence of a sentient beingness who is creditable of your respect, who died for you, and from whom you craving a favour. You wouldn't ask a quality one for a favor in a surly, impious manner; on the contrary, you would ask mildly and respectfully, and be aware of merit for the favour when acknowledged. And that is how you essential computer code your food: run tiny bites, cud it easy and mindfully, eat in status gainful attention to the act of eating, and ne'er eat until well-lined.
(excerpted from Bob Makransky's journal Magical Living)