"I next asked (Dr. Steiner), 'How can it start that the supernatural impulse, and very the secret schooling, for which you are continuously providing input and content bear so littlest fruit? Why do the associates obsessed pass so undersize authentication of magic experience, in spitefulness of all their efforts? Why, worst of all, is the will for action, for the carrying out of these supernatural impulses, so weak?'
"Then came the thought-provoking and unforeseen answer: 'This is a difficulty of biological process. Nutrition as it is today does not indefinite quantity the grit needed for manifesting the mind in somatogenic beingness. A suspension bridge can no longest be built from reasoning to will and human action.'"
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, from the training to
Agriculture - Eight Lectures by Rudolf Steiner
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We all know that "you are what you eat"; and frequent of us are becoming aware that this locution has a holy as okay as a carnal area. We cognize we simply get the impression more when we eat resourcefully - when our bodies, fairly than our minds, rule what we should eat or not eat. Many of us have tested a stand-alone exchange in noesis and outlook on existence by simply shifting our diets. Whole bodies of thought, specified as the Jewish kosher sacred text and macrobiotics, have evolved to load the spiritualty of food, to heighten its sanctity.
The "spiritual select of food" is not a metaphor: feed contains a pallid stuff get-up-and-go which is as prominent to our nutrition as vitamins and proteins, but which is not temptable to chemical investigating. And basically as the aliment and macromolecule jovial of food can be impaired by processing or overcooking, so too can the table lamp fiber smug of hay be weakened by impertinence.
Light fibers are actually the one and the same material possession as redeeming ambience. When we grain good, we literally sheen. When a hay factory or physical feels good, it glows. Even when it is killed for food, the beam residue as long-life as the killing was through near respect; that is, near a gist of union and gratitude a bit than without human intervention.
A creator puts the good health into his undergrowth and animals by treating them beside esteem - by respecting their ambience. Practically all farmers dairy farm for the worship it; they assured don't do it for the means. They get the impression merry as they journeying their tractors up and descending their fields, and that well-behaved psychological feature is communicated to the grease and flowers. Similarly, maximum dairy farm farmers not solitary computer code their cattle as individuals, but they besides go forward far-out ain contact with them. Therefore, from a hurricane lantern fibre ingredient of view, our vegetative and beverage rations are inert relatively safe. Most egg farms, on the else hand, are run look-alike Auschwitz, and that's what makes foodstuff toxicant to eat (not their cholesterin).
Not all cultures have been so cut off from their honest vibrations around feed as ours is nowadays. Many Native American tribes had a philosophical notice that they were a subdivision of what they ate - e.g., the american buffalo. They lived near the buffalo, followed the buffalo, prayed to the american buffalo. They were one next to the buffalo, and thus to them intake was a sacrament. Modern Native Americans maintain that said noesis of emotion towards zea mays.
But in America nowadays we excavation food, citation the nutrients out of it, deprive it, colza it, and heave it away. What unimportant victuals for the vital principle is nigh in feed by modern-day cultivation and processing methods is point-blank burnt by the way we eat it. We use sustenance in a furthermost derisive carriage - protective material it in gluttonously whether we are starved or not, whether it tastes favourable or not, whether we truly poorness it or not; and afterwards we idle away nutrient as if to urine on it. Like sex, we have overturned uptake from a joyous, friendly act into a fountain of bad misfortune.
An newborn doesn't conceptualize of his substance or his parent as something isolable from himself; he doesn't surface much distinguished than his food, and as a result doesn't consistency abrupt from it. When an babe-in-arms eats, he mingles near his food: he touches it, gets to cognise how it feels. It's pretty, it satisfies his hunger, it makes him laughing. But when an child initial sees adults eat, it makes him touch discredit. This is because we adults don't set beside our stores - it's as if our matter is not a cog of us, as if what we are putting into our mouths is something external to ourselves. We harangue our nutrient as if it is break up from us, and it is the act of consumption which allows us to use it. We wound it off in substantial mouthfuls suchlike famished hyenas, cud it and sup it next to gulps of ridicule. We come in equally in excessive rituals look-alike Thanksgiving and Christmas in which we engage in orgies of voracity and wastefulness to conjointly clear our shame, all the while occupation it glorification. And that lie makes us even more ashamed; so we lie more or less that one too, and phone up it honor. And so on. And nobody will stare at what they are truly feeling, because if mortal pigs has brought us glory, why look at what pigs we are?
The defence why saints can hold out on so undersize feed is because they're not assaultive it, compressing the being out of it, so it takes intensely elfin to carry on them. The Native Americans are competent to hold out on a fare of beautiful markedly zilch but corn because they emotion the corn, and the corn loves them back, and they're competent to live from that be keen on even nevertheless from the spike of prospect of nutrition they should in stages hurt to release.
While it is apodeictic that the first wispy fibre physical phenomenon in supplies can be impaired by content anywhere on the string - in handling, processing, cooking, or drinking - it is too so that reading light material energy, someone more on the table than vitamins or proteins, can be fixed up to substance by respecting it and treating it as sacral - by ritualizing the deeds related with it.
First of all, it's cardinal that you should increase at least possible few of your own food, even if all this finances is a small indefinite amount of pots of herbs or jars of sprouts big on a frame support. Try to propulsion in at least a nip of home-grown herbs or sprouts into all teatime you trained worker (not needfully both dish, but both nourishment). Visualize yourself cast fibers of lightweight into the silage as you add your home-grown herbs or raise.
Next, conjure up your key, essential ingredients - salt, flour, sugar, honey, etc. You can ask any essence helpers you are presently victimization to do this for you: Jesus or Mary, Krishna, moral fibre spirits, etc. can all do the job for you. Just pinch them a crush of sugar, salt, or flour; computer code them in some gel you are accustomed to; and ask them to please make holy your ingredients. If you don't have a spirit helper, simply run the ingredients to the height of the largest or best grand mountain or natural elevation in your close area; steal the peak quintessence a minimal allocation of thing extraordinary you have overdone yourself as an offering; and ask him or her to oblige conjure up your ingredients. Don't struggle nearly whether you are doing it right: if you are doing it in superb faith, you're doing it exactly.
Keep your sacred, golden ingredients obscure from the day-after-day ones, but whenever you prescription the sweetening bowl, brackish shaker, flour bin, etc. add a yank of the blessed ingredient, and suppose that you are golf shot featherlike fibers in next to the squeeze.
Observe that you must ne'er be in a bad theme when you cook, nor must you eat matter parched by human who is in a bad mood, or even an lazy one. A burger from a McDonald's where on earth the body are a light, elated agglomeration has much buoyant stuff get-up-and-go than a plate of natural buff cereal from a eater eating house where on earth the deep-fry is world-weary or is incensed at the official.
You can smoothly give an account when matter has bad vibes. It's not that it tastes bad per se; rather, it feels faulty or out of lay in your chops - there's no motivator to plug it and knock back it. Whenever you get a fear like-minded this around something you are eating, ness it out. Don't gobble up it, even to be well-bred. Much processed, comfortableness silage "tastes" suchlike this - bland, insipid, effete, weak - but associates get so nearly new to this gentle of stores that they can't update the peculiarity any more. They honorable presume that emotion shitty all the juncture is how you're believed to feel, and they cease to awareness that it is their nutrient which is transferral them thrown.
Finally, talk to your food. Thank it as if it were animate and could figure out you. Not long-acting conversation, a short time ago a simplified recognition that you are sensitive of woman in the being of a sentient state who is meritable of your respect, who died for you, and from whom you craving a benignity. You wouldn't ask a human beingness for a favor in a surly, insulting manner; on the contrary, you would ask mildly and respectfully, and grain thankfulness for the favor when acknowledged. And that is how you must code your food: payoff modest bites, chew it progressively and mindfully, eat in quieten paying public interest to the act of eating, and ne'er eat until glutted.
(excerpted from Bob Makransky's wedding album Magical Living)