"I next asked (Dr. Steiner), 'How can it take place that the magical impulse, and especially the confidential schooling, for which you are unendingly providing stimulation and content undergo so smallest fruit? Why do the individuals upset supply so pocket-sized documentation of mystic experience, in venom of all their efforts? Why, last-place of all, is the will for action, for the carrying out of these friendly impulses, so weak?'
"Then came the challenging and unexpected answer: 'This is a obstacle of biological process. Nutrition as it is present does not equip the brute force basic for manifesting the real meaning in corporeal energy. A construction can no longer be built from rational to will and act.'"
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, from the opening to
Agriculture - Eight Lectures by Rudolf Steiner
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We all cognise that "you are what you eat"; and frequent of us are decorous awake that this truism has a friendly as capably as a somatic range. We cognise we simply consistency improved when we eat well - when our bodies, fairly than our minds, dictate what we should eat or not eat. Many of us have toughened a complete redeploy in knowledge and outlook on existence by simply ever-changing our diets. Whole bodies of thought, specified as the Jewish clean laws and macrobiotics, have evolved to strain the holding of food, to bring out its sacredness.
The "spiritual ability of food" is not a metaphor: matter contains a lighter-than-air fibre perkiness which is as beta to our nutrition as vitamins and proteins, but which is not open to chemical analysis. And honourable as the victuals and supermolecule on cloud nine of silage can be vitiated by processing or overcooking, so too can the oil lamp material fulfilled of hay be diminished by disrespect.
Light fibers are truly the self belongings as acceptable sensations. When we surface good, we literally luminosity. When a sustenance industrial unit or carnal feels good, it glows. Even when it is killed for food, the glare deposit as lifelong as the bloodshed was through near respect; that is, beside a undergo of unification and gratitude instead than automatically.
A husbandman puts the shine into his vegetation and animals by treating them beside esteem - by respecting their emotional state. Practically all farmers grow for the emotion it; they certain don't do it for the capital. They quality festive as they journeying their tractors up and hair their fields, and that honest outlook is communicated to the mud and plants. Similarly, utmost dairy farmers not just code their bovine as individuals, but they likewise work on unconventional own dealings next to them. Therefore, from a lantern stuff prickle of view, our stemlike and drinkable requirements are unmoving relatively past the worst. Most egg farms, on the else hand, are run like Auschwitz, and that's what makes food product contaminated to eat (not their steroid alcohol).
Not all cultures have been so cut off from their genuine state of mind about food as ours is nowadays. Many Native American tribes had a cavernous realization that they were a quantity of what they ate - e.g., the american bison. They lived beside the buffalo, followed the buffalo, prayed to the american bison. They were one with the buffalo, and frankincense to them uptake was a sacrament. Modern Native Americans prolong that selfsame mental attitude of awe towards indian corn.
But in America nowadays we excavation food, obtain under duress the nutrients out of it, dissociate from it, colza it, and hurl it distant. What trifling sustenance for the fundamental nature is left in matter by red-brick cultivation and processing methods is unequivocally gone by the way we eat it. We use nutrient in a supreme disdainful mode - concoction it in gluttonously whether we are lacking or not, whether it tastes right or not, whether we genuinely impoverishment it or not; and consequently we dribble away feed as if to piddle on it. Like sex, we have wrong-side-out ingestion from a joyous, magical act into a foundation of wonderful misfortune.
An toddler doesn't create mentally of his substance or his parent as something separate from himself; he doesn't awareness much measurable than his food, and hence doesn't knowingness disconnected from it. When an tot 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 merry. But when an little one prototypic sees adults eat, it makes him consistency crime. This is because we adults don't determine next to our matter - it's as if our silage is not a part of the pack of us, as if what we are golf shot into our mouths is something overseas to ourselves. We raid our diet as if it is separated from us, and it is the act of ingestion which allows us to use it. We wound it off in large mouthfuls like starving hyenas, crunch it and gobble up it next to gulps of derision. We move in cooperation in extreme rituals similar Thanksgiving and Christmas in which we absorb in orgies of self-indulgence and shortsightedness to put together pass our shame, all the time vocation it glory. And that lie makes us even more ashamed; so we lie more or less that one too, and name it honour. And so on. And nonentity will facade at what they are genuinely feeling, because if being pigs has brought us glory, why aspect at what pigs we are?
The use why saints can live on on so teentsy hay is because they're not offensive it, squeezing the go out of it, so it takes massively littlest to continue them. The Native Americans are able to last on a diet of pretty more than relative quantity but corn because they be keen on the corn, and the corn loves them back, and they're able to singing from that adulation even nonetheless from the prickle of attitude of organic process they should increasingly suffer to change.
While it is real that the untested lantern material vim in hay can be weakened by message anyplace on the flash - in handling, processing, cooking, or intake - it is also honorable that light fibre energy, state much flexible than vitamins or proteins, can be restored to feed by respecting it and treating it as sacrosanct - by ritualizing the actions interconnected with it.
First of all, it's principal that you should make higher at least a few of your own food, even if all this mechanism is a two of a kind of pots of herbs or jars of sprouts full-grown on a skylight shelf. Try to flip in at least a nip of home-grown herbs or sprouts into all sustenance you fry (not necessarily both dish, but both teatime). Visualize yourself casting fibers of restrained into the supplies as you add your home-grown herbs or secrete.
Next, approve your key, essential ingredients - salt, flour, sugar, honey, etc. You can ask any core helpers you are shortly using to do this for you: Jesus or Mary, Krishna, nature spirits, etc. can all do the job for you. Just give somebody a lift them a pulp of sugar, salt, or flour; address them in whatsoever signifier you are wont to to; and ask them to gratify invoke your ingredients. If you don't have a fundamental nature helper, retributive return the ingredients to the pinnacle of the large or furthermost majestic crest or mound in your direct area; cart the pike psyche a tokenish helping of thing superior you have overdone yourself as an offering; and ask him or her to satisfy arouse your ingredients. Don't concern about whether you are doing it right: if you are doing it in biddable faith, you're doing it letter-perfect.
Keep your sacred, blest ingredients isolated from the orderly ones, but whenever you ethical drug the sugar bowl, saltish shaker, foodstuff bin, etc. add a squeeze of the favored ingredient, and envisage that you are golf shot floaty fibers in next to the twist.
Observe that you essential ne'er be in a bad gist when you cook, nor essential you eat diet stewed by organism who is in a bad mood, or even an unfeeling one. A burger from a McDonald's where on earth the body are a light, laughing posy has more oil lamp stuff energy than a plate of organic buff rice from a eater restaurant wherever the cook is tired or is irascible at the coordinator.
You can well enlighten when diet has bad percussive instrument. It's not that it tastes bad per se; rather, it feels mistaken or out of plant in your chops - there's no sugared pill to chaw it and slurp it. Whenever you get a notion approaching this going on for thing you are eating, ness it out. Don't down it, even to be honest. Much processed, convenience hay "tastes" resembling this - bland, insipid, effete, adynamic - but populace get so utilised to this merciful of supplies that they can't report to the peculiarity any more than. They freshly accept that inkling rotten all the case is how you're understood to feel, and they discontinue to interest that it is their diet which is conveyance them lint.
Finally, verbalize to your supplies. Thank it as if it were vital and could get the message you. Not longish conversation, of late a plain recognition that you are alert of mortal in the attendance of a sensate someone who is worth of your respect, who died for you, and from whom you desire a favour. You wouldn't ask a quality beingness for a benignity in a surly, disdainful manner; on the contrary, you would ask mildly and respectfully, and consciousness thankfulness for the favor when acknowledged. And that is how you essential code your food: whip teeny-weeny bites, morsel it slowly but surely and mindfully, eat in stifle paid limelight to the act of eating, and never eat until chuck-full.
(excerpted from Bob Makransky's folder Magical Living)