"Whole Foods"; and preparing food from scratch

[Zach]

There is a fallacy in your statements, Zach, and it's that someone who eats vegan/raw/organic doesn't eat food that could be consider "junk". I bake cakes, even make vegan versions of snacks (Twix, rice crispie treats). The grocery store even has non-GMO sour gummy worms that they color with turmeric and beets, I eat those a lot too. The dollar store actually has a lot of "vegan" processed snacks (because it's cheaper to not use animal products). And really, the foods that uplift my heart and spirit the most are usually fresh, ripe fruits.

Also, Ra's comment about the "occasional" dessert was just that, occasional - and even then, he got into specificity, telling her that she should have fruit juice instead of a cookie, and actually, other times, tells her that she should refrain from dessert, and even gives her a specific schedule when it's okay to eat to consume sweets. Ra does not say this is for her mental well being, but due to a complex addiction to sugars because Carla consumed them too much.

102.5 Questioner: What foods should the instrument eliminate from her diet in order to alleviate these painful attacks?

Ra: I am Ra. The information gained from the one known as Bob is that which is to be recommended. Further, all foodstuffs are to be cooked so that those things which are ingested be soft and easily macerated. There is a complex addiction, due to long-standing eating habits, to your sugars. It is to be recommended that, therefore, this sugar be given in its more concentrated form in your time of late afternoon, as you term it, with the ingestion of the sugared libation approximately one to two of your hours after the evening meal. It is further suggested that, since this instrument has been using sugars for carbohydrates, that a small amount of carbohydrate, low in sugar, be ingested approximately one to two of your hours before the sleeping period.

106.17 Questioner: Now, summarizing what we can do for the instrument: through praise and thanksgiving and harmony we can… Is that all that we can do other than advising her to drink a considerable amount of liquid and moving her into a better atmosphere. Am I correct on that?

Ra: I am Ra. We examine the statement and find two items missing, one important relative to the other. The chief addition is the grasping of the entity’s nature. The less important is, for little it may seem to be, perhaps helpful; that is, the entity absorbs much medication and finds it useful to feed itself when these substances are ingested. The substitution of substances such as fruit juice for the cookie is recommended, and, further, the ingestion of substances containing sucrose which are not liquid is not recommended within four of your hours before the sleeping period

I wasn't very clear. That was just an extreme example for the sake of trying to get a point across; the connection between the mind and what we eat and how our attitude extends to the physical and has effect on our health. A little off topic but it came to mind to share.

I myself eat mostly "vegan"  but I will still eat foods I consider "less pure". Im with you about the ripe fruits btw...I could live on tree ripe mango . I have seen the power of purifying the body, thats why I continue to eat the way I do. This topic just made me think of how eating healthy and being healthy as in- inner balancing are two different things. Yet often eating healthy will be an extension of seeking inner balance and eating healthy can help someone be a clearer channel. But how much does it contribute to inner balancing? It just got me thinking is all.

"18.4 Questioner: Are there any foods that are helpful or harmful that the instrument might eat?

Ra: I am Ra. This instrument has body complex distortion towards ill health in the distortion direction corrected best by ingestion of the foodstuffs of your grains and your vegetables, as you call them. However, this is extremely unimportant when regarded as an aid with equality to other aids such as attitude which this instrument has in abundance. It, however, aids the vital energies of this instrument, with less distortion towards ill health, to ingest foodstuffs in the above manner with occasional ingestion of what you call your meats, due to the instrument’s need to lessen the distortion towards low vital energy."

I feel that eating healthy is important...It has changed my life in a positive way. It just also made me think of people who don't eat well but are well due to their way of being, such as my grandmother who is in her 90's and has a very positive and prayerful attitude towards life and is physically very mobile.

I thought I read somewhere Ra commenting on Carla having occasional dessert being a joyful experience for her therefore being appropriate for her mental configuration. Im paraphrasing of course. I couldn't find anything so my bad if I mis-remembered that.