In regards to eating meat

[Tenet Nosce]

I agree that it's not so easily demarcated, especially with all the pesticides, hormones, preservatives, etc. tainting the food.

Yes. But anyhow, we were talking about listening to the body. Yes, toxins can get in the way, although they are not an impenetrable barrier. Everybody has cravings. Toxins just distort them. That's OK- one can still learn from them.

The way I've explained it to groups is that every food craving presents a choice. Most people have been trained to see only two outcomes: affirm or deny. Surrender to the desire or resist the desire. Most people oscillate between the two, getting quite frustrated in the process.

But there is another choice available. The third choice is: ask why. When a craving is perceived- ask why? Why am I craving this food? When people do this, many of them realize that they don't have the answer. They don't know why they crave a certain food, and have to actually go within in order to retrieve the information.

Going within is good. Often times people will realize that their craving originates in the emotional body or in the mental body. These are then dealt with on the level at which they were created, or above.

Then one is left with the physical cravings. Affirm, deny, ask why?

This process will lead to genuine changes in eating patterns. Moreover, it will allow the body to communicate its needs directly, rather than relying upon experts and gurus to tell us what to do. Experts and gurus have been arguing incessantly for as long as we have recorded history, and I don't get the sense this is going to end anytime soon.

I guess my challenge to you would be- why not trust the body? Let's say you are totally right and meat is not good for any body. I propose- if that were true- then following the above process would result in meatless diets 100% of the time. Would you agree?

C'mon, Tenet, you know I wasn't referring to natural, organic tobacco used medicinally.

Well I wasn't quite sure, but I figured. The other point about this is the beta-carbolines. There is very good reason to believe that the benefits of regular intake of beta-carbolines far outweigh the perceived risks, such as the fat in the cacao bean, or the caffeine in the coffee bean, or the nicotine in the tobacco. I'm not saying everybody go smoke, but what I am saying is that if you do... ask why?

But I sure don't think Ra meant blood from a freshly killed animal.

No, I don't think that's what Ra was referring to. However, I also don't believe that when Ra physically walked among humans, that they demanded everybody stop eating meat lest some horrible fate befall them.

But you raise a very interesting question about the blood, which we have touched upon before. You mentioned the lifeforce in the juice. Would you see this as essentially equivalent to the lifeforce in the blood? Is the lifeforce "tainted" because of the killing of the animal? Or is that just a taboo put upon us to cover something up? If so, what? What really was all this animal sacrifice to the "gods" about, in the first place? I wonder about that...