A Friendly Conversation: Exploring Omnivorous vs. Vegetarian Diet

[Oldern]

Umm.........consciously being aware of where my food comes from or what flesh had gone through before it got to me would obviously make me choose something else to invite into my consciousness.

Maybe I did not express myself clearly enough, but that is exactly my point. Once I made a conscious connection between the suffering animals, the meat industry and the seemingly clean meat in the stores, I was able to make a decision that it is not what I want to eat. Many people do not to this, but not out of dumbness. So:

It looks like you are saying the health/weight problems are based upon a general lack of consciousness or conscious awareness?

I think it is the result of a very heavy learning process - this reality, especially at this crucial moment, can offer very heavy and very intense catalysts. One being born into this age gets out of balance from basically day 1. Unclean food, tv programming, the left/right-them/us mentality, the "do not let others close to you or they will just hurt you" programmings, all the arguments...the result is a being that is being bombarded in multiple fronts. Food, I belive, is one of these fronts. There is consciousness behind those decisions that say "let us eat some snacks", but that consciousness does not care about the body itself, and does not respect it.

I am sure you have met many people who believe that "everything is harmful anyway, we will just have to survive as much as possible, and enjoy it while it lasts.". For some, the body is something that is to be abused (sexually, energetically, existentially), and yes, there is not much conscious thought behind the eating process other than maybe the need for exotic/heavy/interesting taste in their mouth.

For others, (and that is another topic for another day), eating is an escape mechanism. They eat a lot because they feel like that is the only thing left to them. They want more control over their life, but cant seemingly get it. Catalysts, however, stuck, so the overweight problems usually result in less control over one's own body, so the problem still needs to be dealt with, one way or another. And this type of eating problem can persist with vegetarians as well, very easily.