Let's talk about healthy nutrition

[Eddie]

I agree generally with both of you. This is an important topic, and one that should receive more attention here.

Remember that YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. This old aphorism isn't metaphorical; it's literal.

Let us take a couple of situations, and contrast them.

To preface this exercise, let us remember that there is no separation. There is only the ONE. Everything that exists is a manifestation of GOD. The question is, how will one manifestation (us) react with, and properly utilize, the lessons that may be taught to us, by other manifestations?

Let us remember that, since everything that exists is a manifestion of GOD, then everything is CONSCIOUS. Nothing is dead or abeyant. Every atom, every molecule, every being, every crystal, is conscious, and strives toward reunion with the One Infinite Creator. Every morsel that we eat carries its own consciousness, and preserves its own memory. That memory is transferred to us as we eat the morsels.

Let us take the case of eating meat...in this case, modern industrial chicken.

I suspect that many of you haven't been in a modern chicken-house. These contain 10,000 to 100,000 chickens; they are confined to cages so small that, in most cases, the poor birds can't even turn around; and they are stacked upon one another, so that chickens on the rows below the top, are shat upon by the overlying chickens on the top row. In some cases, chickens are confined 2 or 3 to the cage. The farmers have to burn the ends of their beaks off with an electric needle, so that the chickens confined together in a tiny cage won't peck each other to death out of sheer frustration.

I well remember driving down the road one day, with a friend, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. We were following a tractor-trailer truck hauling a large load of chickens to the slaughterhouse. The chickens, which had been bred to be white, were 2 to a cage, stacked six cages high, on the back of a flatbed; and they were a dark, dirty, dull grayish-brown; the result of a lifetime of being covered with the excrement of the overlying fowls. We had, for a short time, the windows down, on our pickup, as we followed this truck. The smell emanating from these poor birds was absolutely ghastly. We hastily rolled up our windows and turned on the air-conditioning.

Now, imagine yourselves eating meat from these fowls (which you do, every time you don't eat a "Free-Range" chicken). What you ingest into your body is cells with the memory of a CONCENTRATION-CAMP life.

What will your body do after incorporating these memories into your physical structure?

Compare that situation with the meat that I prefer.

I hunt (I am not a vegetarian). I do my best to shoot game (mostly deer) efficiently and cleanly.

On the day that we witnessed those unfortunate chickens heading toward their doom, we were returning from a hunt for rails at Chincoteague. (Rails, for those of you not familiar with them, are small, skinny, chicken-like birds that live in the marsh.) We had killed about 9 or 10 rails. We returned to our lodgings, cleaned the birds, and fried them up as if they were small chickens. What we consumed was the flesh of fowls that had spent their lives in lovely salt marshes, free, unconstrained, watching the sun rise and set, never covered in anything thicker than salt water. We took their memories and joy, their unconstrained connection to GOD, into our bodies with the meal.

Which would you rather incorporate into your being?

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(Part 2; continued from above)

Now, let us consider the case of eating plants.

You can venture to your local market, and buy vegetables; you have no control over the conditions of their raising. They may have been sprayed with potent organophosphates, for example; if they come from Mexico (which many of our vegetables now do), they may very well have been irrigated with raw sewage. (This practice is, of course, illegal, but it is widely adhered to in Mexico, which has chronic water shortages, and easily bribed officials).

OR, you can grow, as I do, your own vegetables, and fertilize your garden with grass clippings and hardwood leaves. You can nourish your soil with products of Light, the light that comes from the Sub-Logos; and your vegetables will incorporate into their bodies, that loving Light.

As I work in my garden, I send love to my plants.

When I harvest and eat those plants, what I take into my body, is Love, Light, and Sunshine.

Which would you prefer?