11-17-2017, 06:41 PM
Thanking of our Foodstuffs
Date: 18 Novermber , Saturday
Time: 9AM EST, 2PM London, 10PM Beijing, 1am (Sunday) Sydney
Location: Chatroom 2 - the Lounge
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Theme: we live in the kind of world where we can pretty much eat whatever we want, whenever we want. Such a situation is relatively recent. It's due, in large part, to the agricultural revolution which brought yields that were previously unthinkable. Along with refrigeration and canning, one could conceivably never go hungry again.
So unlike almost all other animals - and even for most of human history - starvation is not a very real concern. One only looks back into the last century, and the millions of deaths that resulted from famines.
And yes, certainly people are still going hungry today. But that is more a distribution issue, rather than a production issue.
So the question for most of us is not whether we will have enough food, but in what kind of food we choose to consume, and how we consume it. And we've all arrived at individual choices regards those.
It is the care and interest which is the thing of importance.
So we will thank the abundant foodstuffs that we have available. There is more than one could have dreamt of a few centuries ago.
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Date: 18 Novermber , Saturday
Time: 9AM EST, 2PM London, 10PM Beijing, 1am (Sunday) Sydney
Location: Chatroom 2 - the Lounge
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Theme: we live in the kind of world where we can pretty much eat whatever we want, whenever we want. Such a situation is relatively recent. It's due, in large part, to the agricultural revolution which brought yields that were previously unthinkable. Along with refrigeration and canning, one could conceivably never go hungry again.
So unlike almost all other animals - and even for most of human history - starvation is not a very real concern. One only looks back into the last century, and the millions of deaths that resulted from famines.
And yes, certainly people are still going hungry today. But that is more a distribution issue, rather than a production issue.
So the question for most of us is not whether we will have enough food, but in what kind of food we choose to consume, and how we consume it. And we've all arrived at individual choices regards those.
It is the care and interest which is the thing of importance.
So we will thank the abundant foodstuffs that we have available. There is more than one could have dreamt of a few centuries ago.
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Quote:40.14 Questioner: In dietary matters, what would be the foods that one would include and what would be the foods that one would exclude in a general way for the most or the greatest care of one’s bodily complex?
Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, we underline and emphasize that this information is not to be understood literally but as a link or psychological nudge for the body and the mind and spirit. Thus it is the care and respect for the self that is the true thing of importance.
In this light we may iterate the basic information given for this instrument’s diet. The vegetables, the fruits, the grains, and to the extent necessary for the individual metabolism, the animal products.
These are those substances showing respect for the self. In addition, though this has not been mentioned, for this instrument is not in need of purification, those entities in need of purging the self of a poison thought-form or emotion complex do well to take care in following a program of careful fasting until the destructive thought-form has been purged analogously with the by-products of ridding the physical vehicle of excess material. Again you see the value not to the body complex but used as a link for the mind and spirit. Thus self reveals self to self.