Food is an interesting concept in spirituality. I do not think there is any
real evidence that spiritual growth and enlightenment require more than basic
adequate nutrition.
The whole idea of purity and so forth does not take into account the body's
immense flexibility in extracting nutrition from available food.
Obviously some food and eating habits can result in not feeling well or
potential illness, but for the most part people do well eating whatever is
available.
Spiritual systems have resulted in all kinds of special diets, but there is no
consistency among them when you compare them.
People eating similar diets in different countries seem to have different
outcomes as far as disease and longevity, except perhaps if you eat at
McDonald's everyday.
Some are vegetarian, some are not. The idea of purity is applied liberally in
selection and preparation and killing of food for consumption, but exactly what
is purity?
If consciousness is "pure" and everything is a function of that, what
difference does it make? Everything has equal purity in unity, as it is all
experienced as consciousness, the same essential pure value lies at the heart
of everything, every action.
As far as food, with current productions methods, there is going to be a food
shortage in the world by about 2050.
So we could ask, what is crop yield of "Vedic agriculture" compared to say
"industrialized agriculture" or compared to a home garden? Does it have
something to really offer, or is it just an elitist parochial spiritual system
diet that hangs out with particular beliefs about food?
Science says that the body needs protein, carbohydrates, fat, and various other
chemicals called vitamins and minerals in a certain specific range of amount.
Do all these other considerations about food have any additional effect beyond
the required nutrition?
If you say a prayer over food, or stir it a certain direction when cooking does
anything really happen as a result?
Has anybody ever run a test to see if a food produced in another country has a
different effect than eating the same food produced nearby?
Virtually none of the food we eat today is in its genetically wild, natural,
original state, it has been modified by selection, by breeding, by
hybridization, and now by genetic engineering.
I suspect that the idea that something bad will happen if you do not eat a
certain way as prescribed by various spiritual systems cannot be verified as
true.
The basic idea of spiritual eating seems to be restriction, if you eat
such-and-such, bad things will happen.
You can eat too much, just enough, or fast. Fasting is a common food
restriction in spiritual systems, and maybe that has some value, there is
scientific evidence that fasting may increase longevity.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 1:15 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Feeding Fairfield, Iowa !
Fairfield, Iowa, serves as proxy for a drama that is being played out
across the entire country.
Tenet of the Fairfield meditating community is that purity and wholesomeness of
food is essential to development of consciousness. Demand is high in Fairfield,
Iowa for sustainable, organic local foods.
Documentary in a small town..
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feeding-fairfield-a-look-at-sourcing-local-food#/
Feeding Fairfield!Frugal essential food for an ascetic spiritual people.
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