The Spirituality of Food

Published by Time_Spiral under Future of Food,Inspiration on May 18, 2007

The Spirituality of Food
Eating is not just a physical requirement / exercise
May 18th 2007

Greetings in light/love. This idea was spawned from a previous article that has been received well called The Morality of Food filed under the Future of Food category. That article dealt very specifically with the outer world manifestation of the choices we make concerning what type of food we buy / eat, where it comes from, and how it was produced. That article posed some very challenging moral questions that go against the grain [so to speak].

The Metaphysics of Food
I would like to expand the discussion into the realm of the metaphysical.

In the physical world what we do and how we do it has obvious, tangible physical results that we can perceive and measure with scientific instrumentation. However; it is common for us to ‘forget’ that there is a metaphysical, or spiritual, world co-existing in a very parallel way to our physical world.

Each world acts as a continuous feedback loop assisting and manifesting in both worlds. Physical actions manifest in the physical plane and cause ripples in the spiritual plane and vice versa = The spiritual plane manifest in the spiritual plane and causes ripples through the physical plane.

Your thoughts do not originate from the physical plane!
That is an important point to wrap your mind around, and this is a great example of how your metaphysical world directly manifests into physical reality. For instance: if you get the thought to go sit on your patio a signal is generated in your brain, agreed upon, and then the physical experience of being on the patio is manifested. This physical experience then feeds back into the metaphysical world as “enjoyment / success” or whatever purpose you needed to achieve on the patio.

So lets talk about the spirituality of food.
We’ve already discussed the outer realm of food morality, but now lets go down a little deeper, and get more personal. The process and choices involved with eating food is a direct signal / intention fed back into your spiritual world. While we discuss this, imagine the loops that are created between the two worlds.

When you choose to eat food that ‘you know you shouldn’t be eating’ then you are sending a signal into the spiritual world of apathy and disrespect. One of the primal functions of spiritual evolution is self-respect and loving one’s self AND other-selves. Now we’ve all heard the ‘respect thy temple’ cliche but it is rarely enough to spark any real thought. So let’s continue.

When you choose to eat a giant greasy big-mac you are temporarily physically relieved [or not depending on how bad the addiction is] but are sending a signal into your spirit world that you do not care enough about your body to give it what it actually needs. This causes ripples in the spiritual world. These ripples are perceived by your higher self and physical actions are considered. A course of action is then decided upon and a catalyst is chosen. That catalyst will then manifest back into the physical world, and this could be any number of things. Let’s talk about those things. . .

We will continue to use the big-mac example we have been building upon.

The higher self could manifest an upset stomach in attempt to signal your self-awareness that “something you ate is not good for you.” Or it could manifest as weight gain, or feelings of guilt. It could manifest as full fledged sickness. Or it could manifest in much more subtle ways depending on how pertinent the lesson is. The subtle ways could be eventual malnutrition that leads to sickness in the future, or could eventually snowball into a really bad case. This type of time-delay is specific and designed to reach you when you are ‘ready to learn’. All of these manifestations were chosen by you in the spiritual world and fed back into the physical plane in hopes that you will learn the lesson and send a signal back to the spiritual world saying “i get it.”

Awareness plays a huge role
Some people are just very unaware of the spiritual world, or [in some cases] the physical implications of their choices. This is not necessarily a bad thing [as some would think]. These individuals have not reached the place on their path where these are lessons that need to be learned yet. Each is on their own path.

Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you have become aware and it is now your time to act. Once you become aware that something is wrong, or that something needs to change, the catalysts will become more intense. Awareness is not necessary AT ALL for your higher-self in the spirit world to program catalysts [this is happening all day every day]. The true power to grow comes from recognizing that this is happening, and doing something about it.

Mainstream Drugs and Alternative Drugs / Manifestations
What type of signal are you sending to your body and your higher self when you willingly ingest alcoholic poison? Or when you choose to breath a cocktail of poison gasses instead of life-giving oxygen? You send a signal of willing [continuous] self-destruction. Those ripples are reached by your higher self and catalysts are programmed to help you learn and grow. The higher-self thinks “ok, you need to learn the lessons of self-destruction. ok.” You can see where this is going. . .

You could become violently ill, you could end up in the hospital where they literally pump the poison back out of you. You could end up addicted, or getting in a fight with a loved one [another self]. In extreme cases the lessons of self-destruction can actually manifest into physical death of self, or physical death of other-selves. These are not just physical events! Drunk driving deaths, cancer, organ failure . . . In a very real spiritual way, you are teaching yourself the hard way. In some of the most extreme cases you will actually terminate or severely damage [physically or emotionally] an other-self’s physical life. This generally occurs when the other selves are somehow spiritually connected to these lessons. This type of extreme case requires INTENSIVE spiritual and physical work to learn from for all involved parties.

What about fun?
This is an important question. VERY important. Sometimes you want to eat something that is not good for you, sometimes you want to have a drink with your buddies, or smoke a joint. Non of these actions are inherently bad, or wrong. We’ve all heard the ‘in moderation’ cliche [which generally yields an effect similar to nothing]. What i’m communicating here is that you need to be conscious and respectful of the choices you make and realize that they are sending signals back into your spiritual self and WILL DEFINITELY COME BACK TO YOU IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AS WELL! So it only becomes wrong, or bad when you either: a. Notice obvious catalysts from your higher self trying to get you away from those activities, or b. know in your heart that what you are doing is wrong, or out of control, or is just plane out -not a good idea.

It would really make me happy if even one reader brings this feed back loop and parallel interaction between the physical and spiritual into everyday awareness, for I am Another You, and You are Another Me. For those of you seriously considering these possibilities than remember that time-delays are a very specific factor in this parallel interaction. The time-delay is specifically chosen for the greatest potential for your learning.

Be peaceful on your way,
Time_Spiraling