RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUALITY-BASED DIETARY RESTRICTIONS and JUDGMENTS AND CRITICISMS

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RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUALITY-BASED DIETARY RESTRICTIONS and JUDGMENTS AND CRITICISMS

Much has been said by religious and spiritual leaders about what persons should eat and what they are forbidden to eat.

Jews can eat land animals if they have cloven hooves and chew the cud. Meat and dairy are not to be eaten together. Shell fish are not to be eaten at all. They are to avoid all pork products. Only meat that has been slaughtered in “the correct way” can be consumed.

Muslims are forbidden from eating pork and they eat halal (“lawful”) foods, which include fruit, vegetables and eggs.

Mormons are forbidden from drinking coffee, tea, coke, and alcohol.

Many Catholics are now returning to an old practice and are choosing not to eat meat on Friday. The “rationale”? Yeshu’a sacrificed his flesh on Good Friday so the pope in 866 A.D. made abstinence from meat on Fridays a universal rule for all Catholics. 

Thus, they began refraining from eating flesh meat in honor on Friday in honor of Yeshu'a and ate fish instead. The law was relaxed in 1966 but many Catholics maintained the tradition and many nowadays are returning to the tradition.

Other religions and sky cults have the same kind of arbitrary food laws.

In the Far East, Maharaj’s parents were criticized for eating meat and he was criticized for allowing his children to eat meat.

What to do? Go with Maharaj’s plan: look to science for guidance. What science has taught will be shared today and then no more discussion on the topic will be engaged in, no matter how ignorant the foods laws are that religious and spiritual programs and cults come up with.

[In 1978, over 900 followers of the cult leader Jim Jones died when he ordered his suicide-murder plan to begin with the drinking of poisoned punch. Over 900 people - including over 200 children - would have survived if only there had been a food law that said they could not drink Kool-Aid. Of all the insane religious and spiritual laws regarding what members can and cannot eat or drink, only that no Kool-Aid one could have passed the smell test.]

So, to continue:

Yesterday’s post ended with this discussion about “Libby” who Far Eastern-based search drove her every insane and ignorance based behaviors.

The one assuming the role of “The Super Spiritual Guide” in Libby’s life informed her that she would have to abandon the food plan that she was on at that time and would have to become a vegetarian. 

Science has shown that the ignorance involved with that notion is as “stupid” (to use one of Maharaj’s words) as the U.S. Government’s list of what all persons should eat on a daily basis. Why? Because there are three distinct body types that require three distinct food plans for the organs to function at maximum efficiency.

I. If a metabolic profile examination of a person reveals that one has a sympathetic-dominant body type, then the most efficient fuel / food sources are vegetables, particularly leafy greens and - secondarily - root vegetables and fruits. Professional nutritionists also recommend that the food plan for these types should include approximately 80% grains as well as 20% chicken and fish. 

II. If a metabolic profile examination of a person reveals that one has a parasympathetic-dominant body type, then the most efficient fuel / food sources must include red meats and / or salmon, tuna, sardines, anchovies and organ meats that are high in protein. All dairy products are acceptable, but - when possible - the parasympathetic type should restrict the intake of leafy green vegetables.

III. If a metabolic profile examination of a person reveals that neither the sympathetic nor the parasympathetic autonomic systems are dominant, then one can be said to have a “balanced body type”; in that case, as the name implies, then a balance of vegetables and meat and high protein foods can provide the proper food plan.

Yet how some hate to hear those facts, many having “fired me” or “cursed me” or “wished a pox on me” as a result of sharing that information rather than going along with the notion that one food plan - the vegetarian one they are adhering to, of course - is the only “right” one.

In fact, the autonomic systems of the planet’s population are divided roughly into thirds with approximately 1/3 having a sympathetic system, about 1/3 having a parasympathetic system, and about 1/3 having a balanced body type.

To seek to control what persons eat, and to agree with the U.S. Government that “one size fits all” when it comes to food plans, is sheer ignorance. What does that have to do with Libby? How did her spirituality lead to physical pain for years as well as to misery and suffering for years and to what her physicians and nutritionists called “an untimely death that could have been avoided”?

Consider what can happen when following a food plan that is inappropriate for your particular metabolic type:

Many mental problems and emotional illnesses that were once thought to be caused by “the mind” can actually be the result of a physical problem and are rooted in “the body” more than “the mind.”

Many mental and emotional syndromes like depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder can be caused by under-functioning organs, under-functioning glands, and / or nutritional deficiencies.

An “overwhelm response” to stress or a lack of motivation can come from deficient adrenal glands.

Extreme levels of anxiety or the inability to tell true from false can come from a nutritionally-deficient or under-functioning hypothalamus gland.

For some, if they have a head lettuce lunch, they can become overly-alkaline (which can cause moodiness or depression).

Nightmares may not indicate mental or emotional turmoil but might indicate a magnesium deficiency or a blood sugar imbalance.

Deep levels of depression and an inability to lose weight could be the result of a low-functioning thyroid gland.

Mood swings and a sense of loss of control could be caused by the erratic rise and fall of blood sugar following the consumption of sugar or processed carbohydrates. The inability to focus and concentrate, as well as the loss of energy, can be caused by the same.

Hormonal deficiencies in both males and females could be caused by a low-functioning pituitary gland.

Anxiety can result from a deficiency in calcium and / or magnesium, which are “nature’s tranquilizers.”

Libby suffered many of those conditions because she was following an inappropriate food plan, so her health began to fail soon after changing to her so-called “spiritual / vegetarian diet.”

For years, one doctor or another found that she had a parasympathetic-dominant body type. Every nutritionist she was referred to explained that she was going to have to abandon her vegetables-only diet if she was to be healthy. Yet she held firm to her guru’s teachings and to her “spiritual belief” that she was “purer” and “better” as a result of being a vegetarian.

She spent the last two decades of her existence without any energy and, therefore, often suffering from fainting spells as a result of poor nutritional habits;  with all sorts of emotional conditions that were induced by her inappropriate food plan for her body type; and with debilitating mental and emotional inefficiency.

Yes, both Spinoza and Maharaj were spot on:

“Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body’s power of action, increases, decreases, limits or extends the mind’s power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the mind’s power of action, also increases, decreases, limits or extends the body’s power of action.”

--Spinoza, 1600’s A.D.

“Suppose I am not able to think, that my mind is not clear. What does it mean? It means my food essence is rather dull today. It is not getting into combustion in proper order; therefore, the thinking is also dull. This mind pertains to the food essences.”

--Maharaj, September 3, 1979

[Thus, Maharaj never objected when some of his children included meat in their food plans, drawn instinctively and naturally and spontaneously to that fuel source. See, one’s food plan not only affects one’s physical well-being but also impacts moods and feelings - or “emotions” - and mental health as well.]

(E) Not only did Libby’s version of spirituality leave her financially and mentally and emotionally debilitated for twenty years, but it actually was the contributing factor to what her doctors and nutritionists termed “decades of unnecessary pain and misery and suffering” as well as “her premature death.”

And, yes, she did determine that she would never speak to me again after she was asked two questions:

1. “Is it possible that your vegetarian food plan is not helping you at all, relatively speaking, but is actually causing you harm, relatively speaking?”

and

2. “Is it possible that the ‘path’ you speak of actually has multiple steps and that the assumption of additional false identifications - such as ‘The Religious One’ or ‘The Spiritual Giant’ - will only get a seeker to the third step and will therefore block completion of the complete ‘journey’ to full realization?”

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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