“DIET AT THE DAWN OF THE AKASHIC AGE ”

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                      “DIET AT THE DAWN OF THE AKASHIC AGE ”

 

The Program

“Diet at the Dawn of the Akashic Age” presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world based on comprehending the far-reaching implications of our food choices. Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the natural order and with our cultural heritage. But it is increasingly clear that the choices we make about food today are leading to environmental degredation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures.

     Yet, the world is changing. The transition from the mechanistic worldview to one that recognizes the interconnectedness of all life is upon us. It is the dawning of the Akashic Age. The chief engine of the coming changes is the growing global understanding of nonlocality and the development of practical applications for it, including our diet.

     “Diet at the Dawn of the Akashic Age” offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that show how we as a species can move our consciousness forward – allowing us to become more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.

     The good news is, we don’t need to re-invent the wheel. Lemuria, is the oldest and most spiritual civilization in our planetary history. The Lemurian diet, backed up by the evidence-based science of today, can be the guidepost for our diet at the dawn of the Akashic Age.

 

The program “Diet at the Dawn of the Akashic Age” will awaken you to extremely valuable truths, facts, as well as prospects such as the following:

·         The “alchemical miracle” of food: the fact that the food we eat becomes us

·         The implications of applying the practice of avoidance and denial in our meal choices

·         The roots of the cycles of violence that have terrorized people both historically and today

·         The psychological consequences of herding animals for the individuals, their families, and the society at large

·         The origins of our herding culture, what we call today Western civilization, and its mentality

·         The value of cultivating mindful awareness of the consequences of our food choices

·         You’ll understand the nature of intelligence in the broadest and deepest way

·         The implications for our food choices of the truth of our interconnectedness

·         How our food habits are the result of conditioning and indoctrination by the most powerful forces in our world (our parents and family)

·         The fact that our human physiology functions better when we live in harmony with the other animals of this earth

·         The metaphysical forces at work in food consumption

·         The implications for the human consciousness of our herding cultures producing reductive scientific and religious systems, as well as reductive and predatory economic systems

·         The disastrous environmental impact of confining animals for food

·         Some culturally induced objections to eating a plant-based diet we nurture

·         The consequences eating animals has, not only for the unfortunate creatures in our hands, but for us as well

 

(Sessions: 22)

 

Agenda

 

Meeting 1. Introduction

“Diet at the Dawn of the Akashic Age” presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on comprehending the far-reaching implications of our food choices. It offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that show how we as a species can move our consciousness forward – allowing us to become more free, more intelligent, more loving, healthier, and happier in the choices we make.

     In the first part of the seminar our priority is an exploration of the profound cultural and spiritual ramifications of our food choices and the mentality underlying them.

 

PART A. Our Meals: The Hidden Key to Understanding

Meeting 2. Food’s Power

Food is not only a fundamental necessity; it is also a primary symbol in the shared inner life of every human culture. Every day we all make food choices or they are made for us. The quality of awareness from which these inevitable food choices arise – and whether we are making them ourselves or they are being made for us – greatly influences our ability to make connections. This ability to make meaningful connections determines whether we are and become lovers and protectors of life or unwitting perpetrators of cruelty and death.

     Looking deeply into food, into what and how we eat, and into the attitudes, actions, and beliefs surrounding food, is an adventure of looking into the very heart of our culture and ourselves.

 

Meeting 3. Our Culture’s Roots

Though it is not as obvious to us today as it was to our forebears a few thousands years ago, our culture is, like theirs, essentially a herding culture, organized around owning and commodifying animals and eating them. For the old herding cultures, confined animals were not just food. They were also wealth, security, and power. The mentality of domination characterizing the culture into which we were born thrives on seeing and emphasizing differences and ignoring similarities, because this is what enslaving and killing animals requires us all to practice. It is obvious if we look closely that many of the root assumptions and activities of the ancient herding cultures still define our culture today.

     The revolution that is demanded by our yearning for peace, freedom, and happiness must provide a new foundation for our culture, moving it away from its herding values of oppression and disconnectedness toward the post-herding values of respect, kindness, equality, sensitivity, and connectedness. Above all, this revolution must change our relationship to our meals – our most practiced rituals – and to our food, our most powerful inner and outer symbol.

 

Meeting 4. The Nature of Intelligence

The suppression of awareness required by our universal practice of commodifying, enslaving, and killing animals for food generates the “built-in mental disorder” that drives us toward the destruction not only of ourselves but of the other living creatures and systems of this earth. Our culture encourages us to be omnivores. “Eating everything” has become dan apt description of our culture as it consumes and ravages global ecosystems.

     All of the nested wholes – systems, planets, communities, people, animals, plants, cells, and so forth – are possible because they partake of the universal intelligence operating through and within them. This intelligence is their ability to make connections that are meaningful to their existence, and that serve their purpose. Intelligence is specific to all self-organizing systems, and that all have a unique purpose, that their intelligence is suited to fulfilling. When we forcefully remove any animal from her natural life in order to confine and manipulate her for food, we systematically thwart and frustrate her innate intelligence.

     The most universal spiritual teaching, found cross-culturally in virtually all the world’s religious traditions, is based on the truth of our interconnectedness. It is presented in what we refer to as the Golden rule (to do unto others as we would have them do unto us), and as the law of cause and effect (that whatever we do unto others will rebound to us).

 

Meeting 5. Inheriting Our Food Choices

The earliest and most basic connections we have with our parents are around food and eating. We could not survive without the food our parents gave us, a tangible and consumable expression of their love and caring for us. As we incorporated their food, we partook of them and their values and their culture. We like to think we’ve arrived freely at the belief that we need to eat animal products and that it’s natural and right to do so. In fact, we have inherited this belief. We’ve been indoctrinated in the most deeply rooted and potent way possible, as vulnerable infants. The price we pay for unquestioned indoctrinated and inherited beliefs is enormous if we are to mature spiritually and morally, and if we are to nourish within us the seeds of intelligence, compassion, and freedom, we must practice questioning the underlying assumptions of the family and culture into which we were born. In Buddhism, this is called “leaving home”.

 

Meeting 6. The Intelligence of Human Physiology

We are meant to live in harmony with the other animals of this earth because we’ve been given bodies that actually function better without killing and stealing from them. There is no nutrient that we need that we cannot get from non-animal sources. Both medical studies and the obvious examples of healthy vegan people we see around us tell us that eating animal products is unnecessary and in many ways is actually detrimental to our health.

     Our bodies thrive on a conscious plant-based diet, and this diet is infinitely more compassionate to animals and people and more environmentally sustainable than eating animal foods. Any and all of us can adopt a healthy, low-cruelty way of eating today and need never look back!

 

Meeting 7. Hunting and Herding Sea Life

Water is our planet’s universal solvent, and the whole range of environmental contaminants we produce ends up eventually in our rivers, lakes, streams, and aquifers, leading to the increasingly severe pollution of our oceans. To eat animals who live in our earth’s waters is to eat our own noxious pollution, concentrated many times. The more toxic agricultural and industrial runoff we produce, the more toxic the flesh of water – duelling creatures become.

     Fish who die with great resistance, have a more bitter taste because of the lactic acid that remains in their muscles. In eating fish, we eat the lactic acid the fish produce in their death-throes, and the fear – induced adrenalin and other hormones. In unwisely eating fish because of an imagined benefit, we bring into our body a host of toxins and cause suffering and negative effects that far outweigh their potential benefit.

     In exterminating the fish from our waters, we are destroying the earth’s system for cleaning the waters. Fish clean the waters of toxins and impurities. They can be seen as the earth’s kidneys, absorbing contaminants into their flesh.

 

Meeting 8. The Domination of the Feminine

Two large categories of animal products that we eat even though they are not food for humans are dairy products and eggs.

     Cow’s milk is a substance designed by nature for baby cows, not for humans. The enormous and continuous abuse to which dairy cow mothers are subjected makes their milk extremely unhealthy for humans. Dairy cows concentrate not only the toxins that are sprayed on the grains and hay they eat, but also the more concentrated toxins that have accumulated in the rendered body parts of the animals they are forced to eat as well. All this accumulates in their milk. Dairy products, particularly butter, cheese, cream, and ice cream, are clearly unhealthy and dangerous to eat, especially for children and pregnant or nursing women.

     As with dairy products, when we buy eggs we instigate theft and violence against horribly abused females and contribute to environmental contamination, social pathology, and disease. Chicken eggs are toxic for humans in the manner of all animal products.

     Liberating and honoring the feminine principle is perhaps the most pressing task in our culture’s evolution toward peace, sustainability, and spiritual maturity.

 

Meeting 9. The Metaphysics of Food

Beyond this physical level of biomechanisms such as hormone levels, toxins, and nutrients, there are metaphysical forces at work that though ignored are nevertheless operating. Metaphysical toxins – i.e. the concentrated vibrations of terror, grief, frustration, and desperation permeating these foods – are invisible and completely unrecognized by conventional science, yet they may be even more disturbing to us than physical toxins because they work on the level of feelings and consciousness, which are more essential dimensions of ourselves than our physical vehicle. By purchasing or ordering animal products we directly cause misery and sow seeds of despair and cruel violence.

     Food, like all apparently physical matter, is energy and vibration and is a manifestation of consciousness, and though it is important to prepare, eat, and share food mindfully, it’s important to look more deeply than this, to the actual source of our food. Matter, energy, and consciousness are inseparable, and the cruelty unavoidably embodied in animal foods is a potent and unrecognized toxin, damaging not just to our physical health, but to our emotional and spiritual health as well.

 

Meeting 10. Reductionist Science and Religion

Science and religion are fundamental institutions in our culture that embody many of our highest ideals and contribute to our lives and well-being in a wide variety of ways. Science and religion have undoubtedly brought benefit to us, but they have strongly contributed to war, destruction, and misery as well. It seems that those seeking to improve and heal the world through scientific or spiritual development have not addressed the obviously violent and predatory mentality required by our food choices. That’s because besides our universal resistance to admitting complicity in the cruelty of our meals, there is another factor operating: the reductionism promoted by many Western scientific and religious institutions that works to keep crucial connections invisible. It’s helpful to realize that conventional science and religion are in actuality strikingly similar in their underlying assumptions. They are two proud sons of the herding culture, and they both tend to reinforce the reductionist mentality required of those who inhabit their father’s culture.

 

Meeting 11. The Dilemma of Work

It is not only animals who suffer in factory farms and slaughterhouses. The people who must do the awful work of confining, mutilating, and killing farmed animals also suffer. Slaughterhouse and factory farm work is ugly and terribly stressful, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Violence, cruelty, and insensitivity breed more of the same. They are vibrations that affect consciousness, and it is not just the workers, but their families, friends, and ultimately all of us who are affected by what we force them to do by our market demand.

     Returning to the garden of abundance, innocence, and natural blessedness has always been seen as the goal of religious yearning in the West. The fall came when we began commodifying animals. We can resurrect our work from defiling slavery to joyous participation. The path simply requires that we give the same opportunities to the animals who are at our mercy: release them from slavery and grant them freedom to once again fully participate in the unfolding of their unique purpose and consciousness.

 

Meeting 12. Profiting From Destruction

It would be difficult to conceive of a more wasteful, toxic, inhumane, disease-promoting, and destructive food production system than our farmed animal industry. The major environmental problem with eating animal foods is that these animals must eat, and eat a lot. Besides the obliteration of vast areas of forest, animal agriculture is responsible for the destruction and degredation of virtually all our prairie grasslands. These complex and beautiful ecosystems once supported a wide variety of plant and animal species. The annihilation and disruption of forests, prairie grasslands, and arid regions to grace and grow feed for slaughter-bound animals is not only a destruction of biological diversity and intelligence but has other serious repercussions as well.

     Our institutions reflect the mentality required by our omnivorism. The transnational corporations profit from animal food consumption, as do the big banks, which have made the loans that have built the whole complex and demand a healthy return on their investments.

 

Meeting 13. Some Objections Answered

The ideas presented in this seminar, though not complicated or particularly difficult to understand, have long been invisible and almost impossible to articulate because they directly contradict the hidden assumptions of our herding culture. Their ramifications, if contemplated, discussed, and acted upon, are enormously subversive to the status quo. The vegan commitment to consciously minimize our cruelty to all animals is so revolutionary in its implications that it is often dismissed because it triggers cognitive dissonance and deep anxiety. We have been so ingrained with the herding mentality since birth, that even those of us who consider ourselves to be quite progressive aren’t typically prepared to question the exploitation of animals and humans that we cause by our food choices. So we suppress our natural compassion not only by practicing disconnecting but also by the practice of nurturing some culturally induced objections to eating a plant-based diet.

 

Meeting 14. Evolve or Dissolve

Eating animals has consequences far beyond what we would at first suspect, not only for the unfortunate creatures in our hands, but for us as well. Our actions reinforce attitudes, in us and in others, that amplify the ripples of those actions until they become the devastating waves of insensitivity, conflict, injustice, brutality, disease, and exploitation that rock our world today.

     We will only survive and thrive if we recognize the central power of our meals to shape our consciousness. Food is eaten and becomes the physical vehicle of consciousness, and consciousness chooses what to incorporate into itself from itself.

     Evolution is the essence of life. All being is evolving, growing, transforming, and so the urge to evolve permeates our being. Evolution implies not only change but transformation. We as a culture, we must shake the old stagnation and comfortable disconnections out of our minds and bodies, embrace the evolutionary urge within us to awaken compassion and intuitive wisdom, and live our lives in accord with the truth that we are connected intimately with all living beings.

 

PART B. Lessons from a Living Lemuria

Meeting 15. The Magical Land of Lemuria

Lemuria is a time period within our planetary history. The memories of Lemuria are ‘embedded’ or ‘written’ into the ‘software’ of all that is us, programmed into our DNA. In this session we talk about the Lemurian civilization and, more importantly some of its customs, lifestyles, with an emphasis on the Lemurian diet. Lemuria existed ‘before’ the fall. Within the true reality, there is no time, as in a linear sense. The future, present and past do not sit upon a continuum but are one moment. There was no ‘before’ because that higher dimensional reality fabric was not expressed linearly. Lemuria is therefore a never-ending reality. The ‘you’ that you ‘were’ (or are, or will be) that lives within the Lemurian times can be communicated with and indeed merged with. There has never been in our history of our planet Earth, a better time to connect with our Lemurian self than right now. The reason for this is because we are ‘going back’ (or going forward, depending on perspective) to the higher dimensional reality fabric. Our reality will be much like Lemuria with the cohesive experience garnered and gathered through the many soul incarnations we have had since.

 

Meeting 16. Diet in Lemuria (A) – Back to the Garden

One of the reasons you are incarnated upon this planet is for discovery. That explorer’s journey is the discovery of self and this includes your health and how to live in the healthiest, possible way. Tips, tools and guides can be given but ultimately the journey into self is yours. That’s because there is only self and that self is you.

     On a general level, a ‘compassionate’ diet is the most appropriate diet for an ascending individual. There have been many communities and cultures who have followed appropriate and optimum nutritionally sound and spiritually activating diets. Diet plans followed by traditions of Ayurveda, macrobiotic, the Essenes and several Eastern societies.

     Yet if we really want to look at a pure society that has existed upon our planet, we can turn to the Lemurian civilization.

 

Meeting 17. Diet in Lemuria (B) – Coconut Charge and Pumpkin Power

We move through each of the foodstuff that would replicate the original Lemurian diet: fruits, vegetables, sea vegetables, nuts and seeds, root vegetables, beans, herbs, and grains.

 

PART C. Science Updated

Meeting 18. The Power of the Food on Your Plate (A)

For our ancient ancestors, life was a daily struggle for calories. In times of almost constant malnutrition, food was probably defined as any edible substance, animal or vegetable, that they could get their hands on. At a basic level, humans are still wired to seek out calorie-dense foods.

     Doctors have known that food is tightly linked to health and disease since the dawn of modern medicine. Hippocrates taught his students that diet was the most powerful tool of all in maintaining health and treating disease.

     You might find surprising to learn that meat, dairy and eggs are not needed for a healthy diet. The science clearly shows that a global shift to a plant-based diet would have major benefits. We can live longer and healthier lives by minimizing our intake of processed foods, added oils and animal products, and by choosing healthy plant-based options first.

 

Meeting 19. The Power of the Food on Your Plate (B)

Evidence-based dietary advice has become an incredibly important part of a conscientious doctor’s medical practice. In a society where poor diet causes more illnesses than alcohol and drug abuse combined, it could be argued that food should be a mandatory part of the conversation every time you meet a doctor. In this session we offer ten food-focused prescriptions that must be given to every person seeking to improve their health.

 

Meeting 20. Healthy Body

A high-quality diet is a key requirement to becoming a successful athlete. Many athletes focus almost exclusively on protein, but this is just one aspect of an optimal diet. All plants contain protein. Strict vegetarians consume more than enough protein per day simply by eating more food.

     The foods you choose to fuel your body can be extremely powerful. A plant-based diet reduces inflammation, promotes healthy weight loss and can even reverse type 2 diabetes. The science suggests that it may even help to increase your athletic performance. When it comes to building a healthier body, it’s plant-based all the way.  

 

PART D. Living the Revolution

Meeting 21. Living the Revolution

The ripples that radiate from our choices to eat foods from animal sources are incredibly far-reaching and complex. The spiritual and cultural revolution that calls us must begin with our food. Food is our primary connection with the earth and her mysteries, and with our culture. It is the foundation of economy and is the central inner spiritual metaphor of our lives. There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion. The key to veganism is that it is lived. No one can be vegetarian in theory only.

     While it’s easy to become discouraged in the face of the immense cultural inertia that propels the continued practice of eating animal foods, it carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. At the rate it’s ravaging our planet’s ecosystems and resources – and our sanity and intelligence – it cannot last much longer. These may very well turn out to be humanity’s last days of eating animals.

 

Meeting 22: Discussion – Q&A