In June 2008 I contemplated the energetic and consciousness aspects of live food mastery and yoga. I can now appreciate the subtle details of the cosmology described. The book Spiritual Nutrition defined Kundalini as the inner spiritualizing energy that takes us to the experiences of non-causal ecstasy, joy, peace, love and God awareness, none of which I really “believed in” or thought possible in the past. The notion that the body is energized and transformed by prana and stabilized by the Six Foundations (nutrition, prana, service, satsang, silence and shaktipat) is becoming real to me. The experience of the three knots opening, chakras transducing energy, and body-mind koshas evolving from food focus to non-causal bliss, all conducting a form of seemingly electric energy, is I think possible. As my physiology changes in accordance with my lifestyle, I watch my thoughts and emotions change in tandem. Subjectively, I notice all kinds of wonderful synchronicities. I have even had brief glimmers of non-causal happiness that have surprised me. I intuit that I am on this pathless path. I definitely want shaktipat.
I also note the unconventional idea that the adult needs spiritual energy more than tangible food energy. “Once the adult form of the crystal, the human physical body, has completed its growth, we only need a minimum of nutrients to maintain the homeostasis of the system. The main purpose of nutrition at this point becomes primarily the supplying of energy to maintain the subtle organizing energy fields of the overall system. … The idea is to eat the minimum necessary to keep the energy and conductivity of the body at a maximum. As we shift toward absorbing less condensed energies into our organism, we need less and less material food even as a source of energy.” (Spiritual Nutrition, pg. 167.) David Wolfe echoes this radical idea in his book, The Sunfood Diet Success System, (pg. 345) “little energy comes from food, stimulation comes from food. The digestion of food takes energy away from the body. Energy comes first from the spirit, and then primarily from the air, from oxygen, and from a lack of obstructions in the body.” Experientially, for me this minimalist recommendation for eating is also now true and very important.
The monthly reading also described subtle organizing energy fields (SOAFs) and the subtle organization of the physiology and how disorganization could lead to fermentation, entropy, aging, and disease.
Food stimulates inner forces. To improve the eating experience and energy organization, Conscious Eating suggests one should look at food as a love note from God, that provides a spiritual message that affects the entire body/mind/spirit complex. The body is not exclusively a mechanical organism but an organism undergoing an alchemical energy-release process that involves step-downs of energy from solid to liquid to gaseous and to etheric forms that could potentially trigger mind/body states of ecstasy. We want that.
Finally, the sections on water also reframed how I understood the function and character of water and energy organization. Apparently, water is the solvent that regulates all functions of the body including the solutes that are dissolved in it. The readings describe water as having various functions: hydrolysis, hydroelectric energy generation, adhesion, transportation, viscosity reduction, information transfer, chemical reaction trigger and antioxidant. Water has the added cosmic qualities of being a carrier/retainer/transferer of consciousness and solar energy. Water is the great communicator of consciousness. When it is blessed, water can mirror the soul.
I also note the unconventional idea that the adult needs spiritual energy more than tangible food energy. “Once the adult form of the crystal, the human physical body, has completed its growth, we only need a minimum of nutrients to maintain the homeostasis of the system. The main purpose of nutrition at this point becomes primarily the supplying of energy to maintain the subtle organizing energy fields of the overall system. … The idea is to eat the minimum necessary to keep the energy and conductivity of the body at a maximum. As we shift toward absorbing less condensed energies into our organism, we need less and less material food even as a source of energy.” (Spiritual Nutrition, pg. 167.) David Wolfe echoes this radical idea in his book, The Sunfood Diet Success System, (pg. 345) “little energy comes from food, stimulation comes from food. The digestion of food takes energy away from the body. Energy comes first from the spirit, and then primarily from the air, from oxygen, and from a lack of obstructions in the body.” Experientially, for me this minimalist recommendation for eating is also now true and very important.
The monthly reading also described subtle organizing energy fields (SOAFs) and the subtle organization of the physiology and how disorganization could lead to fermentation, entropy, aging, and disease.
Food stimulates inner forces. To improve the eating experience and energy organization, Conscious Eating suggests one should look at food as a love note from God, that provides a spiritual message that affects the entire body/mind/spirit complex. The body is not exclusively a mechanical organism but an organism undergoing an alchemical energy-release process that involves step-downs of energy from solid to liquid to gaseous and to etheric forms that could potentially trigger mind/body states of ecstasy. We want that.
Finally, the sections on water also reframed how I understood the function and character of water and energy organization. Apparently, water is the solvent that regulates all functions of the body including the solutes that are dissolved in it. The readings describe water as having various functions: hydrolysis, hydroelectric energy generation, adhesion, transportation, viscosity reduction, information transfer, chemical reaction trigger and antioxidant. Water has the added cosmic qualities of being a carrier/retainer/transferer of consciousness and solar energy. Water is the great communicator of consciousness. When it is blessed, water can mirror the soul.
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