Do humans need to eat to survive?
posted by vortex32 | June 30, 2010
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IcerocketI titled this blog in respect to what a previous yoga teacher commented on before class one day....he said something along the lines of,
"One day humans will be able to survive on prana alone.....but for now, let's do some breathing exercises"
I just read Daniel Pinchbeck's blog on RS about the oil spill as being prophecized....
and I feel very much in tune with what he's saying, on some levels. I think its quite imperative to collectively explore the growing nightmares of what is imminently possible for our planet.....whilst not getting lost in there. Just being now, which is always gorgeous and terrifying.
The blog led me to the idea that perhaps in the future, near or a little more farther, we may not be able to eat food grown in the soil any more - on the majority of land on the planet. Wow?
With the acceleration of consciousness happening now...maybe there are windows for evolving in directions or forms that would seem absurd to our present manifestations.
I just recently spent 3 months in Southeast Asia....and volunteered teaching English in a rural Cambodian village for 10 days. All I ate for three days was rice and very small portions of vegetables or meat, once I ate eggs (I got food poisoning the second day and it didn't get better on its own...so had to leave after 4 days).
This experience (along with the experience of changing eating habits during traveling in Asia in general) has completely altered the way I approach food now that I'm back in the US. I don't eat as much as I used to - and I don't want to. Yet I feel extremely full of energy and vitality, more so than when I ate more and in less specific manner.
The unconscious systems of nutrition (food pyramids and such (interesting symbols in themselves!)) in the US (perhaps in other places in the 'First World') are clearly spells cast by economic and corporate interests - I do not believe they have much to do with what the human body needs physically or spiritually to thrive.
Can we outgrow these burdens and perhaps develop a new way of sustaining our bodies that doesn't rely on 3 meals a day?
Hopefully this will stimulate thought onto any and all related issues - I would be curious to hear what anyone responds with.
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Diet and Determination
— Jul 01, 2010
Raw-Vegan author, Dr Gabriel Cousens MD, in his several books . {www.treeoflife.nu} looks into the past on how diets have evolved, and then goes into present and future transitions.
Even in the last 50 years there are environmental changes that are effecting our way to process categories of food efficiently.
Over 75% of the American population, due to the acidic breakdown {composting} of blood cells {mycosis} are seen under Dark Field Microscope analysis to be "pre-diabetic" ... pre-cancerous"
Even natural fruits are not being processed within our systems as they were 50 years ago. Our outer highly manipulated environment is gradually effecting our organic processes of assimilation.
Obtaining higher and higher levels of vitamin and mineral rich foods with less and less calorie intake .. less and less bulk ... is as much a necessity as it is an aesthetic lifestyle choice.
Organic nutritional satisfaction is something that really can't be denied .. or seen separately from how one actually behaves. Individually, and collectively ... ideologically or emotionally.
Separating ourselves from our own immediate food production and/or natural "hands on" local sustainability lifestyles, effects the very nature of our hunger over time .. the very ability to become actually satisfied by eating can become chronically in a state of agitation .. knowingly or unknowingly ... by perpetual mental stress.
Diseased states can take years to gradually develop within. The cultures with largest percentages of "Centarians" {people over 100 yrs of age} age those with minimal calorie - maximum vitamin/mineral rations in their diet.
One only grabs for extra food to the degree actual satisfaction is not found in what was already partaken of. There are likely countless subtle messages we each have access to, consciously telling us how to more efficiently serve our nutritional potential ....
We are just so far removed from our own in-depth involvement, or "conscious entrainment" with all aspects of the "art of nourishment" ... leading more and more to a "dissatisfied populace"
Nutrition is ultimately self-regulating, in other words, and in those places where eating is more of a recreational habit than a life necessity ... leading to excess only to the degree of dissatisfaction ... is in those places where the bellies are the biggest {obesity}
I won't go into all the associated research here .. just noting the principle.
Syncronous reality is quite
— Jul 01, 2010
Syncronous reality is quite amusing.....
immediately after finishing this blog, my family announced it was time to go eat. We went to stand around the block at a ritzy popular joint in Charleston....I however left to eat some leftover beans, as I couldn't separate my previous thoughts from manifested reality......ugh.....
For me, especially after having visited a huge number of Buddhist temples in Asia, meditating with monks and just interacting with that culture, I have grown to differentiate between eating as pleasure and eating as spiritual ritual.
In the West, food is a very sensual thing. I mean, of course, it IS in itself a sensual thing....but I would define "eating for pleasure" as not simply eating for the sensation when not hungry...I would define 'eating for pleasure' as selecting every item of food you consume, in a meal or not, relative to how delicious it is.
For myself, that has really affected how much thought I even put into food. Personally, I am an extreme cultureophile (?) - I just love examining and experiencing nuisances of all cultures and peoples for the sake of learning. So of course this includes food.......but beyond this, I'm getting to the point of not taking an interest in food at all.....to eat more and more based on how what I buy affects the community I am in. To only eat local food, organic preferably....to eat/buy from the poorest looking places sometimes simply because there is no business and generally these are locally owned....
I have definitely found that the rest of all sensations and experiences to be clearer and heightened when I eat this way...as is the case with any modern hyper stimulation....
Food as spiritual ritual though.....has profound behavior changing potential for us in the West.
But .......I was also curious about the futuristic possibilities of eating less than even is probably physically safe.....to be combined with intake of other forms of sustenance. Prana/breathwork....or.....? Perhaps this idea hasn't found its time yet....I will continue to read Ursula K LeGuin and A.E. Van Vogt.
Woah. Sungazing! I can
— Jul 02, 2010
Woah.
Sungazing!
I can hardly believe it. Maybe I already knew.
Have you practiced this?
Amriti
— Jul 03, 2010
There also exists the potential development of 'mucous retention cyst' in the upper palate of the skull's mouth area.
It's crescent shaped orifice, when developed after awakening the kundalini, pours forth a highly concentrated 'ambrosia' referred to as "Amrita" that can sustain one indefinitely.
Casteneda
— Jul 04, 2010
When Don Juan and Carlos, from the book series, were practicing the "Art of Being a Warrior", going for long mystical walks through the desert ... even in these harsh and physically exerting treks ...
The Shaman Juan Matus would only recommend 4 mouthfuls of food per hour ... literally forcing the body to use up and live off of every ounce of energy available .
No excess for mental or physical sloth to take hold .. tuning and toning the body to actual need only
Yogi Survives Without food and Water for 65 years
— Jul 06, 2010
Thought you might find this article interesting. There is a yogi in india which has been living in perfect health for over 65 years with no food or water. This has been tested and confirmed by over 30 doctors.
http://topnews.co.uk/24093-yogi-survives-without-food-and-water-65-years
follow-up: describes the observation period with doctors
— Jul 06, 2010
living in air & light alone?
— Apr 10, 2011
What if it is true that man can survived with air and light alone? Isn't it great? That we can have the answer to our long time dilemma on world wide hunger. It could and might be possible though, through breathanism. I heard about this through the movie what if? the movie @ http://www.whatifthemovie.tv where the master Hira Ratan Manek talks about this practice.
