We are the environment and the environment is us. How we perceive and
relate to the outside world is a mirror of our own internal chemistry.
Once we have become somewhat regenerated on raw food the body’s reaction
to anything harmful to life becomes more acutely obvious. For example if
I eat cheese the emotional repercussions are: Lower energy for exercise
and sex ( while increase in sex drive), inability to focus the mind,
pain of loneliness, depression, futility, hardness or inhibition of
native compassion and heart expansion. I can literally feel the heat of
my immune system firing into action for hours after the consumption of
cheese. The associated adrenaline rush is greater than with coffee and
interferes with the natural sleep cycle. These affects no doubt only
occur with pasteurized cheese. Raw cheese, that is cheese that has not
been denatured through heating, would not create such radical symptoms.
Just as with drug trips, the exact psychological and emotional responses
produced by any substance is reliant on the background state in which it
was eaten. The emotional symptoms of frustration, irritation, fear,
helplessness etc... perfectly mirror the physical, chemical and
electromagnetic restraints put on the flow of consciousness in the body!
Activation of the adrenal glands during the immune response to cooked
food makes one aggressive or hyper and then after the crisis is over we
become lethargic and depressed. To have the energy for spiritual growth
we need only prevent the continual dissipation and repression of our
energy. The gate of life—the kidneys and adrenal glands, need to be
healed and fortified to reinstate the “will to evolve.” The will to
evolve is regeneration or the maximum flow of life energy and
consciousness (faith).
To rebuild the gate of life relationships need to be mended, cooked food
must be avoided and stimulants like coffee, tea, alcohol etc... must be
stopped. The strength of discipline to make these changes comes from
regenerating the gate of life and preventing the continual exploitative
loss of energy. With the agitation of the sympathetic nervous system
relieved the autonomic nervous system can balance itself. In this
balance (the sacred marriage of yin and yang) comes the refinement of
one’s energy to embody greater states of awareness, peace, effectiveness
and sensation.
Once we have been raw for awhile we tend to gag or cough on the
consumption of cooked food. The digestive system’s natural response to
harmful substances is quickly recovered on a raw diet and our body makes
it plainly obvious that it doesn’t want anything to do with cooked food.
In a raw body even boiled water is felt as metallic, biting or prickly
to the GI tract. An indication that it’s properties or the minerals
within it have changed to a form incompatible with life.
The quality of the digested food transiting the colon greatly affects
our emotions and influences what we are “driven” to eat. The last part
of the colon especially is very reflective of one’s mood and the degree
of pain and fear in the body. I suspect that this is the result of the
products of mal-digested foods and combinations we should not be eating.
That this emotional disturbance becomes very obvious at the end of the
digestive cycle must be related to the fact that this is when “water” is
absorbed from the feces. Cooked foods, and especially cooked proteins
and things like bread, tend to dry out too much in the colon creating
constipation. This unnatural backing up of what is already unnatural
food, produces negative emotional states and lowers consciousness. The
body may even be triggered to binge when constipated to push the food
through. Cooked and acid producing foods create this toxic condition,
while only raw fruit and vegetables guarantee freedom from constipation
and a smooth emotional life. So its seems that the greatest emotional
impact from the cooked food we eat occurs just before it leaves the
body. Anyone can discover this for themselves by keeping a food diary
and tracking a meals’ transit through the body while casually observing
mood swings.
Stress and social intimidation triggers us to eat the very foods which
will create depression, anger and fear when the water is retrieved in
the colon. In this way we perpetuate self-destructive chemistry long
after any external trigger and our negative state tends to recreate
conditions for further self abuse through mal-digestion. To break the
cycle we have to learn about the neurological effects of primate social
power structures, how fear operates in the body and we have to observe
how we are triggered. Then we must learn to change our coping behavior
from bingeing on destructive cooked foods to things like drinking water,
fasting, yoga and meditation. Only by relaxing and inviting more light
into our conditional-chemistry can we overcome our self destructive
reactivity.
The saying, “the little devil that sits on our shoulder,” is touch
language for the tension that we hold there. Tension and pain in the
right neck and shoulder stems from the health level of the liver and
tension in the left neck and shoulder is related to spleen function
(immunity). This is easily experienced through “felt-sense” in a raw
body on the consumption of cooked food. First sensation to any food
consumed is always initially felt in the left shoulder, as the immune
system immediately responds to the intake. After a while the right
shoulder will register its response when the liver starts processing the
food molecules. However this is hard to observe in a cooked body for the
permanent state of tension in both shoulders masks any slight
differences within that diet. I would venture to propose that the
tension, toxicity and reduced capacity caused by a cooked diet is the
origins of all neurosis, for it perpetuates anti-Spirit conditions in
body, mind, emotions, relationships, culture and environment.
As our organs become congested, contracted, laden with toxins and
diseased the corresponding nerves and nerve plexus lose their
efficiency. It is my felt-sense that organs, such as the liver, spleen,
kidneys etc... that are struggling, affect the transmission of nerve
energy into the spine. And that when the back muscles contract and pull
vertebrae out of place, they do so to the tune of the associated
disharmonious organs. All this tension, toxic congestion and enervation
reduces the flow of energy and information to the brain. The nervous
system can then no longer govern the elimination and repair functions
and the body slowing grinds to a halt...which we call cancer, heart
disease, diabetes or whatever. This is the basis of the dis-integration
of body, mind and soul.
When denatured substances such as cooked food are eaten, irritation,
congestion and an adrenal rush occurs, along with a general alert of
“danger to the organism.” This incapacitation and real threat to life
leads to the biological urge to procreate. Low conscious sex and sex
crime are no doubt inexorably linked to the wholesale deterioration of
individuals and generations living on a cooked food diet. Accepting this
to be so, would mean that an ethical society would be required to make
all prisons into permaculture farms. By remineralizing the soil and
eating only raw organic food the inmates would be regenerated up to a
socially responsive level of morality. There is no other method to
authentically rehabilitate people than through regeneration and
reconnection to the law of the land.
One of the main arguments people give against themselves adopting a 100%
raw food diet is that they are afraid they will become over-sensitive
and vulnerable to the coarseness, corruption and pollution of modern
life. Negativity abounds and people assume that the conciliatory,
congesting food substances will buffer them from the full on impact of a
cruel world. However this is not the case, for such food reduces
consciousness and makes us emotionally weak and reactive. Cooked food
makes us angry and hyper reactive to all negative emotions and
irritating situations. Therefore raw food is the only way to rise above
the low vibration of one's environment to find a better way and to
effortlessly brush off negativity. All the pains and fears of the world
can be transmuted to love in a highly spiritualized body. This is the
task of the ascenders, to show a better way and short circuit the
endless play of reactive madness with love. The only way to counter
negativity and anti-life forces is to become more alive, not to
self-destruct.
Once self-dispossession is overcome through regeneration of the bodymind
a wonderful new experience of freedom and safety of being anywhere in
the world occurs. With a receptive strong bodymind, threat and insult
are more clearly perceived, however such “danger to the ego” doesn’t
strike us in the heart like it used to, because we no longer resonate
strongly with the base emotions. I can’t tell you the relief and
pleasure that results purely from letting up the defenses against being
hurt. When we remember that love is the only true defense we no longer
become a target. Safe inside=safe outside. Meditation on the sun greatly
expedites the self-possession necessary to be able to use love as the
defensive force field for well being and survival. With regeneration,
raw food and spiritual practice we conduct so much light we no longer
fear darkness.