Thousands of experts have spent millions of dollars researching the phenomena of food related issues resulting in today's unprecedented levels of obesity. Every magazine and newspaper, repeats the same old diets in the same old way giving it the same old name of "New."
There was a time when we were mean, lean and hungry. Now we are simply mean and hungry...joke?
During my first visit to India some fourteen years ago I never met a fat Indian. Everyone I encountered looked lean and hungry. On my most recent visit the first taxi driver I conversed with asked me for advice on his obesity and diabetes. Wealthy materialism and spiritual deprivation quickly shows on the body. This is not a perspective that would be considered by the " food or eating disorder experts." Here I am not alluding to those who suffer from bulimia or anorexia, a completely different psychological disorder.
Here I speak of a psychological disorder, otherwise known as soul displacement, which at a great cost to human evolution, is being normalised.
Food nowadays is a multi - billion dollar driven phenomena whereby our appetites are manipulated by manufacturers who are oblivious to the holistic approach to human development. They need to be to make the huge profits from helping us commit suicide by killing ourselves with our manipulated desires.
Politicians who make vane attempts to stop binge drinking and who implement a health food tax in order to prevent us from becoming like the characters from the movie "Wall-E" are compounding problems with their ignorance. I am surely not the only one walking around who is secretly appalled at the state of humanity?
How many wives feed their husbands as a way to demonstrate love? These are time old strategies that ensured the propagation of the species. A comfortable satisfied body will soon succumb to a dull unadventurous and safe lifestyle. Ooh I can hear some people banging the drums of outrageous denial...
A person who feeds the soul will not give us what we want but will give us what we need. We are conditioned to need more and more of what we do not really need in order to deny the soul its true existence. Our daily duties whether we work as an economic slave or are able to live in "relative" freedom (note" relative"- we are not free if something other than ourselves can control our thoughts - think about that!) are filled with the buying, making and consumption of food. Whereas food for the soul comes from the fragrance of a Spring Hyacinth, a summer's Rose and autumn's Lavender. It comes from soul inspiring literature and music, from a deep meaningful conversation with a loved one, a smile across a crowded room, at a bus stop, the warmth of the sun after cold damp and cloudy days. All these and more feed our soul and spirit.
But do we take as much time breathing this soul food as we do gobbling down short energy producing carbs and sugar heavy substances?
Eat to live and not live to eat" is a motto well worth remembering.
Yet here is the timeless paradox to all this "alternative perspective," one of my dearest soul mates who taught me some profound spiritual lessons said to me one day
"You know Avril I like nothing better than taking you out and treating you to a great big slice of coffee and walnut of cake and seeing the delight which arises in your eyes."
"My great-great-grandchildren ask me, in dreams, 'What did you do while the planet was plundered? What did you do when the earth was unravelling? Surely you did something when the seasons started failing, as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying. Did you fill the streets with protest when democracy was stolen? What did you do once you knew?'"
Drew Delinger, poet
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