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The �spiritual quality of food� is not a metaphor: food contains a light fiber energy which is as important to our sustenance as vitamins and proteins, but which is not susceptible to chemical analysis. And just as the vitamin and protein content of food can be diminished by processing or overcooking, so too can the light fiber content of food be diminished by disrespect.

Light fibers are actually the same things as good feelings. When we feel good, we literally glow. When a food plant or animal feels good, it glows. Even when it is killed for food, the glow remains as long as the killing was done with respect; that is, with a sense of connectedness and gratitude rather than mechanically.

A farmer puts the glow into his plants and animals by treating them with respect � by respecting their feelings. Practically all farmers farm for the love it; they sure don�t do it for the money. They feel joyous as they ride their tractors up and down their fields, and that good feeling is communicated to the soil and plants. Similarly, most dairy farmers not only address their cows as individuals, but they also develop quirky personal relationships with them. Therefore, from a light fiber point of view, our vegetable and milk supplies are still relatively safe. Most egg farms, on the other hand, are run like Auschwitz, and that�s what makes eggs poisonous to eat (not their cholesterol).

Not all cultures have been so cut off from their true feelings about food as ours is today. Many Native American tribes had a deep awareness that they were a part of what they ate � e.g., the buffalo. They lived with the buffalo, followed the buffalo, prayed to the buffalo. They were one with the buffalo, and thus to them eating was a sacrament. Modern Native Americans maintain that same attitude of reverence towards maize.

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So where did you retrieve your information for this article? Because you contradict yourself in here, saying that Nattive Americans hunted, followed, prayed to and ate the buffalo then you say that their main diet was corn. Native Americans, until invasion by Europeans and forced concentration camp style migrations, were nomadic hunters. Following whatever game was available, buffalo, deer, elk, antelope, etcetera.
Alos the way you talk about eating makes me wonder if you A: aren't proliferating the American stereotype of gluttonous pigs; B: Have a secret hatred of people with weight issues; or C: have an eating problem yourself.
I understand what you are trying to say, that we should be thankful for what we have to eat, go back to basics and eat less processed, organic or even home grown foods. But find me a baby that feels shame in eating cake on their 4th birthday.

Hello Bob

I have edited your post down to a give a flavour (pun intended) of your article. May I respectfully remind you of one of my forum rules:

"Visitors do not publish essays, either their own or A N Other's. You may post a link to a longer text if you wish to make a reference."

This forum exists to give people a chance to discuss New Age issues. Spiritual Food is a great topic for discussion! I hope you intend to stay and chat with us & aren't just looking to send people to your own articles & site, as that would be against the spirit of Bellaonline forums.

But find me a baby that feels shame in eating cake on their 4th birthday.

LOL hahahahaha
I LOVE THAT!!!!!

Thank you Wendy!!!

I think he eats a whole lotta SPAM!!

:oSPAM 1/3 less pig lips!!!!


I think I will stick to my stake and potatoes!!! Texans dont eat SPAM or read it!!!

turkey spam isn't so bad LOL

lol only if I was starving to death and God told me to eat it!! lol

So what do you guys think of "Spiritual Cookery"? the thought of thanking the plant/snimal for sacrificing itself so that you could eat? A little bit different from thanking God/dess for what you are about to eat.

In one sense Bob was right that Natives did thank the organism for dying so that they could live on, and they also used every bit of that organism, nothing ever went to waste, whether it was for food or shelter, clothing, jewelry/decoration or what have you.

I will be the first to admit that even though I am native american myself, nine times out of ten I forget to be thankful for what I am about to eat. Do any of you do anything out of the ordinary before you are about to eat; Whether it be for ceremony or not?

I think the "light fiber" content of food is exactly equal to it's phlogiston, aether, and fairy dust content. We humans are omnivores, predators by nature, but we differ from other mammals in that we can consciously manage our food supply. Our foods are almost entirely artificial, created by other humans over the millennia through artificial selection/selective breeding. We have shaped life on this planet to better suit our needs and sustain our species to the point that we might escape the death of this world. So, to whom does the thanks truly go? the organism consumed? The long-dead string of breeders? The farmer? The storekeeper? The purchaser? The cook? I personally thank those who have provided for me in some way, and I observe the rituals of those with whom I am eating, whether it be the saying of grace at my parent's house or the "itadakimasu" at a Japanese household.