10.  Dead Food, Dead Thinking

We have to start with the basic steps of looking inside instead of outside.  The Kingdom is indeed within ourselves if we will but recognize it.  We must cool down the body and the active mind and have our house in order.  This means getting our thinking in order.  This is only possible when one first starts to get one's physical being in shape.  It must all start within.   It may seem an over-simplification to say we are what we eat.  But we are exactly what we eat.  Our minds, our bodies, and our muscles are what we eat.   They are manufactured by the food we put into our system.

Only through diet and proper exercise, which conserves energy instead of wasting it, can we put our physical house in order.   A vegetarian diet would greatly increase your physical well-being despite the heavy propaganda that meat should be an essential part of your diet.  It may be an essential part of the economic survival of the meat industry but the amount of energy required to transform meat in the body in the form of waste matter burns up a tremendous energy and there are many food substitutes that are superior to sirloin steak, with far less waste matter to clear through the system.  But again Western societies have been brought up with such mind manipulation that the ability to order sirloin steaks with French-fried potatoes is the ultimate in an affluent society.  I use this only to indicate the difficult job we are faced with in evaluating our bodily needs in order to obtain higher levels of consciousness.  We eat many foods because we are the victims of developed tastes, of consumer manipulation, just as we now eat ice cream which is no longer made from any dairy products.

Much of the food we eat is filled with all sorts of preservatives, many of which are not suspected of carrying toxins that can create cancer, because the enzymes in the body use up so much of their energy to destroy the toxins that they are unable to maintain the proper metabolism balance throughout our system.  The amount of energy required to digest and remove tasty but useless food through our systems is monumental.  But it is certainly to the advantage of the manufacturer to manipulate our senses and keep us as mindless consumers unable to develop the will power even to stop eating such food once we are hooked.  The information, for example, that most of our morning cereals are totally without nutritious value was simply rejected by the mothers of America, who like well-trained consumers no longer want to hear what is contrary to their indoctrination.

Freedom is certainly not an easy trip.   It is not something that happens over night.  But it is one of the reasons why many of our youth have gone back to the land where they can at least purify their bodies with pure food and develop the energy necessary to maintain their independence.  This is one of the reasons that natural food stores are starting to emerge all over America.   But even here, dishonesty is creeping in and many foods are not what the labels proclaim them to be.  We have reached such a stage that almost all of our food products are produced with minimum quality, only enough to avoid consumer riots.   This is also true of hardware.  With all the technology that America has to place a man on the moon, the level of business consciousness is such that they put a bumper on a car that cannot stand a head-on collision at more than three miles an hour, for the simple reason that the repair business and the replacement business brings in billions each year and a strong honest bumper would cost the manufacturer millions by avoiding minor accidents and repairs that a lesser bumper assures will happen.

The reader may feel that we are mixing levels by discussing such things, but we are attempting to point out the extent of man's fall from consciousness.  Man no longer has the conscience of even being responsible to produce a good product.  The fact that his own children may be killed by such a product fails to motivate him.  He is so locked in through his level of money consciousness that he cannot see beyond.  Man's exploitation of man at every level has no limitations once conscience is killed, whether it is individual conscience or big business conscience.  It is all part of the same and will the fall in consciousness we have reached our present state, where wars can now be fought and lives sacrificed for purely economic considerations.  The only road back is for each man to take the responsibility for his own growth, to regain his conscience and thereby his consciousness.   It is an inside responsibility.  Where does one start?