5.  The Need of Fasting

Each of us now, if we desire, can join this new consciousness and expand our own potential beyond anything we have ever conceived possible.  But first we have to begin with correcting the faults and dishonesty within our own body.  It is hard for us to realize, starting with the most basic thing, and that is the amount of energy we use up in the body by digesting and clearing through the system a tremendous amount of unnecessary food that is stealing energy from us, thereby reducing the quality of our thinking and holding down our possibility for conscious expansion.

Most people take a long time to realize how they have been indoctrinated into thinking that they are eating good food or feeding their children good food, when actually they are eating a lot of dead food or totally useless food, thereby daily giving the body a great amount of unnecessary work.  A classic example of this is the breakfast cereals we have been led to believe were a necessary part of our morning food intake.  This has been exploitation of our gullibility, because we now know they contain little, if any, nutritious value and simply through dishonest advertising they have won the confidence of the consumer when actually they are destroying our energy and the energy of our children.  We simply have to utilize a large amount of body energy to digest and pass this useless bulk through our system when this energy could have been used much more constructively by the mind.  It is vital that we understand the importance of putting proper food into our systems and the systems of our children.

You are what you eat.  If you are eating garbage in the form of non-nutritious foods you are certainly not thinking.   You are only accepting advertising or traditional food habits that are simply inbred consumer indoctrination.  I believe that many diseases, including cancer, are created by wrong diet because the body enzymes use up so much energy digesting and clearing out this bad food, so that the enzymes are unable to maintain our physical balance.  The carelessness with which we put things into our mouths without thinking is monumental.  How can we expect our mind to develop the energy for higher consciousness when our bodies almost continually are wrapped around pounds of the wrong kind of food?

You are an organism seeking new knowledge and yet men spend years reading esoteric material, but they never think of fasting for two days to first clear out their system in order to give it a rest so that they can use the energy to increase their consciousness.  The thought that they might have to go forty-eight hours without putting any food into their body frightens many.  Yet it is perfectly safe and after two days, if you just drink water with some lemon juice, you will immediately discover how much better you feel, how much clearer your thoughts are.   But at the end of the fast, don't simply stuff yourself again with useless food.   Eat some fresh fruit and lots of salads or fresh vegetables; but at least this will give you the opportunity to see how the body is in control, rather than the mind.   The body eats because it has developed appetite, not because of hunger.  We eat far too much and you only have to look to realize the unnecessary excess weight most people carry.  Most men in their early thirties are already carrying around a pot that they do not need but which their never-ending appetite keeps maintaining.

It is really essential to have at least one day a month, and preferably one day a week where you give your system twenty-four hours to rest.  If you think about this, after a few minutes, it becomes self-evident and if you are seriously interested and have the desire to increase your consciousness from its present level, you will have to entertain the thought of getting your body into shape.   It is the only thing you have to work with.  Even after twenty-four hours with nothing but juices the body will start generating more energy and you will find that you will be able to concentrate more easily.