The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

chapter eight
THE METAPHYSICS OF FOOD
“There’s nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only
pretending to be asleep.”
—Bishop Desmond Tutu
“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See
yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”
—Buddha
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Eating Vibrations
Animal foods concentrate both physical and metaphysical toxins. The
physical toxins in animal foods such as the trans fats, pathogens, and
pesticide, drug, and hormone residues, besides injuring our bodily
health, can also disturb us mentally and emotionally. Mood swings, irritability,
and loss of attentiveness are well-known side effects of drugs
and chemicals and the power of psychoactive substances is well documented.
We are rediscovering what Pythagoras taught us: that eating
animal foods has negative effects on our consciousness; one recognized
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