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

The Metaphysics of Food / 137
trated vibrations of terror, grief, frustration, and desperation permeating
these foods—are invisible and completely unrecognized by conventional
science, yet they may be even more disturbing to us than physical toxins
because they work on the level of feelings and consciousness, which are
more essential dimensions of ourselves than our physical vehicle.
By purchasing or ordering animal products we directly cause misery
and sow seeds of despair and cruel violence. It would be naïve to think
these seeds simply disappear into thin air. The terror, pain, and frustration
we cause to feeling creatures, whose bodies and minds are tormented
beyond imagining, are extremely powerful forces that affect us, their
causative agents, in many ways. When we nourish the cells with which
we think and feel with the flesh and secretions of these terrorized animals,
we absorb the vibrations of fear, disease, and violence, no matter
how we try to disguise this with euphemisms and distractions.
Physicists are beginning to glimpse the truth that mystics and sages
have been pointing toward for centuries, that the world that appears to
us through our senses is a vibrational phenomenon. Energy that vibrates
within a certain range becomes perceptible to us as “matter,” and vibrations
outside that range, though not necessarily perceptible by our senses,
still exist. Standing in a dark, quiet room, for example, we may not
see or hear anything, but if we turn on a radio or television, we will suddenly
become aware of the music, conversations, ads and TV programs
that have been with us in the room, unperceived because we lacked the
equipment to perceive them. In a similar way, we may look at an egg
and see just a material thing, but if we had the necessary intuitive equipment,
we could become much more aware of the egg as a vibrational
entity. Though our mind may be blocked from seeing, feeling, or sensing
the egg as a vibrational energy system, our body, which is also a
vibratory system, will be affected by it at the essential vibratory level.
Our body knows what vibration it is eating, as does our mind at the
deeper levels beyond conscious awareness.
We have probably all experienced being in a physically beautiful
place and noticed that if we are angry, jealous, or afraid, or if the people
with us are, then the physical beauty cannot be appreciated. The
converse is also true. Joy, nobility, compassion, high energy, and pure