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

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vibrations can transform any physical surrounding into a paradise, and
fear or anger can make any paradise (for example, our earth) into a hell
or a prison gulag. Our inability to fully recognize, appreciate, and protect
the inexhaustible, spectacular beauty of our earth and of her creatures
is due to our inner desensitization to vibrational energy frequencies—the
numbness that keeps us from screaming or weeping when we
bite into a hot dog or cheeseburger.
At the level of vibrational frequency, our bodies know and respond
to the vibrations of environments and situations, of relationships, of
emotions, and especially of what we eat. It has been well known for generations
that the milk of a mother who is angry or disturbed will often
make her baby sick. While most scientists continue to restrict their
search to materialist explanations for phenomena, modern physics, for
example, is demonstrating that matter is energy and that consciousness
is fundamental, far more fundamental than energy-matter.
Both the uncertainty principle and the observer effect, foundational
to quantum physics, 6 imply that the appearance of energy-matter is
inseparable from and conditioned by consciousness; the universe is not
fundamentally physical but is an arising in awareness, in consciousness.
Max Planck, the Nobel Prize-winning father of quantum theory, wrote,
for example, “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
. . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and
intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.” 7
These apparent three—consciousness, energy, and matter—are
finally slowly being recognized for what they are: a unity. Consciousness
and energy-matter are mutually conditioning, interpenetrating, and
interdependent in utterly profound and mysterious ways. Consciousness
is primary and essential, and what appears as energy-matter is ultimately
a manifestation of consciousness. It is consciousness, for example,
that ultimately heals; the huge variety of healing methods may all be
seen as placebos, as Andrew Weil has discussed at length in Health and
Healing, because they work to the degree that the mind believes in them,
from shamanism to herbs to acupuncture to surgery and drugs. 8 Some
spiritual forms of healing recognize this basic truth, yet our culture’s
established institutions still reflect the overwhelmingly materialist and