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

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resources who fought, produced, and consumed to benefit the wealthy
elite. Early science was used to manipulate livestock bloodlines to maximize
flesh, milk, and wool output, and religion was used to justify and
even mandate the slaughter of animals for food. These are precisely the
institutions we have inherited and that operate today and live in us
because we continue to eat foods derived from reduced animals.
It’s helpful to realize that conventional science and religion, while
often feuding bitterly with each other, are in actuality strikingly similar
in their underlying assumptions. They are two proud sons of the herding
culture, and they both tend to reinforce the reductionist mentality
required of those who inhabit their father’s culture. This mentality is
required to sustain the practice of enslaving and eating large animals,
and to support an economic system based on exclusion and exploitation.
It’s instructive to see that while rare individuals have been able to
transcend and uplift these scientific and religious institutions to a
degree, the institutions themselves typically exert pressures that reinforce
the reductionism required by the herding milieu. For example,
though science and religion could be enormously enriched by the nonreductive
feminine principle (Sophia), she is despised by the herding culture,
and conventional science and religion typically view her with distrust,
to their own disadvantage.
The father and his sons are successful in subjugating Sophia primarily
because of the ongoing daily “sacrifice” of millions of animals for
our dinner tables: the mass ritual that reduces our intelligence and suppresses
our healing wisdom. As wisdom, Sophia is the ultimate goal of
both science and religion, but in serving the authoritarian and reductive
mentality of the herding culture, they have all but rejected her, with the
tragic spiritual consequences we can see all around us.
Science and Slavery
“Converting living systems into machines for capital accumulation
wouldn’t be possible without the instrumentality of a reductionist
science that achieves two things for you.
“On the one hand it kills your ethics of compassion because
reductionism transforms a living system into inert parts that are put