Eating when upset in any way, or larger amounts right before or after any more vigorous physical activity tends to make a meal more acid forming than it normally would be.  Gentle and more brief walking, Tai Chi, or what not on the other hand facilitates the digestion-assimilation process thus facilitating a more alkaline reaction.

  Eating organically raised and processed foods is often better than the conventional kinds, but you don't always know what you are really getting and that shouldn't be an excuse to eat less veggies of fruits.  Most veggies will be fairly healthy for you whether organically or conventionally grown and processed.  A couple exceptions for some examples are peppers and strawberries,  high, high amounts of pesticide residues and better off left alone or in very small, infrequent quantities.

Where eating organic or completely naturally becomes uber important is when ingesting dairy, egg, and meat products. 

Reason being is that animals tend to live a longer time and consume more sustenance than does plants, and generally are very differently built than plants and trees. 

    So there is an accumulation of toxins such as pesticide and herbicide residues that build up more in those kind of animal based foods.  Particularly speaking, animals tend to store some of these toxins in their fat if they can't get rid of all of it.   Well most commonly consumed animal products contain a lot of fat.   There is also the issue that more animals raised in a conventional way tend to be much more mistreated than raised organically or especially in small, local or family type farms.  An animals happiness or lack, will affect it's byproducts, which will affect you either constructively or not depending. 

So, if you can't afford to buy organic or completely natural when it comes to such foods, then choose low fat or leaner versions, or better to go completely without.  But you don't want to choose completely fat free versions.  It is a little known fact that in digesting heavier or more complex proteins, there needs to be some fat involved to help out in the process and it's just easier for your body if it's already in the meal you are eating.

  This leads to the issue of fish.  Fish used to be one of the healthiest and more easily digested forms of concentrated proteins, but our chronic polluting of the oceans and seas has made fish fast becoming one of the most problematical food sources. 

  Like with land animals, fish tend to accumulate more toxins than their veggy counterparts. 

   Because of this issue, it's best to primarily eat the smaller types of fish species that are lower on the predator chain. 

  The larger fish species that live a longer time and/or eat many other smaller to moderate sized fish, like tuna, sharks, marlins, etc. tend to have the most toxin residues in their flesh. 

   Then there are some areas of ocean that are better than others.  But generally speaking, fish like sardines, anchovies, wild caught Alaskan salmon are usually your best bets.  Farming fish has also contributed to it's own issues, but there is a balance between the health and ecological issues to consider.  Generally speaking, eating and supporting farmed fishing tends to be less healthier and ecologically friendly, but in some cases it is more sustainable since so many wild fish are being caught at a faster rate than they can repopulate.

  The issue of Alcohol is almost as complex, relative, and important as the issue of eating animal flesh. 

  Edgar Cayce's guidance often recommended a small glass of dry red wine a day, particularly in combo with dark brown type breads, as a health and blood building food. 

   He almost never recommended hard or refined liquors (except in some rare medical applications) and almost always said to avoid same, even rarely recommended beer.

  The exception to beer came as a particular combo wherein one takes non 'green' beer (meaning not raw or new) and takes a fresh raw egg yolk or two to mix in.  This was said to be a healthful and nutritious combo. 

  I've somewhat regularly used this combo over a few years now to good effect (and in strict moderation), but besides the above i also tend to use very dark beers (like stouts and porter types), mix in a pinch of say "real" salt, and i take most of the carbonation out of the beer.  I haven't once gotten sick with using the raw egg yolk in the beer all this time. 

  Cayce's guidance always recommended against carbonation in beverages, particularly highly carbonated beverages like soda and modern commercial beers.   Said it was rather destructive to the digestive system and body in general. 

  Mildly carbonated milk kefir, for example, will not be harmful though.

  The issue of alcohol is primarily one of intent and/or of attachment.

  Alcohol originally developed from two main reasons.  One helpful and practical reason of a way of storing extra grain or fruit without detrimental spoilage. 

But the other reason is the all too common escapism and altering ones consciousness issue.  This is the slow vibratory aspect of alchohol which when there is that kind of intent tends to both slow down ones physical, etheric, emotional, mental vibratory patterns AND at the same time attracts slower vibratory nonphysicals who will then attempt to enter into your energy fields to either to try to experience that state of which they were overly attached to when in physical, or the more malevolent and smarter ones know that this just provides an opening via weakening the various energetic connections thus allowing them to more easily influence you or disrupt/deharmonize your balance.

  Either way, it's always best to drink either with the intent of physical health in mind (like in that beer-egg yolk mix or small glass of dry red wine), or in careful moderation and not going beyond a light buzz. 

  The odd case of eggs.  Eggs, much like tomatoes were treated in a very relative and dependent way in the Cayce readings when talked about. 

  Like with tomatoes, only certain forms and conditions of eggs were said to be healthful and promoting, but when NOT in those specific conditions both were said to be rather destructive to health. 

  With eggs, these had to be very lightly cooked as in coddled eggs, or the raw egg mixed in with an acidic and/or alcohol beverage to sort of "pasteurize" it without actual heating (which negatively changes the cholesterol  fat in same), and contrary to popular practice today only the yolk was advised to be eaten because the white is very hard to digest and the yolk has most of the minerals and vitamins.

  Almost everything i've recommended so far, i've experimented with or observed myself.  I use to not be able to stand eggs, and even the smell of well cooked eggs bothered me.  Yet, i've noticed my body craves the raw egg yolk in beer mix.  When i eat eggs the way most people eat them, overcooked and with the white, i tend to get indigestion.   Yet no problem with the lightly cooked, raw and only yolk methods. 

  Culturing, sourdough proofing, and fermenting foods.  This has generally been touched upon already, but i would emphasize the usually beneficial transformative nature that these traditional methods have on various kinds of foods.  Specifically with grains and seeds, sprouting is also very helpful too.

    While i pretty much eat gluten free nowadays, i've noticed that my body can tolerate moderate amounts of say certain kinds and forms of foods with gluten like a well sourdoughed organic spelt or kamut wheat bread for example. 

    Even better is when i would make my own homemade sprouted and then sourdoughed organic Spelt and/or Kamut bread.   

   Many tend to see in more black and whites in various areas, and nutrition, health and diet is also a common area.  Some will say, you must eat completely gluten or dairy free to be optimally healthy..   

Well certainly helps if you aren't finding out the exceptions to the rule, or the ways around the common rules and averages. 

  Heck, not much of any of this will matter too much if say you come in from the most expanded consciousness levels and start off a super loving and aware kind of person to begin with and maintain that consistently and in a disciplined way via various manners like much meditation, prayer, etc. 

You pretty much, could on average, throw most of all this advice out the window because your consciousness is so fast vibrating, coherent and powerful that it constantly keeps your physical vehicle vivified with creative life vibrations... 

   But very, very few are such people, and so it's better to err on the side of caution. 

   I guarantee you that most of us if we started to more holistically apply these various health principles in a more consistent way, will notice definite improvements in the clarity of mind and emotions, as well as nonphysical perception, which will tend to lead to better freewill choosing and general expressing and relating to others.   

  Even Yeshua, despite his teachings to the overly dogmatic Pharisees, etc. like "it's not what goes in, but comes out of the mouth", etc., practiced some of these more outer "props" at times like fasting.  I also have a hard time believing he was a voracious meat eater growing up, though i think he did eat some flesh here and there (particularly fish).

  But like i brought up earlier, he didn't have to contend with the super extreme and overly toxic environment, food, and food processing that we have to. 

  They didn't have preservatives back then beyond salt, sun-air drying and natural fermentation acids.  They didn't add unnatural chemicals to their food.  They didn't grow with toxic pesticides and herbicides. 
 
  They weren't surrounded by plastics, various polluting factories of all kinds, nuclear power plants and radiation issues, etc., etc. 

  They didn't tamper genetically with the plants and animals beyond simple breeding strategies.

  They didn't sit around at cubicles, computers, video games, tv's, and other overly sedentary activities.  They tended to be MUCH more consistently physically active (because they had to be). 

    As far as food and our environment goes, we live in a very extreme, in some ways very imbalanced, and unique cycle.  To keep a better physical balance takes all that much more awareness, discipline, and focus. 

The benefit of keeping a better physical balance is that it opens up more potential for various nonphysical activities and perceptions.  It clears and balances your mind and emotions.   

  When you really get into it and refine your process from listening to your inner voice, intuition or guidance, then you start to feel more and more physically alive, well, healthy, and this innately and naturally leads to better attunement spiritually and that all important balance between the body, mind and spirit. 

  But that's the important part, it's important to listen to your own inner guidance and intuition when it comes to this process for you who is a unique individual.   Everything that works for me, might not work for you and vice versa. 

   But at the same time, don't delude yourself, there are certain Universals involved too, which is why i went into depth about these general and more universal principles rather than prescribing a more set kind of diet. 

One last post in "article" form.

  The odd case of an almost "spiritual food" in the Cayce readings.

"Mummy food":  On just a few occasions in the some 40 year span or so that Edgar Cayce kept record of his psychic readings, an individual was recommended to eat amounts of a special food combination called later by Cayce researchers "Mummy food". 

  In one particular reading, the person receiving the advice was told they were unusually spiritually intune body and that this particular food would be helpful to them, and Cayce's guidance said something like, "it is almost a spiritual food for such a developed body like this." 

  In another reading, it was said that some of the earlier Atlantean and Ancient Egyptian Priests and Priestesses subsisted largely off this particular food.  Inferred was that it possibly helped them to keep a better psychic attunement.

  It became known as "Mummy food" because Cayce had a repeating, progressive dream wherein he was in a room with a well preserved Egyptian mummy which started to come alive and asked Edgar to feed it this special food preparation.  (with the help of the resurrected Mummy, they interpreted the now recovered records supposedly kept in a secret, hidden chamber). 

  Some have theorized that this particular combo acts more directly as a food for and stimulator of the Pineal gland which is very related to what some call the Anja Chakra, the primary and immediately psychic perceiving Center. 

  While i have a lot of respect for the Cayce readings, and have first hand experienced the accuracy and helpfulness of much of the info, i don't necessarily automatically believe even this source on everything. 

  I started to have my own dreams and guidance messages telling me to eat this food.  Because it's a bit difficult and time consuming to prepare, and up until very recently i've had candida issues and needed to really cut down sugar and carbs in my diet, i haven't yet gotten to the point of consistently eating this particular food combo so unusually and highly recommended by Cayce's guidance.  Despite several messages to date. 

  The food preparation is simple.  Chop finely an equal amount of dried figs and dried dates, mix with just a little whole grain more course (and easier to digest) flour like cornmeal, buckwheat, etc, cook all this in water covered for about 20 minutes at medium low heat, and then when done add some goat milk.

  The dream that Cayce had which involved this food was quite interesting for a couple of reasons.  One was, that he knew it was in a future life of his, and two the dream started as a dream one morning, then picked up later when he came out of a reading, then continued the same way for two other readigns.  All spaced over about a week or so.

  Obviously it was a very important message to get across for him, or possibly future self. 

  The dream seems to symbolize him bringing back his Egyptian heritage of psychic and spiritual attunement in the context of this future life.  The Mummy ended up being a woman, which probably represents his psychically receptive Yin side.   Possibly the dream was saying that this food combo will play an important role in him opening up his future psychic gifts and perception, just as it played a role with some of the Children of the Law of One Priests and Priestesses from Atlantis and Ancient Egypt. 

pattiz wrote on Apr 26^th, 2011 at 6:23pm:


  That is too funny Patti!   

You're very welcome and glad to have obliged in being part of your synchronistic occurrence, but darn don't i wish i could be more conscious of these connections before hand.

   Funny thing was, is that i didn't know if i should post on this thread to begin with and i really hesitated.  Reason being that one it is quite old and two, it doesn't really deal too much directly with the "afterlife"...so i debated with myself for a bit, and then had the feeling, oh what the heck let's go ahead and do it. 

  P.S. it's interesting to me that Mummy food is primarily made with two fruits from trees.  This perhaps has some significance.  One, i've always had the sense that trees are particularly powerful and spiritual archetypes in the Earth. 

  Perhaps in being born from such majestic and potentially long living Beings, these are imbued with extra spiritual and powerful vibrations?

  Two, since they are fruits there is no invasive or harmful process involved in enjoying the "fruits" of Mother Earth with these. 
  Course, there may be more to it than both of these considerations, there just may be something in one or both of these that feed the Pineal.  I think i remember reading awhile ago that Figs have a lot of serotonin in them.

  Likewise thank you for expressing your appreciation Beau.  Btw, i was kind of half hoping that you would show up to the recent FL workshop so i could meet  you in person. 

   
General forum message:  Since it's not apparent, just wanted to mention that i started these recent postings back on the 2nd page.

  Hi Bardo,

  I wrote all about it on the section of the Forum for Worshops called "Workshop Connections".

Here is a link to that specific post:

http://afterlife-knowledge.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1303789288

Getting hungry for a nice grilled rib roast, preceded by a well made extra dry martini (shaken, not stirred, topped off with oil from lemon peel). 

I've found that blue cheese with rice crackers goes great with the martini, fyi.

R