Theos-Talk Archives (February 1997 Message tl00542)

At 08:50 AM 2/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>> From: C Kent <cmkent@ozemail.com.au>
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>> As a natural vegetarian, and believing at the time that vegetarianism was a
>> superior way,  I struggled to find which food supplements would work to
>> replace the meat.  I experimented which just about everything until I
>> finally reconciled to my meat eating status when I discovered that the Dalai
>> Lama eats meat. ;-)  What's good enough for him is good enough for me, I
>> decided.  So whilst the ES was tempting in my early days, it was
>> inaccessible.  Now I think that this was perhaps a good thing.
>
>My husband and I did a lot experimenting with vegetarian diets in the
>70's and had to come to the conclusion that it wasn't for us.  I have
>friends that are both vegetarian and non, some in the same family, so it
>makes for creative mealtimes, where the entree is meat for the dad and
>kids, while mom has a slice cheese with her veggies.  I think it's great
>if someone can pull that kind of diet off, but I'd just settle for being able
>to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.  I haven't been able to do
>that for over 20 years.
>
>Thanks for the infor about the Dalai Lama.  Yes, I've met some highly
>spiritual meat-eaters in my time, including Stephan Hoeller.
>>
>> I don't think taste is the issue.  A western lifestyle in a western body is.
>> I could happily be a vegetarian ohmm-ing my life away on a mountaintop, but
>> put me in the middle of a large city doing a yuppy job in the corporate
>> technological world, and watch me go incompetant (and mad) without meat.
>>
>Someone once told me that she thought if you were a city-dweller, it was better
>to eat meat because it thickened your aura and made you less sensitive to
>the different energies of the crowd.

  I do not have any personal experience on this. May be I am not a sensitive
person. So lacto vegetarian diet has been found ok so far all my life, quit
a bit of it was spent in large cities.

mkr


>
>Eileen and Peter Caddy, who founded the Findhorn Community in Scotland,
>were not vegetarians when they ran a hotel.  After they left to start Findhorn,
>they were directed by angels (devas) to eat only what they grew in their
>organic garden, as a vegetarian diet would allow them to be more in contact
>with the angelic kingdom.
>
>At some point, Eileen went into surgery and came back to the community to
>recuperate.  She wrote of her craving at that time for a good piece of meat,
>which she later confided to the person who was taking care of her.  That
>person ran to the nearest town and bought her some, which she ate and it
>speeded her healing.  Cayce would have said that it was just something she
>needed at that time.
>
>-AEB




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