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Post by autumnsphere on Feb 11, 2013 3:40:51 GMT -8
Yes, the pinal gland is said to be responsible for a lot of body magic.  I have a different theory though. A restrictive diet can be very limiting. Have you asked yourself why you want to eat so called junk food? I'd say there's a correlation between your state of mind and what you eat. And there is also a correlation between your state of mind and how your organs function. Usually no one takes their state of mind into the equation so they only see the correlation between what they are eating and how their organs are functioning. I'd say when you are in a healthy state of mind, your appetite and body will be healthy too. You will naturally gravitate towards certain kinds of foods that fit your life style - and it probably won't be 100% organic. Actually, I know very well that it is not possible to eat 100% organic in the city. It's just too much of a hurdle. However, the more peaceful I get the cleaner my food gets. I have NO DESIRE to eat junk food anymore. And this is said in all honesty, I've been trained by Mr. Lynch to be honest with myself. Yes, extremities are evil (literally) and I'm not beating myself up for eating a non-organic apple. Self-blame leads directly to self-sabotage because you subconsciously need to go back to the same situation so you can make the right choice. However, paradoxically, what you actually need is to accept the situation and let go of it, so you don't need to go back to it next time. All I'm saying is that when your body is healthy, your state of mind will be healthier too. The opposite is valid too, and this whole healthy lifestyle started with my awakening, so I cannot argue with the notion that the healthier my mind is the better food choices I make. It's interwoven. |
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Post by autumnsphere on Feb 11, 2013 3:55:30 GMT -8
I did some crazy hunger experiments. One of them was 10 days with almost no food - only honey and water - which were a revelation. I learned so much during these 10 days, and my lifestyle and view of food changed completely. I could never imagine eating junk food again. I had a similar experience. But I wasn't on a diet mission. I was on a silence mission. I had no intention of changing my diet, my diet adjusted the more I sat in silence. One day I noticed I was eating very little meat, smaller portions, and mostly raw veggies. IOW, I was eating foods that energized me and didn't make me feel like shit. Only in hindsight did I realized that a number of diets out there were actually based on wisdom (and not health theories). From my experience, diet adjusts itself the more you realize how much you suffer from indulgence. Oh man! This sounds really familiar! I did the opposite and had the same effect. On the third day of the hunger experiment (it was not a diet, it was a spiritual experiment), I had so little energy that I stopped talking. I was calculating every word I said, and all of a sudden I realized that I've been blabbering TONS of useless things that drain my energy. You start seeing that you don't need to eat half of the food you eat and you don't need to say half of the things you say.  The other thing I realized was that you do have a connection with a spiritual energy source. Call it prana, call it kundalini, I don't mind. I literally felt my chakras burning during these 10 days. Maybe I imagined the whole thing... But the more I dig into this spiritual journey, the more I realize that imagination and attention to imagination actually turn your thoughts into reality. As Blake says: "Anything possible to be believed is an image of truth." |
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Post by jasonlynch on Feb 11, 2013 14:28:06 GMT -8
Eating and consciousness are so interrelated that it's hard to know which controls which.
I've given up on that quest for now, it seems that consciousness controls my cravings but the cleaner the food I eat gets the lesser the cravings get.
I did some crazy hunger experiments. One of them was 10 days with almost no food - only honey and water - which were a revelation. I learned so much during these 10 days, and my lifestyle and view of food changed completely. I could never imagine eating junk food again.
The main thing I learned was that we really EAT SO MUCH MORE than we actually need. One of the reasons for that is that the additives and preservatives in supermarket food screw our metabolism and we can't process the food right. When your glands don't work, your body is screwed up big time.
The biggest problem here is that there is a gland in your brain that is directly responsible for your connection with your spirit. It's the pineal gland that secretes DMT during REM sleep, deep meditation, birth and death. I've smoked DMT, and I can tell you that there is nothing, nothing on Earth that can describe this experience. It's the closest to enlightenment I've ever been. (Desclaimer: I know this is not the way, I know experiences are fleeting, I know you need sustainable consciousness, not fireworks.)
The pineal gland gets calcified by all the poisons you digest through water (fluoride), food, cosmetics, mercury tooth fillings. Meat also screws you up big time, but that's not strictly related to the pineal gland.
The last two weeks I've been trying to switch to organic food entirely. It's hard but I feel the difference. The portions that satisfy your hunger are much smaller than what I'm used to. Yes, the pinal gland is said to be responsible for a lot of body magic. I have a different theory though. A restrictive diet can be very limiting. Have you asked yourself why you want to eat so called junk food? I'd say there's a correlation between your state of mind and what you eat. So do you think marijuana causes the munchies, or that increase in thought activity leads to a natural, or inevitable, increase in thoughts about food? |
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Post by jasonlynch on Feb 11, 2013 14:34:29 GMT -8
Yes, the pinal gland is said to be responsible for a lot of body magic. I have a different theory though. A restrictive diet can be very limiting. Have you asked yourself why you want to eat so called junk food? I'd say there's a correlation between your state of mind and what you eat. And there is also a correlation between your state of mind and how your organs function. Usually no one takes their state of mind into the equation so they only see the correlation between what they are eating and how their organs are functioning. I'd say when you are in a healthy state of mind, your appetite and body will be healthy too. You will naturally gravitate towards certain kinds of foods that fit your life style - and it probably won't be 100% organic. Actually, I know very well that it is not possible to eat 100% organic in the city. It's just too much of a hurdle. However, the more peaceful I get the cleaner my food gets. I have NO DESIRE to eat junk food anymore. Really? I was over my boys house last night and his girl made him pick up these brownie battered donuts from Dunkin Donuts. I guess they're new. Are you telling me you would have NO DESIRE to eat that if it was sitting on a plate in front of you right now? I would say the healthier your mind state, the healthier your body will be, if of course physical health is something you find desirable. No split mind nonsense. |
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Post by enigma on Feb 11, 2013 17:07:34 GMT -8
Actually, I know very well that it is not possible to eat 100% organic in the city. It's just too much of a hurdle. However, the more peaceful I get the cleaner my food gets. I have NO DESIRE to eat junk food anymore. Really? I was over my boys house last night and his girl made him pick up these brownie battered donuts from Dunkin Donuts. I guess they're new. Are you telling me you would have NO DESIRE to eat that if it was sitting on a plate in front of you right now? I would say the healthier your mind state, the healthier your body will be, if of course physical health is something you find desirable. No split mind nonsense. I agree with that. The physical is an expression of the non-physical. We're not what we eat so much as what we think. |
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Post by Reefs on Feb 11, 2013 21:43:32 GMT -8
All I'm saying is that when your body is healthy, your state of mind will be healthier too. The opposite is valid too, and this whole healthy lifestyle started with my awakening, so I cannot argue with the notion that the healthier my mind is the better food choices I make. It's interwoven. That's true as long as you are talking about conditional clarity which depends on what you are doing with your focus. But it doesn't explain why those with a clear and healthy mind like Ramana and Niz had cancer. |
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Post by Reefs on Feb 11, 2013 21:52:33 GMT -8
I resonate with this 100%. However, I can't say that there's not a benefit to organic. Experientially some subtleties may be noticed when the mind is uber-calm over an extended period of time. But, I never experienced that.
For me it was the elimination of meat (mostly), and mostly raw foods. No grease or heavy foods that contributed to fatigue. You are talking about mind clarity which is conceptual 'clarity'. It's conditional, it depends on where your focus is and certain foods and certain practices and life styles seem to facilitate that kind of 'clarity'. But it's still efforting. It's not effortless clarity (effortless meaning no effort). As long as you keep up the effort, which basically is just focusing deliberately on what is preferred, there will be that kind of fake (conceptual) clarity. But it's not the kind of clarity and ease and peace the masters were talking about. |
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Post by Reefs on Feb 11, 2013 21:56:15 GMT -8
I had a similar experience. But I wasn't on a diet mission. I was on a silence mission. I had no intention of changing my diet, my diet adjusted the more I sat in silence. One day I noticed I was eating very little meat, smaller portions, and mostly raw veggies. IOW, I was eating foods that energized me and didn't make me feel like shit.
Only in hindsight did I realized that a number of diets out there were actually based on wisdom (and not health theories). From my experience, diet adjusts itself the more you realize how much you suffer from indulgence.Oh man! This sounds really familiar! I did the opposite and had the same effect. On the third day of the hunger experiment (it was not a diet, it was a spiritual experiment), I had so little energy that I stopped talking. I was calculating every word I said, and all of a sudden I realized that I've been blabbering TONS of useless things that drain my energy. You start seeing that you don't need to eat half of the food you eat and you don't need to say half of the things you say. The other thing I realized was that you do have a connection with a spiritual energy source. Call it prana, call it kundalini, I don't mind. I literally felt my chakras burning during these 10 days. Maybe I imagined the whole thing... But the more I dig into this spiritual journey, the more I realize that imagination and attention to imagination actually turn your thoughts into reality. As Blake says: "Anything possible to be believed is an image of truth." [/size][/quote] There's unlimited supply of energy all the time. It's all around. The draining is resistance which slows down the free flow of energy. Well, a spiritual 'journey' IS imagination. |
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Post by Reefs on Feb 11, 2013 21:59:45 GMT -8
So do you think marijuana causes the munchies, or that increase in thought activity leads to a natural, or inevitable, increase in thoughts about food? What makes you use marijuana? |
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Post by jasonlynch on Feb 11, 2013 22:22:05 GMT -8
So do you think marijuana causes the munchies, or that increase in thought activity leads to a natural, or inevitable, increase in thoughts about food? What makes you use marijuana? What makes the sky blue?  |
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Post by jasonlynch on Feb 11, 2013 22:42:03 GMT -8
So do you think marijuana causes the munchies, or that increase in thought activity leads to a natural, or inevitable, increase in thoughts about food? What makes you use marijuana? I'm watching the Big Lebowski on showtime and thought maybe that was the answer to your question. Smoking and watching the dude brings back fond memories from college! But i've since decided my weed smoking is just a natural spontaneous enterprise I engage in after a hard days work. I have 5 official contributors to my book already (going on 8) and I noticed recently they're all hot chicks in their 20's haha. Poor employment practices, shame on me. Welp, actually got two dudes coming on board soon, seemingly. Still no word from you Reefs  |
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Post by jasonlynch on Feb 11, 2013 23:24:02 GMT -8
So do you think marijuana causes the munchies, or that increase in thought activity leads to a natural, or inevitable, increase in thoughts about food? What makes you use marijuana? Sometimes I also smoke weed and go to the gym to run on the treadmill. I even lift weights high sometimes. I don't know if the weed helps, but in my case, it don't hurt. So I got that goin for me too. Let you know if I think of anything else... |
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Post by silence on Feb 12, 2013 7:25:11 GMT -8
All I'm saying is that when your body is healthy, your state of mind will be healthier too. The opposite is valid too, and this whole healthy lifestyle started with my awakening, so I cannot argue with the notion that the healthier my mind is the better food choices I make. It's interwoven. That's true as long as you are talking about conditional clarity which depends on what you are doing with your focus. But it doesn't explain why those with a clear and healthy mind like Ramana and Niz had cancer. I'd say the body is always in a movement towards decay naturally. The incessent interference of thought which is typically the 'normal' human state can speed that process up. When that interference is absent, the body is in a better position to function and repair itself but it never becomes immune to it's own eventual disintegration. A clear healthy mind doesn't conclude anything about mind preventing any sort of eventual disease or pain. |
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Post by silence on Feb 12, 2013 7:27:30 GMT -8
As far as spirituality goes, marijuana and other substances have the potential to allow things to be seen from alternate perspectives and even break people out of lifelong rigid viewpoints. The problem is usually that people want to remain in those alternate viewpoints and keep trying to access them over and over again.
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Post by jasonlynch on Feb 12, 2013 9:01:00 GMT -8
As far as spirituality goes, marijuana and other substances have the potential to allow things to be seen from alternate perspectives and even break people out of lifelong rigid viewpoints. The problem is usually that people want to remain in those alternate viewpoints and keep trying to access them over and over again. In addition to that, I would say marijuana and other substances have the potential to be used as avoidance mechanisms. And what's being avoided can provide fuel for the mind to split itself in half. |
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