Posted by
Bill Ryan
As spiritual beings, most of us are heavily affected by our bodies - more so than most of us realize.
The body has its own intelligence, its own problems, its own concerns, its own sense of purpose, and its own [very long] history - both as itself a reincarnating 'body intelligence' (an intelligent spiritual component) and also through the DNA, which is a deeper program that contains elements of all the genetic line going back a very long way. (Important to note: these two factors are different and separate, though they can sometimes be connected.)
What we eat (and other things that happen to the body - like radiation, illness, psychic attacks, and physical incidents) all affect us as big beings.
All bodies (and body intelligences) are different - as different as people are. They have personalities, quirks, preferences, strengths, weaknesses, sensitivities, and vulnerabilities.
Some food that the bodies eat can affect the body in various ways. Like poison, toxins, allergens, and poor quality food.
One aspect of poor quality food is food that contains a residue (like a kind of spiritual echo, or accompanying shadow) of suffering. That is the case with many animal products.
This can be minimized by 'blessing' (healing) the food before it is eaten. One does not necessarily have to abstain.
A good prayer before eating a meat meal is similar to that of Dr Masaru Emoto's prayer for polluted water (the principle is very similar indeed):
I am sorry to have made you suffer. Please forgive me. I thank you. I love you.
This works for all animal products. It's not a ritual, of course. One has to mean it sincerely.
The physical components of meat can be valuable for the body in physical terms - like repairing a car with components made of high quality steel. But the spiritual component of meat can be upsetting to the body intelligence.
Regard this as a sort of cannibalism: the body is really an animal (but the kind of animal that a highly sophisticated spiritual being can 'drive' - like 'driving an Avatar', as in James Cameron's wonderful movie). And here it is eating another animal that has suffered - forced to do so by its 'driver' (i.e. you or me).
Some bodies will not mind this at all. Others may be highly sensitive.
In my opinion, eating meat is not connected at all with 'ascension' (which Inelia uses as an encompassing term for I call the wholesale raising of consciousness) - unless it interferes with the body's operation and 'body's mental health', which in turn affects you or me as the 'driver'.
And it can affect the driver, in this way, as surely as if you had food poisoning. One can't easily 'ascend' (or readily expand one's consciousness) if one is very sick, either.