QuestionHi, Evelyn.
Are you familiar with any cases of hypothyroid persons living on light? Five years ago, a year after a lumpectomy, an anthrop. physician suggested that I might consider stopping eating. At the time, I felt that I would die.
Now, on 90 mg of Armour thyroid, I consider inedia a desirable possibility. But Werner's book says to stop drugs, which I suppose means thyroid too. Do you know or suppose otherwise with thyroid?
I am an anthroposophist, 61, 5'5", 110 lbs. I've taken Creon (pancreatic enzymes) because of pancreatic insufficiency, for the last 6 years, and previously also in my thirties. I eat very healthfully (laugh), and feel pretty good, but definitely aging fast. I've been off grains for the last year and find that helpful; lactose intolerant always. Love nuts, veggies, fats. Get beet kvass and/or sauerkraut most days. Currently eating small amounts of raw (previously frozen) meats; have been largely vegetarian in other periods. For years I have tended to eat great quantities, trying to get energy. Werner's book helped me focus on other means of nourishment and I eat very little some days. But I lose weight this way. Also, I've been lying down with a hot liver compress after the evening meal, and that pleasant delay seems to get me over the "not feeling ready to stop eating" difficulty. I've wondered if I can make a gradual transition to eating very little (seems possible) or nothing (but wonder if the 21-day method is really the way to get there).
I know that you may not have experience or wish to comment on these questions, but if you do have thoughts, I'd be grateful if you would share them.
AnswerDear Sue,
Firstly, I apologise for having kept you waiting for a reply for so long! Very limited access to a computer, at present, can only be very marginally to blame; the more pertinent fact is, that I have taken a great interest in your question, which touches upon various topics I am always looking into, namely, the thyroid, the esoteric and controversial ins and outs of the light-diet/inedia (or breatharianism); and above all, what is right healing, and how does Anthroposophic health-care and therapy meet modern demands; and the role a GP can - or even must - play in all this. So, I have been writing up this reply over a number of days, now.
Let us, first, set out that we must speak in ideals if we are to take any specifically Anthroposophic view, but never lose sight of the highly particular (your individual case) and practical. Anthroposophy is also about science, quality controlling what we know with our spirit about our spirit, translated into the language of life. I sense that we can skip further defining terms and roughly agree on fundamental concepts as outlined by the (original) Anthroposophical movement, a cosmic impulse harnassed (anewedly) by Rudolf Steiner, allowing for plenty of personal interpretations. So, let's get started and see what main ingredients relevant to your question we can put on the counter before we compile a recipe for health (if at all possible!).
The Anthroposophical (ideal) take on healing and a patient-healer relationship, must differ to all other systems of healing, including Hanhneman's Homeopathy, on one side of the complementary coin, and energetic/faith healing (e.g. Reiki, crystals, meditation etc), on the other side, for it to be set apart as 揂nthroposophical? It excludes nothing outrightly, and in line with Steiner's own exhortations, it cannot promote or persuade, either. What this type of medicine exactly entails remains hard to put down in a concise summary, but an attempt to comprise a more modern fundamental outline has recently been made by Reiner Penter. (I am still working on an English summary.) He compiles Steiner's indications and combines elaborations already made by a Hans Werner (not related to my knowledge to Michael!) and he arrives at the leading thought that Anthroposophy must first and foremost concern itself with the intangible and cosmic. Esoteric-cosmogenological theory and intuitive methods are pivotal to this way of healing, which may reach for various (including conventional) remedies, (preventative) therapies, life-style choices, and other operations. Not so much to ensure perfect health, but to aid healing, which is a path of understanding of the Self.
Sooner of later Anthroposophy will have to decide whether a light-diet fits in there somewhere. However, does this question belong in the realm of medicine as it stands today? The current quality of Anthroposophical medicine in theory is quite good, which is largely owing to the efforts to remain connected to main-stream and the on-going research and reevaluation all of medicine benefits from, as it is still puzzling on basic human systems and dynamics ?not to mention the actual meaning of life (and the ethical dilemmas, e.g. of assisted-death or artificial life-extension). This question is an aside for us, now, but it will have to ask first, whether and then how, we can afford to be more holistic but remain credible to mainstream at the same time. Quite simply: is it possible. There are also limits to what we desire or the power of our minds (as ensouled by divine intent). We must ask, too, whether this is something the Anthroposophical tradition can carry ably? I am not ready to admit to serious doubts regarding this, but my faith continues to be shaken around every next corner, unfortunately. While I set this aside, may you also hear how I encourage you to look towards experiences which fall outside the Anthroposophic world.
For the sake of highlighting a few things, I must point out that I have always upheld Steiner's greatest gift to mankind is himself! All philosophies or other 搃nventions? after all, boil down to individuals who speak out and deliver for the sake of a greater good. They are channels and it makes them no more saintly than you or I, but they seem appointed, nonetheless.
Often they do not feel happy to be this elected! Due to hitches in fate, Steiner's personal karma, it has been researched by Peter Selg, was specifically altered to suit this task of Society leadership. It was an involuntary task he had to surrender himself to, making himself an instrument. In the submission to a higher will, he packaged his knowing and applied his talents to this social institution. In true divinely attuned fashion he never set out to lead the people out of the proverbial Egypt. Those days were past, he knew.He could only try to work in the name of Christ (which is not the same as turning people to Christ!). The nature of life on Earth (this fifth manvantara) is all about how an archetypal figure representing the submissive but valiant I, revealing what is within our reach and what must be done. They only spell out what we all, inherently already know and can meditatively access on our own cushion or mat. We can all switch the 揺nlightenment button?on if we need to. A Steiner just reminds us we can, and how to go about it meekly.
The time has come for souls to stand up who can wait to save themselves and save the world first. For this humongously courageous and yet delicate task Anthroposophy was never designed. It was much more developed. Seemingly contradictory, its institution with all its many fields of support (medicine, education, spiritual schooling, therapies, farming) are organised to build a community of determined souls holding hands with the more feeble ones. The first need we must fulfil is to abate the fear (of suffering). We begin to do this by providing some relief from it, if only be it a pause on a slippery rock midstream.... (Alison Davis has an inspiring story to tell about how much suffering we can actually bear; BBC World Service; podcast of Heart and Soul, 揅hosing Life?episode 1; 9 April 2012).
Steiner's greatest legacy is the stimulus to wake up and smell the coffee: reality is what we make it and the delusions we rather invest all too much energy in impinges upon this. He has no bugle loud wake-up call for us, just morsels for thought. He suggests we walk the walk and talk the talk, so to speak. Illness is our best path, and he does not hesitate (however discretely) to call dis-ease and dis-order a blessing (as a fine tool or sign to work with). Breatharianism is not meant to be a short cut, let me declare this insight, up front. Its extreme challenges are not meant to be superior to other disciplines, either.
It is very tempting, and too easy, and has caused too many tragedies to cut out 揵ad?things, rotten patches, detrimental habits, in order to avoid pain and suffering, or in short: hard work. Generations of penitents have tried this. Masochists and mummy-coddlers alike fall into this. A score of pscychopathologies pin this. A light-diet, however, is not about NOT eating food and living off 搇ight?or prana. Our bodies are not designed to be FED or fueled by ether/warmth/ light (we do not have solar panels in our skin like plants!). This diet It is about absolute SELF-SUSTENANCE. For this you require an enormous self-belief or conviction. And a great PRESENCE of mind. I have intuited this on my own accord, but there is one guy who agrees with me, and I shall come to him later.
At the same time we ought to ask what IS keeping us alive if it is not a will to live or its 搇ight? It is not that the gods are feeding us with amrita, as a reward for our pious efforts and steadfast resolve. Make no mistake. The system also MAY NOT go into survival mode. Its economy has to be transformed entirely. This has to be a spiritual process: a very genetic reprogramming.
As with any diet, the steps it takes are largely about discipline. It is a regulation and realignment process and it is this process which serves to help you to get to know yourself and your world. You CANNOT separate the two, especially not in Breatharianism. It is never about becoming enlightened through becoming less earth-bound by food. Indeed, this diet is the most physical diet possible! You live off your own body and nothing but your own body: you introduce nothing alien anymore, and nothing etheric or astral comes into you via that route. This diet forces you to incarnate very deeply, or you will pay the price (you simply perish emaciated). One question Anthroposophical science ought to look into is whether every type of body or humour or karma is ABLE to go on this diet. Do all bodies provide equally? After all, we know how bodies vary greatly when it comes to being able to process various foods (with all the allergies or organic defects).
Diet and exercise (this is actually an oxymoron!) serve to show you what you are not yet: why you are here in a vessle of flesh. In the West, common people taking charge of their diet is a very modern (post World Wars) thing. It has become a way for self-rule which befits the individualisation process which has taken off with a blast since then. The groundwork was done very prematurely by Steiner, when he must have shocked audiences with some of his posits on how to reevalue their eating habits and their production and preparation methods. He saw a change in the offing, of course. He also predicted there would come a time when we would live off a strictly mineral diet. Many have wondered what he could have meant: it seems quite obvious now that Inedia is such a diet. But has that time come, already? In a way, with intravenous parenteral nutrition and stripped all the building blocks we need from all foreignness (plant/animal quality) leaving only the bare (mineral) elements. While you can survive on this way of feeding the body for decades, it is unlikely that it can bring a small child into old age, and there tend to be invariable and problematic complications with time. The organic system simply has not been built for this method. There is a reason why the metabolic-nerve system has been built so complexly and a purpose to the very finely tuned dynamics in the process of reaching for food to the ability to reach out again (with the energy gained).
Steiner tries to get us to look at our human potential by showing us ourselves. It is the only reason he ever dipped into medicine. From the processes of falling ill and healing we can learn so much. This path towards cosmic truths are exactly which have got rather snowed under in the Movement proper of Anthroposophy. Perhaps, it is the age old problem of too many cooks having spoiled the broth. On the most positive note in favour of inedia: if there is only one thing we have to take from Steiner into the 21st century it is the reminder to let go of materialistic belief systems and become more creative and flexible in our SOUND and STABLE MIND. (How's that for paradox!). Inedia is almost the ultimate test case for how well one is able to do that. But then for the real paradox: Steiner reminded us not to seek out the life of a yogi....
Now, to really push the envelope a bit. The following two tips which illustrate a) how visionary Steiner was and b) the bottom-line reality of a light-diet may seem very radical and somewhat off-track for the avearge Anthroposophist, but I believe stretching your horizons is very necessary for this topic we are currently addressing. If only to ensure you are not wrapped up in a cosy coccoon, many a blessed Anthroposophist can be (and good for them). For, believe you me, in Inedeia there is no place to hide and feel cosy, anymore! So I begin by tossing you the following homework.
Seemingly unrelated, I point to David Wilcock and his views presented in Prophecy and Science of a Golden Age (on Youtube). He seems to be well known and popular in conspiracy and alien-visitation theory land or with the Human Potential Movement type, but for me he only fell on my foot with regard to your Question. And as I patiently listened, it somehow became relevant to Breatharianism.
I can only explain this in how he inadvertedly echoed Steiner on several occasions (presenting it as amazingly futuristic!). I can only recommend sitting through this lengthy set of videos as a useful soul-hygienic exercise, and not further underpin the import of anything this gentleman says. It is not really about WHAT he says (it is no gospel and some of it may be misleading), but rather which elements will resonate with you. Above all note how they are able to do that. Or not. What preconceptions have you developped and why? What fears or hopes are misleading you? How spiritual can you go?You could try undergoing this and then sleep on it for a bit. It may teach you something about your hypothryroidism, however round-about this may seem.
I aim to jolt you a bit. For surely, only a fully present and awake soul MAY choose a light-diet? Hypothryroidism indicates that your soul is more often there than here, not fully present in the here and now. Not fully capable of grasping life by the horns (digestive processes). The pancreatic condition adds more information to this: this is typically a centre for the I. If it does not sit there, then where is it? And what is it doing?
I can only presume, with an Anthroposophic GP, you have gone over all this ?but have you also fully researched the thyroid as an organ/instrument? I recommend Matthias Girke's articles to be found on AnthroMedLibrary on the thyroid, in case you wish to learn more.
The evolution from solids to liquids to nothing needs to be accompanied with a spiritual impact. If you are aiming to do this in the desperately short period of 21 days, you must consider it an immersion into full meditation. It will be like entering an order and taking vows. This suggests to me a trial in which you are seeking divine guidance or even, possibly, permission. Is this a modern path, though? If it is a path of healing, then I would expect there to be proper clinical care, i.e. an Ashram-like set up at least. From what I know, though, this diet seems to take a rather solitary path. Would you even be counselled by a dietician, therapist or your GP? Perhaps, there is not so much to monitor (the alarming signals of starvation which would show up, are precisely what you hope to go through and come out of alright); but moral support, especially for those used to being ill for over 30 years, surely is a minimal requirement?
Anyway, for this David Wilcock tip you really need to set aside a patient moment when you have some crocheting to do, or so.... But be mindful, still, how such an exercise helps you to look through the third eye, which means an activity that allows you to better integrate your spirit with your body and activate your three-fold soul (astrality): something hypothryroidism direly wants you to do. Please don't shoot the messenger, if these videos are all a bit O.T.T. in places for you (for the average Anthroposophist....).
The second tip is a lot more relevant to your particular dilemma, but even more radical, at first sight. However, I cannot emphasise enough, how highly I recommend this guy, Jericho Sunfire (a.k.a.Genesis Sunfire, nowadays) as the paradigm of Breatharianism. The most interesting points about him are that he is totally areligious and an athlete at heart.
I happened to stumble upon him a couple of years ago, when I was researching Michael Werner, actually. It took me a while to take him 揻or real?since he comes from an entirely different angle with a background quite alien to me. But bear with him if you can, and get to know his style a bit. Then you may find, like I did, that he is incredibly Real. And this Realness helps you measure your own reality. Note: your reality may be entirely different to his! But real is real.
You may need to surf over his older videos before you assemble a proper picture of him. Never forget Jericho is a street-wise warrior and an athlete (ex pro rugby league player). He has become a little tougher or terser over the years, or a a bit more straight-talking as convenes his tenacious attitude. But preceding this unadulterated single-minded (Zen) mentality were many heartfelt considerations (see his earliest fructarian-day interviews). Above all, he naturally gravitated towards his breatharianism without complex premeditations. I will leave you to judge for yourself how, or if, his story differs from Werner's, but because his presentation does markedly and the ultimate practice does not at all, I would consider it valuable, additional research material for you. Therefore, I recommend, you begin with an interview, he gives to an Italian on Veggiechannel. This 3 part video can be found most easily on Youtube, under 揋enesis Sunfire ?The Visionary?(part 1-3).
I promise you that the weirdness wears off! And you are left either knowing exactly what he is on about or you must seriously doubt you understand the first thing about light-dieting. Eventhough in his last short trailer on his website Genesis Sunfire, with a new set of tattoos and piercings, you can spot him drinking water, I also promise you I find this does not seriously undermine previous claims of his that he does not eat or drink a single thing.... I find it not so terribly relevant, although my academic side does have questions (out of curiosity, fie on me). But Jasmuheen and Werner are equally controversial in certain areas.
It is not about uncovering how honestly these people do not eat or drink at all. Werner admits to ingesting some foods occasionally for social purposes; and Jasmuheen seems to have been 揷aught out?several times inspite of her adamant denial. Jericho makes more outright claims to not taking in anything but saliva, and is totally uninterested in proving to science how medically it is possible to be on this diet without starving to death. He would welcome being followed on a 24/7 basis to prove he does not eat/drink. Werner has contributed to research, but not very satisfactorily (for either parties). Jericho, on the other hand gets my vote when he spots a 搆nucklehead?a mile off and is very reticent to train or advise just anybody. But in the end, he respects your choice, making it none of his responsibility.
It is this latter attitude I have the most difficulty with. Perhaps, as a woman and a mother. Perhaps, as an Anthroposophist and socially minded person. However great my love of individualism is (more than befits an Anthroposophist perhaps!), I struggle with this each man for himself that prevails in Inedia. As an avid believer in the good Yoga can do for the west right now, once it is understood in terms of body-soul aligment and a concentration training programme, I know how you must begin with yourself and for yourself, and it makes a lonely road by yourself. But at least there is much teaching and gentle experiences to ease you into a way of life; you mould an outlook or attitude with love and warmth. Inedia is an altogether more masculine approach. Perhaps, this is why it does not fit in with Anthroposophy so well, which is very yin along its pathways, and in tune with Mother Gaia and Natura. Inedia, with its test of endurance and independence, tends to revert back to the die-hard saddhus on the banks of the Ganga. Is this the way forward?
We come then to the particular, whether you have a choice. You are not seriously considering the light-diet without any persuasive cause. For me, however, it is entirely new and not in line with anything I know about Anthroposophical medicine that a GP would prescribe this course.
It is not unheard of (several documented cases exist) that some people appear unsuited to inedia (be it for physical, mental or spiritual reasons ?again, research is lacking here) inspite of their most committed efforts. At best, you will use yourself up, grow terribly weak, become ill, and stop the experiment in the hope no irreversable damage has been done. But it would be blatantly wrong, to die from a diet which was meant to improve your health. It is not a diet, for example, we can put a dying person on. This would compare to assisting suicide, however spiritual the course might be. Above all, I think your GP is running the risk of getting struck off if he suggests you come off your medications. As an Anthroposophic doctor he would first have to try to get you on supportive homeopathic medications and probably in a clinical surrounding would try to put you on an extensive limited liquid diet (fruit and vegetable juice) for detoxing purposes to see if these medicines could stimulate your soul to heal itself. But this would have to be accompanied with intensive biographical work and daily artistic therapy and lots of fresh air exercise and purposeful, social activity. There are few GP's who would be willing to accompany you on this radical reversal from conventional interventions; quite simply, because even an Anthroposophic GP knows there comes a time when such interventions are necessary if you wish to remain alive. There is a limit to homeopathy, especially for progressed disorders where the physical overrules the spiritual (homeopathy can only enter a dialogue with the spiritual).
Knowing this you must take care with the diet you are currently on. It must remain a highly intuitive diet, where you pick with a clean palet and a calmly informative body. The liver you describe may not be the best monitor for this. Remember to include the entire liver-metabolism in your liver treatment programme (give the eye, tongue, skin, limbs, some attention too. Read the Goose Girl, embrace the quality of tin, try Jovial things ?since the liver is a Jupiter organ.). But the thyroid and the kidneys also have a close relationship and any which organ you will look at, the message should already be clear, that your I needs to wake up and start believing in life. Can Inedia help with this? Or is that just too much all at once?
I am not sure you have exhausted the dialogue with substantial food yet. The step from realising it is not about eating large quantities to gain energy to considering quitting all eating is a very large one to take. I would like to be convinced that you really have read your body and the world of food around you with all the sensitiviy the spiritual eye can offer before you make the POSITIVE choice for 搇ight? To reject food is a negative choice; and even if it seems to bring you more bother than it is worth, you have to make great peace with it before you let it be, beyond your needs.
The sluggish liver and its fog can be explained by the medications to begin with. Luckily you have switched to life-rich food (frozen meat is pointless!) and avoid, I take it, all processed foods (including bread and pasta as you indicated). I am not sure why you could not eat millet or buckwheat, or amaranth or quinoa, albeit the latter few are not grains, so I hold out hope you do have them on your menu. Then again oats are not barley, are not wheat, or spelt, and rye is altogether different too. Asians who have karmically a harder time to ground than Kaukasians can even manage rice, a very watery grain. Perhaps, the carbohydrates are not so attractive to you. Cutting them out may give you a greater sense of clarity, with the I having less work to do on a physical level to prevent fermention (yeast processes). In short, warming foods which help engage the I are sought to treat glandular issues. Also, these foods must stimulate the breathing process, since glands relate to breathing with their middle position inbetween inner and outer worlds. Nuts, seeds, oils, full fat dairy, eggs and oily fish, e.g. These products are also easy on the lower etheric pole, with minimal foreignness to overcome. With reticent I participation meat can be a simple food to process. I always thought cabbage was used specifically to treat hyperthyroidism, with its vital properties curbing excited astrality, but I can only hope your GP or dietician has advised you meticulously on what foods to stick to. It would be ludicrous if they advised a light diet without having tried all other diets first.
Perhaps, there is some hope considering your age: basically, a dietary change is common after age 62, when you enter the years that consolidate the soul you have developed so far. Maybe, any subsequent changes to your current diet over the coming years may be more successful, now? I would hate for you to give up too soon. I hope can depart from a love of nature and her stores unrolled. I hope you can say goodbye with a tear to the art of cooking with all four elements which serve to create a hub in your home and help centre your life daily, anew. I hope you have observed with awe the healing that can be found in ripe red, sumptuously summer sweet berries and previously collected stores of herbal teas packed with cosmic hum; that you may have spent many a spring welcoming the reinvigoration of young green and yellow in an airy heap of salad; soaked your senses in warm, spicy olive oil full of harvest passion; felt the tingle of firey ginger mixing with sparkling lemon; opened the oven door on a steaming pie and found yourself in the Alchemist's laboratory! That you have been kissed by the breath of Gaia off her corn swaying on their bright cobs....
Anyway, you get my drift: in partaking of food we worship the God Force in gratitude and reverence. To refuse this gift is quite an audacious step and must set you apart from all the other creatures on this earth. I pray that such a step is not hubris, at this stage of our development.
Another concern of mine would be that you are not feeling very fit, at present. Then again, perhaps, the adventure of a light-diet is just what you need to shake you up. But then a fitness should almost occur instantly, after a week's fast already. It won't get any better if there is not already some improvement by then. I can only surmise that this might be your GPs line of thinking.
Then the only question you need to ask is: is it in me to risk everything for an adventure? After 60, we all (should!) know that it is not about reaching the peak, but scaling the challenging face of a mountain glaring down at us. Still, we only jump out of an airplane with a parachute (or two!) strapped on....In your situation, because of the medications, already, it is not so simply a case of nothing to lose. Of course, I can very readily sympathise that you may be sick and tired of the current struggle with food and that even a glimmer of hope for a more simple life is not to be taken lightly.
Werner was pushed to go on this diet, closer to death than recovery. He never much weighed up the pros and cons just like Jericho Sunfire. Both are now, to my knowledge, the perfect picture of health (Jericho hasnot been ill for a day in 16 or so years). This is inspiring. But we are not to confuse it, I believe (the Werner-Jasmuheen stream disagrees) that this is the path to optimal health and the cure to all incurable diseases. We hear similar claims made by the Raw Food and Vegan world or Ayahuasca churches. To off-set all manifestos, let us bring Judith von Hall?in here: she channels the events in the life of Christ and was forced into Inedia after the appearance of the stigmata (which will not go away).
Judith suffers uncomfortably from her indedia, but of all three individuals I mention here, she seems to have attatched the clearest 搈ission?to this inconvenience. She dedicates herself to lecturing on the being of Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha.
All of these persons have kind and involved souls, but I hesitate to call them free. Perhaps, I see in illness a way to forgive ourselves and in our daily meals a man-made manna. This would signify indepencence from our Father God, and a new level of maturity.
I find a doubleness with Inedia I have not been able to rhyme, yet. There is a kind of brute individuality and stainless steel-will to it. Are Inedians fore-runners in a shift of our DNA (See Wilcock for more thoughts on this)? If it is a case of free-choice of a life-style then we are made all the more responsible communally for these people. That is what human nature exacts. Then we are in a pickle for we know too little about this phenomenon. But if they no longer see themselves in the same category as 搕raditional?fifth manvantara man, then we can only admire them from afar and hope one day to be better equipped to follow suit. This means we (kindly) exclude them just because we would not know how to include them ?and they quite often do not know how to include themselves (or want to!).
May I finally, point you into another, entirely different direction and suggest you check out a charming Yoga teacher (Elena Brower). To an Anthroposophist this typical New Yorker in her forties, with her perfect body, semi-celebrity life, and honest self-confessions, may not have much to add to what we already learn from our thinkers and doers, but again, it is useful to observe how she is very genuine in her struggle to live truthfully. Look through that which divides us and read how she is guided by the same force I sense people like you and me are, too. Alongside a Jericho Sunfire or a Michael Werner, we see that what unites us (a very individual quest) is stronger than what divides us. Then Inedia becomes ONLY a very personal way of life, and not a method of healing (so I am brought back to scrutinise your GP, once more....).
I, also, mention Elena, but I could also mention Esther Eckhart, as very solid but ever so kind and gentle yoga teachers with a most radiant heart, because I think any diet you chose to follow should be introduced by some very rigorous physical discipline. Sunfire has an extreme fitness routine he shares with us as a personal trainer. It's not exactly my cup of tea, but I experimented with it and I got his drift. I rather believe that as representatives of the female power, we could achieve the sme with the mildest of movements and explorations. Perseverence is a good thing to train, but for women it is more about finding (and not pushing) your boundaries. Since you want more space, you will expand them - to new limits ?in this gentle manner. It is no less a physical discipline, however. If you are interested I can give you more information on how to check these ladies out in a useful way. Otherwise, enjoy this research project by surfing around a bit (check out the Daily Smack on Vimeo, too).
Will the light-diet be an answer to your problems? Will it set you free to be the best person you can be, and to live in spiritual harmony?
Very lastly, I point to the debate within the Anthroposophic Society about the attention both stigmata and light-diets deserve(or not) and how to assess and value them. There was very little interest at the time in Werner's case (a small article in the - German - Goetheanum Bulletin was all I could find). I will have to dig deep to see what has been added since my research into this was paused last year. But there is much more active interest in Judith, who has more to say to Anthroposophists (not about her diet). In connection with this though, there remains a wary stance towards her.
It is said that Steiner chose not to take the stigmata (not quite the same as fought against or denied them). But are they not 搑eceived? Well, they are considered, according to Anthroposophical esoterics, to be energetic manifestations of your initiation into the Mystery of Christ, not scout badges....They are evidence or reminders to yourself. In olden days, they were perhaps more symbolical to help persuade your truth was cosmic and enable a sharing of it. Such markings are not energy centres for but consequences of your 搊ther?spiritual reality becoming real to you. In themselves, they are not interdimensional bridges. Steiner forwent this option of a 損ost-it? I assume, it would only inconvenience the rest of his work. In true esoteric fashion, he was a lot quieter about his 揷onversion?to Christ. (I advocate we must better understand this aspect of his biography, if we want to understand his conscious decision to separate church from society and get a few pointers from this on how to make new separations, but this aside.)
Jericho has his own stigmata in his tattoos. You can also devise mental ones, which stress the corrupt nature of food, because it has irrevokably and inextricably become attached to commercialism and materialistic lies. But Christ for sure does not clap in His hands when he sees blood run from your palms. These works of God's Creation (according to a Divine Blue Print) are best kept smooth and clean. The callouses you will have earned by hard work and harsh lessons, salved, though, with a good moisturiser to honor yourself with loving kindness.
Does a light-diet annoint your head and wash your feet? Does it help you carry your own cross? Again, I am confused by a doubleness: we are supposed to be learning to wash the feet of our brethern ? So is Inedia a typically New-Age self-realisation thing? A bit like Elena Brower's Handel Group Life-Coaching (extremely popular in the States right now)?
Is it morally right to quit all forms of opposition and mundane battle (symbolised by economic corruption)? Can we all go to the Himalayas and sit on a pristine patch of grass (as Jericho puts it ?but he will be lucky to find any!)? No, so Indedians must battle on with the social stigma of setting themselves apart with holier ambitions and retreat to the sanctum sanctorum of the heart. This you must bear in mind as you decide for yourself, by yourself whether this step is in the direction your are KARMICALLY meant to go. For, ultimately, I believe the indedians who are successful now are so pre-determined. It is not something to try out like veganism or a paleontology diet. The devil won't take you back out of thin air and sheer light....
Dear Sue, I am not so sure my ponderings are of any concrete help to you, but may they introduce you into the average concerns but also curious inquiries you will bump into if you embark on the process of light-dieting. If there are any details you would like to pick up on, have me clarify or provide more background information on, do not hesitate to get back in touch with me.
If you make your next Question private, you can give me your email address which makes it easier for me to write attachments with appropriate formatting and illustrations or links I know will work. For if you do decide to go down this path, I would be very glad to support you wholeheartedly and switch all my thoughts, setting any objections aside, to align them with your final positive and deeply inspired choice. But that is what it would have to be: a positive and inspired YES! I need to live out my freedom and experience this life without the act of eating.
I'd love to hear from you again.
Take care for now,
Love Evelyn.
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