The act of eating is a service.

[Shemaya]

I think the eating topic causes all this fuss because some view certain types of food as not beneficial or even immoral.
This is not exclusive of food, this also belongs to the subject of sexuality, to the subject of culture and ways of life, to the concept of govenance and laws.

Seriously any time someone comes and says your way of being,living and doing things is wrong or unacceptable, this happens.

Which is why i think in the end this sort of topics can only cause some level of discord within groups.

The answer to me is to gauge information available and follow my understanding and chosen belief systems.

I think this type of debate is good only in small quantities, otherwise you will find discord outside and inside very rapidly. You actually make it happen within yourself by riding the thought-forms.

And to answer the topic i think eating is neutral and your focus on it will make it a positive or negative experience.

I don't believe in separating the world in sts or sto. Nor do i like the word service used to describe polarity in the Ra material.

Edit: Now that i think about it i don't like polarity or duality either,i use it but do not define it in neat categories.

Good points drifting pages, I think it can be positive or negative also...I tend to focus on the positive, but no doubt it could be negative.

Though, I do think that nourishment is always positive, and if one is eating to nourish, then it is positive. It's possible to have negative intention and thought forms though, and that would probably depolarize. But these are overlays of the basic, natural reason...we eat so we can live. Eating is life- sustaining.