I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of health issues and diet:
Health Issues
Diet
Questioner: Are there any foods that are helpful or harmful that the instrument might eat?
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument has body-complex distortion towards ill health in the distortion direction corrected best by ingestion of the foodstuffs of your grains and your vegetables, as you call them. However, this is extremely unimportant when regarded as an aid with equality to other aids such as attitude which this instrument has in abundance. It, however, aids the vital energies of this instrument, with less distortion towards ill health, to ingest foodstuffs in the above manner with occasional ingestion of what you call your meats, due to the instrument’s need to lessen the distortion towards low vital energy.[1]
During the Ra contact Carla had to deal with a lot of problems regarding her allergies to various foods. She also perpetually had low energy in her body due to pre-incarnative choices to use juvenile rheumatoid arthritis to limit her physical activities in the mundane world. By limiting outer activities she could spend more time to focus inwardly on her spiritual path via meditation, prayer, contemplation, and channeling. With these two prominent features in mind, Don asked Ra about the kinds of food that Carla should or should not eat.
Ra suggested that grains and vegetables would be the most helpful types of food for Carla to eat as a general rule. But in order to increase the vital energy of her body Ra also suggested that the occasional eating of meat would be helpful. There was one additional suggestion that Ra said was far more important than any kind of food that Carla might eat, and that was her attitude towards life.
Ra mentioned at one point that they were able to contact our group because of the purity of Carla’s desire to serve the One Creator and because of the harmony between the three of us.[2] Carla’s great desire to serve the Creator carried over into her daily life as well, as she constantly looked for ways to be of service to others. This type of a positive attitude towards the Creator in particular, and life in general, was food for her soul, shall I say. This type of food was considered by Ra to be far more important that any diet that Carla might adopt. This could well be true for any spiritual seeker of truth as well, and Ra suggested this possibility in this quote:
Questioner: In dietary matters, what would be the foods that one would include, and what would be the foods that one would exclude, in a general way, for the most or the greatest care of one’s bodily complex?
Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, we underline and emphasize that this information is not to be understood literally but as a link, or psychological nudge, for the body and the mind and spirit. Thus it is the care and respect for the self that is the true thing of importance. In this light we may iterate the basic information given for this instrument’s diet. The vegetables, the fruits, the grains, and to the extent necessary for the individual metabolism products. These are those substances showing respect for the self.
In addition, though this has not been mentioned, for this instrument is not in need of purification, those entities in need of purging the self of a poison thought-form or emotion complex do well to take care in following a program of careful fasting until the destructive thought-form has been purged analogously with the by-products of ridding the physical vehicle of excess material. Again you see the value not to the body complex, but used as a link for the mind and spirit. Thus self reveals self to self.”[3]
In this question Don asked Ra what might be the most helpful food that anyone could eat as a regular diet. To begin their answer Ra repeated their suggestion for Carla’s diet: grains, vegetables, fruits, and “to the extent necessary for the individual metabolism,” the animal products. In both cases, for Carla and for anyone else, Ra’s suggestion of eating animal products was that it be done as a means of aiding the individual metabolism of the body for anyone who needed that aid. This suggests to me that Ra would normally not suggest eating animal products unless a person had the need to increase their body’s vital energy.
Once again, though, Ra suggested that it was not so much what you eat but that you choose food in order to show “care and respect for the self.” Ra said that this type of reason for eating any diet would be seen by the mind, the body, and the spirit to represent the type of love and valuing of one’s total being that would provide nourishment of a spiritual or metaphysical nature. This approach to eating any food is interesting in that it uses the food as a tool to achieve higher purposes rather than just eating to satisfy one’s hunger or eating certain foods because they taste good. It is also interesting to consider Ra’s use of the word “self.” Given that a positively-oriented entity seeks to view all others as the self, it is likely that a diet that focuses on self-care takes into consideration one’s desire to serve other beings, while balancing one’s individual need for health so that further service to others is possible. This moves into the realm of the Player on the Enhanced Game Board of life and doing whatever is best to do to be of service to others and to the One Creator. Taken in total, I believe that in eating the diet that Ra suggested we are creating a healthier body which metaphysically speaking might also equal an enhanced energy body. So we are also speaking about our natural self that, as we mature in our spiritual seeking, wishes ever more fervently to be of service to others.
Ra completed their answer by suggesting that not eating food, or fasting, was a way to rid the mind of “destructive thought-forms.” The fasting would be carried out until the harmful thought-form was gone. Once again, the body is a manifestation of the mind, where the true purification is sought. In Ra’s words this was the way that the “self reveals self to self.” This suggests that we can use fasting as a means of self-revelation that has the power to purify not only our bodies but our minds and spirits as well. Taken in total, I believe that using food to discover our true selves we are also speaking about our natural self that, as we mature in our spiritual seeking, wishes ever more fervently to be of service to others.
This morning I went outside and dug up the four dead butterfly bushes next to the fish pond and replaced them with the four nandinas that I bought yesterday at Thieneman’s Nursery. Then I dug up the three nearly dead firelight hydrangeas in front of the house and replaced them with three panicle hydrangeas that I also bought yesterday at Thieneman’s Nursery. Then I came inside and vacuumed the first floor of the house.
In the afternoon I went outside and used my serrated blade knife to cut back all of the daffodil leaves in the astilbe garden as well as in the liriope garden next to the fish pond. Tomorrow I will finish cutting back the daffodil leaves in the other two gardens next to the fish pond.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 5
Anchored In Love
I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the consciousness of pure, whole and divine love. May you feel that love as these words surround you and penetrate you, that you may begin your day and continue your day anchored in love.
This instrument was concerned during this morning’s offering that she was so irreverent as to make jokes and to laugh with an unexpected caller. May we say forcefully that if the life is lived in the spirit of love, it is a life lived in laughter. It is a life lived in joyful humor. And one who spreads the laughter and the humor spreads the peace and the healing of Jesus Christ, Lord of all.
Are you afraid of the words “Lord” and “King”? Know that love, the very fabric of consciousness, is Lord and is King of that kingdom of love which you seek. And you do not need to seek in vain. We are of the spirit of Jesus the Christ, Comforter to the world today. And at this moment we say to you, “Live and laugh! Live and be joyful! And you shall live sacramentally and in the kingdom of eternal life.”
We leave you in the peace which passeth all understanding; in the love of Jesus the Christ, now and evermore. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
[1] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 18.4.
[2] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 94.9.
[3] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 40.14.
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