Nutrition and Spirituality

by

James Redfield
Author, The Celestine Prophecy,
The 10th InSight,
The Secrets of Shambala.
 

Most of those reading this article would agree
that a new spiritual awareness is emerging in
human culture. We believe that human beings
are essentially spiritual beings slowly awakening
from the mistaken idea that we are material beings
living in a material world. We are made up atoms,
which are much more mysterious than we ever
thought, consisting of so-called elementary
particles of minuscule size separated by
mostly empty space.

What most physicists are understanding of course,
is that these particles, rather than being material
are actually fields (patterns) of energy. At our core,
we humans are not made of matter at all,
at least not in the ordinary sense. We consist of a
most fascinating and mysterious energy that is
capable of shifting and changing dramatically.
How else can we explain the numerous
documented cases of wounds healing and tumors
disappearing suddenly in our bodies - and not in
days or weeks but instantaneously.

We are spiritual beings learning how to conceive
of ourselves as spiritual, and to live in a way that
increases our energy and raises the level of our
vibration toward ever higher ranges. In fact most
of us believe that the systematic progress in energy
level, generation by generation, is what animates
human evolution. Our destiny as a species is to
eventually achieve a state of vibration so high as
to be pure light, just like the mystics and prophecies
of every religion have indicated. We know, finally,
what human life is all about.

Interestingly, as this awareness increases, an old
issue is again rising to the fore. If we are essentially
spiritual beings learning to vibrate at a level of light
itself. How does food and nutrition relate to this
process. Can we eat anything we want and still
increase our energy levels? Despite the common
idea that we can somehow transmute bad food
into good, I believe most of us realize that our
diets have to somehow be congruent with the
spiritual reality of our being and destiny.

For some time now, I've been looking for a
higher more evolved spiritual theory of food.
And recently I have discovered the work
of Dr. Robert O. Young, who I think takes us
a long way toward just such an understanding.

I would characterize Dr. Young's theories as
complex and yet simple. On the one hand, he
is a respected biological researcher who knows
the chemistry of the human body, but on the
other, he has reduced these complexities to a
simple understanding that there is only one
disease that ever afflicts humans, and only
one cure. I would add, as well, that there is
only one diet, which solves all the problems
of obesity, and why the usual ways of dieting
don't work, and healthy weight maintenance.

That truth is this: health can be measured in
one basic way, whether our tissues are more
acidic in PH or more alkaline. And that condition
is determined in large part by the kinds of foods
we eat. You see, when the foods we eat are
utilized by our cells, they leave an ash that is
either acid or alkaline. If it is alkaline,
it is easily handled by the body and kept in
balance. But if it is acid, it is extremely toxic
and throws the body into stress and eventual
disease and decline.

What's amazing is that Dr. Young broadens
this truth to include the larger picture of what
happens during human disease -- including both
infectious diseases and such chronic ailments
as arteriosclerosis, cancer, and AIDS -- and
how germs and microbes all fit into this process.
To begin with, Dr. Young explains the
shortcomings of the Germ Theory of disease
advanced by Louis Pasteur, which essentially
states that we live in a world where
dangerous bugs exist out there that can invade
our bodies, overwhelm our defenses, and kill us.

Current scientific evidence presented by Dr. Young
shows something different. Microbes live in our
bodies all the time, and change form into bacteria,
viruses, yeast, or mold as the internal
environment changes. In healthy bodies these
microbes are inert, or have positive roles in cell and
gene repair. But when our body tissues become
overly acidic, these microbes come alive and take
on a different purpose in the body, a role which is
perfectly logical if you think about it: they are there
to decompose dead tissue and recycle it back into
the soil of the earth. That is what Dr. Young
means by only one disease. When our tissues
become overly acidic, this is the condition that all
organisms go into just before death, so the microbes
inside get the signal that we are dying and
go into action to decompose us. The symptoms
would begin at the weakest link in our bodies, so
it might start with any of the diseases humans get.

But in reality there is only the one disease:
over acidification that tells the microbes we are
ready to die and decompose.

Dr. Young shows that every disease is associated
with this process in one way or another, and in
this light, such mysteries as auto immune disorders
like arthritis, as well as cancer and AIDS, become
understandable. Arthritis happens when the
immune system desparately tries to get rid of
acidic tissues.

AIDS is a systematic overwhelming of the immune
system by microbes flourishing in an acid environment,
and cancer is one of the end point diseases. What
happens when an organism (an animal or a piece of
lettuce left out of the refrigerator) decomposes?
It Molds. Cancer is our tissues molding!

To learn more about the truth about Cancer go to:

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/audios.htm

If, then, there is only one disease, there is only
one cure: the re-alkalization of our tissues. To do
this we have to begin to eat foods which are
alkaline in nature, food that Dr. Young has
carefully researched. They are just the ones you
wound expect, what I have called alive foods:
fresh, green vegetables, the juices of green
sprouts, such as barley and wheat and soy, and
beans and peas of all kinds.

The killers are moldy, stored grains, breads that
turn into sugars that feed the yeast in our bodies.
Meats and milk products, liquors, and some nuts
and other sugars as well. If you think you
are being healthy by drinking a lot of the sweet
fruits and juices, you should think again. They
create an acidic tissue environment.

If you are interested in these ideas, I would suggest
that you look into Dr. Young's work directly. Is he
right about everything? I don't know... You will have
to check into them for yourself. What I am endorsing
is his theory of nutrition and the relationships
between health, energy, disease, and diet. I believe
that this theory will ultimately gain supremacy in
human culture and science.

We have crossed a threshold of understanding. If we
believe we are spiritual beings here to further
evolution toward an ever higher human energy
level, then we now know how what we eat
is related to this mission, and its implication for
how well we can pull it off. Changing what we eat
is difficult. Each of us must make a choice. We are
either raising our energy and expanding our
aliveness or we are in the process of decomposition.

The truth is out. There is no way to go back to sleep.

James Redfield
Author, The Celestine Prophecy,
The 10th InSight,
The Secrets of Shambala.