You are what you eat
the time has come to break free
We’ve heard the phrase more times than we can count, but what’s in a phrase, a cliché—a parabola? Truth. There’s truth. There’s multiple meanings, there’s hidden messages, there’s a question—there’s just enough vagueness that it invokes thought in order to decipher the code. Words, as I mentioned in a previous post, are powerful. They carry meaning and messages, that are interpreted based on the observer’s state of consciousness.
But what we eat is far more than just what we eat in terms of food. There’s much more to what a human being eats—consumes. With the use of words, we have heard that the average person is a “consumer” and every adjective in between. Our language is something that has a lot packed into it. Coined phrases can be helpful to pass down generational knowledge, and are oftentimes deemed “cliché”. While company mottos and jingles that carry a lower vibration and serve as a mental hypnotic trap, are not vilified at all. We sometimes catch ourselves humming or whistling to tunes we’ve heard on the radio or TV, not realizing the jingle went straight to our subconscious mind and we are now regurgitating and reverberating it out into our reality. This reverberation goes out into the etheric field of all human kind and we swim in the verbs that are spoken and thought. These verbs, these words—this vibration is then brought down from a thought form of 4th dimensional space and into our 3rd dimensional reality as matter.
You see, matter is heavy. It carries a lot of density with it. That’s why we are warned repeatedly by Biblical and Mystical figures throughout ancient spiritual texts.
In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering. With words we are programmed. We have been programmed from birth to desire sweets, toys and trinkets. As children we were overwhelmed with grief as we passed through the grocery store aisles full of sugary sweets we were denied. We were being protected by our mothers who knew that those “foods” were not good for us. But, as fate would have it, we would save up any spare dime we could scrounge up in order to buy our own bubble gum, candy bar, and the like. We rebelled against the very essence that was unconditionally protecting us. That love was trying to show us a higher path—perhaps a path towards eating more veggies, more fruits—a balanced diet.
As we continuously rebelled, kicking and screaming, fussing and fighting, some mothers gave into the dramatic scene; others not. But somehow along the way, we’d find a way to get what we wanted because we desired it ever-so-much. What does sugar do to the body that vegetables cannot?—one might ask in sincere curiosity. While regular food digestion takes up to 90 minutes to provide you with the energy, sugar rushes to the bloodstream in no time. With that extra energy, a child is more active, at a higher state of awareness, can run, jump, skip, hop and play their heart out—until the inevitable decline and eventual slump into sleep.
If this sounds like what a drug addict does, then you’d be right. We have been trained, whether we realize it or not, to react much like an addict would about a drug, as sugar is highly addictive. But how did we even come to desire the packaged candy on the shelf if we had never tried it before? Well, children consume television. On that television there are commercials. In those commercials there are other children laughing and smiling. They are absolutely delighted with their Snickers Bar. Driving in the car with mom and your brothers and sisters, you spot billboard after billboard of drinks, of Happy Meals—with toys!—we simply couldn’t help ourselves—we had to try collect them all. From a small age we are inundated with marketing. Marketing geared specifically towards innocent minds that are so impressionable that—if not guarded from the whims of the world, can become corrupted and steered in the wrong direction.
As I experienced this same thing during my childhood, I can safely say I tried everything—from Slurpees to Surge, to gas station hot dogs to Pop Rocks. As an adult we cannot even fathom having ever eaten those things, but we did it nonetheless. We rebelled against our mothers and fathers and were inconsolable if we didn’t get our way. This does, to some extent continue throughout adulthood, but is more manageable. Our mothers holding out on us taught us to think about what we consume. Taught us that food is the messenger to all life force—whether they were aware of what they were doing or not. God gives us a promise in His commandments and text that if we honor our mother and our fathers, we will live long upon the promised land.
“Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” (Exodus 20:12.)
When we honor the teachings of our elders we learn to listen, to harness our inner energetic fields and to withdraw from external worldly things. We learn right of passage and get to look through a wiser—more mature being’s eyes. We have great opportunity, if only we could just find that awareness within ourselves and harness it. God’s promise in long days directly correlates to living longer because we are healthier. We are wise to eat and consume the fruits that God provides us with—both on a physical and spiritual level—giving at least two meanings to “give us this day our daily bread”.
One must learn to be in the world, but not of it. A warning, from John 13-19, stated with such gravity, that upon hearing such words, one can only seek to heed that advice.
John 13-19
13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
Knowing now what I didn’t know as a child gives me perspective. It gives me an inner strength to know that I must seek to understand the word of God that is so readily available to us if we sit with ourselves and listen—actually hear the word of God being voiced from within our being. That word, that advice, that inner dialogue is the only thing that will bring us to a state of higher consciousness and will help us see the outer world for what it really is. Ever heard the term “The world’s a stage”? There’s nothing more truthful than that. That message is something, once fully digested, bears a deep entangled meaning of a simulated reality. A reality that blankets God’s divine reality. A reality so inverted and twisted into knots that it has made it difficult to navigate. As we have gone through life we have made every effort to navigate this inverted upside-down reality, only to find ourselves lost and confused, and more often than not—broken.
It’s a reality that seems to take rather than give—even though we seem to be reaping rewards in the form of material goods—of cars, homes, successful jobs, and so on. It sure seems like we’re getting somewhere externally, but we may just be getting nowhere internally—where it matters most, as that is the Kingdom of God—our natural state of being. With our focus on the billboards, the commercials and the ads on the screen, we have allowed someone to use our mental powers of creation to do their bidding with. The marketing campaigns sway us into the retail shops cyclically. Parents buy new school clothes annually, even if their child’s clothes from last year still fit. Teenagers wear the most in fashion clothes, and will go to great lengths to do so. Our natural social wanting to belong has been used to compromise our morality. It has been used to break us down, to tear apart families—who are working sometimes 12-hour days to provide their children with “the life that they didn’t have”. And for what? All for materials objects that we’ve been warned about destroying our souls. So long as we focus on the external, this is the world we will get—a world that is staged and inverted and does nothing but take.
But, there is hope. You know what they say? “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This change is taking place internally, and there is a new world emerging. That world is being constructed through the grace of God, and it’s allowing Him to bring the divine plan into fruition—a world that serves God, one that seeks to understand and adhere to the Laws of the Universe. That world is emerging and the Land of Oz is now fading into the darkness, from which it came. Our trajectory as a human family and collective species it coming to an inflexion point. There’s much prophecy around this, and I encourage you to investigate and seek to find what you are to be doing at this time within yourself.
Matthew 25:13
“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
With a new world emerging, there is much to be done and little time to waste, we have been told this time and time again that it has become a cliché itself—brushed off as if there’s nothing ever going to actually happen. One must not take lightly the word of God—nor should it be interpreted to scare you. God does not seek to harm, nor to invoke fear—he is an all-powerful loving God that wants the best for humanity. He is in the sidelines watching us and has the utmost faith that we’re gonna pull through and find the truths that we seek within. Let’s meet Him halfway, shall we?
With so much love,
-Amy