Immortalist Diet: Some Notes

I wanted to share some thoughts about the role of diet in physical immortality. The reason for this writing is to support those who may be feeling of the truth of this kind of process but are having trouble transitioning into its fullness. I have found it interesting that, in my own process, I found the emotional processing more easy to do than the physical processes. There was a kind of passivity and habit force that needed to be overcome in order to do what was necessary on the physical level itself. Disciplines like Hatha Yoga and Chi Kung were less present in my life than doing Rebirthing Breathing. What I did was did them occasionally, while I have the purpose and intentionality to do Rebirthing Breathing daily for at least one hour a day. At one point in the process it became necessary to add more to this.

With diet, I did not know that going vegetarian was going to intersect the immortalist path. But after being vegetarian for two years, people began, for the first time in my life, to say that I had a glow of health about me. Before being vegetarian, I was eating lots of burgers and hot dogs, and had severe allergies. The allergies softened some when I became vegetarian. I had originally became vegetarian out of compassion for animals, but since I had to consciously construct a new diet for myself I ended up reading a lot of books on healthy eating. Most of the books did not really offer much of an improvement in my diet, except for inspiring some periodic water fasting. These were deeply cleansing experiences. I found that my own body started to make choices to move away from certain foods and towards other foods. My own body started to move toward being vegan in stages that took about 8 years to complete. It first gave up eggs. I loved having omelets but one day I just threw them up. My body had rejected them. During the last year, my only two exceptions to being vegan were yogurt and soy cheese which still had some casein from milk. One day I had noticed that I did not have either one of these for over three months and just decided to stay this way. A few weeks later I found that my allergies had gone almost completely away. They cleared up to almost nothing through some emotional processing and through megadoses of vitamin C. I still get a reaction during the peak of pollen seaon. My eyes itch some. If the pollens are particularly intense, then I sneeze a little and my eyes still get red. But when I was growing up, my right eye would get so swollen that it would push out of the socket, sinuses would clog, my eyes would be very red, I would have headaches, and I would feel really congested inside. Instead of a few days per a year, it would be all year round that I would be triggered by something, with winter being the least (depends on the smoke from chimneys).

Although for compassion for animals, it would be ethically very pure for us to immediately move into a pure vegan diet and tough through the changes required to adapt to this diet (imagine a parallel with a murderer saying he or she is going to cut down on killing people to just once a week for a while before quitting entirely). But in practice it seems that the body prefers moving stage by stage to a better diet. Even if a person decides to just reduce animal flesh food to one meal per a week, it will mean good changes for the animal kingdom. If enough people in our culture reduced their animal flesh intake to one meal a week, then thousands upon thousands of animals would not have to die. Changing a little slowly, too, would allow our economy to adapt to the shifting supply and demand equation that was happening and gradually shift the economic machinery to a more vegetarian culture. For me, the transition from eating animal flesh to being vegetarian took six months. I stopped buying animal flesh at grocery stores, then I stopped eating it when I was at restaurants, then I stopped eating it at houses of friends and family. This took three months. I then repeated the same thing with fish for another three months. For some reason, it seems easier to shift from "pesca-vegetarian" to vegetarian than from land animals to vegetarian. It may be the minerals or it may be something about our previous evolution. I was lacto-ovo vegetarian for about four years, then lacto-vegetarian for about four years, and have been vegan for over 27 years. I was raw food vegan for 1.25 years. I was guided internally to introduce rice and legumes back into my diet after this time. My present diet is a mix of herbal potions, hot soups, stir fries, raw salads, raw smoothies, and microclustered water. I do not do water fasts anymore, but find diluted fresh juices from raw veggies and fruit, plus herbal potions to be an easier fast which produces a deeper cleanse. I also do a semi-fast very often, where I only take herbal potions and microclustered water until about 1pm or 2pm. It is important to eat a decent meal relatively soon after this time, because eating very late in the evening too close to sleep time seems to help the body convert food into fat.

I do get that the food we eat is an important part of the immortalist path. As we mature in our longevity process, we are meant to eat less food in general. At some point, we must face our emotional addiction to food and overcome it. Then we eat only the food that we really need and nothing more than this. We need to look at how much we eat to feel better emotionally. Many of the health challenges for someone on the immortalist path have to do with an uncharted zone. Mortalists basically stay with their addictions, overeat, and die. We need less and less food as our energy system fine tunes itself. Young people eat a lot of food, partly to supply construction materials for building their body house, partly to rebuild their bodies from the bad habits that are hurting them, and partly to fuel their exuberant wasting of energy in all kinds of activities. Life gives the young a lot of experimental lattitude to do all this. But if we are learning from our experience, then we are fine tuning ourselves to our real needs and chopping down the unnecessary from our lives.

When we cross the 40 year marker, we ideally have some real wisdom about how to live. We do not have much real wisdom, but if we have even a small amount, then we can begin to reshape our lives accordingly and slowly attract the rest. We are meant to live this wisdom and attune our lives to this wisdom. When we have an addiction, it means that we have a behavior pattern that is not aligned with our wisdom. This keeps us stuck until we move beyond the habit.

When we have been pure vegetarian, eating no animal flesh, for two years, then our body chemistry changes drastically. There is a release of energy that unites with the ecosystem and merges with all the animals of nature. They feel like we are part of a greater life with them. We move into a deeper unity consciousness with them. When we become vegan, something similar happens. The difference between veganism and vegetarianism is that the former is about not stealing from animals and the latter is about not killing them. There is a release of energy that happens when shifting to veganism, but it is less significant, just as it is less karmaic to steal from someone than to kill them. There is also a different edge too. If you pull off a leaf from a plant and eat it, the plant will continue to grow new lieaves. It may even grow better if certain leaves are taken. If you chop off a limb from an animal to eat it, then animal always suffers and always loses permanently. Perhaps our science will reach a point where we can regenerate limbs for those poor animals, but we have not reached this point yet. Hopefully by then we will have all become vegans and we will only regenerate limbs torn off of animals and humans by accidents.

But when you take eggs and milk from various animals, it can have the context of stealing or the context of taking what they freely give. It is possible that our kinship with animals will be such that we can enter into agreements with them and may, under certain circumstances, take their eggs and dairy. The being that I have had the honor to channel, Sohra, comes from a world where they were in telepathic communion with their animals. In their evolutionary journey, all the animals were vegetarian and did regulate their own populations within certain bounds. It was not necessary for predators to emerge to reduce their populations back into balance. The humans of their world also did the same and followed a "one for one" rule about birth. They maintained a stable population of 500,000 beings that only fluctuated by about two or three at the most.

Sohra was an herbalist on her world and she said that the whole population was vegan, but that occasionally they would use milk in their medicines. It would not be a regular part of their diet, but when it was needed for healing they would ask the animals for some milk and the animals would usually gladly give it to them. The same would be true for eggs, though this was less necessary. It seems that Sujata gave Buddha rice boiled in sweet milk to nurse him back to health when he was meditating into supreme perfect enlightenment. According to one tradition, Sujata was Tara in disguise and did get milk that was karma free.

The bottom line is that we are not meant to take food that is intended for the children of another species and use it for our growth, especially when we are adults. But under certain healing conditions, a little milk and eggs may be useful. If we are conscientious, then we will find a source that is at least kind to the animals in question. Ideally we would find a human who raises them, lets them run truly free, telepathically communes with them, and gets permission from them. Or we could wander around and find a willing animal to share this gift with us when we need it. But in this world at this time in history, we might just choose the best circumstances that we can find and make do.

I personally have not needed to do this. My belief is that there are vegan equivalents to everything that are equal or better than animal sources. I feel that we are meant to be vegan and life supports this. But as we are disentangling our karmaic past, there might be a transitional phase where some minor compromises may be needed. We might have been damaged in subtle ways from having been raised with animal flesh products, childhood illnesses, vaccinations, and processed foods. We might need to take some careful steps and give ourselves some room to shift into a more ideal diet.

I also feel that it is important to do our emotional process and to master breathing. No diet in the world is going to compensate for the ill effects of stuffing anger, fear, and sadness into our bodies. I do gather that animal flesh eating came into the world partly to compensate for the ill effects of stuffing anger, to partly rebuild the hormonal adrenal chemistry that chronic subconscious anger depletes, and that the craving or feeling of wanting animal flesh has to do with this emotional energy pattern. These things will need to be dealt with along the way.

I also feel that breath mastery can compensate for a lot of actual food. I do not recommend that people, unless they are called to do so, become breatharians overnight, but that we master the breath parallel to our dietary changes, so that one helps the other. If we do full lung breathing, then we can release more toxins on our exhale than usual. Breath mastery allows us to sustain the gains in consciousness that we touch upon in our evolution. These are deep subjects and beyond the scope of this writing. What intersects the focus of this writing is that I feel dietary evolution does need parallel growth in other areas of our life, including emotional integration and breath mastery. Without this support, our diet will never quite feel perfectly right.