Raw Eating a Spiritual Thing?

[MrsJ]

Do you think that many spiritual people (not religious mind you) are attracted to raw food because of the philosophy that their body is a temple?

I've noticed an overwhelming amount of incredibly spiritual, or "aware" individuals on this forum!

:D

[sport]

I am one exception.
I am totally non spiritual.

[ViolinCyndee]

I am one exception.
I am totally non spiritual.


I am, as well... non-spiritual, that is.

[ShantiLove]

Yes eating raw is a very spiritual thing for me :)

[Stephen28]

About 90% of me is spirituality, faith and belief. I would be dead without it. I want to be as pure as possible and being vegan / incorporating raw is helping me do this.

[Revvell]

Wondering what everyone's idea of "spiritual" is... I love the "I'm not religious, I'm spiritual" line. As Osho says, there's a difference between religion and religiousness and many make eating raw their religion yet, eating raw (or any other way) can be a religious experience with awareness.

Got that? :D

[Zanjabil]

I'm spiritually religious and raw ;) Yes, I do believe that we should treat our bodies with the utmost respect, as some treat their holy temples.

[Revvell]

I'm spiritually religious and raw ;) Yes, I do believe that we should treat our bodies with the utmost respect, as some treat their holy temples.

Beautiful and I agree.

Revvell (http://LetsTalkRaw.com)

[RaeVynn]

I have a pair of undies that say "Worship Here" on them... :p

Seriously. Yes, I find that my meditation is better, my mental/emotional balance is better, and I feel more connected with the natural world, now that I'm eating mostly raw. It has been improving all along, as I went from omnivore to vegetarian, to vegan, and now to raw food.

[nellie]

For me, there is no spiritual link with my food. I started my journey in an effort to lose weight many years ago, I started eating better foods, more natural foods which eventually progressed to eating a vegan diet. Now I'm trying to eat a high raw diet. I think we should treat our bodies better than most of us do which includes eating better and more natural. After all, we only have one body. I also think eating better is better for the environment, again we only have one planet.

Of course treating animals with respect is important because I think we as a people are too willing to sacrifice our humanity in abusing animals the way we do.

[czpinky]

raw food is a spiritual practice for me because my body is a temple! i am a very spiritual person and i practice yoga; i believe that the food we eat can have a certain amount of energy (prana) and the more=the better. i was originally drawn to veganism because of my spirituality, and have now come to raw foodism. it is amazing how much raw food has altered my way of thinking...i know that i am so much more positive and just happy in general. personally, i just cannot invision my life without my spiritual practice...it would certainly be veeery different. i believe that our food becomes us, and that when you treat eating like a bessed spiritual practice, it makes the food something more...somehow. anyways, ppl will believe what they want and life will go on, so i have absolutely no problem with ppl never accepting my own theories and beliefs!

[selina_k]

For me, there is no spiritual link with my food. I started my journey in an effort to lose weight many years ago, I started eating better foods, more natural foods which eventually progressed to eating a vegan diet. Now I'm trying to eat a high raw diet. I think we should treat our bodies better than most of us do which includes eating better and more natural. After all, we only have one body. I also think eating better is better for the environment, again we only have one planet.

Of course treating animals with respect is important because I think we as a people are too willing to sacrifice our humanity in abusing animals the way we do.

sounds very spiritual to me! :) or ethical if you'd rather. ;)

xoxo

[Colorawdo girl]

I am a whole-not in pieces and parted out, spiritual, emotional, mental, physical. So thus all connected for me. I want to honor my body as the sacred trust that I have been given.

[walnutty]

I am spiritual and religious, BUT eating raw heightens my spirituality incredibly!!!

[contessa20]

Personally, I am a Christian and I feel that raw vegan is the way God originally created humans in the Garden of Eden. I believe that the Bible supports this in Genesis by stating that there was peace and harmony between creatures (including humans) in the garden and by stating that Adam and Eve were permitted to eat from any of the foliage in the garden (save one tree). Now, I will also say that I don't believe that being raw vegan makes one "more" Christian than others nor do I think that it is a scriptural mandate to eat this way. It's just my personal belief that God created us to eat a raw vegan lifestyle from day 1 and that is why we see so many healing benefits from it.

Anyway, all that to say, as far as the "spiritual" or "religious" reasons go, that is what drew me to raw. Hope that wasn't too much info. :)

[rain_or_shine]

spiritual...yes...why i was drawn to raw in the first place?...can't quite remember....but i find that i'm a much nicer person when i'm eating raw and that is very spiritual to me. :) i think our bodies are our tools to live out our lives here on this planet and what better way to get to our "spiritual" goals faster than to treat the tool we were given in the best most agreeable way. our body is our portable house, our body allows us to move in this world - it is our car, our body truly is a temple. take sanctuary in it and treat it with the utmost respect and that respect will be reflected into the world around you.

but that's just one being's opinion ;)

[MrsJ]

Don't mean to ruffle feathers.

I just hate someone considering me religious since religion is made by MAN and means "to return to bondage."

I'm a spiritual and have a relationship with my God and Savior. Eating raw, fasting, and nutrition is incredibly spiritual for me and I look forward to taking even better care of myself to honor Him through my temple.

[circle]

raw is very spiritual for me.

[sport]

Personally, I am a Christian and I feel that raw vegan is the way God originally created humans in the Garden of Eden. I believe that the Bible supports this in Genesis by stating that there was peace and harmony between creatures (including humans) in the garden and by stating that Adam and Eve were permitted to eat from any of the foliage in the garden (save one tree). :)

Paul Nissan is currently writing a book on how the bible supports Raw Eating.

[Revvell]

Actually, he's already written the book (http://rawkinradio.com/?s=Paul+Nison) on eating according to the Scriptures. Is that the one you're talking about? Does he have another coming out? His next book is about "Daylight Eating" as far as I know.


Paul Nissan is currently writing a book on how the bible supports Raw Eating.

[sport]

Actually, he's already written the book (http://rawkinradio.com/?s=Paul+Nison) on eating according to the Scriptures. Is that the one you're talking about? Does he have another coming out? His next book is about "Daylight Eating" as far as I know.

That is probably it. I met him in November and he was telling me about it but that only seems like a couple of weeks ago. I forget that it is March already.

[annavon]

I was partly attracted to raw due to my spiritual/religious beliefs. A vegan diet is actually a requirement of my religion (Orthodox Christian) for about half the year so the raw vegan fits in nicely with that. I have found that eating raw increases my spiritual awareness.

[Revvell]

That is probably it. I met him in November and he was telling me about it but that only seems like a couple of weeks ago. I forget that it is March already.

lol Time sure flies, eh?

[RawSar]

not spiritual or religious here. I just eat raw because it taste good. :D

[selina_k]

I want to be my best version of self, in body, mind and spirit. Raw and daily yoga are the best ways I've found to set me on that path.

I think raw is spiritual, logical and healthful all at once holistically, as I would like to be.

[D'vorah]

It was my intellect, not my spiritual that dragged me in the direction of raw. I come at it the opposite way, asking G-d to help me get there and stay there, looking to my spiritual tools to support me in my efforts. . . . and I do believe the lifestyle is fully supported, but not mandated in the Bible:

Genesis 1:29-30 Then G-d said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

G-d saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Deborah

[cara4art]

All good points by others here! For myself I would definitely say that is is spiritual, as I have intuited that along the way, the evolution to a cleaner, more high-vibration diet clears the channels leaving one open to divine illuminations, which are important to me in general and as an artist of a certain sort. A raw diet, of course, one piece in the context of a conscious life that does include either a definite spiritual discipline, or visionary creative activity, contemplative activity, service to others, as well as for purely physical health. But it does resonate that as the physical body improves in health along with contemplative and creative activities, as well as service to others in one form or another, then evolving towards raw is a natural progression. Dr. Gabriel Cousens touches on these very aspects in his early books Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, and Conscious Eating. Viktoras Kulvinskas touches on this too in his classic Survival into the 21st Century.
However, I totally respect those who have said that they are not overtly spiritual, at least when they came to raw. Raw has a way of rearranging more than just one's physical health - one's lifestyle changes too. You might find yourself away from your old non-raw friends before you meet new ones who are conscious in this direction. Or you might find yourself attuning more to nature and have the desire to live in, or at least commune with, it on a regular basis - a spiritual activity in itself, IMO. One doesn't have to necessarily belong to an organized religion to be spiritual at all - it comes out in many ways, IMO.
Then there's the very real aspect of when you really do feel better on a deep level because your body is FINALLY getting what it needs, then one lifts up and is receptive to other things - just a thought here.

[selina_k]

Then there's the very real aspect of when you really do feel better on a deep level because your body is FINALLY getting what it needs, then one lifts up and is receptive to other things - just a thought here.

this is exactly what i'm in it for. hoping to.
well said!

[EternityRider]

Raw Food is like a window.

A window can make you feel closer to nature.
But the window is not nature, just an opening.
So it is with the spiritual realm..

Fasting makes the mind less bogged down and befuddled.
The blood goes to the brain rather than the stomach.
So it is with raw food, by virtue of the high water content...

This does not make us spiritual, per se.
But our mental awareness becomes increased
To the spiritual - to those things of the unseen world.

Religion? This is a matter both Divine and man made.
Everything beautiful has its man made version, diversion.
and perversion.

However, for every counterfeit, there is the genuine article. ;)

Also, there are many religions. Normally when we say "religion"
we mean the patriarchal ones. These involve a personal, knowable God.

Then there are the mystery religions, earth religions, Buddhism and a multitude of clear references to Hinduism that appear in the forums - yoga, mantras, chakras and so forth.
Hinduism is one of the major world religions.
The Wiccans fought valiantly and won their recognition as an official religion.

Hope this helps and promotes understanding. :)

[cara4art]

Great post - EternityRider - I'm with you on that!

[EternityRider]

Great post - EternityRider - I'm with you on that!

Thanks cara4art

[Conscious Midwife]

Abundant Life Mind and Spirit is my philosphy, religion and entrepeneural venture.

No religiousity here except, you do you and I do me.;)

However, I'm always accepting love offerings of any denomination and will gladly send you a pray clothe and some annointing oil ( read: Martha Stewart Bath Towel and some EVOO) for seven easy installments on $7.77 per month plus S&H.

SEVEN IS MAGICAL kwim???



RAW is the cross I bear, one day I'll get it right but I must repent that I had popcorn with but yeast for breakfast today.