Forbidden Food - If you have food issues, you will want to read Roland's new book
What if the Garden of Eden is not a myth but a reality? What
if the eating of forbidden food brought a curse on the human race?
What if food
is somehow subtly involved in our deterioration.
What if food introduced a trance
state in which we make mistakes and then wonder what happened? Originally
entitled Recovering Health and Wholeness,
now totally updated with 100 new pages, this intriguing book looks at forbidden
food, the curse from the Garden of Eden, and the reality of redemption.
In fact, resolving the food problem just
might bring resolution to other life issues as well.
Read an excerpt
Food: Friend or Foe?
Uncovering Food’s
Mysterious Power over Us and Finding the Secret to Regeneration
Dr.
Henry Bieler, a popular doctor who practiced medicine for over fifty years and
who treated many Hollywood Stars, wrote a book called Food Is Your Best Medicine. Of course, he was talking about healthy
food.
The
other side of the coin is summed up in the words of Waldo McBurney, still going
to work every day at age 106, who said, “We dig our graves with our
forks.”
Food seems to be endowed with a mysterious
power to make us better or worse, to upgrade or coarsen our existence. It is
the vehicle by which culture stakes its claim over us. Then, by continuing to
eat our cultural food, we are kept a part of that culture, and thus without
even realizing it, prevent ourselves from becoming who we were really meant to
be. It is for this reason that the average person lives in anxiety with a vague
sense that something is wrong.
A
steady diet of junk food, fast food, diet soda, and processed foods seems to be
contributing to making Americans overweight, undernourished, and unhealthy in
many ways. Somehow, the fast food fare is also contributing to a general
coarsening of the population.
We
are not as polite, as well mannered, or as noble as we once were. Our society
is becoming impatient, selfish, harried, thoughtless and rude in countless
ways.
Somehow,
what we eat and the way we eat affect our way of living. Yet, though eating healthy
food is good for you, it is not the total answer either. Health food cannot
save you.
What then can we do? We must eat to live. Yet eating itself is somehow
tied to our deterioration and demise.
The
very act of eating has to be looked at and understood, so that we might eat in
such a way as eat with understanding and with awareness, perhaps a dispensation
from God, that will protect us from the curse of food.
Let
us look at the food mystery and unpart the veil to the power that food has over
us. If eating wrong food contributes to sickness, ill health and a downgrading
of manners, can eating the right food stop our downward slide? And even more
importantly, might we then, with awareness and grace, discover God’s plan of
salvation?
Food
has a curse attached to it. It was in the Garden of Eden where the human race
fell from faith and reliance on the Creator. Food was involved in the fall. God had promised Adam that if he ate the
forbidden food, he would surely die.
When
Adam ate the forbidden fruit, it sealed the deal and made God’s promise a
reality.
Today we, the distant relatives of fallen Adam
and Even, must eat to live, but even as we eat, we are living under a death
sentence. We try not to think about it, and for much of our life, most of us
manage to sweep it under the rug. But as the years pass, we must begin to
confront its reality whether we like it or not.
Eating good food (healthy, unprocessed, natural food from God’s garden)
is likely to help us live longer. But even so, all it can do is prolong the
inevitable. Even the best of food may not help us if we eat pridefully or while
upset, angry, or in excess.
The
best of food only helps us live longer. It does not remove the curse. The
situation appears to be an insolvable dilemma. Because we must eat to live, we
can’t just stop eating. Yet, food was involved in our fall and somehow
contributes to our deterioration.
The
evidence of food’s involvement in our fall can be seen today, if we care to
look. First of all, many people simply eat too much of the wrong kind of
food. And their food indulgence leads to
illness and contributes to an early demise.
Food is also very often involved in our own personal misjudgments and
errors. Many an affair or act of promiscuity is preceded by a meal. The
salesman, recruiter, or person who is wooing you knows the best time to make
his pitch is after the meal he invited you to. Somehow the food weakens our
resolve and opens us up to some suggestion we might have resisted before the
repast.
And
don’t forget that marijuana, alcohol, and drugs are types of food: something we
ingest. Somehow the drug, the marijuana or the alcohol separates us from
awareness, from reason, from common sense, and from control. Then we say or do
something we are sorry for later.
Medications are also substances to be ingested, and thus have the same
trance producing effect that food has. While medications are often helpful,
even life saving, they can also be addictive, over prescribed, or cause side
effects. . . . .
Could it be that these effects of food and food-like substances are
variations of the result of eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden? It could
be, and it is.
Food disorders, addiction, emotional problems, and even sickness may have a common root. This book reveals why the whole human race has food issues, and why how we eat hold the key to our spiritual and emotional recovery.
Most people have issues with food. The reason is deeper than just what or how much we eat.
Food has a mysterious hold on the human race and it alters our consciousness. That is why when we start eating, we end up eating too much. Food is also connected with our ego life support.
We look to food to comfort us and to give us security. But the very food that comforts us also makes us resentful when we discover that it has enslaved us.
So we have a love/hate relationship with food, and food substances,
even as we have a love hate relationship with our mother and others who support our ego.
The answer, of course, is love. We crave a love that food will not satisfy.
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Eating Issues - A spiritual odyssey in search of health,wholeness, fulfillment and love
"This much I know," said Augustine, "I
should take my food as my medicine."
“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
This book was originally written a few years
ago when I found out that a good friend was diagnosed with cancer. Since that
time I have continued my spiritual journey and continue to ponder and make
discoveries about our fallen human condition. What I write is the result of my
own searching. I present it with gratitude, and I offer it in the hope that it
will be of help to you.
I recently read a fact sheet from the
American Obesity Association which revealed that one third of Americans are
obese. Another fact sheet discussed the correlation between obesity and
diabetes, kidney problems, and certain types of cancer.
This morning I was paging through a popular magazine at the supermarket
checkout counter, and I saw many pictures and several stories about well known
Hollywood stars suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia, weight and dieting
issues, compulsive eating, alcohol or substance abuse.
A person can have no weight issues, no
substance issues, and eat the very best organic food available, and yet be
perfectly miserable. That person will be surprised to discover the very subtle
involvement of food and food substances in their unhappiness and lack of
fulfillment.
Though we must eat to live, we must learn to
eat so that our food does feed what is wrong with us. Because the effect is by
its nature unconscious, it takes a good detective and a very aware observer to
detect its subtle impact on our well being.
For example, the perennial question
"why do good people do bad things?" can be answered in part by the
fact that people often do bad things when they are in a trance. People do wrong
or foolish things when under the spell of emotions or the influence of drugs.
But believe it or not, the mere act of eating has an effect on our
consciousness.
Eating introduces a mild trance state. When we
eat, we are suddenly less aware, less disciplined, and more suggestible. It is
no coincidence that office affairs often begin with an invitation to a cup of coffee
or a lunch.
People exert their will through food. It often
begins at home—where when you accepted mother's food, you also accepted her
will. Is it any wonder that we develop a love hate/relationship with food? Food
represents comfort. Food fills the emptiness. But food also represents
someone's will, and we end up struggling with food through transference, when
what we are really struggling with is the spirit of the one who imposed her
will on us.
A few years ago, Dr. Margo Maine coined the
phrase "father hunger," and in her book Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and Food, she discusses the
importance of father in a child's life.
I have been saying the same thing for 25 years. Love is what we need to
fill the emptiness. Father represents God in the eyes of the child, and when
father is distant, it is to the child as if God is distant. It is resentment
toward our failing father that separates us from our inner ground of good and
leads to and sustains a host of emotional, eating and body image issues.
It is fortunate that resolution and recovery can
take place despite an absent or distant father. Through understanding, we can
learn to forgive our failing father and unloved mother, and through forgiveness
find the love of the Father Spirit within.
We all like sheep have gone astray. We sense
something missing in our lives. We sought the love of the world or the love of
food, but when worldly love and food betray us, we are stuck with seeking more
of the love that does not fulfill, like drinking sea water, or seeking stronger
ways of numbing the pain and filling the emptiness.
Nowhere does the mysterious effect of food
become more evident than when we are faced with a serious health issue. We may
suspect that somehow food was involved in its inception and development, and we
also sense that something about food might be a key to recovery.
Food is subtly involved in the
tragedies of our lives. It also reinforces what we have become and prevents our
finding our true self we might have been. Even the eating of cultural food
somehow contributes to keeping us divided rather than experiencing
unconditional love for and solidarity with our fellow humans from other
traditions.
Though a person does not have an obvious food
issue, he or she is still under the spell of cultural food, as well as misdirections,
and errors associated with a fallen culture and its food. We must understand
food if we are to resolve our issues and find love for one another.
If food has played a role in our cultural
divides, and in our emotional, spiritual and health issues, we may discover the
resolution of our struggle with issues through understanding them in light of
the food connection. Perhaps with understanding, our food might become our
partner in recovery, and we might find the love we have been searching for all
our lives.
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Roland Trujillo is the author of 17 books and has
helped people cope with stress and emotional issues for over 25 years. His radio
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