Will your diet raise your consciousness?
St John’s Festival 24th June 2012
“Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.” Mt 3:3-6
Is John’s diet relevant today we might ask? (By the way, John didn’t eat insects; he ate carob beans – St John’s bread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratonia_siliqua)Perhaps it might make more sense if we think about what he said when everyone flocked to him. John reports:
John answered, “No one can receive anything except what is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice; therefore this joy of mine is now full. He must increase, but I must decrease.” He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all. Jn 3:27-31
What we eat and wear belongs to the earth. We can spiritualise everything we eat by eating thoughtfully and gratefully – this is what is meant by the word consecration. If we are in tune with our bodies we will eat what our body needs.
What can happen is that people will eat certain foods as part of their spiritual ritual and think that their consciousness will be raised in this way. What John is saying here is that what comes from above, our Christ bearing I Am, is what we must engage with. The only way to engage with our I Am is to understand what it is and what it does within us. The first thing it does is change our thinking and from there it influences our feeling and assists us to develop our conscious will.
So we could say that now our diet should consist of conscious thinking, feeling and will – we should consume them, purposefully, instead of them consuming us as they do when they work unconsciously in our soul.
“Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.” Mt 3:3-6
Is John’s diet relevant today we might ask? (By the way, John didn’t eat insects; he ate carob beans – St John’s bread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratonia_siliqua)Perhaps it might make more sense if we think about what he said when everyone flocked to him. John reports:
John answered, “No one can receive anything except what is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice; therefore this joy of mine is now full. He must increase, but I must decrease.” He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all. Jn 3:27-31
What we eat and wear belongs to the earth. We can spiritualise everything we eat by eating thoughtfully and gratefully – this is what is meant by the word consecration. If we are in tune with our bodies we will eat what our body needs.
What can happen is that people will eat certain foods as part of their spiritual ritual and think that their consciousness will be raised in this way. What John is saying here is that what comes from above, our Christ bearing I Am, is what we must engage with. The only way to engage with our I Am is to understand what it is and what it does within us. The first thing it does is change our thinking and from there it influences our feeling and assists us to develop our conscious will.
So we could say that now our diet should consist of conscious thinking, feeling and will – we should consume them, purposefully, instead of them consuming us as they do when they work unconsciously in our soul.
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