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Many Diets—Many Values

This book came into being not because I really wanted to write about diet—in medical school we were never taught about foods, diets, or nutrition except that dietitians were trained to teach our patients about how they should eat. The book really came about because I recognized the reality inherent in the Edgar Cayce readings—and because I felt the importance of sharing what I had realized of that quality, as it relates to what we feed our physical bodies during this time we spend on the earth.

Such an approach might be typified by the current bit of wisdom that says, “If it works don’t fix it.” It’s not what you would call a scientific approach. Rather, it is an attitude toward something that says, “This is obvious! Let’s go ahead.”

Several years ago, a physician lectured about nutrition at the American Holistic Medical Association’s annual meeting. He was of the opinion that there were as many diets now available as there were physicians and self-appointed nutritionists.

Physicians do offer diets to their patients to treat this or that disease, and the medical profession has now grudgingly agreed that certain diets protect the human being from colon cancer and heart disease. People follow diets to lose weight, to gain weight, to stay healthy, and to improve their bodies, especially if they have fallen ill.

We probably don’t think of it often, but all of us are on a diet of one sort or another, whether we realize it or not. Most often, the diet is imposed on us by our appetites, not through the conscious action of choosing to eat in a certain way.

In looking at the field of nutrition, obviously we would not offer the same diet to a six-month infant that we offer a grown man. Nor would we expect a 220-pound man to eat the same diet that his 105-pound wife would need for maintaining health. We may know, for instance, that chocolate is not good for a clear complexion, but we like chocolate and so we eat it. Our unconscious wins out over our conscious knowledge because of patterns we call appetites.

In the light of the Edgar Cayce material, one should not only take these obvious facts into consideration, but also expand the picture by painting humankind in a different hue. Each of us, according to this body of information, is a spiritual being first and foremost. Each was created in the image of God, as a soul, made up of spirit, mind, and will. Then we came into the earth dimension as body, mind, and spirit, on an adventure to find our way back to where we started.

All of us have been here over and over, one lifetime after another, gaining spiritually in one life, losing in another. Within each of us, then, has been built a memory bank of information, habits, attitudes, and beliefs that indeed makes each of us unique among all the billions of individuals on the earth.

It makes sense, then, that our appetites would be our own, that our attitudes toward what we think would be a good diet also would be unique. In our unconscious minds each of us has built appetites from eating, over and over again, foods that we like. These then become habits that we call appetites. The foods we like are not necessarily the foods that would be best for us. We know that to be true in all of our experiences. So we need to find out what is constructive for our bodies, and we must develop habits of liking that rather than being obedient to habit patterns from the unconscious mind that may disturb the health of our bodies.

That’s the kind of common sense to be found in the Cayce readings. And my own experience working with these concepts says that this is practical and usable. In one reading, Cayce had this to say:

First—the physical body is the temple, the encasement of the mind and soul of the entity. It has its virtues, its faults, its weaknesses, its strengths. Yet, as is understood, he that is wholly—mentally, spiritually—in accord with the oneness of the Christ Consciousness may expect and may live and may know within self the proper course for the activities to bring the best welfare for the body . . .

Thus, not such a diet as to be contrary to natural laws, but that which is in keeping with the manner in which the body exerts self—so that there may be brought the better resuscitating influences and forces.

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In using the Cayce readings, it is important to realize that Cayce (in his physical readings) communicated directly with the unconscious mind of another individual and collected his information while he was in an altered state—much like the disciple John experienced when he wrote the book of the Revelation. Cayce did this almost nine thousand times, always making contact with the person seeking help.

In making that contact, Cayce apparently found that the food that would be best for an individual was that which would influence the physiology of the body in a manner that was most constructive. And it was always in accord with that person’s physical-mental-spiritual makeup. Cayce’s recommended diet was also determined by the kind of illness or dis-ease or physiological imbalance that was to be found in the individual’s body.

Cayce did not see illness as a true reality. Rather he saw the human being as an entity in time and space, with illnesses coming about because of lessons the individual needed to learn. Or because of failing to obey the laws of function of the human body or perhaps the laws of the universe itself. Or of the mind. Or even of the spirit.

Thus, the suggestions about diet depended most definitively upon the person for whom the reading was given, rather than upon the problem facing the individual at the time. The problem was secondary. Even the diet was not of prime importance. The human being was always accorded first priority. There are numerous instances of how this kind of a concept might be illustrated. This is one:

(Q) Should I have a special kind of diet?

(A) As indicated, a generally well balanced diet, adhering to the warnings indicated in order to keep a balance, stressing certain characters of foods. But do not become so diet-conscious as for the diet to become master, rather than the self being master of the diet.

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It is important to recognize that a disease process is often associated with or caused by certain dietary habits (where the diet became master) that may be deeply ingrained in a person’s consciousness. Diabetes in the adult male or female is one example of this, where poor diet habits essentially cause the diabetes, and the laws of the body have consciously or inadvertently been broken. Then comes the result: a disease. There are other particular problems associated with eating habits. But no human being is without relationship to the effect of his or her diet on the health and general welfare of the body. Cayce suggested that you can choose—the diet desired rather than letting the appetite habits of your body rule:

. . . though never get the body in that position wherein the body does not control the appetite rather than appetite controlling [the] system.

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In looking at the information in the Cayce readings, then, toward creating a nutritional program, you must take each reading as a unit, as a recommendation for that person for whom the reading was given. Out of such a search can come certain rules, suggestions, and principles to which you can apply yourself and gain out of it the makings of a reasonable and truly helpful diet. Because, if you are honest with yourself it will work for you.

Hints in Creating Your Best Diet

There are hints, however, that might give you some guidance in helping you in creating your own diet.

About What You Are

Realize that each soul is as the temple of the living God, even as thy own body. Thus be mindful more not of the body for body’s sake, but of the body that the temple of the living God may be the better channel for the manifesting of the spiritual truths . . .

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About Salads

Have at least one meal each day that includes a quantity of raw vegetables; such as cabbage, lettuce, celery, carrots, onions and the like. Tomatoes may be used in their season.

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About the Evening Meal

Evenings—preferably this would be the heavier or the more varied meal. In meats, if these are taken, we would use only fish, fowl or lamb. No fried foods ever at any time. Have more leafy vegetables, rather than those of pod or the root nature or those that grow under the ground.

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About Water

Well to drink always plenty of water, before meals and after meals—for, as has oft been given, when any food value enters the stomach immediately the stomach becomes a storehouse, or a medicine chest that may create all the elements necessary for proper digestion within the system. If this first is acted upon by aqua pura, the reactions are more near normal.

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About Attitudes

Keep in that of constructive thought; because, to be sure, the thoughts of the body act upon the emotions as well as the assimilating forces. Poisons are accumulated or produced by anger or by resentment or animosity. Keep sweet!

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About Acid-Alkaline Balance

For in all bodies, the less activities there are in physical exercise or manual activity, the greater should be the amount of alkaline-reacting foods taken. Energies or activities may burn acids, but those who lead the sedentary life or the non-active life can’t go on sweets or too much starches—but these should be well-balanced.

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About Foods Grown Locally

As indicated, use more of the products of the soil that are grown in the immediate vicinity. These are better for the body than any specific set of fruits, vegetables, grasses or what not. 4047-1

About Combinations to Avoid

Starches and sweets at the same meal—too much acidity.

Several starchy foods together—too much acidity.

Meat and potatoes—or meat and bread—or meat and starch upsets digestion.

Citrus fruits and cereals at the same meal—creates drosses.

Coffee or tea taken with milk or cream—hard on digestion.

About Foods to Avoid

Fried Foods.

Carbonated drinks, generally.

White sugar, white flour products.

Red meats or heavy meats not well cooked.

Pork products—except bacon cooked very crisp.