| Soul of Food by Joanne Lenz-Mandt Food is meant to enliven and nourish. It wants to foster celebration and comradery. It wants to carry a high vibration and fill our bodies and our lives with light. But what have we humans done to food? We have to think about it. If we are trying to raise our consciousness, we have to raise the consciousness of our food. Do we really want to eat GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) that have insecticide built right in? That's like eating food with the consciousness of Rambo. If we want to have food with consciousness, we have to have farmers with consciousness. In 1924, a group of farmers in Germany, wanting to harness spiritual forces into their crops, asked a then well-known clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner to give a lecture on farming. Biodynamic Agriculture arose from these lectures and is a method of farming that uses "potentized preparations" to bring in spiritual forces to the soil and plants. One preparation, for instance, is made by placing cow manure in a cow horn and burying it in the ground from fall equinox to spring equinox. This preparation, called 500, brings in humus-forming cosmic forces. Another preparation, 501, is made by placing ground quartz in a cow horn and burying it from spring equinox to fall equinox. 501 brings cosmic forces of light into the plant. Small amounts of these preparations are "potentized" by stirring them in an alternating pattern (clockwise and then counterclockwise) in a large container of water. This water is then sprayed on the fields at the appropriate times of the season. I am blessed with a biodynamic farm nearby, Angelic Organics, which is also a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm. Each spring, I can't wait to start receiving this spirit-filled produce and know that I am both supporting my body and my spiritual process. In my own yard, I consciously garden with the nature spirits and devas. I have been very influenced by the work done at Findhorn and Perelandra. To Hear the Angels Sing, by Dorothy MacLean, talks about her experiences in communicating with devas and nature spirits at Findhorn. When a group at Findhorn, which is in northern Scotland, started experimenting with this type of gardening, they had amazing results, which included 25-pound cabbages. Behaving as if the God in All Life Mattered, by Machaelle Small Wright, is a great introduction to the world of gardening with the nature spirits and devas. Machaelle has a research garden called Perelandra in Virginia (www.perelandra-ltd.com). Nature spirits imbue plants with life force and spiritual energy. They simply don't inhabit land that has been abused. Spiritual forces are absent from large-scale commercial operations that rely heavily on chemicals. They will not return until the stewards of that land raise their consciousness. I am not a vegetarian and don't feel that spiritual people have to be vegetarian. Each person has their own path and makes their own choices about eating animal products -- and each body had its own nutritional needs. But I do believe that the meat we do eat must be raised with a conscious love and respect for the animal and the service it gives on all levels. We can bring more consciousness to any food we eat. Gratitude is a powerful force for the transmutation of food. I often think of the plant or animal that has literally given its life for me and I say a prayer to honor and bless it. In a perfect world, we would only have spiritual farmers and we would never shove food unconsciously into our mouths as we are off to the next activity. We are human and we still can enjoy those perfect moments of gratitude, when we sit down with friends to share spiritual food. Joanne Lenz-Mandt is a Lightworker living in Beloit, Wisc. She is a student of the Master St. Germain and offers Akashic Records/Oversoul Consultations and Light Body Courses. Contact her at (608) 3363-9197, e-mail shaikaya@divine-alchemy.com or visit www.divine-alchemy.com Copyright © 2004 Joanne Lenz-Mandt |
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