Eating with Spirit

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Listen and Follow: Eating with Spirit—Eating with Spirit

David shares about his guidance for a liquid diet in the context of spiritual Awakening. When we give over our life for Awakening, every decision is made with the Spirit. This talk places diet in the context of aligning our thinking with God and a purification of the heart.

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Gold Nugget:

“It’s pretty common that people know of the Bible and Jesus in his teachings, being out teaching for days and the apostles getting worried that he wasn’t getting enough to eat. He would make some comment to them such as ‘I am sustained by manna from Heaven’. It’s interesting the words ‘manna from Heaven’, which is like a sustenance from food or a sustenance from Heaven. In the Indian tradition where they talk about the prana energy and pranic healing, that is like a synonym for the manna from Heaven: the prana energy where it’s sustained through energy, through light.

We are just following a version of the lesson of A Course in Miracles, ‘I will step back and let Him lead the way’ (W-pI.155), just following guidance and what seems to be appearing now. It’s joyful just to follow. There is not a sense of causation with it, doing it for something else rather than just listen and follow. We know that health is not of the body and therefore the mechanisms of health are forgiveness in the mind and purification of thought. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, ‘Blessed are the pure of heart for they will see God.’ (Matthew 5:8) He made some references that it’s not what you put in your mouth, it’s what proceeds forth from the heart that’s important. The focus is totally on that. It’s not a dietary change or dietary goal or anything like that.”

Recorded on August 11, 2016 at Casa Meixa in La Llacuna, Spain

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