Adaptability - Act 13 part 4 - nutrition
Continuing from part 3. We need energy, our brains are using 20% of our "at rest" energy, we need to procreate, (not as often as we’d like, it turns out), and we need shelter. Once we have those basic physical needs under control, the rest of the day is ours. Sounds utopian, right?
What actually happens is that those primary needs end up using all of our days and the best part of our focus.
Our primary needs
- Nutrition - energy and spare parts
- Sex and affection/acceptance covered in part5
- Shelter
Nutrition - as best I can tell from over 25 years of experimenting with gardening and diet
If we are having energy issues from not having access to nutritionally dense, low oxidative, bio available foods. Our organ systems will not generate the physical or mental capacities to reach our performance potential.
Our ancestors seem to have made it through ice ages lasting for at least several thousand generations at a time. Just consuming meat, fat and water. Thats not a rigid opinion, it just seems to be easily verifiable considering the availability of edible plant matter at the time was so limited and we can *know, it is totally not required.
*( To test this, I have personally gone for months without consuming plant matter, so far it appears that I do better without fibre and carbohydrates). I remain open to new experiences, but so far, this is opening my mind to new possibilities.
It is true we can add plants and fungi to our diet when they are available, but doing so appears to be a highly hazardous business, as we must then learn how to balance and neutralise extremely bio-active compounds.
Consider that diabetes is basically carbohydrate intolerance that is further complicated by oxidative stress from seed based polyunsaturated fats. It looks very much like heart disease is early stage diabetes and most cancers are the result of surviving long enough to avoid the heart attack.
Ayurvedic medicine evolved over thousands of years to help understand how to handle the use of plants in our diets. Further processing, refining and concentrating seeds, their oils and fructose has taken us into a realm that herbal law can no longer compensate for.
High blood sugar, oxidative stress and inflammation are arising not form animal products like we have been told, but from plants. The products of agriculture, (which looks like a war on nature) that require an enormous amount of investment. Investment which requires an enormous amount of persuasion and education. I do not wish to sell these ideas or turn them into "opinions" - that would be counter productive to remaining open and sensitive to what is.
Ironically, thousands of people are now finding that they perform much better without any plants in their diet. I do not mention this this to promote or detract from anybodies personal eating preferences, that is none of my business.
It is merely interesting to consider the impact the “belief” that plants are a viable source of human food has had on our “needs” as a species. How that has impacted the conflict between nomadic people and land “owners”.
How we end up "needing" to work and produce something to trade for our "food" that had to be cultivated in vastly energy demanding, wilderness replacing fashion.
When our food used to wonder around feeding itself, and nobody “owned” it. “Entitlement” increased with investment and identification with groups who had “rights” remained a survival level necessity.
Joining a group may have increased our security, but is it not interesting just how far from Natural habitat and independence, that has actually led us?
I do not mean to suggest any right or wrong in any of this, it is just an exploration of what was, what is and what could be. With less emotionally anchored stories, are we able to see more of the pieces and how they fit together?
Is clarity a subtractive process, or is it only necessary to let go where we are clinging most tightly?
Wisdom as Action Series
Act 1 - Do you remember?
Act 2 - What is Love?
Act 3 - Feeling Swell
Act 4 - Bound to be Free
Act 5 - Trust Issues
Act 6 - Knowledge
Act 7 - All you Desire
Act 8 - Virtue Reality
Act 9 - @tension
Act 10 - Rote learning vs Understanding
Act 11- Morality Paradox
Act 12- Body Language
Act 13 - Adaptability pt1 - survival
Adaptability pt2- attunement
Adaptability pt3 - focus
Adaptability pt4 - nutrition
Adaptability pt5- sex and intimacy
Adaptability pt6 - shelter
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I guess during the ice age all animals were carnivores? Hmmm
Why would you think that, there were still plants and grasses, and the animals that co evolved with them. There were predators who and opportunistic scavengers. Plants that would have been edible for humans in such climates would have been hard to find, and kind of irrelevant as they would have been problematic to prepare and digest. I was not there, so I can only guess based upon what is most likely.
Life didnt evolve we were created by an inviscible supernatural being,every house is construted by someone,the one who created and made evry thing on earth today is God.dont you think so
I have found that the thing that hurts my ability to resonate with reality and with skill is memory or story that is both inaccurate and inflexible.
I find that it is better to have no opinions which is why I try to write as a series of questions and observations that invite sensitive enquiry rather than definitive answers.
I have never met anyone who believes in God, who is not using that story to cover up their fear of death and of the unknown, or using it as an excuse to judge and control the behaviour of others.
If I accept death, and enjoy life, why would I need to have a story of a creator?
I can see "creation" and I can experience myself as a flowing part of it, able to interact with it while I am alive and not rigid with belief.
Belief in that which is not tangible can only create conflict, as others are expected to conform to story rather than reality - its actually very selfish as is most fear based tension.
If you dont believe on God then you probably do not believe on the bible,check out this site ,you can go through it there you can find concrete evidence of a creator,just search your keyword ,the site is jw.org
I am also preparing a post concerning creation and evolution
Perhaps if you try to answer the questions below without quoting from a bible, we will both learn something?
Good luck - an honest search will reveal an even better set of questions, and thus the possibility for true intelligence continues.
My friend the only concrete evidence a book can provide is the existence of paper.
Why do your religious teachers need you to look at their book? Is the evidence of their god not to be found outside of it?
Does gravity need thousands of followers to sell it?
Or can I experience its force without a book and without a belief?
Who would you be without your belief in god?
Would you still be trustworthy, deserving of your families love?
Would your fellow friends in god, still love and accept you, or do you only get their positive emotions when you also follow their conditioning?
Could you accept that micro organisms will eat your flesh and that "you" will cease to exist?
Where were "you" before micro organisms made the minerals of your body available for re-manifestation?
Biology is the only miracle I see, and the greatest threat to biology is a species who chooses to align themselves to guilt, fear, shame and stories about "moral behaviour in the eyes of the lord" rather than to nature - that is the only gift I see the bible.
So long as weak people do not trust strong people, we will have religion to create bullies to do the police work for scared old men and women who are not ready to leave behind their opinions assets and influence, even in death.
Are you brave enough to face the world without a religion?
If not, then do not advise me to join a cowardly gang of manipulative control freaks, who are not able to accept their own death and relative un importance.
Good day to you brother, I hope you find true relationship with reality before your time here ends. There can be no relationship through stories that can not exist outside of memory, outside of actual sensation.
I also fall in love with my metaphors.
This happens because it is easier to remember a rule, than to understand the causation factors within the relationships from which we learned them and for which they are meant to represent.
Teachers use metaphors to create fictitious "safe" examples that we can relate to.
We get lazy, and we fall in love with the metaphors. We remember the rules even when we do not understand or have not experienced the actual events they represent.
All the great spiritual works began like this, even though the masters told us not to pass judgement and to accept reality. We still compare peoples behaviour to an "ideal", we still still compare reality to a "better version" in our imagination.
We cling to the rules even more, when we do not have enough experience to understand them enough to no longer need them.
Religious teachers are like this, they dont understand reality or nature, so they just repeat the rules as in
"the book". This gets people killed.
We still outsource responsibility to a "perfect" being
Perfect being would be a state of "being" awake, aware, and able to move with ease in an environment of understanding based on experience, rather than memorised rules from a book.
Could you check out my blog i made a post concerning the bible a few weeks ago,there i mentioned five reasons that gives us,strong conviction of the bibles authenticity
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