TOPICS: Spiritual versus physical diet – Jesus was not a vegetarian – modern people eat far more meat than is necessary – diet is individual and should be balanced – follow your inner directions – listen to your body – natural foods good if they are clean –
Question: Jesus: If when you were an Essene, you taught that it is wrong to eat animals, why are you now saying it is okay to eat meat in moderation. Didn’t you say, as recorded in the Holy Gospel of the Essene when you were an Essene that all meat eaters are in danger of damnation and going to hell? Wouldn’t the ideal thing be to eat raw vegan, which is food in the most natural state?
Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:
Compare the statement you are quoting to the official Gospels. I did actually say:
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. (Matthew 15:11)
This statement alone demonstrates that I was not primarily concerned with people’s physical diet but with their spiritual diet. That is still my primary concern.
You will also see from the Gospels that I did eat the Passover meal, which contains lamb. You will see that I multiplied the loaves and the fishes, and that I helped my disciples catch fish. So you can see that I was not a strict vegetarian, and I did not encourage my disciples to never eat meat of any kind.
However, 2,000 years ago most people did not eat very much meat. Their diet was primarily vegetarian because they simply could not afford to eat large amounts of meat. This has changed, and in today’s western society people can afford to eat large amounts of meat. As a result, most modern people eat far more meat than is advisable from a spiritual standpoint or even healthy from a physical standpoint. So I do encourage everyone to eat less meat.
However, I do not encourage any kind of extremism in diet. A person’s diet is a very individual matter. Therefore, you should always follow the directions from your Christ self and the signals from your body.
One of the themes on this website is that people have descended into a lower state of consciousness in which they are trapped by the relativity of the dualistic mind. This relativity often causes people to go from one relative extreme into the opposite extreme. In other words, a person might be awakened to the need for a healthy diet, but then take it too far into the extreme and use the outer will to follow a diet that is unbalanced or even unhealthy.
For example, I consider a raw food diet to be unsuited for most people because it is difficult to get sufficient variety in such a diet. To get variety, you need to include foods that can be eaten only when cooked.
I am not saying that no one should be on a raw food or vegan diet. I am saying that people should not be on such a diet for what I would call philosophical or outer reasons. In other words, the legitimate concern for minimizing the suffering of animals should not be the deciding factor in terms of selecting a vegetarian or raw food diet. What should be the primary concern is an intuitive insight that comes from the person’s Christ self. What I am saying here is that Christhood should be a greater concern than diet.
If you get an insight to be on a raw food or vegan diet, then by all means follow it. However, please recognize that not everyone will get the same insight. In other words, if you get the insight that it is right for you to be on a certain diet, please do not begin to believe that it is right for everyone. And please do not decide that you have to be on such a diet forever. Be sensitive to the signals from your body and your Christ self. Many people have forced themselves to be on a certain diet much longer than necessary, and in some cases they have damaged their bodies in the process.
I do agree that it would be better, both spiritually and for health reasons, to eat food that is as natural as possible. However, once again there is a balance to be found. There are many countries in the world where people eat food that is quite natural but nevertheless, because of a lower hygienic standard, filled with bacteria that make it unhealthy. However, the amount of chemicals used in many industrialized nations is clearly not right, and it jeopardizes both the spiritual and physical health of many people.
I predict that in the coming decades scientists will begin to realize that the amount of chemicals in the food poses an immense danger to public health. Therefore, I foresee that there will be major changes in the way industrialized nations grow, transport, preserve and prepare food.
NOTE: for comments on Jesus being an Essene, see another answer.
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