Toward Ecosophy

I did the vegan thing for twelve years and tried every pseudo-meat under the sun. To my total astonishment, I feel much more normal, grounded, and mentally clear just eating simple food, unprocessed, including the good local meat when I can get it. My meditation teacher always had his students eat vegetarian during our courses on the grounds that meat is "astralizing," it prompts the astral body to impact more into the etheric which complicates some of the practices he taught. But we never ate mock meats or junk food of any kind, and he warned us to pay attention to how different foods affect our subtle bodies. Mostly we ate traditional Indian vegetarian food. Simple but tasty.

My sense of the fake meats is that they are even more astralizing than the real thing. Real food is highly complex, but it has an intelligence and order to it. The highly processed stuff is excessively complicated while also lacking balance and order. It's alien. It's also often saturated in toxic oils and additives. I remember finding it oddly addictive back in the day.

But, for what it's worth, I think dismantling the vegan dogma was a decent preparation for unhooking from other ideologies...

Andy T.