Toward Ecosophy

Quite often on my weekly Magic Monday ask-me-anything posts, I get people asking about weird experiences they've had. Far more often than not, those are familiar enough to those of us who deal with the spooky side of reality on a daily basis, but every so often I get one that's right out of the ballpark. One of those came in late in yesterday's comment thread.  Here it is in its entirety: 

That kind of mental sensitivity is a known thing in occult circles, of course, and diet can be involved in it. The basic rule is that eating meat attunes you to your material body (which is, after all, made of meat) and thus grounds you in the material plane, while a vegetarian or vegan diet makes you more sensitive to the planes where thoughts and feelings operate. Some occult schools recommend a vegetarian diet for the purpose of increasing sensitivity; others recommend a diet that includes meat, because being too sensitive when you're doing certain intensive workings can result in mental imbalance. (With the latter in mind, I encouraged the commenter to eat pork or beef, and he posted saying that it had helped.)

So it's not impossible that the new fake-meat burgers might contain compounds that, in at least some people, produce a drastically heightened sensitivity to other people's thoughts and feelings. If so, I'm wondering if that might be part of what's helping to drive the extraordinary waves of mass craziness we're seeing in the US and some other Western countries just now, especially among the social classes most likely to be eating meat-free burgers and the like. Being abnormally sensitive to thoughts, feelings, and the like can make it very hard to avoid being swept up in the mental and emotional storm of an angry mob, for example. 

So here are my questions:

First, if you've eaten any of the new plant-based fake-meat burgers, did you notice any odd effects on your thoughts and feelings afterwards?

Second, if you know people who've gone completely 'round the bend of late -- and quite a few people in yesterday's Magic Monday talked about people they know or live with who have recently gone through drastic personality changes and become impossible to be around -- do you happen to know if they eat any of the recently released fake-meat products?