An interesting phenomenon has emerged in recent years: millions of people worldwide have embraced what could be called a new “religion of health”—where maintaining optimal physical health has become life’s highest goal.
For example, even during COVID when the world split into two camps with opposing worldviews—those who believed the vaccine would save their lives and vaccine opponents—both camps still shared one common denominator: everyone feared harm to their physical body and everyone feared death! Some from the virus, others from the vaccine
The growing focus on physical health also leads many people to maintain meticulous health routines down to the smallest details—which in many cases becomes obsessive. This nutritional sterility can develop into hypersensitivity, which actually increases the tendency to get sick!
Today’s intense focus on physical health has led many people to develop incredibly detailed—often obsessive—health routines. Interestingly, this hypervigilance about what we consume can sometimes create such anxiety, food sensitivities or deficiencies that it actually undermines our wellbeing and increases the tendency to get sick.
Within this health-focused community, many have also adopted a vegetarian or vegan lifestyles, often viewing meat consumption as cruel to animals and disruptive to nature’s harmony.
However, this view ignores several facts:
- Animals in nature hunt and kill for their survival. This is what happens in nature! The struggle that exists in nature is vital for maintaining the development of animals, and, therefore, it is not cruel. Moreover, when an animal kills its prey, it kills quickly to minimize unnecessary suffering, and it will not eat from it until the animal’s soul leaves the body. Even then, it will only consume what is necessary for its survival and no more.
The real issue, therefore, isn’t whether we eat animal products, but rather the abusive treatment of animals before and during slaughter, combined with humans’ excessive craving for meat that goes far beyond what the body actually needs. - Every person’s body has unique requirements and is influenced by their unique blood composition. What nourishes one person’s body will not necessarily benefit another, and similarly, what strengthens the connection between body and spirit for one person might weaken it for another. Therefore, there are people for whom avoiding animal products would severely harm both their physical health and the connection between their body and spirit. Hence, the idea that there is one nutritional approach recommended for everyone—such as vegetarianism or veganism—is incorrect.
- “It is not what enters the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth, that is what defiles a person.” Jesus spoke these words as harsh criticism of people who don’t judge harshly enough what comes out of their mouths, while being preoccupied only with what enters their mouths—meaning adherence to dietary restrictions. The parallel in our time is our need to remain constantly vigilant about everything that comes out of our mouths (and keyboards!), because this is far more serious and harmful to our bodies and environment than eating food that isn’t approved or certified.
- Dietary habits do not necessarily determine character traits or morality. The clear example of this is Adolf Hitler, who was vegetarian, opposed animal experiments and was a dog lover—but we all know what he did to human beings…
But the most important thing missing from the “religion of health” is this fact: our physical body will perish someday, no matter how well we take care of it!
This is an undeniable fact—ultimately, we will all die—and therefore we need to correctly redefine the purpose of our lives and start investing in developing the eternal part that can never perish: our spirit!
During earthly life, when the spirit develops through experiences, it indeed needs a healthy body, and we must not neglect our health. However, we must avoid obsessive preoccupation with maintaining the body as our primary goal, since it serves only as a temporary dwelling for the spirit’s development in the material world.
If we grasp this, then we are on the way to understanding the laws of the new world regarding the relationship between the spirit and the body:
- We will no longer need to consume so many supplements and vitamins because the physical body will be able to absorb nutrients naturally rather than from artificial capsules. (By the way, there is reasonable basis to assume that the pharmaceutical industry has also taken control of the supplements market due to its enormous financial potential.)
- We will dedicate more energy, time, and resources to cleansing our spirit of toxins (the ego!) since this will directly affect purifying toxins from the physical body as well.
- We will discover that the spirit has no age! Therefore, men and women in their later years will stop the desperate preoccupation with maintaining their aging bodies and instead will radiate the magnetic and inspiring wisdom of a developed spirit.
- We will also renew our connection with the forces of nature, guided by the elemental beings who are responsible, among other things, for protecting and maintaining our physical body.
- When we align with the Laws of Creation and connect to our true essence, many physical illnesses will simply disappear—since in many cases, illness results from conflict between the spirit and the ego.
All this and more is explained extensively in the course: LET MY SPIRIT GO! which builds the foundations for developing spiritual consciousness, needed by humanity more than ever.