Paramahansa Yogananda was asked, “Are you a vegetarian?”
No, I’m a proper-eatarian,” he replied, “because vegetarians eat french fries and Coca Cola.”
I was a vegetarian for fourteen years, but my vegetarianism came to an abrupt end on the road between Houston and Dallas.
Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) and I walked into an off-freeway restaurant, and I tactfully tried to steer Adano in the direction of the salad bar.
Adano said, “Well, it’s noon. This is a good time for a roast beef sandwich.”
What the heck, I thought. “All right, you win.” I conceded. “I’ll eat a roast beef sandwich.”
“Tell you what,” smiled Adano. “You order a roast beef sandwich and I’ll get a corned beef sandwich, and we’ll split them.”
I was stuffing my foodhole with meat, and Adano casually remarked, “Don’t you see the humor of this? Fourteen years of karma broken in a Scandinavian restaurant.”
I laughed and GOT it. My vegetarianism was instigated by trauma, not volition.
I wandered into a vegetarian health food store in Redding, California, fourteen years earlier.
“I used to be a vegetarian, but I lost too much weight,” I commented to the guy behind the counter.
“Yeah, but it’s your soul, not your body, that counts,” he rejoined.
His words triggered an immediate vow to never eat meat again even if it cost me my life.
After eating roast beef and corned beef, I went back to being meat-free for two more months till Adano showed up for his regular quarterly visit to Carpinteria, California.
Adano ordered a group of us several meat dishes at the local Chinese restaurant.
“Look, Adano,” I whined. “I’ve gotta get something straight. I’d feel better about eating meat if I wasn’t at the top of the food chain. If something was capable of hunting and eating me in my civilized environment, maybe I could eat meat. But it’s not fair that nothing eats me!”
“But something DOES eat you,” replied Adano.
“What?” I asked.
“The ATOM.”
On some level, this made perfect sense, so, in the next ten days of Adano’s Carpinteria visit, I ate beef, pork, shrimp, tuna, red snapper, squid, sardines, anchovies, chicken, turkey, duck, abalone, lobster, eggs, etc.
Now I’m back to eating as low as possible on the food chain, but I do occasionally (several times a year) indulge in a Burger King Whopper or a Costco polish hot dog.
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'Adventures in Vegetarianism & Proper-eatarianism' have 7 comments
August 22, 2012 @ 12:26 pm atomb
One purpose of Solar Nutrition is to eventually become a breatharian to avoid eating our vegetable brothers and sisters as well as “higher” life forms.
Of course, fruitarianism is the next best thing to breatharianism and serves the reproductive and evolutionary designs of terrestrial flora.
August 22, 2012 @ 1:58 pm lucy
I’ve try for 3 months, when in Brazil, to be a frutarian. I ate mangos,papayas,guavas,bananas,kiwis,…every fruit that was in the Spring and Summer season there. I ended up hipper ,crazy ,with so much energy that I couldn’t sleep too much,I talk too much,walk…I was like a atomic bomb.
Came back here and stopping eating too much fruit for a while and still not eating them a lot. Do you mean frutarianism as a bridge to breatharianism, meaning very little fruit ?
Once or twice a day?
August 22, 2012 @ 2:21 pm atomb
Time-Conscious Eating eventually leads to fruitarianism and beyond … but when folks (esp. folks raised with grain in their diet) switch over too soon, it leads to health issues.
The exception to the rule is three months or so for cleansing or purging like you did in Brazil. :)
The cytoplasmic polarity of grain-eaters is reversed and the cells say, “MOOOOO,” instead of “OMMMMM.”
August 22, 2012 @ 2:45 pm lucy
Thank you so much,as always.
As always you are amazingly patient and kind to answer all my questions.
Hope I’m not bothering you too much asking,and asking all the time.
I look forward to get there.
August 22, 2012 @ 3:30 pm atomb
:)
September 4, 2012 @ 2:30 am Dick Zaad
Both breatharianism and fruitarianism only make sense once you’ve made sense out of the origins of man; people like Aajonus Vonderplanitz reason quite logically that there’s hardly a place on the planet where mankind could live off of fruit, therefore it must be unnatural. Ironically, i’ve never heard talk here [since 2008] about the one thing that explains how we could ever NOT be the carnivors logic suggests we are. That thing is that we come from a geological place where there is fruit all year round: Hollow Earth.
Atom, i’ve never heard you on this topic. Have you looked into it?
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September 4, 2012 @ 7:46 pm atomb
I’ve found no credible evidence of a Hollow Earth, but Swami Nitty-Gritty talked about it.
He said, “Earth is like an onion. There are connecting caves throughout the Earth.”
Nitty-Gritty’s plans to buy an underground cavern extending for miles underneath Knoxville, Tennessee, were thwarted.