PART THREE 

Awakening & Health

Spiritual Selectivity
We should eat intelligently, eat what we know is good for us at our stage of consciousness. But we should not become fixated or taken over by it. The person who is sensible about their eating habits realizes it is what comes out of one’s consciousness that feeds the body, maintains and sustains it. We must act intelligently in our dietary habits, eating the things we like while avoiding the more destructive kinds of food according to universal belief, and then giving it no further thought. Instead, if we live each day in realization and contemplative of Consciousness, we will be fed from within. Food will never bother us to too great an extent, and we will neither be in an overindulgence or and under indulgence. Our elevated state of consciousness will prove to be selective so that gradually we will discard food that for us is not particularly acceptable to our system.
    This is not to mean food is either good or bad. It does mean there are states of consciousness which will not take too readily to some foods and will take to others.
    Not knowing that, people have formed the habit of eating almost everything they like and have come to think everything put in front of them is food, since it is dressed up as food on the table or sold as food in the store. But spiritual selectivity will sometimes tell us not to eat meat for a week or for two or three weeks or longer, or to not eat what from a human standpoint is called “food”, but rather to drink more water or eat more fruit. So in our own homes we should have the intelligence to use whole, fresh foods and other substances that have real food value. This is not a reliance on matter; it is spiritual selectivity, bringing to us our need in a language intelligible to us at a given moment and at a given state of consciousness.
    As long as our consciousness has a fleshly sense of body, we have to eat, and the food we eat will carry with it some measure of world belief, which will determine our comfort. But as we work with the principle of one Intelligence and one Power, world belief will have less and less power in our experience and we will truly be living out from our divine inheritance. 

Consciousness, the Self-Created and Self-Maintaining Principle
   To present a point, let me share with you a story I once heard. It is about a professor who was working on a project in connection with hydrogen.
The professor was addressing a group of scientists and physicists on some new phase of the experiment. He began by saying he knew there were some people present who still believed in God. “I must tell you in order to understand this experiment and the higher experiments in nuclear fission, you must accept the fact there is no God. I am telling you this from the standpoint of what I have proved in the laboratory. There is no God. I have proved that everything existing in the world is hydrogen in some form, shape or manner. There is nothing existent that is not composed of hydrogen.”
One of the scientists looked up and said to him, “But, Professor, where does the hydrogen come from?”
“Oh,” he replied, “it is self-created and self-sustained.”
And this man commented, “I thought that was God.”
At that the professor shook his head and said, “You are right. Whatever name you give it, it is self-maintained, self-sustained, and self-created; it is the Infinite.” And he himself was convinced.
    As with the professor, if we can understand there is a self-created and self-maintained Substance, we can also understand that the substance of all form is eternal, immortal, and governed by the same self-created and self-maintaining Substance, Principle or Intelligence. We must recognize that the organs and functions of the body, the food we eat, the air we breathe, or the rain that falls is of that self-created and self-maintained Substance and Activity which the professor called hydrogen, but which we call Intelligence.
    Everything that exists was formed of the one basic Substance we call Intelligence, Consciousness, Principle or Law. The Substance within us and our realization of this makes It the law to the organs and functions of our body. It becomes the law even onto the food we eat, and it is the Substance at the centre of us which is the only nourishment that food can have.
    Every time we eat a morsel of food, usually we take in not only the food but the world belief about the food: some of it is fattening and some of it is thinning: some of it is good for us and some of it is bad for us. Since no change takes place in our life except through the activity of our consciousness, it becomes necessary for us to realize every time we eat: The substance and the activity of me are derived from the inherent Intelligence at the centre of my being, and I can respond to no other thought or thing. I impart the activity, the nourishment, the satisfaction, the taste and the pleasure to this food. I, Consciousness, Soul, Spirit, Intelligence, at the centre of my being give unto the organs and functions of my body their capacity to digest, assimilate and eliminate, or whatever else the body has to do. 

Surmounting World Beliefs through an Activity of Consciousness
   Through an activity of consciousness, we transfer all power from the outer world and place it where it really belongs: within us. We must consciously exercise that dominion. The initial practice is difficult because it takes discipline to remember where power is, where power is derived, and what real substance is. At some point the development of consciousness is a responsibility each person must address, for until then, we pay the penalty for whatever belief we accept, until that belief is corrected.
    We live as human beings under the laws of belief, including every law that allopathic medicine and the other “cure” practices have set down, even those that ten years from now we will not accept as laws at all. These laws are operative in our experience just as Santa Claus operates a law to a child until he learns that Santa Claus is a fictitious character. Then after that Santa Claus becomes nothing more than a name to him.
    All the discords and diseases of the world come and go. They are ever-changing; they have no permanence; they have no law to support them except as “laws of belief.” If disease were supported by law, this law of disease could not be violated and no one could ever be healed or free of disease. But disease is not permanent. It can be healed – sometimes physically, sometimes mentally and sometimes spiritually.
    So it is that these laws of allopathic medicine and other “cure” practices, in regard to food, disease, treatment, etc., are really Santa Claus experiences in our life. They are nonexistent powers but they operate as real until we consciously eliminate the belief and exchange it for truth. No one can do that for us except temporarily. We can have a so-called “healing”, but we cannot have our life made over. Only we ourselves can make our life over, and the way is to give up these universal beliefs as fast as we discover they are beliefs and come to the realization the I, Intelligence, at the centre of our being, is the substance and Consciousness of our being, and It is governing our whole experience.
    The Consciousness to which we open ourselves in receptivity takes over and directs and fulfills our life. But we have to let It in by opening our consciousness to the I within us which is All-wisdom. If it is possible to let the I, which is the Intelligence, take over, It lives our life and has a better will for us and more power to fulfill Itself and Its good than we have, and It does it in a much better way than we can ever plan it.
    If this realization were of great enough depth, we would automatically rule out of our lives all physical discords; but because in most cases, it is merely an intellectual acceptance, it is not effective in our experience.

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