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Nutritional illusions are as effective as sticking your head in the sand when it comes to having a body that functions properly. If only we can control what demands are made upon our systems, maybe no one will notice our deficiencies. However, one author puts it this way:

…We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions, we are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.

To discover our illusions will not solve the problems of our world. But if we do not discover them we will never discover our real problems. To dispel the ghosts which populate the world of our making will not give us the power to conquer the real enemies of the real world or to remake the real world. But it may help us discover that we cannot make the world in our image. It will liberate us and sharpen our vision. It will clear away the fog so we can face the world we share with all mankind. (Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image or what Happened to the American Dream, 1962, p. 6)

Those words were published 50 years ago. Our sense of reality has not improved in the intervening decades. We live in a state of physical, mental, and spiritual illusion fed by the hype and fantasy of the media on the one hand and by our nutritional illusion on the other hand. It would be one thing if this situation were forced upon us. But the truth is we have chosen to be ruled by our created “reality,” our lie.

Jeremiah described the situation in ancient Israel as, “An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land; the prophets prophecy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?” (Jeremiah 5: 30-31)

All dreams, all illusions, come suddenly to an end. For better or worse our eyes are opened to the reality we have so desperately sought to obscure. We have fed our bodies on the results of convenience and economic gain. We have nourished our souls on the prattle of self serving politicians, preachers, and public figures. Our conception of world relationships is bound up in college sports.

When the god of your making falls from its pedestal, you can either quickly set it back up, hoping no one noticed, or you can realize your error and change.

It may come as a surprise to many people, but the foods you eat can have a profound influence upon the state of your mind and spirit. Also, the things you feed your mind and soul can affect your choices of food. Our liberation from falsehood and the imagined reality of the dream-makers will involve our whole being feeding upon true food (physical food, mental food, and spiritual food, if we can make those divisions).

You can’t escape the world of the illusion by eating the modern artificial and synthetic foods. To return to reality, you need to eat foods that are completely rooted and grounded in nature. You may want to try Earth’s First Food, which offers your body a complete package of nutrients instead of a nutritional illusion.

You may also be interested in the message of the first Quakers. See the New Foundation Fellowship website for more information.

Ellis Hein

Tags: Boorstin, earth's first food, New Foundation Fellowship, nutritional illusion

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