Questions Regarding Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science

We must once again become clear about the multi-membered human being. For the spiritual researcher, the human being is not only the physical being that can be seen with the eyes and touched with the hands; rather, this physical body is only a part of the human being. This physical body does indeed consist of the same chemical substances that are found in nature. But human nature has higher members. The next part of the human being is already supersensible, has a higher reality than the physical body. It underlies the physical body and throughout life fights against the decay of the physical body. At the moment when the human being passes through the gate of death, the physical body is subject only to its own laws and decays. In life, the life body fights against decay. It gives the substances and forces different directions, different connections than they would have if they only followed themselves. For clairvoyant consciousness, this body is as visible as the physical body is to the eye. Humans share this life body or etheric body with plants.