Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science

GA 57/1909-01-14/p017 ·1909-01-14 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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If one has even a slightly sharpened view through Spiritual Science, one can see how this excess activity has taken over the whole person, throwing itself onto their blood and nervous system. One can see how it has looked inside the organism, like a house that has been built with unsuitable materials, so that one has to make an effort to sort and arrange the unsuitable materials. One does not direct the forces for the processing of nutrients to the inner being with impunity. When we realize this, we will become tolerant and will not oppose nature. Then we must not go in the opposite direction and become fanatics of vegetarianism for everyone. Just as the man I have now cited as a radical example had an excessive inward-directed activity, so it may be that there are people who do not have this power at all, who cannot, so to speak, continue the plant process immediately where it has stopped. If such people were expected to become vegetarians without further ado, they would find that they would have to draw the energy they need for this from their own organism. In doing so, they would in a sense consume it and in a sense starve it. So this can certainly be the case on the other side. The point is that we must turn away from this or that dogma when we talk about healthy and unhealthy conditions, turn away from eating only this or only that. What matters is the individual human being and the need to get to know his or her needs. Above all, it is important that this individual has the opportunity to feel and recognize their own needs in a certain way.

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