Chapter 12- The Therapies

Chapter 12 

The Therapies 

Dietary Exercise Suggested:

• Experimental beverages (non-alcoholic!)

Discovering the fun and enjoyment of a mixed juice punch, a fizzy or frothy concoction, a creamy warm or a tangy sharp cold one, an astringent vegetable extract or a cappuccino with chocolate dust or cinnamon. Milkshakes, herb teas, ginger beers, honeyed cordials. Mineral waters scented with fruits or floral extracts, clear soups and fortifying tonics.
The taking drinks for the pleasure of them.
Commentary:


Part 1) The enjoyment
The gifts brought to us from being able to smell, taste and acknowledge satisfaction are quite heavenly, rather than sensory, in their attributes. For it is in the spiritual worlds we can enjoy great pleasures of discovery similarly – simply for the sake of the enjoyment and experience itself.

This may be confusing for two reasons understandably. Firstly we are sometimes so given to a notion of ‘practicality’ that we regard the austere as being an essential quality of nature (and of Heaven) herself. And yet are not the sights and sounds of the natural world quite lavish and opulent throughout? In Father God’s Kingdom you may perceive everywhere His ‘added touch’ where beauty and frugality simply do not meet minds.

We have an economy of purpose that values the generous embellishments of both the fantastic and the wondrous. The sights and scenes of the physical world are not merely ‘purpose built’ at all! When we come to regard these added extras we are afforded, – those things which are not conditional or of necessity in the functional sense – we come to a higher necessity of heavenly consideration. We may not need love, humour, pleasure and desire – we could ‘operate’ and cooperate without any of them … and then again …could we?


So this is the first difference in which in the exercise above we are endeavouring to reclaim and experience. Enjoyment which is for itself and not for nutrition firstly (although by all means if you find pleasure in this it is very good also); but for the smell and the taste and the satisfaction that is known.
The second aspect to this dilemma is that of containing our negative assumptions. This is a very good practice for that. For example: there is a concept that we may purposefully sense a beverage or a food to examine its qualities and whether or not they may be a poison to us. In many ways (not only physical) it is true that we come to a substance and predetermine as best we can its properties before we continue to partake of them.

Now, there are many instinctual processes which have become confused within recent generations rather than assisted. Our discriminatory reasonings are often reliant upon an ingredients list upon a packet because much of the ‘food’ has been so far removed from its source and combined, that the usual means of empathetically testing the rotten from the fresh has been more complicated and also depressed.

We have spoken of the suspicion in which we are now given to in this and in this exercise we seek to go back to the beginning, to a more primal and less tedious nutritive force, and find the simple enjoyment. We do not suggest that this involves a nonsense such as sipping on a narcotic or a rat poison in denial of its properties; but rather though (within reason) coming to a beverage with the delight of a child and finding your most favourite and having the very best time in the experience.

(Once again and sadly, it would be inadvisable for a sufferer of diabetes to reach for the frothy chocolate laden with the marshmallow whip … but for those who can ‘indulge’ within safe dietary perimeters, we say “Go for it!”)