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| If I understood the articles about subjective reality correctly, then veganism will only be beneficial if you believe it to be. There would be no objective reason to believe that being vegan is healthier than being a meat eater. Which lifestyle is healthier would be 100% dependent on your own beliefs. So I wonder if it makes sense to choose to live vegan if you also believe in a subjective reality? Anyone feel free to share your thoughts, I am eager to learn about them. Francis Last edited by Dolazy : 11-05-2006 at 11:21 AM. |
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| The same thought occurred to me too! I am anxious to see what people have to say on this subject. Personally, I'd like to think that because I know I can create whatever kind of experience I want, then it shouldn't matter what I put into my body, as long as I THINK it doesn't matter.... Or is that wishful thinking? |
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| It seems to me that you would have to have a fairly strong hold on subjective reality to break the rules of the physical objective reality. Changing beliefs isn't as simple as changing your mind. Also, consider that a consciousness centered on love, peace and joy would likely avoid supporting the pain/suffering of animals. That's my take on it. I'll admit I don't have a firm grasp of subjective reality, though. So, anyone else, feel free to correct me. |
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| Im a little sketchy on the idea of a subjective reality, but from what i understand- from what i have learned from Steve's site- If the universe is truly a subjective reality, then you only have to believe something to be true in order for it to be true. But this means that you have to whole heartedly- or rather whole mindedly, believe it. By this thinking, if you have even the slightest belief that eating meat can have a negative effect on your health, then it will. This means that all of the info you have learned about meat eating- including "facts" and statistics about cholesterol, digestion, diseases, etc., would have to be unlearned, so to speak. Subjectively speaking, you cannot beleive, or "know", that eating greasy pork and red meat products causes high cholesterol, energy reducing digestive processes, etc. and also be able to eat these foods without falling victim to those consequences. For me, this would mean erasing all of my knowledge of nutrition, and digestive anatomy ( i may have just made up the term "digestive anatomy" |
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| So, according to the subjective reality theory, my current core beliefs about health are the most accurate ones. If I want to become more healthy then I need to live more in accordance to what I believe to be a healthy lifestyle. This is tricky, because I have been exposed to conflicting opinions on what is healthy. Some claim veganism is healthier others say that our bodies really need meat. This means my beliefs will be mixed as well. Some might say that the best way to resolve this conflict is to try for yourself. I could do a 30 day trial on veganism and observe the results. But then again, won't the results only be the manifestation of the beliefs I currently have? |
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| OK, that's my opinion: If you are, for example, a kid, and you don't know where the meat comes from and you just eat it and believe it's awesome and it'll make you healthy and etc. then probably it will. But then you 'grow up' and you learn that animals are killed and, before that, have to go trough horrible lifes.. Then things change a little. For the subjective reality thing to work you have to be aware that you're not just your physical body. The meat you eat, in fact, is a part of you. So.. does it make sense to make a part of you (the cows) have a very unpleasant life, be killed and cut in pieces and and still want the other part of you (the human) to be healthy? Point is, you can be healthy eating meat, but just to a certain extent, as you have to be unaware of a lot of things or deny a huge part of yourself (the "I don't want to cause suffering to others" part) to do so. This conflict/lack-of-awareness will eventually disrupt your 'mental harmony' and it's solution will lead you to stop killing (eating?). So, that's it. Just my opinion, anyways. Excuse me for my english (and for having to type in my mom's qwerty keyboard (I'm used to dvorak)) |
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| I could be wrong, but doesn't the subjective reality theory say that there is no such thing as a physical objective reality? |
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| I think if you really believe that meat is murder, cancerous, unhealthy etc. then that's the reality that will manifest for you. When I went vegan for two months, I experienced too many contradictions outside and inside myself that made staying vegan extremely disempowering for me. For now, my core beliefs about food are about eating in moderation, listening to my body, and working out reasonably. I went from external reference to internal reference out of extreme suffering (i.e. from one unhappy diet to another). There are just too many people with their own ideas about diet and exercise. You ask 500 people you get 502 responses. I think that suggests subjective reality right there! |
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From this I get that the choice of veganism should happen only after one has reached a certain level of awareness. If you switch too early (when your beliefs are still conflicting) then the results will be conflicting as well. Now but if all other animals are also part of yourself, and animals are eating each other, does that mean that you are still causing suffering in animals? Does that mean that you can reach such a high a level of awareness where even animals will stop eating other animals? |
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Here's my take: as stated previously, the it's difficult to change core beliefs, especially things you've been taught and have accepted for a long, long time. For me, it seems perfectly natural and just the way the world works that carnivorous animals eat other animals. If the alternative for them is starving, well...you would have to develop a belief system that avoided that outcome somehow. Maybe you'd have to accept the belief that carnivores could become herbivores, or something. The key thing for me is that humans don't cause suffering by not eating animals, while other animals might. (If carnivores don't eat animals, then there might be overpopulation problems, etc.) But that, of course, is just a belief, too--albeit a very pervasive one.
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| If you've been an omnivore all your life, then I'd imagine you'd really have to try veganism if you wanted to see the difference. If you did research on veganism, you'd find that it's scientifically proven to be healthier than omnivorism. So in order for you to will omnivorism to yield as much energy as veganism, you'd have to change the physics of eating, which would be very difficult as they tie in with all the other functions of the universe. Just a thought, I haven't done any extensive research on veganism or subjective reality. |
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| Hi, I'm a little out of tune now, but I'll try to explain.. First, if you're in conflict with yourself and you eat or not meat, you're still in conflict with yourself. So, the point is not that you can't stop eating meat until you've solved your conflicts, it is that going vegetarian is a way to solve one of these conflicts. Like this: if you are evil and go vegetarian (Hitler Quote:
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First you love what is directly good to you, then you love all that comes from a good intent, then you learn to love all that is, good and evil (the most difficult part, in my opinion). OK, that's it. Again, it's just my opinion. I might be completely wrong (And I'm moving and there's no internet at my new house, so I might take a week to answer anything) |
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| Thanks for your reply kljsadfhklj (quite a name!) Quote:
I hope I still make sense to you all... |
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| Veganism may have its benefits, but physical health is surely not among them. Tell a Ayurvedic or TCM doctor you went vegan for health: they just might laugh at you!
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| I love the way you think DoLazy. Let me answer some of these questions as I understand things: Quote:
Maybe, but you apparently believe Steve is onto some things - so those will prolly be the results you get. Quote:
You spent years manifesting a reality where things operate according to certain physical laws. It would take a lot of time to unmanifest those "laws." So, for all intents and purposes there is a physical objective universe that you created. Quote:
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I guess my point is that it would be hard to let go everything you "know" from the past and immediately immerse yourself in this subjective reality. Steve certainly went through a long, well-thought out and well-tested journey to achieve this state. I have not reached a point where I can fully embrace a subjective reality (yet). I am still testing and challenging my own beliefs and refining myself as I go along. It is an eventual goal of mine to reach a point where I can begin testing/experiencing a subjective reality but it is a journey for me; not an instantaneous epiphany where all my beliefs suddenly change. A way to picture my interpretation of it is to visualize a vertical gradient with objective reality on one end and subjective reality on the other. In order to break some hard physical laws that exist in the objective reality you need to be all the way in the dark part of the gradient on the subjective reality end of the spectrum, with no shades of your beliefs from your objective reality left over. I hope that helps explain my point better. |
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| 44 reason to be a vegan , just take this as a reference, no offense if you think some of them are plain wrong and evil . Quote:
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| The following is an excerpt from an Abraham-Hicks (Jerry and Esther Hicks) recording and I think it offers an interesting view regarding diet and subjective reality. This is an answer to a question during a live seminar. I have just quickly transcribed it from a sound recording and that is why the English/grammar is not that great. “…You move through your world and the experts say to you, if you eat this food, which contains this fat, you will be fat. And you hear it and you hear it and you hear it. Then when you sit to eat and you have awareness of that fat in that food, what is your dominant vibration? This will make me fat… I can’t eat this and be slender… this will make me fat. Until that becomes your dominant vibration. Then you are faced with a dilemma. You’ve either got to be fat and eat it or you have to not eat it. Those are your choices when that has become your dominant vibration. And then you read a book about carbohydrates and they say; these carbohydrates will make you fat. And so, most of the food that you are eating, you say this contains preservatives; this is not good for me. This has fat; this is not good for me. This has carbohydrates – too many; this is not good for me. And so, your dominant vibration about food is: this is not good for me; I cannot be the way I want to be as I am eating this and then you compound it every time you eat – which is frequent.” “So what we are suggesting is that everything is about alignment of energy within you. So if you have convinced yourself that this action is opposite of the result you want and you don’t take the action, you can get the result you want. If you take the action that you believe, because you have practiced it and have made it your dominant vibration, is counter to what you desire then the results that you live will be counter to what you desire. And then you say, I cannot live the way I want to live. And we say, it isn’t about action, it’s about vibration. It’s about the alignment of thought energy.” “So If we were standing in your physical shoes, and we were sitting before a buffet of food, we would choose the food that appealed to us and as we are sitting to eat it, we would acknowledge its benefit. We would make its benefit our dominant vibration. We would become so singular in making its benefit our dominant vibration, that nothing we had learned before that at one time had been a dominant vibration, would be affecting us here and now. Our dominant vibration here and now would be one of allowing our physical body to respond with this food and achieve the results we are wanting. Are you getting a sense of what we are talking about? Everything is about vibration.” “So, it helps you to understand why even though there have been hundreds of thousands of books written upon the subject of nutrition, they hardly ever agree. The reason is because there is a great deal of variation in the combinations of actions and thoughts and intentions and beliefs, that you as individuals hold. And when you di |


