2 of my friends, who are in spiritual communities, asked me once: "Krya, how many times a day should someone pray or meditate in your opinion?"
I gave them few ideas which I'd like to share with you. I've rather put the question in a general way like How to feed the soul? I'd also be interested to know what would be your answer to the question.
We all have a soul to feed, fine. But each of our souls don't have the same stomach and lungs. So each needs to know what his soul currently feeds with and then change his/her type of psychic food if need be. Also each should be planning his own spiritual activities. But here are few notions we can take into consideration for psychic nutrition.
Physical food and psychic food.
For me it's clear that the soul just like the physical body has organs. Organs like lungs, brain, heart, sex, liver etc all exist in the soul, but just in a different form. They exist in a their in their finer form. Then just like our physical body uses certain organs to feed, to get energies, the soul uses psychic organs to feed too.
Now how does it work for the soul?
The air we breath goes to the lungs right?, well for the soul, lungs are the mind (which process thoughts). Water and solid food we take goes to the stomach and end up to the blood right?, Well, the soul upper stomach and the heart are the emotions and feelings ( also called the astral body in the esoteric terms). But I wrote an article about all those correspondences , please read lungs of the soul for more details.
So, our physical body takes air, water and solid elements (and heat) as food, so 4 elements to speak. For the soul, thoughts are air, feelings are water (and heat) and solid elements are desires and actions. Now, how many times do you take air as food, every second right? Well you will notice that our soul thinks every seconds, unless you willingly make it stop, just like you can at will stop breathing for some time. And how many times do you take water as food, from time to time during the day right? Well, notice that our soul have emotions from time to time during the day too, one time you were all happy and sometime in the afternoon you got disappointed ... And then how many times do you take solid elements as food, you get a breakfast, a lunch and dinner, all or one of those, right? Well, the soul also desires and satisfies one or more desires a day.
All that inner activity happens naturally; but we can have a certain control over that. We can make the soul breath pure air, make it eat pure food and drink clean water. And that's exactly how we change our human soul which now becomes light, strong, intelligent, generous, full of will... It's clear that physically what one eats makes him either sick or healthy. The same law applies in the inner life, that's why we need to choose the right food for our soul. Also what we physically eat changes our body appearance in the course of time. You could tell the kind of nutrition someone has from his body appearance, and we even often say it although not accurately "Hey, dude you need to super size your meal, you are too thin" or "That guy is has a gross body, I wonder what he feeds with?".
Psychic vegetarianism
Let's talk about the kind of food people give their soul. We all don’t have the same food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Some take vegetarian food, and some others meat. Some other a mix of both. In the same way, the soul can either feed with animal desires (non-vegetarian) or plant desires (vegetarian). I know some will go “Wait! Can the soul be vegetarian or non-vegetarian? And since when is it so?”, Well, if we can make of our physical body system to be vegetarian or non-vegetarian, why not for our soul? This is a point of view, it's not officially so written in books, so please bear with me.
Have a close look at your inner life and you will see that things have always been so. In the esoteric point of view, the visible animal represents the body, and the animal desires represent the animal soul. So when we have animal desires like anger, jalousie,… that means our human soul is feeding with the animal’s soul. A soul eating another soul is a carnival soul! And then a soul feeding with generosity, wisdom, truth, love… is an herbivore soul. Because the soul of vegetables are made of light desires. Natural laws says that we build or destroy ourselves with what we absorb. For example, when we absorb physical food, part of what we take merge with our physical body and another part joins our soul. Basically 2 things happens every time we eat, we are either poisoning ourselves or we are becoming alive.
But there will always be discussions on if we should physically be vegetarian or non-vegetarian in our spiritual life. Let's look at this question in the physical point of view for clarity. Our physical body, everybody knows that it needs some elements which are found in meat. When the physical body can't find those elements anymore, it starts to get sick. That's why in general people eat meat, in that sense they are right. And few have found out that their physical body also had an etheric body which feeds from heats found in the veg food, in the air, in the sun light, and the sex organs.
So these people are also right. In the end it became not intelligent to feed with meat or veg only. According to the hermetic science, the meat we absorb contains animal desires which merge with our soul after absorption and which strengthen animal desires in our soul. This is why many spiritualist have chosen to become vegetarian. I distinguish vegetarian fanatics who don't know what they are doing from intelligent vegetarian. Intelligent vegetarian have not stopped eating meat completely. But they have simply chosen to still eat meat which has weak animal desires, in other words, animals which have desires very close to plant’s. You will meat vegetarians who eat eggs and fish. That way they still help both, their body and their soul together.
Psychic Food in bins and in shops
But let's leave the physical food alone and see explore the psychic food. You will realize that our soul wants to be vegetarian. Why? because as it develops it tends to run away from animal forces, anger, jalousie, stupidity, vanity ... All those forces are food for the soul. Foods that may taste good but which make the soul suffer. A soul that feeds from animal forces suffers, that means it doesn't have a good health any longer. It gets sick. The soul best state is when it's healthy.
That's what makes its happiness. The soul looks for happiness day and night. Many people who don't know where to find the right food for their soul. That's why they eat any psychic food, They take psychic meat and psychic vegetables but in most cases the ones which are dirty, the ones they pick up on the ground, or in bins. Yes although psychic vegetables are all the virtues of the soul, there are among them those which are picked up from the ground, I'm referring to the human social virtues (respectful, social, initiative, organized...) . It's usually Only when they have enough money, they get in a psychic shop to buy clean vegetarian food.
You are now probably wondering if there are any psychic shop where people could go buy vegetarian food. Yes there are. I'm not saying that you can see shops in the psychic world like they are in the physical world, no, but it's a way for me to explain, that when inner vegetarian forces manifest they are taken like veg food, and they are sensed when our inner vibration gets higher. See that's what happens when you've been observing your inner life for ages, everything in the outside world seem to remind you of something in the life inside you. That's why when I see how expensive some veg foods are in shops and how easier meats are bought in shops for example, I'm impressed, because it reminds me how difficult it can be to feed with love, intelligence, generosity...
This is what you can see in the outside would, poor people who have no money at all to get for their body what it needs, walk around the streets searching all the bins and pick up any food (vegetarian or not) and dirty cloths. And another class of people do get some money but not enough to feed themselves with all the healthy food they know, so they work hard, and the little they get, they enter cheap shops to buy affordable food and it seems like veg are expressive (unless they live in nature where plants are more affordable), so they get all the fat meats.
Then you get the rich, who have the choice to get from shops the type of food he wants, he can effort meats and veg. So we can say we have 3 categories of people in this business. It goes the same for our inner life. The first category of soul which have no spiritual work, so it's difficult for them to feed with love, because most of the time it's sadness, cries, regrets ... The second category just doesn't have enough money to feed with love regularly. And the rich souls which can effort a regular love, happiness so to speak. So while some souls look for happiness in hell which is compared to looking for food in bins, like the very poor people in the physical do, you also get some rich souls which looks for happiness in heaven which is compared to looking for food in super markets in the physical world.
Feeding is natural law not to fight against
It's important for souls to keep eating, or it dies. Eating gives a certain heat to the body. Look at your physical heart for example, it's because it has a certain heat that it keeps beating. When the heart heat is gone, the body dies. Well, my friends, it's the same law applies in our psychic life. When we keep feeding our soul, we feel some heat, that means some happiness, We feel alive. However If we stop feeding the soul, if we stop getting some happiness, we spiritually die. If we stop eating meat to eat nothing, we die. And if we stop eating veg to eat nothing we also die. So whatever you choose to eat just make sure you keep eating something.
The more psychic veg food we have the better for our inner transformation. That's right, but even when you manage to feed with psychic veg food more often, you will notice that the soul will from time to time desire some non-veg psychic food. So although the soul best food is a veg psychic type of food, it stills needs some animal psychic food for few reason I'm about to give:
The human soul like the moon has 2 sides, one that faces the sun light and heat, and the other part which faces earth. The lightened part of the soul feeds with veg psychic food, and the dark part feeds with animals forces. In fact our physical body is also build in that way, the lightened part of the physical body is the etheric body, it's energetic part which feeds with the sun light and heat, and the dark part of the body is the physical body we can all touch and which feeds from air, water and earth. So the soul takes spiritual food from its higher part and it takes earthly food from its lower part. The soul manifests thanks to both forces . Earthy forces has things the soul needs for its development, that's why the question is not about not eating any more animal psychic food, no, but we can select what animal force we can allow our self to absorb, we choose animals forces that don't block our spiritual journey. We will clean and cook those psychic animals before we absorb them. This is the situations when you will for example use anger against your own lower nature, that anger which makes you make decisions like "LOWER NATURE, THAT'S IT! YOU GET ME IN SO MUCH SHIT! I AM NOT GIVING YOU ANY MORE FOOD AS I USE TO". That is an example of a well cooked anger, which is not bad for the soul to eat.
The soul communicates its health to our physical body.
The soul stomach, heart and lungs talk to the physical body stomach, heart and lungs. So you will notice that you could get a chock at the stomach or your heart starts to beat either too fast or too slow. That is when you get strong emotions, have disturbing thoughts or crave something badly. We all experienced that. What this means is if our soul is having a bad nutrition, it gets sick and affect our physical lungs, stomach and heart. Reason why you will hear great spiritualists saying that most disease come from the way we live. That proves they are right. We do so much damage to our body when we don’t feed our soul properly.
All those psychic negative manifestations affects our physical organs. And that’s what materialists who are so keen on their body should know. They say they care about their physical body only, well! to my mind they don’t prove it. Because if they really cared about it, they would be taking care about their soul. I’m among those who believe in a future of less patients in hospitals when people start to properly take care of their souls.
When the soul becomes weak
People eat every day. Eating is a law of nature all creatures in the universe obey. Whenever something doesn't obey that laws, the bad happens, I mean sickness and even death. Have a look at the physical laws, You don’t wash yourself; you get sick, you don’t protect yourself and you get attacked, you don’t eat you get weak. The soul is not an exception to the rules, if we don’t feed it properly, it gets weak. Now when something is weak, it lacks protection, it becomes attacked and it can’t show its talents. A weak soul is then easily attacked either by evil forces or good forces. I guess I must explain myself here.
Your soul can be attacked by evil or spiritual forces when it’s weak. But please don't misunderstand me, I know the soul doesn't get tired, it's known to work 24/7, it keeps thinking, feeling and acting, in that sense, the soul is strong. Its weakness is seen more on feeding level. Let’s say you have a carnivore soul; if you don’t have enough pleasure, that means if you are not drinking lots of alcohol, having sex any time, fighting with people … your soul gets hungry soon, that means it soon gets strong desires for those things.
Now if after some time you still can’t satisfy your desires, you will be invited to try some other activities that could give you spiritual joy. That’s what I call by being attacked by spiritual forces. In the say way, if you have a herbivore soul and somehow you can’t for a long time satisfy your spiritual desires, you will be soon invited to try new things to get some earthly pleasure. Watch yourself and you will find out how true this is.
No creature, absolutely no creature can stop the eating business. The soul will always push you to give it some food. If you can’t give it earthly please, then please give it spiritual joy. And if you can’t give it spiritual joy then please give it earthly pleasure; but whatever you decide please don’t stop feeding it, it’s against cosmic laws.
Now some spiritual people will find it a bit weird that I’m encouraging people to feed with earthly pleasure. Well, it’s not my fault, I’m saying what is written in nature. I read that It’s a suicide to stop any earthly pleasure without first having found a spiritual joy to replace it with. So I’ll dare encourage all those who can’t still afford a spiritual joy to continue feeding with earthly pleasure. And once the spiritual joy starts to feed them more than earthly pleasure do, then only they can stop with earthly pleasure, not before.
Knowing that the soul can be attacked by either good or bad forces is enough light for us to take precaution, that way we can avoid certain evil forces attacks on our soul. We set a regular eating habit for our soul, we get it used to spiritual food, so that we are enough strong to resist evil attacks. We plan the type of food to feed our soul with. We could plan a breakfast , a lunch or a dinner for the soul, why not ? This is when you follow your own plan of feeding your soul with the right spiritual food, when you live an active spiritual life. This is the kind of life that ends up well. It ends up making you spiritually rich and healthy, the kind of life which means you end up giving you spiritual virtues, happiness, and great psychic abilities.
How feeding the soul regularly can save us from evil forces?
You eat today, you will eat tomorrow. See what happens when someone is full (for having eaten enough), unless he simple wants to taste, he would feel like not eating anything for a while. This is an important notice. See It’s become a custom that people have something to bite during the day before or after lunch or dinner for health they say, but it’s also to avoid hunger or body weakness. In the same way, we can feed our soul in a way to avoid psychic weaknesses.
I call that spiritual habit, the spiritual snack. I've check that student of the esoteric school called arcane school practice this type of exercise, I used to be student of the school in my early years. They call that spiritual habit "Le rappel du jour", But I only find out about the importance of exercise far later after I left that school. It was about remembering to re-connect to the spiritual world by saying a set of spiritual sentences once during the day, everyday. It's clear that it is a spiritual snack, because soon after you have had a spiritual moment, it becomes not easy to say, think or do some evil things.
Even in the spiritual community I've stayed for months, I saw how often we were called up to seat down some time during the day to some few spiritual prayers. It is to re-connect us to spiritual forces, in other words to feed the soul with some spiritual emotions and thoughts a moment during the day. That practice saves from a lot of sinful thoughts we could have done otherwise at that time. When the soul have just eaten, it becomes strong to do certain activities it wouldn't have done otherwise. It can resists to most of the bad words people would through at us, to problems life through at us. With a soul filled it you see problems of your life, but none of them is touching you. Deep inside you keep a serenity. With a strong soul, we could smile where people are crying. It becomes so easy to receive spiritual inspirations, to be sensitive to all the beautiful things people and nature through at us.
Love and light.