is why we are unable (unwilling) to give up our exotic ego-
animal-sustaining indulgences. Can you see why anything
stolen or forbidden is attractive and sexually stimulating?
Junk food is a drug and an aphrodisiac.
       If we could detect and free ourselves from the original
trauma, we would thereby become enabled to make right
choices. And if we then chose to eat of the tree of life, sen-
sible, non-ego-reinforcing foods, we would then, once more,
be evolving in accordance with our Creator’s will, incor-
porating His identity into ours, forever growing in Him
and He in us. His spirit in our soul and His food in our body
add up to life eternal.
       The meditation exercise will bring you back, through
repentance, to the original threshold of obedience to God’s
plan, a state of innocence in which you will be saved and
enabled to make right choices. Before, you were under a
compulsion to sin, to eat willfully and wrongly, and to
tempt and abuse one another sexually, to mutate and evolve
a living hell on earth and in yourselves. Before, even though
you had always known about the pitfalls of temptation, and
you knew you should resist them, you could do nothing but
give in, with full knowledge of the harm you were doing to
yourself and to others. Don’t you see how the unregenerate
ego sees food? It perceives food, as well as all forbidden im-
moral adventures, as the elixir of true life (that’s living, man!),
a moral support, a savior and a comforter, through which
man polarizes his attitude pridefully to sustain his separa-
tion from God to be god and purge himself of guilt.
       Pride proclaims its rebellion continually in all its sin-
ful relationships. The proud man can have nothing but a

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