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Eating and Diet

“To be healthy, one must feed one’s self with lovingly grown produce.” (Book six, pp 126)

FROM BOOK ONE (from the new version that came out in April 2007)

Anastasia says “there should be no problems of finding food for Man. One should eat just as one breathes, not paying attention to the food, not distracting one’s thought from more important things”. (pp 36)

Anastasia sustains herself with cedar nuts, herbs, berries and mushrooms. She only eats dried mushrooms. The squirrels prepare everything for her. She doesn’t store food, even for the winter. (pp 41)

She makes absolutely no ritual of mealtime, never sits down just to eat, but picks her food as she walks. (pp 43)

“Well, what good is there in drinking, smoking, senseless and harmful digestion of such a huge quantity of animal meat, when there are so many splendid plants created especially for Man’s nourishment?” (pp 68)

In regards to bees, honey and bee products (bee products are not technically ‘vegan’ because they come from animals, so in essence this probably makes Anastasia not a total, 100% vegan) Anastasia says that the products that come from bees are “so useful for Man”. (pp 82)

As to how much a person should eat, Anastasia says these questions are “best answered by the individual’s own body”. She says that when we feel hungry and thirsty our body is actually sending us a signal indicating when we should eat. This is the precise moment that we should eat something.

According to Anastasia our world of “technocracy” is not capable of allowing these natural rhythms to take place. Two people may be completely different. One might sit down all day, while the other one moves around but yet both are expected to eat at the same time of day. A person should eat food when his body advises through the cravings of hunger and thirst.

What should one eat? The body itself will select what it needs. If you have a household pet you can keep track of its movements carefully. If it eats some kind of grass or herb then you can tear off a few samples of whatever it selects and add it to your diet once or twice a week.

Anastasia says that we should gather some cereal grain (grown in your garden if possible), thresh it, grind it into flour and then bake bread with it. She says this is “extremely important” and that anyone eating this bread (even once or twice a year) will build up a store of energy capable of “awakening his inner spiritual powers”. This bread can be shared with relatives and close friends as long as it is shared with sincerity and love. When created and shared in this manner the bread will have a beneficial effect on the people who eat it.

Anastasia says that we should spend three days at least once each summer eating only what is grown in our gardens along with bread, sunflower oil and just a pinch of salt.

Anyone who has developed such a relationship with the Earth and the plants in their garden has the opportunity to heal their body of every dis-ease. She says that dis-ease is the result of Man distancing himself from the balance and natural systems that take care of him. (pp 88-89)

There are areas such as in Northern Pakistan where the people have been practicing agriculture in similar methods to what Anastasia describes. The Hunzakut people live to be more than 100 years old and men becoming fathers at 90 is not a rarity. (pp 235)

It could be that the “information exchange between an individual person and a plant Anastasia talks about is the missing link to understanding human nutrition.” (Sharashkin, op.-cited pp 235)

FROM BOOK SIX

“One of the other characteristics of the Vedic period was that people were fully aware of the purpose of the various creatures. And all animals served Man.

Man did not bother feeding the animals; on the contrary they fed him. During the Vedic age both Man and his household pets were vegetarians, and never ate meat – they would not even think of it. The tremendous variety of plants around were able to supply Man’s taste abundantly – not only his, but that of the animals surrounding him.” (pp 58)

“Millions of happy families made the Earth a delightsome place. It is the ranks of historians today, in their efforts to please the powers that be, who say that Pristine Man was once stupid, that this Man killed animals, ate their meat in a frenzy and dressed himself in their skins. A monstrous lie is necessary to people trying to cover up their monstrous deeds.” (pp 62)

“….none of the people of pagan Rus’ ever indulged in burnt sacrifices. They did not eat meat at all. They could not even imagine such a thing. They were friends with the animals. Their daily diet was varied enough, but it was strictly vegetarian. Who can come up with a single recipe from ancient Russian cuisine that even mentioned meat? No one!

Even our epic folk tales tell about how the turnip was respected in ancient Rus, about how the people drank mead-beer. Let anyone today, even meat-eaters, try drinking this warm mead made from flower pollen and herbs – after drinking that, you will not want to eat anything else, certainly not meat. Those who force themselves to do so may find the meat will only make them vomit.

Besides, judge for yourself, Vladimir, why should anyone eat meat when all around them a whole lot of easily digestible, high-energy food was available?

During the winter bees fed on nothing but honey and pollen, and so can go the whole winter without excreting at all. The whole intake is assimilated by the bee’s body. And sbiten – a drink made with boiled honey – was always served to guests directly they entered the home. And who would start eating meat after tasting a sweet drink?

It was the nomads that introduced meat to the world. There was hardly any edible fruit to fend for in the prarie-lands and deserts they moved about in, and this is why they ended up killing cattle. And the nomads ate the meat of those animal herds that served as their beasts of burden – animals that carried their belongings, fed them with milk and gave their wool for clothing.

Thus the culture of our forebears was destroyed, and Rus’ was plunged into religion.” (pp 95)

“Back then they still knew that everything growing in the ground carries in itself a psychic energy. To be healthy, one must feed one’s self with lovingly grown produce. This was mentioned in several ancient books in the Alexandria Library, which was destroyed.” (pp 126)