- The main advice is: follow your sensitivity rather than any
dogma (dogma is certainly not what is lacking in the field of
nutrition!) If you listen to your body and if you watch the results
of different foods on your state of consciousness, you will learn
to discern what should be favoured or avoided. As you proceed on
the path of opening, your taste will change by itself. Among other
things it is very likely that you will naturally decrease your
consumption of meat.
17.4 The right physical exercise
Techniques such as Hatha-yoga, for instance, go very well with an
inner path. So do certain forms of martial arts, such as Aikido.
People who have gained some mastery in a martial art usually do
not have much difficulty protecting themselves when they
undergo psychic training.
Gardening or a bit of hard work on the land are wonderful
activities for psychics: the more your feet are grounded in the
earth, the more safely your head can wander in the stars.
17.5 Be happy!
Sadness and depression tend to make you empty and weak. A joyful
mood is already a form of protection in itself. Cultivate laughter
and if you are a therapist, make your patients laugh. If your
spiritual path does not lead to joy, then change your spiritual path.
17.6 Alcohol and spiritual work – a dangerous mixture
I would never advise anybody to smoke, but it is a fact that one
can go quite a long way spiritually and still be addicted to
cigarettes. Tobacco generates negative vibrations, but its action is
not lethal to spiritual life.
Alcohol, on the other hand, can very quickly lead to disaster if one
is learning to explore non-physical worlds. Alcohol automatically
connects you with areas of the lower astral that are full of noxious
entities. Therefore alcohol should be avoided at any cost, as soon as
one starts to work on the third eye.
Tranquillisers, neuroleptics and other psychiatric drugs disconnect
you from higher worlds and negate the action of the work of
opening.
Hard drugs, such as heroin, are totally incompatible with inner
work, their effect being similar to alcohol but much worse.
Trying to open perception while living in the same house as a