According to Dr. Mercola, he and his team have achieved phenomenal results by treating patients using Nutritional Typing. In Nutritional Typing, there are three types of people: Protein Types, Carbohydrate Types and Mixed Types. Protein Types need more protein and a greater percentage of healthy fats in their diet. Carbohydrate Types need more carbohydrates in their diet and do not metabolize fat so well, although they still need a certain amount of fat in the diet. Mixed Types are a combination of the two, the best of both worlds in a way, but with some of the limitations of both so this nutritional type is also the most challenging to manage.
Your Nutritional Type will determine what you need to eat and in what order. There is a free online test to determine your Nutritional Type and you can try it out by following this link. I myself have been following the general recommendations for my Nutritional Type and have verified some of the benefits mentioned. Of course, I haven't been able to follow the whole nutrition plan 100% because of limitations of what type of food is practical or available locally. Take note that aside from discovering your Nutritional Type, you should still avoid other nutritional disasters such as foods rich in refined sugars, artificial preservatives and trans fats.
Now here comes the ticker. Most spiritual systems advocate vegetarianism to varying degrees of strictness. A Carbohydrate Type would have no problem with being a full vegan as his/her body is built for it. But what happens if the spiritual aspirant finds out he/she is a Protein Type? What does one do?
The reason I'm re-hashing this topic is that earlier in the week, one of my friends referred me to one of the sections in Alice Bailey's Esoteric Psychology I that sheds more light into the role vegetarianism plays and under what conditions it becomes necessary. According to the Master D.K. through Alice Bailey:
It is known esoterically that the vegetable kingdom is the transmitter and the transformer of the vital pranic fluid to the other forms of life on our planet. That is its divine and unique function. This pranic fluid, in its form of the astral light, is the reflector of the divine akasha. The second plane therefore reflects itself in the astral plane. Those who seek to read the akashic records, or who endeavor to work upon the astral plane with impunity, and there to study the reflection of events in the astral light correctly, have perforce and without exception to be strict vegetarians. It is this ancient Atlantean lore which lies behind the vegetarian's insistence upon the necessity for a vegetarian diet, and which gives force and truth to this injunction. It is the failure to conform to this wise rule which has brought about the misinterpretations of the astral and akashic records by many of the psychics of the present time, and has given rise to the wild and incorrect reading of past lives. Only those who have been for ten years strict vegetarians can work thus in what might be called the "record aspect of the astral light." (emphasis mine)
From the above passage, it seems that esoterically speaking there is a very narrow (albeit important) application for vegetarianism. The corollary then is that if one had no intention to become a seer or work with the akashic records directly, then one need not be vegetarian. This is stated in a later passage from the same quote:
But unless the goal of a vegetarian diet is this field of service, the arguments for its following and for that form of diet are usually futile and of no real moment. From the standpoint of the eternal verities, what a man eats or wears are seen in a connotation very different to that of the one-pointed fanatic.
It's interesting because without the above qualifying statements in Esoteric Psychology I, the following passage from Alice Bailey's Esoteric Healing may make little sense:
No set diet could be entirely correct for a group of people on different rays, of different temperaments and equipment, and at various ages. Individuals are every one of them unlike on some points; they require to find out what it is that they, as individuals, need, in what manner their bodily requirements can best be met, and what type of substances can enable them best to serve. Each person must find this out for himself. There is no group diet. No enforced elimination of meat is required, or strict vegetarian diet compulsory.
What Alice Bailey is saying in the above passage essentially supports the notion of Nutritional Typing, and if one is a Protein Type one need not look less at oneself for retaining a meat-based diet unless one intends to work directly with the akashic records. Apparently, the paradox of vegetarianism vis-a-vis spiritual practice has been reconciled. Of course the question is, for a Protein Type would the resulting poor health from following a strictly vegetarian diet be worth the ability to work with the akashic records? It certainly depends on what type of esoteric service or soul mission one is intended to pursue in this incarnation.
One may argue that one needs a healthy body in order to serve properly, and this is for the most part correct. But let me inject a comment made by T. Lobsang Rampa in his books. According to Lobsang Rampa, when the physical body is sick or frail, it is easier to work on the astral and develop one's psychic talents. There seems to be some support for this because we keep hearing accounts of people who had very high fevers, were seriously ill or were on the brink of death who report seeing visions, seeing departed loved ones or having out of body experiences. Perhaps when the physical body is sick, it is closer to death to a certain degree, and so the physical-astral matrix (to use a term from Franz Bardon's teachings) loosens, allowing the astral and mental body to work more freely with less magnetic restriction from the physical shell.
The point of all this is that there are many avenues of service, and there are many ways by which said service may be developed or followed. We all know that each person is unique and the spiritual path does not offer an exception to this rule. But as we strive to live properly, know our soul mission or find the best path to follow in our spiritual quest, the more it becomes important to know thyself.
Let me clarify that by no means is all this the last word on this topic. But it should give you a reference point to build on. The freedom to choose entails the responsibility to know. Know what you are choosing and, more importantly, why you are choosing it. Otherwise, much of our spiritual practice will be for naught since we would end up following dogma and tradition instead of using our God-given mental faculties to make fully informed decisions, decisions that are backed up with an acceptance of the consequences (or benefits) that those decisions may entail.
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