Holy Eating

The Ministry of Life holds at its heart the practice of Holy Eating, a cornerstone of our spiritual philosophy and daily living. We acknowledge and embrace our duty to be faithful stewards of the earth and all its bounties, a role we consider sacred, entrusted to us by Divine Right. Our commitment to Holy Eating is more than a religious observance; it is our route to healing both ourselves and the world, a path towards rectifying the original sin.

Our world is very sick. One could point a finger in any direction to find the culprit and not be entirely wrong, but through our journey into parenthood and self-sufficient eating we have discovered firsthand the enormous influence that food has on our mental and physical wellbeing. We are only just now being allowed to discover the pivotal role that the gut microbiome plays on our health. Research into any scientific topic, in the past, has been confined by the system's ability to exploit it for financial gain, and there has never been much money in teaching people how live as God intended and eat as He created. Now, as we are waking up to the truth that we have been lied to for a very long time, the puppets in power are seeking to destroy our ability to grow our way to better health through a corrupt ideology that seeks to eliminate the very thing that plants need to survive-CO2. This ideology is, quite literally, an act of self-immolation and it needs to stop now. The antidote is a return to Holy Eating.

All neuroses, personality imbalances, and existential dissatisfactions have the root in this Sin of unholy eating. Its impurity lives inside each of us as a fact of the human condition – being human. Every person has an eating disorder, for eating is a much broader category activity than simply taking food into one's mouth and body. Eating, as an archetype, is the experience of why and the taking inside oneself of something from outside to fill that lack. Something that was not you, becomes a piece of you, literally, through eating, material acquisition, sexuality, honor seeking, addiction to power, praise, drugs, or even attention are all forms of eating. They start with an experience of life, and in an effort by us that adapts to our experience, one pulls something from the outside into the interior. (Eating is Tikun) For decades now, what we have been pulling into our interior has been absolute trash, devoid of nutrients and intention, and the result has had a devastating impact on our own health and that of our offspring. The degradation that we see in our culture, too, is an effect of the continuous war that corporations have been waging on our minds, bodies and souls, through the promotion and selling of foods that poison us.

Just as degraded soil inhibits the growth of a plant, therefore corrupting its seeds, so too have decades of profane eating corrupted us and our seeds, our children. A newborn inherits the unhealthy gut flora of the mother when leaving the womb and this non-genetic transfer of sickness is the root of most ailments that young children face today. The intrinsic link between the food we eat, our gut and our health has been known for millennia, but we moderns have forgotten this fundamental truth. It is our hypothesis, and will be our mission, to prove to the multitudes the transformative health potential that lies within fermented foods for improving the health of children who suffer from a multitude of conditions such as autism, depression, ADD/ADHD, eczema, dyspraxia and dyslexia.

Holy Eating is an act that transcends physical sustenance. It is a profound spiritual journey that involves conscious and intentional production and consumption, acknowledging and celebrating the Divine sparks present in our food and the way we grow it.

At the Ministry of Life, we strongly believe that the only pathway towards this rectification is through the stewardship of our own food systems, to ensure that the circle of life is complete before we ingest sustenance. This includes the nurturing and preservation of heirloom seeds across generations, protecting the earth's biodiversity, and valuing the crucial role of agriculture in physical and spiritual development. In doing so, we aspire to achieve self-sustainability and intellectual sovereignty, ensuring our food remains unpolluted by the influences of a world detached from spiritual integrity.

Inextricably linked to Holy Eating is the preservation of our children, the seeds of humanity's future. At Eber we will build natural accommodations for pregnant woman that wish to come and explore our sanctuary to rectify their gut imbalance and have a natural birth, as well as organize schooling and extracurricular activities that introduce children to our vision of the future and the self-reliance that it entails. Our commitment to Holy Eating not only provides them with physical nourishment but also serves as a foundational principle upon which we nurture their spiritual growth. By instilling in them the values of conscious consumption and land stewardship, we empower them to carry forward our mission of healing and reconnection with the Divine.

Those of us of the older generations have already endured decades of wrong thinking and wrong eating that have perhaps irreparably damaged our bodies and minds. For us, there is hope in Teshuva and a return to God through serving others, but for our children, there is still the possibility to live a Post-fear life free from sickness and disease, if we repair our ways.

The practice of Holy Eating is thus a call to return to our roots, to the sacred bond that ties us to the earth and the Divine. Through this act, we begin a process of spiritual ascent, reversing the descent caused by the original sin. In essence, every meal becomes a moment of prayer, an opportunity for nourishment, celebration, and contemplation that will lift us all through the darkest days of humanity's sojourn on Earth and into the new dawn of the world to come.