"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." — Hippocrates 431 BC
I don't really have a doctor. It's not that I necessarily have anything against doctors, it's just that I haven't needed one in a long time, and would like to keep it that way if I can.
In this photo are dandelion flowers and leaves, kale, spinach, and violets.
Eating The Right Colors
The farmlands of the world are infamously depleted of minerals due to excessive and improper agricultural activity over the years. This deficiency of minerals in the soil then means that we must find ways to supplement our bodies with the minerals that we require for healthy living on the planet.
The most heavily farmed areas of the world may be lacking in minerals, but meanwhile the natural meadows and fields on the planet that have remained untilled or plowed will still contain rich minerals that have been buried there for eons.
Mining for minerals deep in the earth, a wild dock growing among evergreen bunching onions.
While the onions that I planted can take minerals from near the earth's surface, nestled in with them is this deep-feeding dock plant, which sends a root down into the planet's past, finding minerals that haven't seen daylight in a long time.
The leaves from these deep feeding dock plants often end up in my salads and smoothies, giving me needed minerals, plus all of the green that my heart could desire.
Mining For Colors
Through unimaginably complex combinations of minerals, the color of a plant can be seen as those building materials being geometrically arranged so that only that color is reflected. The individual minerals which create this colorful effect in plants and animals are drawn from the earth specifically for each living thing, as if everything that lives is built from tiny crystalline formations, bending light around.
To imagine how such crystal structures bends light around in the building of a human body, it may be helpful to imagine the human body as a single prism, separating white light into all of the colors of the spectrum.
I've never seen a chakra, but I've seen the way that they supposedly are laid out in the human body, with red at the root of the spine, green in the middle, of course, with the heart, and then purple or violet at the top, the crown.
How to Build a Human Body Out of Light and Color
To build a human body out of light then, we might eat reds and yellows like carrots or beets to assemble the lower sections of the body, then we would have the center-- the greens-- for the heart of the device, with green being a combination of blue and yellow. Then there's our crown, a royal purple, which might suggest our more ethereal connection between the red of our root in the earth and the blue of the sky above, making a violet color in the process.
Minerals On My Mind
Minerals are derived from geological formations, while a geological formation can be seen as a distinct geometric pattern, a shape that is easily recognized within a structure made of minerals, like us.
We are said to be made of minerals, or collections of these geometric shapes. Our bodies are composed of water and minerals.
Sometimes it is said that we are made of light, and since we never really see light itself, but only it's reflection, then perhaps our bodies are just reflections of what we actually are; light, playing with our prism of color within a labyrinth of crystals.
At any rate, the image of the salad above is mine, and the salad is mine to eat, with lots of green, some purple and yellow. If I am a prism for consciousness to beam through, then I plan on keeping the crystal as clean as I can, to see if I can brighten things up a bit more around this organic kaleidoscope that I'm operating here.
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