Are Herbs and Spices good to eat?

Food for Thought

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Any time I write about food or substances like coffee or the fake supplements, I am not suggesting what people should eat. I realize that everyone has very strong belief in these things, and that a lot of time and energy has gone into strong beliefs about their consumption.

To each his/her own, as they say. My personal interest in these substances has certainly changed over time and now I am more interested in how this all relates to the construction of this artificial reality we find ourselves in.

Ever since I stopped consuming these flavour enhancers about a half year ago, my sense of smell has improved dramatically, now when I get near those who eat spices, I can smell the pungent odours emanating from them. Maybe that contributes to why animals try to keep their distance from us. When I enter the fresh food section in the market I can also notice the fragrant fruits, especially those that are ripe.

When I broke my long water fast nearly 6 months ago, I started eating all foods in batches of the same food. A plate of papaya or 3 soft boiled eggs, both eaten at separate times. I also stopped eating cooked dishes then, where many foods are combined to create a particular flavour. I still eat like this today and appreciate the flavours and smells of each individual food.

I watched an interesting video some time ago about how plants had defence systems to protect themselves from predatory animals. We can see this ourselves with our own eyes. Some plants have thorns, others have tough leathery skin and others have pungent odours that they use as warning signs to relay that they contain poisons. I have heard of gardeners who plant even milder smelling plants like basil or marigolds near their tomatoes to keep the bugs away.

I haven’t experimented much with this because our soil and plants are so healthy that we don’t have problems with bugs. There are lots of birds around our property which eat bugs, and other predatory bugs that eat the tiny aphids are also plentyful. A balance of Nature. A few years ago we did plant marigold flowers among our crop and it infuriated the Magpie birds. They flocked in a group near our garden and would egg on one of their gang to dive down quickly and tear apart one of the marigolds to shreds, before it was overcome by the odour that it despised. All the other birds would be squawking away at this time. Maybe it was like a rite-of-passage for them, like showing their toughness by being able to deal with the smell that they hated.

As far as is known, no animals except mankind has learned to make a food by mixing multiple ingredients together. And no animal living in Nature eats cooked food. When we feed our pets cooked food or flavour enhanced food they get the same ailments that we get, like arthritis and cancer. So I dug deep into the history of how we got used to eating herbs and spices.

I first noticed how much of the information was agenda driven. Science oriented sources liked to encourage use of spices because of their medicinal properties, such as turmeric is good for stopping inflammation. I had heard throughout my life that spices were sought after for their ability to preserve food, to prevent it from rotting. I know now that most of our ‘history’ is completely made up. How do you explain the strange story of Aajonus Vonderplanitz. I know the name sounds like it came from a children’s fairy tale but I have run across similar information before and this guy is not unique. A 4:30 minute long video below. You may need to turn up the volume a bit. It is only a low resolution reproduction but maybe some wouldn’t want to see the detail.

from Ripley's Believe It Or Not (2002)

I have heard that eating like this was much more common than is believed today. A hunter would trap some furry or feathery animal, and hang it up in his shed by its neck. When the carcass would separate from its head and fall down due to rotting, it was declared fit to eat. You see, in those days people weren’t indoctrinated with sterility and bacterial contamination and such. I see all around me that people who are obsessed with sterility are the sickest among us. Another part of feeling separate from Nature.

In our garden, as soon as we change the water in our bird bath out back, birds will poop in it, the ones that dig with their beaks in the ground will wash their heads and feathers, and soon the water would be considered filthy by our standards. But the birds, squirrels, house cats and even bumble bees continue to drink from it during the rest of the day. It even seems they prefer it to the chlorinated shit that comes out of our faucets called Potable water.

Then we have the propaganda in our movies where the unknowing settler with his covered wagon drank from the river in the wilderness and got ‘beaver fever’ or even died. The poor souls didn’t have our ‘clean’ approved city water.

don’t drink the water

Check out this medical propaganda

So now many of us are scared of nature around us and it takes a leap of faith for many to break our habits.

You can even use it as a skin conditioner

Herbs have also been used for millennia by the Pharmakeia practitioners, the black magic and witchcraft spell-casters who attracted the evil forces of the modern-day medical system. There are also no animals in the wild who require herbs to maintain their health.

drink at your own risk, as the label says

Now that I’m living more in Nature I’m seeing the use of herbs and spices in a completely different way. Whereas previously I believed the use of herbs and spices to be flavour enhancers, I now see them as being used to make unpalatable foods palatable again. The word palatable can have several meanings, even in the dictionary. It can mean ‘pleasant to taste’ or it can mean ‘easier to tolerate’ as in increased taxation being more palatable.

I take the second meaning as being the more correct one, so we can tolerate certain foods by ‘spicing them up’. Try eating a raw potato or eating a handful of raw flour or oats (our staples). First you have to cook them, which destroys any life that exists in these foods. They become sterile. Sterile means free from bacteria or other living microorganisms; totally clean. That’s why they heat up medical tools. It’s also part of a chemical process that turns food into ‘substances’. Then the flavour enhancers are added. I tried eating a boiled potato still in its skin, it tasted boring and lifeless. So we try to put some life back into the food that has been killed, by infusing it with spices or salt.

Salt in this case, other than it acting like a preservative to keep dead food from spoiling and returning back to nature, makes the bland and boring potato taste interesting again. Salt also acts a little like a drug, like when the homesteader calms the goat with a handful of salt, while he is stabbing it in the heart, in order to butcher it. I knew people who did this.

Therefore I can see that we as a society are tricked into eating food that is inexpensive (our staples), and would be considered inedible unless it was ‘spiced up’ or salted. This started thousands of years ago, likely pushed on the slaves by the ruling elites. The Phoenicians used slaves on their ships and it was likely known already at that time, that the slave sailors who managed to live long enough, would get sick in the longterm from eating the cheap inedible food.

This later was used by the chemical industry to push the consumption of ‘vitamins’ and ‘minerals’ on us. What better way to treat the slaves than to get them to eat chemicals and rocks and even get them to pay large sums of money for them.

Phoenicians cursed with warfare

Even in the bible in Genesis mankind was cursed with eating bread and herbs.

Genesis 3:17 - 3:19

Again, I’m not telling you what you should eat, only to give some thought to what may be behind some lifelong eating habits that have been around for many generations. To me it seems that the further we remove ourselves from the wisdom of Nature, which could also be called the Garden of Eden by some, the worse off we seem to be. We are faced with shorter more miserable lives, often without purpose or meaning, full of fear and illness.

the new Adam and God, Sistine chapel

I believe some event happened far in our history which caused us to separate from the natural world and try to shape it and manipulate it, and bend nature to our will in order to improve what is already perfect.

So today many of us live in a plastic world of man-made materials where our weather is geo-engineered and many of our bodies have man-made parts and our skin is covered with paint. We think it’s normal to have plastic lenses in front of our eyes and eat SLOP that is disguised with herbs and spices. We are now the new farm animals.

it’s lacking in salt

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