Fundamental Principles of Nutrition

There exist several levels of understanding of the questions of nutrition. In the presentations of the fruits of my research I am using three levels.

BASIC LEVEL

The basic level is accessible to all open-minded people. Explanations can be checked by thorough observation of all available facts of life and by unprejudiced logical verification of explanations. We can call it the common sense level.
This level is for those people who wish to know some basic fundamental principles of nutrition and then – with the help of GENERAL NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES – immediately take action in improving their nutritional habits.
On this level there is only eight FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION. You can access them by clicking on the above symbol.

ADVANCED LEVEL

The next level is intended for those individuals who really wish to grasp the causes of the modern challenges we are confronted with in the domain of nutrition. This level demands that we take into account the existence of etheric, astral and spiritual forces and substances. We can call it the anthroposophic level for here we can clearly recognise the special attributes of the spiritual-scientific approach to the questions of nutrition.
This level contains fifty-two Fundamental Principles of Nutrition with the aim to open the way to such understanding of the most important relations between food and the human being which enables real freedom of choice. You can access them by clicking on the above symbol.

ESOTERIC LEVEL

Although there are no explanations of nutritional principles on this level, you nevertheless need to know that there exists another level of understanding that takes into account the existence of various kinds of spiritual beings and their impacts on people and their environment. This is the esoteric level or occult level of understanding that can be acquired only after prolonged and serious study of anthroposophical spiritual science.

One of the fundamental qualities of this level is that it acknowledges that “human beings are not just bodies to be provided with food. Human beings are also spirits, and they are in touch with other spirits. The task of those able to see the occult world is to make them aware of being comrades, members, of higher worlds. Imagine a human being, and a few beetles crawling around on this human being. The beetles can have no idea that this human being, this spiritual entity, is something different from themselves. They will describe the shape, e.g. of the nose. That is how human beings describe the heavens, Mars, the Sun, Mercury and the other stars. A modern astronomer is just like a beetle which has no idea that the ‘nose’ belongs to a soul when he describes Mercury, Mars, and the Sun. He describes them just the way he sees them, like a beetle ‘crawling around’ in the cosmos. We shall only know how to describe the reality of things when we realize that the stars have souls, that spirit is present everywhere, that the whole universe is ensouled. That and nothing else is the aim with the science of the spirit.” (Rudolf Steiner)