Meat
The Yin and Yang of Consumption
There’s a lot of talk in spiritual communities about the idea of not eating meat. You can look at almost every religious tradition and even if they don’t talk about meat, they all have detailed rules about what kinds of foods to eat and not to eat.
In Entropism, we see all of these religions as simply different tools. Rather than saying, do eat meat or do not eat meat, or do eat fruit or do not eat fruit, we think about what are the implications of this action? What does it do for us spiritually and materially?
On the material plane (The Left), everything is divided. There’s you and there’s me. There’s companies and there’s competition and there’s violence and there’s me eating something else.
On the spiritual plane (The Right), everything is unified. God is everywhere. God is within you and God is within me. And we’re all part of one ecosystem working together building towards peace.
So whether to eat meat or not really depends on what you’re trying to do in your life right now. What is the path that God has set before you? Or what is the path that you are setting for yourself?
If you want to head in a more spiritual direction, if you want to meditate and have mystical visions, then don’t eat meat. Meat is going to ground you in your body and in the world. And it’s going to bring you further away from that peaceful God ideal.
If you want to head in a more material direction, if you’re starting a business or you have a really tough job that you need to work at, then you need meat. You need the energy and protein that meat provides. You need that raw animal, cutthroat power of the other animal. You can’t be thinking of your competition as your friends. You need to do your duty to your company.
Taking this a step further, rather than simply looking at meat versus not meat, we can look at how close the food you’re eating is to you on the tree of life. How similar is this food to what you are For example, we’re very closely related to pigs. You’ll see that most religions prohibit the eating of pigs. However, something like honey isn’t even eating a plant. It’s very far from what we are However, it doesn’t really provide much nutrition, and if you only ate honey, you wouldn’t really be able to survive in the material world. From this, we can put together a scale—from the heaviest, most grounding things that you can eat that keep you in the idea of division and duality, all the way to the most light and spiritual things that you can eat, which could help you commune with God.
With the help of an LLM I put together this simple scale to help us think about it.
The Scale (Heaviest to Lightest):
1. Mammals (Red meat, heavy fat) — Closest to human biology. Requires immense digestive fire (agni) to break down. Acts as the ultimate biological anchor, pulling consciousness out of the head and down into the dense, physical body.
2. Birds (Poultry) — Warm-blooded and physical, providing strong grounding energy, but slightly less heavy and dense than mammalian meat.
3. Fish & Reptiles (Seafood) — Cold-blooded animals. Still distinctly grounding and protein-heavy, but requires less metabolic force to process than warm-blooded creatures.
4. Invertebrates (Crustaceans, insects) — The most evolutionarily distant animal life. Dense and physically anchoring, but their energetic signature is highly foreign to human biology.
5. Fungi (Mushrooms, yeast) — The biological bridge. Closer to animals than plants. Grown in the dark and feeds on decay. It provides “earthy” compost intelligence that connects the surface mind to the deep roots.
6. Root Vegetables (Potatoes, beets, carrots) — Plant life, but deeply tamasic (heavy). Because they grow completely underground in the dark, they provide stabilizing, earth-bound energy.
7. Stems & Leaves (Leafy greens, celery) — Above-ground plant life. Solar-powered, light, and fast-digesting. Begins to thin the physical veil and promotes mental clarity.
8. Fruits, Seeds & Nuts (Apples, grains, beans) — The reproductive climax of a plant. Ephemeral, sweet, and highly solar. Leaves a very light, fast-moving energetic footprint.
9. Nectars & Resins (Honey, maple syrup) — Pre-digested by insects or drawn from tree sap. Almost entirely removed from dense cellular biology. Pure ethereal, floral, and solar energy.
10. Minerals & Water (Salt, pure water) — Inorganic matter. The fundamental, neutral building blocks of reality. Completely weightless and unanchored to the biological life cycle.
The Golden Rule:
To Drop the Anchor: If you feel anxious, dissociated, or need to tackle heavy, material-world problems, eat closer to Level 1.
To Thin the Veil: If you feel sluggish, overly dense, or want to access higher, expanded meditative states, eat closer to Level 10.