Sardines for breakfast

With a title like that, how can you ever expect to come across as spiritually evolved? You should choose something like "Morning Bliss", or "Enlighten Your Day".

(My non-confrontational self is at it again).

I realize that, but you see, I don't really care about how I come across and besides, Sardines for Breakfast is actually a great metaphor.

A buon intenditor, poche parole!
(Those who know, don't need a lot of words! - Italian proverb)

Sardines contain more calcium than milk, by weight, of the kind that is easy to absorb, unlike calcium from supplements. Sardines are also a good source of other essential nutrients, such as complete protein, vitamin A and D, zinc, manganese and iodine.

Best of all, they contain Omega 3 fatty acids, which are hard to get from our modern food, because they are delicate and oxidize quickly, but are absolutely essential if we are to stay strong and sane.

Why, our brain is practically MADE of the stuff!

When I used to counsel people, back in my "Nutritionist With A Twist" role, I used to recommend eating sardines for breakfast and this may be the main reason why I never made the cover of the New Yorker, come to think of it, even though everything I was saying, 10 years ahead of main stream science, turns out to be true.

People would look at me like I was a sardine myself. They'd twist their face, slightly, politely cancel their next appointment and then proceed to pay a fortune for what amounted to deodorized sardine extract some popular health guru had endorsed in an infomercial.

The same thing happens with spirituality, in my view.

We have everything we need to free our spirit, once and for all, and it doesn't cost us anything, if not our false persona. But when I suggest this possibility I start wondering if I really do look like a sardine, because I get the same kind of stare as I did back then.

Nothing wrong with spending money, wasting time and abdicating personal power in exchange for a cookie-cutter, diluted, deodorized version of someone else's spirituality. If that's what makes people happy, I'm all in favor of it, but that's not the case.

With all of the money and energy people spend on spiritual self-help these days, you would think there would be quite a few "graduates" of these disciplines, walking around in a cloud of joy and bestowing compassion left and right. Where are they?

Same thing with diets. Millions of $ later, and we are still f....

No, actually, we are f........

Oh, well. There goes my popularity, again.

It's OK. I'm not writing this stuff in order to be well-liked.

Then why are you writing?
(Asks my more sociable self?)

I'm not sure. Because I like to. Because I need to. Because maybe, just maybe, I'll find others who feel the same way, who are tired of hanging out in Plato's cave and still call it a castle.

But don't you think you should be a little more...amicable?

No, I don't. Friendly is nice, but doesn't provide the needed jolt.

But why is a jolt needed at all?

Don't you get it? Because it wakes us up!