From: merz@sitter.ips.id.ethz.ch (Andreas Merz)
Subject: Re: energy sensitivity and caffeine
Organization: ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:39:41 GMT

In article <1683F95FD.CCENS03@USLVM.USL.EDU>, CCENS03@USLVM.USL.EDU writes:
|> In article <1992Aug7.091421.10767@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
|> awalker@cbnewse.cb.att.com (andrew.j.walker) writes:
|>  
|> >This post has to do with caffeine and/or other food additives which
|> >may affect the sensitivity of the human body.
|> > (...)
|> >...What I do have is an extreme
|> >sensitivity to the people and energy around me.  I can feel the energy
|> >throughout my body.  I am still learning how to "listen" to these
|> >feelings, but at least I have come to realize and know that they
|> >definitely are there.  Today's issue is this:  I do not normally consume
|> >caffeine (tea, coffee, soft drinks, etc.) due to my extreme sensitivity
|> >"addicted" to coca-cola/coffee and the buzz and good feeling I got from
|> >it. (.......)
|> >So I got myself "off" of caffeine and have substantially reduced
|> >the frequency (to almost zero) of the headaches and also have noticed
|> >the increased sensitivity to the people and earth energy around
|> >me.  Now, on the rare instances when I do consume caffeine, I
|> >experience an extreme sensitivity -- a euphoric high for
|> >quite a few hours afterwards (like
|> >right now for instance, this morning I downed quite a bit of strong
|> >English tea and am feeling the effects), but I feel I lose quite
|> >a bit of sensitivity to the energy around me, i.e. my body becomes so
|> >affected by the caffeine buzz that it looses touch with the
|> >energy and unexplainable feelings I receive from around me.
|> >
|> >I was simply wondering whether anyone out there can relate, has
|> >had any similar experiences, or perhaps someone knows of some
|> >magazine articles or books which address this or similar issues
|> >regarding sensitivity to energy through the body.
|> >Any responses would be welcome (either on t.r.na or via email).
|> >
|> >Andy Walker
|> >Madrid, Spain
|> >
|> >p.s. I live in a classic, coffee-consuming, carnivorous, close-knit
|> >culture where "current" convictions and "newage" concepts have not yet
|> >communally coalesced.  Thus, locally, I haven't come across any text nor
|> >people who can relate to this issue or to other newage concepts.
|> >Still looking.
|>  
|> I also tend to "feel" things, and also have a caffeine sensitivity which I was
|> not aware of until I virtually stopped drinking it.  My intake of caffeine was
|> never extreme, but now that I rarely have any, when I do I have strong
|> reactions too, such as decreased sensitivity, slight shakes, and occasionally
|> nausea (if I take a Vivarin).  It seems to me to short-circuit my awareness in
|> a way I find unpleasant, although it does keep me awake.  (Now I try to use
|> Guarana or other natural sources of energy if I need to stay awake.)  I do
|> drink iced tea fairly often, but find that the natural caffeine in the tea does
|> not have as extreme an effect as that in Coke, for example.  However, given a
|> choice, I prefer decaf tea.
|>  
|> I also get a major (unpleasant) buzz from sugar.  I'm not totally sure of the
|> difference, but they both make me feel nauseous and jittery and de-sensitized.
|>  
|>                                              Ellen

I had and have the same Experiences. My conclusion is that i stay away from 
everything that influences my nervous system, my feeling, thinking and my
conciousness in a bad way. For me this are drugs like Alcohol, Nikotin, etc. ,
Coffein, Teein and things like that.
I use very few sugar and salt and where it is needed i replace it with unrefined
sugar and sea-salt.

This influences from food are one of the reasons that i am a vegetarian, because
meat has bad influences too. In the moment i reduce all Milk products step by
step to zero. 
For me, it seems that the best in a spiritual life is fully vegetarian food.
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