Gluten-free supremacy, organic karma and spiritual food-shaming
- or when everything is free but common sense
Somewhere in a reform café in Buda, a woman sits down with her girlfriend. She asks for an oat milk, decaf, fair trade, soy-free, vegan cappuccino. Then she takes a deep breath and declares:
"I no longer eat anything with a shadow."
And there is no turning back from here. It's no longer a meal - it's moral position. Nutrition has been transformed into a kind of social class consciousness, a secularised self-redemption. Because to be free not just a dietary choice - but a spiritual ascent. And if you still eat bread... well, you are the new culprit.
Gluten is the new devil - and bread is the new Satan
The demonisation of gluten is like a medieval witch-hunt, only this time it's not being thrown on a bonfire, but in Facebook comments:
"Are you still eating wheat? Didn't you read the article on hormone balance and the paleo microbiome?!"
Because eating healthily is no longer enough - be clean. From the inside. Ethically. Energetically. And if possible, Instagram-compatible.
The new Puritans atone with broccoli. Their penance is a chia pudding. Heaven: a 3D printed celery chip.
"You eat bacon? Are you a carnivore? Then you must be on a low vibrational level."
Yes, we've come to the point where sausage is not only bad for your cholesterol, it's bad for your karma. And if you accidentally slip in a bite of cheese scone, you're in for a judgement from the spiral:
"That's why you're not making progress in consciousness."
Food is the new creed. Yoghurt is the new infidel. And gluten-free bread - the redemption wafer. Some people say that Jesus ate quinoa at the Last Supper, but the Gospel is wrong.
And there is the bio karma. The idea that if you buy something organic, you are automatically a better person. Organic bananas are not just bananas - it's a moral statement.
And if it's labelled "all-free", you can eat it without guilt. It's already innocent even on an astrophysical level.
But just because something is organic doesn't make it wise, and just because someone eats turmeric bean soup doesn't make it a moral compass. Spirihippies often forget: "organic" is not a automatically means "true".
The internal void cannot be filled with fermented beetroot. Moral insecurity is not resolved by virgin coconut oil. Spiritual poverty is not made light by eating spirulina for breakfast.
Prāṇa-eaters and light dieters - the final phase of gastronomy
And, of course, when common sense has long since left the kitchen, then come the prāṇa-eaters. They no longer take the material - they they feed on light.
No joke. They believe that sunlight, cosmic love and proper breathing provide enough calories to get through the day.
These people have been are beyond the substance. They do not eat - vibrate. Their faeces are likely to be passing at the speed of light, or none at allbecause why the hell should it be.
They are the gastronomic messiahs - the ones who sit in the restaurant and order nothing. They just look at the sun and rise.
And what is left? A world where we live free of everything - only the not unrealistic. Where we try to relieve our bread guilt through meditation, and we won't eat an apple if it hasn't been harvested biodynamically. Where common sense has long since been banned from the pantry because it's not gluten-free, lactose-free - and above all not trendy.
Because today you are no longer what you eat - but what you don't eat. And who eats everything, the moral cockroach in the foodpanda universe. But if you don't eat anything, you are spiritually light, spiritual zero, and mentally sugar-free.
Welcome to the new gospel of contemporary eating.
It's not about whether you're well fed - it's about whether your self-image can be consumed with impunity.