Human Creation and Legacy of Purity – Part III

Purity of emotions and mind

 

Todor A. Dimitrov

 

Abstract

Here are exposed two officially classified kinds of intelligence – intelligence of emotions and intelligence of mind. Also, they are substances of our purity. They are subjects of analysis and treatment of two separated sciences - the first is called psychology and the second is called psychiatry which is formed during XIX and XX centuries from the first one. In comparison with the psychiatry, the psychology is more abstract science but still is called science because of its proven results on patients with mostly boundary disorders. Today these two sciences are complementary to each other which leads to fantastic results in the name of normality in this so confused, upset and aggressive human world. The term “normality” does not mean grey monotony or lack of diversity, as those who are more emotional, impulsive and expansive like to say for justification for their behavior. The term “normality” includes also normal presence of all kinds of emotions. The essence of the emotional intelligence is the ability of the Emotional Lobes (one for each hemisphere) of the brain to form the most appropriate emotion. The essence of the intelligence of mind is the ability of mind to form the most appropriate reaction after precise filtration of all emotions that come out. This is also ability to understand these emotions, their complexity, and the complexity of the current situation. The proper filtration depends on this kind of understanding.

In this part the reference for used literature will not be used, as it was in the first two parts. I will not explain here the birth and history of science and I will not mention names of their pioneers with their achievements because this is not an educational course. The purpose of this work is to explain what the purity is, to expose its components and to explain how and mainly why we should achieve it with the help of the scientific proven truth and the help of important ancient sources. In addition, I want to remind you that in ancient times the standards for verbal and emotional purity have been higher than now.

 

Summary

Emotions

Sensations are used to be observed in every living matter that is equipped with nervous system. The feelings, i.e., emotions, are more complicated but could be connected also to current sensations, if they are present. Human beings receive sensations from their 5 perceptions 24 hours a day, but don’t have emotions all the time.

When do we have emotions? There are two ways in which your brain generates emotions. The first is when you are involved in some situation – pleasant or extreme, where you play main or secondary role and do wrong or right things, or you are a victim, i.e., you receive emotions because some reason. Situations may appear when people like or dislike each other. This is the normal way to receive some emotion. The second way is when your mind plays imaginary games of prediction, suggestion, or searches explanation with lack of knowledge and understanding, or just fantasizing. Many individuals this way could lose connection to the true reality because the brain could accept a part of this theatre as reality, smuggling it through the consciousness invisibly and memorizing it. This is a way in which the psychological pathology comes – the suggestion. It could come from the self or from somebody else.

Whatever is the way of emotional initiation, emotions have the ability to grow dramatically. In some persons this process is constitutional, in others this process starts after injury or extremely bad experience, especially if it happened constantly. This mechanism does not stop but works like a generator of undamping (non-fading) oscillations. If such person cannot find a way to control, throw away and realize this energy for good, his psychic and brain could be damaged seriously. 

What is the way to avoid such damages? At first when we develop emotional intelligence and after that comes the mind intelligence. It begins in our childhood because if not, it will be difficult to develop it. We must start to teach ourselves to choose the appropriate emotion for every situation after understanding every level of the situation. Without understanding we will feel the wrong emotion. Usually, our parents and teachers should teach us this way in our early childhood, otherwise later we will need a psychologist. We should try to understand every kind of emotions and to connect it to the relevant reason.

How to start? First, we need a “calm heart” and silence to hear ourselves. Then we should start to recognize our thoughts, our feelings, our ego. We should classify our feelings, define those feelings that make us to suffer, and designate them for transformation or annihilation. For sure, we should separate ourselves from the reason for these negative emotions. We need time to realize how little and helpless we are in this huge Universe, and how short we live. We have very short time to enjoy the beauty of the art of all the forms of matter created with so much effort for so long, to enjoy our lives and the life of every living being, to enjoy the right of choice and the power to create for we have been created by a powerful Creator by His own image. How wonderful gift is the life when we can realize that if we could stop to hurt each other, we will begin to love, enjoy and develop our lives! There are many levels of love but the first and most important is the love that makes you to enjoy and appreciate the existence, existence of everything that supports your life. We must appreciate every act of goodness from people, every good behavior, every right attitude. Along with this, we will not forget the pain and suffering – there are many disasters, diseases and disorders that could hurt us.

Then we need to call the humbleness – acceptance of our beautiful world, nature, our wonderful planet, the sun that hugs us in warm and bright hug, which supports all the life on this planet, acceptance of other people’s life. They also are human beings like you. Yes, among them are walking hard criminals and terrible people, but not all the people are monsters. Yes, may be some of them are primitive for their lack of understanding, but not monsters. If you are a believer, it would be so easy to achieve the condition of calm heart and humble mind because the prayers and blessings really can give you peace and acceptance. The process of reading of defined parts of text from the Bible also gives you the same. There are so many commandments given to teach you how to find peace. The more you read them, the more you realize that they change you for good.

Through whole the text in Torah we can see that all Israeli men are treated as brothers. In the next part IV I will represent to you verses from the text that teach the people of right attitude and behavior toward their brothers.

You can clean up your soul from negative emotions when you constantly try to do the right thing. This way you will be satisfied by yourself which will automatically generate positive effect on your mind and emotions. To look for the right thing is constitutional for every normal human being since its creation. When you let be involved in something wrong that people do, you lose your purity. Even if you follow the crowd consciously in their crime, you will know deep in yourself that you are wrong. You cannot get away from this supreme judgement. Every fault expels the purity and writes its record in your subconscious structure. Finally, when you see yourself in the mirror, you will be disgusted by yourself. That is why we should look critically at ourselves. Otherwise, the world will be fulfilled by sin and crime, and will become the ugliest and most disgusting place in the Universe. Be sure, this has not been God’s plan. One of indications of humanity is self-control. This is a subject of our mind intelligence.

There are paragraphs in the Bible that take care for your purity along with the Ten Commandments that you should know and keep in your mind:

„Honor you father and your mother for being long your days on earth” [Shemot/Exodus 20:11];

“Do not kill; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness against your fellowman (neighbor)” [Shemot/Exodus 20:12];

“Do not desire the house of your fellowman (neighbor)… and anything that belongs to your fellowman (neighbor)” [Shemot/Exodus 20:13];

“Do not spread a false rumor. Put not your hand together with the sinner for not being a witness of a violence.

Do not follow the multitude in the evil and not respond to a dispute for being able to follow the multitude and deviate the judgement” [Shemot/Exodus 23:1,2];

“Keep yourself away from a false word. Innocent and righteous man you should not kill for I will not justify the sinner” [Shemot/Exodus 23:7].

As you see, Torah guides you against your wrong or terrible wishes. In eastern cultures (as it is in the Buddhism) the wishes are appointed to be our biggest enemies because we always are tended to serve them. When you become a ruler of your ego and your wishes, you will be emotionally and mentally free. This is also a job of our mind intelligence.

The word in Hebrew for a fellowman has a few meanings: a neighbor, friend, sibling, and everyone from our surrounding environment like our colleagues as well.

 

Mind

From the exposition above we understand what the main function of mind intelligence is – self-control. Self-control is used to be learned in our childhood. Self-control gives us power to filtrate our emotions and wishes. Why? Because some of them are ridiculous, some of them are irrelevant, some of them are not realizable. Many of people’s wishes and emotions are wrong and could hurt somebody else who could be innocent (in most cases we don’t know it), or could hurt more people, or could damage the environment. If we are outraged by some terrible criminal or pervert sinner and his acts frustrate us, bring us to anger, and we start to whish immediate punishment for him, then our mind intelligence immediately should remind us that there is a court with judges and public prosecutor who should judge and punish him for his wrong deeds. Judgement and sentencing are their functions, not ours, for they have been educated and authorized for this. We, the society, are responsible to bring him to the court. We must judge the sinner for ourselves and not follow him in his crime, keeping our purity and innocence. If the judge is blind from corruption, there is another way for his punishment – the God’s hand. This kind of situations is described many times in the Bible but it is not the place to discuss it. In this aspect, the well-known sentence preached in some religious organizations: “Do not judge for not being judged”, is absolutely wrong (no matter how they explain it) because it stands against the basic order of our world. This sentence could throw whole the world in a total mess, in a huge mud of crime and sin, and it does not bring any purity. It can turn our world into hell. Actually, we are very close to this moment…

This is schematically how the self-control works. On a certain level of the human evolution appears a new section in the Psychic mechanism that estimates the processes in and between the Superego, Ego and the subconsciousness called Id. This section, we called Censorship, develops many defensive mechanisms who protect the Ego from negative wishes and emotions by a setup of compromises between those 3 components. The Censorship usually produces automatic response against the pressure from Id even without confirmation from Ego. The Censorship is a function of the mind intelligence that estimates the consequences of realization of these wishes and emotions that are coming also from the Id. Its signal system communicates with the Ego and inform it for reaching the limit of tolerability to these processes, after which could come a psychological collapse and negative change of the personality. If the person has developed an instinct of self-preservation, its Ego declares submission, the Censorship produces the relevant defensive mechanism and turns it on. This way you are secured. You just need to take care for the volume of energy that comes from those unrealized needs, wishes and emotions. There are many ways to do this for good.

How could we develop our mind intelligence? With thinking. Thinking to find every possible way to escape difficult situations and the dependency on their derivative bad, or unrealizable, or ridiculous emotions. If the escape is not possible, we must think to find the most appropriate reaction. We need to find the reasons for those emotions, to estimate whether these reasons are real and significant or not, and to find a way for further emotional transformation. It could take some more time for whole this process. This is everyone’s personal drama and obligation, our responsibility to ourselves and to the society.

We can develop our mind intelligence not only through our experience but also through other people’s experiences. It appears that we should develop the ability of communication for we are social beings.

Another way for mind development is reading. There are many books that we can study from, as well as from Tanakh. Along with Torah, there are many other books in the Bible fulfilled with so many stories about so many people with their own drama. That is why the Bible is called also a “best seller”. After the Bible we could take books or articles written by professionals in the subject of psychology and medicine. This way we can understand how emotions work on microbiologic and organic level in our body.

Another way for mind development are the intellectual games, prepared list of daily tasks and tasks at your workplace. For intellectual games we consider games that train your logical, combinative, associative thinking, your math abilities, your linguistic abilities, and your memory. It will be good if you start to study another language. Scientists discovered that foreign languages unlock more mind resources. Languages also train your memory.

 

Conclusion

Everything that brings to us clearance for the mind and comfort for the soul together, is connected to the purity.

It is important to clear and heal our emotions for bringing clearance to our mind and this process is supported by our mind. The food and other substances that we take are also important because their ingredients can help for the initiation of hormones’ production that have direct and indirect influence on our brain, pituitary gland, and hypothalamus: adrenaline, nor-adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone, estrogen, cortisol, GABA etc. Our emotions are able to activate or disactivate these hormones’ receptors in our body which reflects on the work of our brain and vegetative nervous system. In consequence, this reflects on the work of the organs in our body. There are many more substances in our bodies that depend on our mind and emotions, on how we act to support them.

As you see, the Human being is very complexed and complicated. It takes so huge and great work to achieve such excellence. Because of this, every one of us must, have to, is obliged to respect and love him/herself, to respect and love every other human being, and to respect its right to exist.

In this part I think is not necessary to cite any specific ancient source of script except the Bible or any scientific article because everything mentioned here is already well-known, well understood, and is much more than any ancient script can contribute. I just compress it.

 

Human Creation and Legacy of Purity – Part II

 Todor A. Dimitrov

 

Abstract

In Part I we understood that the modern human being with all his races appeared nearly 40000 years ago after multiple interbreeding between 3 human subspecies: Homo Sapiens, Homo Neanderthalensis, and Denisovans, last one of which does not have a scientific classification name yet. The main point, for which scientists classify all these three species as humans, is that they interbreed successfully, and their offspring has survived in the recent human races. It means their chromosomes are compatible which automatically leads to conclusion that they belong to one species.

Further will be cited laws from Babylon empire, written by the famous king of Babylon Hammurabi (1792 – 1750 BCE), from Hittite empire, and from the Hebrew Bible called Tanakh, exposed in the Five books of Moses called Torah. Sources about the ancient purity is very hard to be discovered because obviously ancient cultures have not considered discussions on purity to be important or appropriate to be written and that is why purity has been an object of the oral law, as it has been in the Hebrew tradition. Most of rules for purity in the Hebrew tradition have been written in the first compilation of oral law called Mishna by Rabbi Yehudah haNasi in 200 CE, followed by the Babylonian Talmud that is finished in the 5-th century. From all sources of laws and rules in the history, the Hebrew script is the richest source. Along with that, here will be reviewed descriptions for purity in the modern living standards implemented by the real modern science and medicine. This review is structured according to 5 kinds of purity: purity of body; purity of food; purity of emotions and mind (psychological); purity of relations in the family and community; spiritual purity. We must accept that the purity of body is deeply connected to the purity of food. That is why in Part II are exposed purity of body and purity of food.

 

Review

In the second part of our research, we will become familiar with the purity of body and food, walking the way of human history from thousands of years ago.

The parts and zones of our body, that can develop bacteriosis and we should always keep cleaned, are: hands, lips and mouth, face, nostrils, scalp and its hair, armpits, genitals and feet.

 

Human Body

With our hands we work with tools, we touch all kinds of objects, sometimes chemicals and sometimes the soil, and we bring food to our mouth.

Can we touch food before we wash our hands? Never. The food must be free of any dangerous microbes and chemicals. By default, our hands are always dirty unless we wash them as long, as we wash our teeth – more than 1 to 3 minutes. We cannot touch our lips, our face or any part of our head and body, unless we wash our hands. The microbes found on our hands are divided in two groups – resident and transient microbiota. Resident microbiota are microorganisms that reside under the superficial surface of the skin, and also can be found on the surface of the skin [1]. Transient microbiota are microorganisms that colonize the superficial layers of skin and could be removed by routine hygiene [1]. Our hands are a critical vector for transmitting microorganisms between people, pets, inanimate objects, and our environments [2]. The last study from year 2015 has the precise data about this microbiome, classified by order and family [2, table 2]. The skin on our hands is colonized by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and mites [3]. There are symbiotic microorganisms that protect us from more pathogenic microbiota, educating the T-cells in our skin to produce antibodies against similarly marked pathogenic cousins.

The resident microbiota is represented by Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus hominis, Propionibacteria, Corynebacteria [1], the fungi from the species of Pityrosporum spp. (Malassezia) [1][2] and Aspergillus spp. [2].

Bacteria on hands has been represented from four phyla across all studies: Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes [2]. According to Table 2 from the second cited research here, the most common bacteria found on human hands, cited from eleven studies, are bacteria from the next families: Actinomycetaceae, Coryne-bacteriaceae, Micrococcaceae, Propionibacteriacea, Bacillaceae, Staphylococcaceae, Streptococcaceae, Clostridiaceae, Neisseriaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Moraxellaceae, Pasteurellaceae, Fusobacteriaceae, Chloroplasts, Cyanobacteria.

More than 50% of transient bacteria is represented by phylum Proteobacteria [3, figure 3] that consists of families Enterobacteriaceae (Escherihia spp., Salmonella spp., Helicobacter spp., Yersinia spp., Legionella spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae), Pseudomonadaceae (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and others.

In Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care [1] are exposed concrete data from studies of samples from gloves of healthcare workers. Bacteria that have been represented after the work with patients: Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus mirabilis, Klebsiella spp., Acinetobacter spp.

The human skin microbiome is represented by bacteria, fungi, viruses and mites. Let we generalize the possible resident and transient species that inhabit the human hands and feet, and their impact on our health:

-         Staphylococcus epidermidis – facultative anaerobic, the most common inhabitant, commonly maintains relationship with the host and not evolved to cause disease [4], does not produce aggressive virulence, nowadays seen as an important opportunistic pathogen, the most frequent cause of nosocomial infections at a rate as high as its more virulent cousin Staphylococcus aureus;

-         Staphylococcus hominis – both aerobic and anaerobic, produce acid from trehalose (kind of sugar consisting of two molecules of glucose), isolated from the blood of immunocompromised patients, antibiotic resistance, can cause sepsis and urinary tract infection;

-         Actinobacteria – transitional forms of bacteria and fungi, mainly found in soil, aquatic area and caves, and can be found in very hot or very cold environments, saprophytic organisms that decompose the organic matter, found in lungs together with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, growing mycelium with filaments called hyphae, divided into 6 classes which are divided into 16 orders: Actinopolysporales, Actinomycetales, Bifidobacteriales, Catenulisporales, Coryne-bacteriales, Frankiales, Glycomycetales, Jiangellales, Kineosporiales, Micrococ-cales, Micromonosporales, Propionibacteriales, Pseudonocardiales, Streptomyce-tales, Streptosporangiales, Incerta cedis [19].

-         Propionibacterium – anaerobic, synthesize propionic (carboxylic) acid with unpleasant smell, living in and around sebaceous and sweat glands, implicating in acne condition, active pathogen in bone and joint infections like arthritis with long incubation period [5], detected in connection to intervertebral disc degeneration [5], reported in cases of infective endocarditis [5], usually found in a row milk, using lactate as a carbon substrate, reaching high levels in cheese with low salt concentration and low pH (5.2) [6];

-         Corynebacterium – most of them aerobic, participate in the microbiome of animals and humans, can cause diphtheria to humans (Corynebacterium diphtheriae) by a very potent exotoxin but most of them live in symbiosis with their hosts unless the host’s condition turns to weak, isolated from patients with otitis, urinary tract infections, feet infections, breast abscess [7], skin infections are connected to C. kutschery  derived from infected rodents (mice and rats) [8], lymphadenitis that has been reported mostly in Australia is connected to C. pseudotuberculosis (ovis) [9];

-         Pityrosporum spp. (Malassezia) – fungi, participate in the skin microbiome of animals and humans, lipophilic, they grow in areas with sebaceous glands on the scalp and face, mostly on the upper part of body, seborrheic dermatitis caused by M. furfur [10], dandruff caused by Malassezia globose [11], acne [12] and pityriasis (tinea) versicolor with hyper- or hypopigmentation [11];

-         Aspergillus spp. – a genus of fungi consisted of few hundred species of mold, some species can cause fungal infections but can be used like many others commercially and medically, they produce several very potent mycotoxins with large epidemiological, agricultural and economic impact, some of them are thermophilic and can grow with temperatures above 40 deg. C, A. niger (causes the decay of fresh fruit), A. fumigatus and A. flavus  are the most common species, the genus is plenty of numbers in the pillows, in wet and warm places, and grows mainly on carbon sources, causes otitis, lung infection, ulcer, skin lesion, allergy;

-         Escherichia spp. – facultatively anaerobic bacteria species, some of them are commensal members of the guts microbiota, main pathogen is E. coli that causes urinary tract infections especially in women, gastrointestinal infections like diarrhea, blood infection and CNS (brain) infection (sepsis, meningitis) [13], E. coli is classified into 10 pathogenic types, 80% of E. coli  species are involved in neonatal meningitis by K1 antigen [18];

-         Salmonella spp. – facultative anaerobic bacteria, gastrointestinal pathogen, intracellular, divided into two main groups – thyfoidal and nonthyfoidal, thyfoidal species invade the intestine and secrete endotoxin which leads to septic shock, the inflammatory response of the human body causes diarrhea and may lead to ulceration, symptoms begin from 6 to 48 hours after ingestion – nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain/cramps and diarrhea, fever with 38 – 39 deg. C [14];

-         Helicobacter spp. – microaerobic/aerobic bacteria, gastrointestinal pathogen, associated with chronic superficial gastritis, infected almost half of the human population, causing stomach ulcer, gastric carcinoma and lymphoma, chronic infection is asymptomatic, the acute infection causes vomiting and upper gastrointestinal pain, does not invade tissue but secretes cytotoxin urease and cagA-encoded protein which leads to injury of the gastric epithelium (ulcer) [15];

-         Legionella spp. – aerobic bacteria, known since July, 1976 from epidemic disease, causing 34 lethal cases from 221 sickened people, reside on surface and in water, widespread in nature, usually transmitted to humans by aerosols, multiply intracellularly in lungs, activated once the immune system restricts bacteria growth, cause disease in people with compromised immune defense – acute pneumonia with permanent fever and dry cough [16];

-         Staphylococcus aureus – facultative anaerobic, colonizes nasal passage and axillae (armpit), coagulase positive (for a lab test), salt tolerant and hemolytic (causes destruction of red blood cells), releases enterotoxins into food, causes septic shock by releasing superantigens into the blood stream, can cause coagulation of blood plasma, major cause of nosocomial and community infections – boils, furuncles, styes, impetigo and other superficial skin infections in humans, pneumonia, deep abscesses, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, phlebitis, meningitis and others, phagocytosis is impeded by a polysaccharide microcapsule [17];

-         Klebsiella spp. – the genus consists of aerobic and facultative anaerobic, these species live in soil, water, occasionally in food and form intestinal flora in humans and animals, produce urease which plays a major role in forming urinary stones, their urease activity produces ammonia which may damage the urinary tract epithelium, widespread nosocomial pathogen, cause pneumonia, respiratory tract infections, rhinoscleroma, urinary tract infections, acute gastroenteritis, fatality rate – up to 90% in untreated patients [18].

-         Cryptococcus gattii – pathogenic fungus, basidiomycetous yeast, emerged in humans and animals, cause deadly infections in lungs and brain (cryptococcus meningitis), had been previously restricted to tropical and subtropical regions but moves northward, colonizes tree barks and soil [20]

-         Candida – genus of yeasts, mostly represented by Candida albicans, causes the fungal infection candidiasis in bloodstream and internal organs (kidney, heart and brain), normally found in the gut flora in healthy mammals, colonizes also mouth and genitals; antibiotics, sugar, fermented foods and poor nutrition promote fungal infections because of Candida overgrowth; ferments the sugar (without lactose) to acid, connected to Crohn’s disease and colitis.

We can find a requirement for washing the hands and feet in the Five books of Moses. The cited act of purity is deeply connected to the holiness regarding the requirement for holiness cited in Part I to be holy before God:

“You shall also make a laver of copper and its base of copper for washing, and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall bring there water. And Aharon and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet” (Exodus, 30:18-19).

“And they shall wash their hands and their feet, and they will not die, and it shall be a statute for ever to them for their generations” (Exodus, 30:21).

These verses describe a commandment of purity for the offspring of Levi for preparatory ceremony before the sacrifice or before entering the tent of meeting. If we continue to read, we will see another requirement – to wash the parts of animals in preparation for the sacrifice.

For those who cannot understand the meaning of animal sacrifice in ancient times, I will explain it with only a few words. The life of an animal has been taken in act of sacrifice as atonement for people’s crimes because otherwise people should be punished. People commit crime even when they neglect the crime of a person who lives among them, and such cases are described in the Bible further. If you don’t want innocent life to be taken because of your crime or sin, just try to live accordingly to the laws. Other cases in which the sacrifice has been practiced, are connected to the impurity of illness, or to the impurity during the female cycle.

Through whole the text in Torah we can see that God’s requirements implement the spiritual and physical purity together, which means they are connected to each other. 

These statues of purity do not finish here but continue in the book Vaykra (Leviticus) where we find short ancient guidance of healthcare for severe autoimmune diagnoses and infections.

Here I will cite a few examples about the purity from the Law of Hitties [23](the proper word deciphered from the ancient original text is “Haati” for singular; in Tora is written “Hitti” for singular):

“25a. [If] a person is/becomes impure (i.e., brings impurity?) in a vessel or a vat, formally they used to pay 6 shekels of silver: s/he who is impure pays 3 shekels of silver and they used to take 3 shekels for the [king]s’ house. But now the king has [waived] the palace’s share. S/he who is impure only pays 3 shekels of silver. S/he shall look to his/her house for it

44b. If anyone performs a purification ritual on a person, he shall dispose of the remnants (from the ritual) in the incineration dumps. But if he disposes of them in someone’s house, it is sorcery and a case for the king … (44b late version) and he shall make it ritually pure again. And if in the house anything goes wrong, he shall make it ritually pure again, as before. And shall make compensation for whatever else is lost”.

 

Food

First criteria, according to which we choose our food, is the level of toxicity.  This includes the presence of microbiota. The food should not contain any microbiota. We need to know the healthy look of the food with the purpose of immediate separation of the healthy from poisonous or infected food.  Every difference in the color, or in the hardness of the food, is evidence of infection or decay. That is why after our visual check we put fruits and vegetables in a vessel full of clean water for 15 minutes and after that we wash them under pouring water.

This kind of purity is exposed in Torah in details. There is forbidden to eat blood or carrion. Obviously, we already know why. The blood can transport all kind of microbiota, microscopic worms (mites), and feeding substances from the animal digestive system. The carrion is in a process of decay under the attack of decomposing bacteria switched to their most aggressive level of existence. There is exposed also a list of animals that Hebrews should not eat or even touch. We must be totally ignorant if we cannot see the reason for that. The first reason is hidden in the genetic code of the animal for what it looks like, what its behavior is and what his food is. The second reason is the level of digestion of meat in our digestive system. More exactly, despite of our digestive process with the presence of a proteolytic enzyme called protease (peptidase), parts from the animal DNA penetrate our cells and replicate with our DNA through the endoplasmic reticulum. The enzyme protease assimilates proteins to the basic amino acids but cannot assimilate RNA and DNA nucleotides and structures. They are not proteins. They are nucleic acids consisted of sugar, phosphate and nitrogenous base. Pancreatic nucleases break down DNA and RNA but obviously they are not enough. The enzyme endonuclease is attracted only by DNA/RNA hybrids that form when gene transcription goes awry [21]. This enzyme usually is a transcription helper. The only hope for complete DNA degradation comes if we have read one of the latest research projects. A group of scientists in 2013 published an investigation about the thermal degradation of DNA. The reached outcome is that DNA can be degraded at temperatures between 100 and 110 deg C in water only if we use a pressure system that prevents evaporation of the water otherwise you need to put the DNA in environment (the meat medium) at 170 to 200 deg C [22].

If we choose to receive proteins (that we need a lot) from animal flesh, it should be carefully disinfected in relevant suitable solution for 1 hour, cleansed from blood, and prepared ultimately at high temperature. The smallest reliable temperature of cooking environment for disinfection is 100 deg C and the shortest time for reliable disinfection is 10 minutes after the inner medium of the meat reaches this temperature, but this time is still not enough to prepare it for food. To prepare beef sometimes we need couple of hours depending on your oven technology. 

Conclusion

The body cleanness does not just prevent us from more illnesses and unwanted DNA replications but provides our mind and soul with calm comfort. Without it our life becomes stressful, confused and at last will be very complicated and incomplete.

We need to understand very soon that we are what we eat. We also need to know we need amino acids from proteins but not the DNA of some disgusting creature which produces them. We have our DNA that is precious. There is not constant spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical purity without food selection, there is not health without it. As we know, the health gives more quality of life for we are more capable to survive, to achieve goals and to complete our designation – the purpose of our lives.

 

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