page 10……...If we were something even near to normal beings we would have a deep love and constant respect for everything that lives, and see our need for, and dependence upon, everything that has gone to make us human beings.
We have been lifted by the creative work of Nature to the point where we stand at the half-way house between the Material and the Spiritual, at the point of change-over in the ascent from Matter to Spirit…….We stand at the summit of one pyramid, but we are the beginning of another one – the pyramid of the spiritual world…….We are so made that there must be the change over from the dominance of Matter to the dominance of Spirit.
All this – the limitless potential of a human being – has been given to us.

page 30……We read about “paying the debt of our existence” but it is exceedingly difficult to come to this. We are so dreadfully taught from childhood to think that our rights are more important than our obligations and to believe that if we have power we have everything.

page 31….We are just about to see that it is not permissible to use power to dominate other human beings, but we cannot bring ourselves to see that the power we have to destroy life on the earth and perhaps to destroy the earth itself is also not permissible.

page 44…..In the process of evolution, finer and finer energies are being eternally produced through different levels of being, and we men must transmit and make our contribution to the whole process of transformation. We have to do this because these energies are required for the purposes more important than our existence, and if we will not do it consciously we are compelled by nature to do it unconsciously. According to Mr.Gurdjieff ………the reason why there is such an increase in the number of people on the earth is that we are failing to do what is required of us consciously and therefore we have to do it by the process of dying, and ever greater numbers of people will have to die if people do not produce these higher energies consciously. This was a very ancient teaching, but now people do not think like that at all; it never occurs to us that eating is a cosmic function. Food is a constant reminder of our cosmic obligations, of the responsibility that is placed on us because so much has happened to make it possible for us to exist.

page 46….Just stop a minute and consider how many things in the world would change if this one thing about the responsibility involved in taking life was actually understood and how a different value system would emerge for the whole of humanity…..whatever we eat we are taking life and we have the responsibility for converting that life into conscious energy. …..the difference between the man who can eat his food consciously and the man who eats it simply to please his stomach. But we must not rest content with just knowing these ideas about food. We must seek to experience so that knowledge can be transformed into understanding. Although you may know these things and even act on them it has not become part of you. This is the difference between “reason of knowing” and “reason of understanding”
If you persevere, something may happen; an opening may occur and you will actually see for yourself that it is so and you are no longer dependent on anything you have been told or read about..
excerpts from The Sherborne Theme Talks Series 4 Food John G. Bennet Coombe Spring Press

Ps: I would like to point out that the whole record of the meetings is needed to be read to grasp the magnificence of the subject of Food. Under normal circumstances I would refer to the book as a whole, but we are not under normal circumstances, 8 billion people are led into information chaos, the attention of masses is purposely diverted from the hidden burning issues of the planetary scale and I wonder how can anyone expect the conscious change without first introducing the subject to the masses. It is like wanting man to read without teaching him the alphabet first.
Being involved directly in the topic right now, , I dared to select few passages to bring the attention to the deeper level of what is happening on our planet. dp