JUST SOUL FOOD

If you will make a visual note of the Just Soul Food Cyclical Platter on the cover you will notice there are 4 elements represented at corresponding 90 degree angles. These are the 4 elements of Soulful Digestion. They are meat, sweet potatoes, collard greens, and corn bread. Each one of these elements has its own cycle and is an intricate part of the larger cycle. We are going to begin by identifying each element and its identifying attributes starting at the top with the largest cycle of God or love.

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The meat in our cyclical diagram represents God or love in one form or another. For our intellectuals, meat is the point of conception. It represents love because before you first came into the world and arrived on the planet as a physical being, you were conceived in some form of love. However or with whomever it took place, your conception and later arrival on the planet after being carried for nine months by a consenting, loving mother clearly indicates an act of love. Meat represents love, the essence of life.

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The sweet potatoes represent man or the earth. Sweet potatoes represent man or the earth because they come directly from and are rooted in the ground. Potatoes themselves come in several different types (we’re all just small potatoes). At maturity, when watered they begin to bud and sprout green plant life. We also call this the point of initialization because this is the point at which the concept, whatever it may be, is initialized and brought to us on the earth.

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The collard greens represent water and green plant life. This is the point of receiving, acceptance, nurturing and transformation. Greens are the most basic life form and the most prevalent life form on the planet. The greens that humans consume come through the marine food chain or are eaten directly in such foods as spinach and collard greens. Greens, through the process of photosynthesis, transform light from the sun and water into green plant food, carbohydrates and oxygen. Greens represents the point where we “water” that which has been placed into the soil. Water activates, converts and transforms whatever is in the soil. Here we receive, accept, nurture, and transform into a real life-altering entity that which we take into our heart and thereby the very soul of our being.

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The corn bread represents the end product or result. It is also known as the point of manifestation, that point at which it is made known or revealed to us. It is that point at which we recognize the result or identify the resulting end product from the entity that was received, accepted, or transformed in the greens. The corn bread is the end product and the true treasure of the Just Soul Food diagram (as any true soul food lover can attest). Collectively they layout as follows:

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Meat-Conception

Potatoes-Initialization

Greens-Receptivity,Transformation

Corn Bread-Result,Manifestation