I know thanksgiving is a shit holiday but sitting at a table listening to good music while eating a big vegan meal with people who love you is 🧡

John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet Explained - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Not A Caveman Fixated on Bugs and Bees After All: John the Baptist's Wilderness Vegetarian Diet - Locust Beans Not Bugs - An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts Today on This Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast.

Nevermind the old Sunday school notion of John the Baptist being some weird caveman dude dining on bugs! John may have a tarnished caveman reputation of eating locusts and honey out in the wild, but this is really a story about copyists mistranslating a Greek word as "locust" ('a-k-r-i-d-e-s') instead of "carob" ('e-g-k-r-i-d-e-s'). (Henry Ford: "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." Albert Einstein: "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.")

Since my original research on this topic, a couple more early Christian apocryphal writings have come to light, have been made available in English. These add to the surprisingly large collection of vegetarian references in early Christian writings regarding the diet of John the Baptist. New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. III, by Tony Burke was published and some John the Baptist books are included. In one of the earlier volumes there was a John the Baptist text made available for the first time in English that has a vegetarian passage regarding John's diet in the wilderness. Included in the third volume are, The Birth of Holy John the Forerunner, and, The Decapitation of John the Forerunner, both containing plant-based passages about John's diet consisting of "locusts from the tree" (in the Middle east called "the Saint John's Tree", and "Carob Tree") and "wild honey", also "an abundance of bread and wild honey dripping from a rock". Clearly there was an understanding in early Christianity that this was referring to locust beans (carob pods), not insects. Carob pods do look a bit like locusts hanging from tree branches, hence the name. Locust beans can be ground up and used to make a kind of Middle eastern carob flour flat bread. There's a "cakes dipped in honey" reference in the Gospel of the Ebionites. The wild "honey" was not from bees but sticky desert fruit of some kind. So, as you'll hear being documented during this pod...cast, there are all these plant-based references to John's diet coming from many different sources, and scholars have noticed and discussed these: "Probably the most interesting of the changes from the familiar New Testament accounts of Jesus comes in the Gospel of the Ebionites description of John the Baptist, who, evidently, like his successor Jesus, maintained a strictly vegetarian cuisine." (Professor Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew) "His [John the Baptist's] food was wild honey that tasted like manna, like a cake cooked in olive oil." (The Other Gospels, Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, by Bart Ehrman)

John the Baptist was a prophet with large number of followers in Israel and Transjordan regions. After his passing, several of his successors headed what became various rival Nasoraean (Nazorean) sects, one of those being Jesus and the Jesus movement. "Again Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, among all those born of women none has arisen greater than John the Baptizer." (Matthew 11:11, George Howard's translation of Shem-Tob's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, described as "the oldest extant Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew") 

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first fully vegan thanksgiving 🥰🥰🥰

Thanksgiving prompt: You just made Thanksgiving dinner yourself for the first time and I like you so much that I would rather choke down your atrocious cooking than tell you the truth but what I can’t hide is food poisoning symptoms.

Great way to spend the early part of Thanksgiving. It’s only a little difficult if you have a blond vegan boyfriend who assures you that cabbage turkey is just as good as the real thing.

Simarkus Holiday Fest is currently happening! Hosted by the amazing @disterra. Come join the fun!

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Thanksgiving is next week! 🤯 The comment section of my original post below has a lot of good plant based holiday recipes & ideas (click on the photo to see the comments. I know it says “Log into FB” in the linked boxes below but ignore that. If you click on the box 👇🏼it will take you to my post)

Make your holidays compassionate ones & leave animals off your plate. It’s very easy to do now a days. There are plant based versions of any meat of dairy item you can think of available online or at your local grocery store. As always, if I can be of help feel free to message me

Extend your kindness & compassion to ALL animals, not just the ones we call pets 💗🦃🐷🐮🐣🐰🦆🐙🐟💗

Hope everybody is having a very thankful day, me & my stomach definitely are 😅 Quan & I created an illustration for MerMay’s monthly challenge, the prompt being “feast” 😋 As the head chef & architect of vegan cuisine in our home, this image isn’t far off from reality 😆 I also got a picture of one of my citrine Anxiety Buddies (take a look at my Etsy shop to get yours 🤗✨💀)

These Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes are vegan, gluten-free, and unbelievably buttery and flavorful! This easy recipe is made with just 4 ingredients; potatoes, fresh garlic cloves, dairy-free butter, and creamy coconut milk! This healthier side dish is perfect for a holiday dinner and quick enough for busy weeknight meals with the family!

Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes (Vegan, Gluten-Free) https://wp.me/p4UrDz-8Cv

Two Vegetarian Prayers of Thanksgiving (one is Gnostic from Nag Hammadi; the other is from Jainism)

Prayer of Thanksgiving in the Nag Hammadi Library (Gnostic Gospels) and Corpus Hermeticum

This the prayer that they spoke:

“We give thanks to You! Every soul and heart is lifted up to You, undisturbed name, honored with the name ‘God’ and praised with the name ‘Father’, for to everyone and everything (comes) the fatherly kindness and affection and love, and any teaching there may be that is sweet and plain, giving us mind, speech, (and) knowledge: mind, so that we may understand You, speech, so that we may expound You, knowledge, so that we may know You. We rejoice, having been illuminated by Your knowledge. We rejoice because You have shown us Yourself. We rejoice because while we are in (the) body, You have made us divine through Your knowledge.

“The thanksgiving of the one who attains to You is one thing: that we know You. We have known You, Light of mind. Life of life, we have known You. Womb of every creature, we have known You. Womb pregnant with the nature of the Father, we have known You. Eternal permanence of the begetting Father, thus have we worshiped Your goodness.

“There is one petition that we ask: we would be preserved in knowledge. And there is one protection that we desire: that we not stumble in this kind of life.”

“When they had said these things in the prayer, they embraced each other and they went to eat their holy food, which has no blood in it.” *

“Vegetarian food” — footnote from the Marvin Meyer translation of this in, The Gnostic Scriptures.

This passage is also found in the Epilogue of Asclepius, in “HERMETICA,” translated by Sir Walter Scott: “Having prayed thus, let us betake ourselves to a meal unpolluted by flesh [animalia] of living things.”

The G.R.S. Mead translation of the same verse: “With this desire we now betake us to our pure and fleshless meal.”

“With such hopes we turn to a pure meal that includes no living thing.” (Asclepius, translated in “Hermetica”, Brian Copenhaver, Cambridge University Press)

Thanksgiving Prayer (from Jainism)

Start the meal with the seven contemplations, or with whatever traditional grace or prayer you prefer to use to express our gratitude.

This food is the gift of the whole universe: the earth, the sky, numerous living beings and much hard, loving work.

May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.

May we recognize and transform our unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.

May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global warming.

May we ask for forgiveness from all living beings that we may have harmed, intentionally and unintentionally. May peace and compassion grow in ourselves and extend to all around us.

May we pray that all the people everywhere in the world will avoid inflicting harm on animals and fellow human beings and practice nonviolence and compassion.

We accept this food so that we may nurture our sisterhood and brotherhood, strengthen our community, and nourish our ideal of serving all living beings. (Contemporary Vegan Jain Prayer)

Anyway!!! I made every thing except the vegan roast on this plate. Most of it is 190% from scratch and none of it came from a box.

Vegan Thanksgiving Dessert Board (Recipe)

Maple Syrup & Rosemary 🌿 Glazed Parsnips Recipe This side dish of roasted parsnips is slightly sweet and the rosemary brings out the flavours. The sightly caramelized taste means they'll stand out when served with your roast dinner. No need to use honey.

My sister’s birthday was on Thanksgiving so it would not be proper to have just one cake lol. The vegan chocolate mousse cake is from a place on Long Island in West Hempstead called the sunflower bake shop. The hummingbird buns I made myself so you can’t buy it lol we served garlic peas stuffing mashed potatoes gravy brussels sprouts and Gardien turkey cutlets. I also made a cranberry ginger punch.

THANKFUL

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