Please comment on anorexia nervosa. Why is it so widespread at the present time and why does it seem to affect mainly young females? (This condition is marked by loss of appetite, serious drop in weight, and often an obsession with exercise).
Hilarion: The condition of Anorexia Nervosa is a direct result of a past life in which food was over-emphasized and illness resulted from over-eating. The previous life of gluttony would usually have caused marked obesity and complications arising from the over-weight would normally have led to death at a relatively young age. Very often a soul learns the most by contemplating the manner and cause of its death in a life just ended, and in the case in question a very clear connection would have been made by the soul between the gluttony and the loss of the physical body through death.
This would have been all the more traumatic in view of the attachment to physical pleasure which the glutton exhibits. Hence, the soul would view over-eating as having a lethal aspect and this concept would have been brought into the present life at the subconscious level.
A triggering experience is required in order to raise the subconscious memory to the conscious level. This comes about typically as a confrontation with someone who is obese and quite ill. The convergence of these two factors (illness and obesity) awakens the slumbering memory of the past gluttonous life and its untimely end, and the individual may react, or rather over-react, by embarking upon a drastic weight-reduction program -even where there is no obesity to begin with-often coupled with an obsession regarding exercise.
The reason why this condition is noted almost exclusively with young females is related to the access which women have to their subconscious memories, and to the emphasis which modern society places on slimness for women, particularly in advertising. It is hardly possibly for a young woman to avoid the idea that a slim figure is a must, and when the triggering confrontation is encountered, the combination is sometimes enough to initiate the obsession in question.
***From the book "More Answers," by Hilarion/ Maurice Cooke
