I fished with the net several of the spiritual flying breads that floated past my window one day, consumed them greedily and was informed by the spirit. He said to me:
"If man could do without food, he would not need to eat and would thus be far less involved in a collective structure of the preservation of his species, such as the State, would thereby follow an exaggerated individualisation and inevitably the end would be the perversion of all his remaining needs. If man had no fear of losing his form, because he himself would know how to exist without it, there would be no war, no murder or other destruction, except for the pleasure of it.
If man had severe pain during the sexual act or if he died immediately after giving birth to a child, there would be no reason for procreation, unless someone obliged him to preserve the species. To do this, he would have to be told the reason or coercion would have to be exerted upon him. Under these circumstances, the entire human development would be endangered, which is always directed towards the preservation of the species and towards the ever-increasing sense of community while retaining the individual.
Desire for food and drive for sexuality are therefore unawaythinkable compulsions for man, that he could only renounce once he had deeply recognized the true reason for his existence. As long as this is not the case, he will succumb to the determinations of nature or even defend the retention of these joyfully and vehemently, which is also his right.
However, a being to whom, in whatever way, the true reason for existence had been revealed, would no longer be subject to these constraints and would also, in the course of time, need a different kind of nourishment for the preservation of the body, which would lead to ethereality and culminate in the nourishment of the spirit. Thus, since man no longer destroyed forms for the sake of his formal existence, he would also no longer have to die, and the meaning of procreation would thus be abolished. Man would be free and immortal, and death would be only a possibility brought about when one wishes to leave this planet, because it no longer offers fields for new experience."
Thus spoke the spirit to me after I had eaten the bread, and I was amazed at his words. I had never heard anything like that before!