Should you fast?

Buddhist painting depicting
Sakya Vajrapani (सक्य वज्रपाणी)

Should you fast?
Thursday – October 16, 2025

The other day in my Personal Note VI post I stated: "...I [do] also believe that fasting is of the utmost importance." and the reason why I believe this is because I believe that addictions, a topic that I've also covered in the past, drain your body of it's vital essence and in the long run makes you diseased and ill. I believe that abstaining from activities that promote this draining effect on your vital essence is essential to a healthy life and a healthy body, check out my post about health, and I believe that by fasting you are essentially taking charge of your body and your destiny and in very real sense you're essentially rejecting the materialist order. A man that can reject indulgence when he exists in ever growing material abundance is a man of strength, he is a man of ascendant nature and this means that he should do everything in his power to actually earn his rank. I believe that it's perfectly natural for any man to eat more than he requires, especially in light of the harsh material circumstances that ordinarily throughout human history have been the norm, but in our world it has indeed become a detriment to the health and general well being to eat. I am not however, saying or trying to imply that you should never eat. The reason why I believe that you should be fasting is because there is no reason for you to eat more than the bare minimum, unless you have such a reason, such as in the case of building muscles. Why do you eat when you really have no reason to eat? Well, most men would simply blame their bodies or their nature, and they would simply claim that they stand powerless against that innate and primal nature, and that it would be quite "oppressive" to suggest that a man worth his rank should possess the ability to withstand this lust and really the call to transform into the beast. What fat person, in our modern context, can be described as anything but a beast? Again, I am not saying that fat people are worse than other people, but fat people are one face or one aspect that the beastly form seems to take in our times of the Kali Yuga. There are indeed many other faces of the beast, but this post is dedicated to fasting, so bear with me. Yes, the fat man is a beast, a beastly product of his times, and really a sad and pathetic creature that stands in the shadow of a once great man, but that man has been taken away from him, because all of his vital essence has been drained away by the society and all of that society's humanistic assertions. It's simply a right in the minds of liberal men to be fat, but not only to be fat, but to fall down to the level of the beast, and to grovel in the mud. In view of the humanist axiom, men are nothing but beasts, so nothing else should and could be expected of them, and therefore it is in line with liberalism to claim that anything that goes against the immediate and primal nature of men, anything that doesn't reduce men to animals, is oppressive.

    There are of course many benefits in the material domain from fasting and one of those benefits is of course that fasting will enable you to lose weight, and if you lose weight you can significantly reduce your risk of developing diseases such as diabetes, heath disease, and cancers of many kinds, and while I am not a medical professional, I do believe these material reasons should be enough for any man with a good and sane conscience to consider fasting, especially in the context of obesity and fatness. But there are other great material benefits from fasting even for a person that isn't particularly fat, such as reduced risk of disease as I previously mentioned but also a seemingly prolonged lifespan, and this can explain all the commotion around the "fitness" and "health" industry. The revolutionary elites do not allow themselves to indulge materially, do notice that, but they do allow themselves to indulge spiritually at least ideologically, and this is perhaps the greatest differentiation between the plebeian horde and the serpent: the plebeian horde while often brutish and terribly ill adjusted physically to the material domain, at least seem to have that core insight that there are spiritual boundaries in the world that one does not cross, but this seems to not be the case with the revolutionary elite, for they seem extraordinarily weary of their physical and material well being, while at the same time promoting disease, death, decay, and degeneration of anything that has not been secularized and destroyed from within. Indeed, the great divide in the world seems to be between those men that promotes the serpent and those men that promote the beast: both are equally wrong and equally evil, but it does seem to me that the men that promote the serpent have given up on any kind of spiritual and moral life, they have simply embraced the thrill of the entropy, they have created the chaos and the commotion of the modern world.

    So, yes there are both material and spiritual benefits from fasting, and I believe that it's important to always keep track of the revolutionary elite because they are always weary of their material standing in the world, and you can be sure that they are not fasting for any spiritual reasons. I also believe as I stated the other day, that if you are unable to control your urges that you've really fallen for a demon, also a topic that I have covered in the past, and the best way to defeat those demons is to force them out of your body, and I believe the most efficient way to do that would indeed be to fast. Again, remember where disease and illness comes from: they come from a lack of skillful means, and a lack of knowledge as to how you are supposed to interact with the world around you. I don't have any particular ways in which I believe you should fast, but I do recommend fasting for at least 3 days (72 hours). There are many great metaphysical traditions that also promote fasting such in the case of Islam during Ramadan, but there are also many Buddhist scholars and schools of thought that promote fasting as well. Again, I can't recommend any particular way you should fast, but I think at least not eating anything for 3 days (72 hours) would be a good start, and that would really get you going and really start to repair your body, both physically (materially) and spiritually.

Reginald Drax – October 16, 2025.