Fasting Against Spiritual Amnesia: How Emptiness Ignites the Light Within

What if your forgetfulness isn't cognitive... but spiritual?

We live in a world where everything is fed-except the soul. Overstimulated, overfed, and spiritually starved, we drift further each year from the sacred clarity that once defined human life. This is not just a health crisis. It is spiritual amnesia-a forgetting of who we are, why we came, and what fire we carry.

But ancient wisdom never forgot.

Across Daoist mountains, desert monasteries, and yogic lineages, fasting was not a diet. It was a return. A sacred emptiness through which the soul remembers itself.

In this revolutionary book, author and fasting teacher Laing Z. Matthews offers a profound fusion of ancient spiritual practice and modern clinical insight. With clarity, reverence, and poetic fire, Fasting Against Spiritual Amnesia explores:

• Why your immune system is not just a defense-but a boundary of selfhood

• How fasting reduces neuroinflammation and clears the pathways of perception

• The gut as a sacred veil where intuition and integrity meet

• Scientific evidence for fasting-induced stem cell renewal, immune reset, and mood regulation

• The Daoist concept of Shen-the radiance of spirit that returns when we stop feeding illusions

This is not a book about restriction. It is about sacred remembering.

"You are not overfed. You are underlit.
The fire within you remembers."

Whether you suffer from brain fog, emotional fatigue, autoimmune confusion, or just the creeping sense that something essential has been forgotten-this book offers a path. A quiet, powerful path back to yourself.

Inside you'll find:

• Gentle fasting protocols for different constitutions

• Spiritual reflections to align body, breath, and soul

• Scientific citations integrated with ancient frameworks

• A glossary of clinical and metaphysical terms

• Poetic invocations to ignite memory in the reader's spirit

You don't need more apps, pills, or distractions. You need to stop feeding what is false-and listen again to the truth beneath the noise.

"In emptiness, the immune gatekeeper remembers what belongs.
In silence, the soul reclaims its name."

Let this book be your companion through the sacred practice of fasting-not for weight loss, but for the revelation of who you are when you stop consuming the world and start listening to the light within.