In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

Since discovering the Law of One I absolutely hate eating meat

So your taste for meat changed after reading the Law of One? Interesting! Do you have any idea why? Was it something you read that made you change your thinking about meat, or did you just lose your taste for it around that time?

but I cannot help but eat it as I am 18 and still living at home and that is all my family ever eats.. Occasionally I try not to eat it and feel much better about myself. For I can now see and feel through extensive seeking and meditation how everything is one, thus I see an animal as the same as a human, they are all the one consciousness of the infinite creator experiencing itself infintitely.. When I don't eat it or say I don't really like meat they just laugh at me and think I am joking..

Zack, I know it's difficult to make personal decisions like that, when we're still dependent on others. You're not alone; lots of teenagers and even much younger kids make the choice to quit eating animals, but their families make it difficult for them.

Some of them are able to gain more control over their diets by earning $$ at part-time jobs and using that to buy the foods they want. Others just leave out the meat and eat everything else, which may or may not be healthy, depending on the selection of foods offered. As long as there are rice, beans, whole grains, eggs, and/or dairy offered once or twice a day, you shouldn't have any problem getting a fairly decent diet.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle to overcome is the ridicule from those you love. Keep in mind that it's usually based on ignorance. Many teens are able to gain more support by simply providing educational tools for their families, so that their families can get educated and put their minds at ease about whether their kids are getting enough protein, etc.

Here are some informational resources you might want to share with your family:

Some of these outline the nutritional concerns. These websites are mainstream sites, not PETA-based, just to show that, even among mainstream doctors, the veg. diet is considered not only acceptable for healthy for kids, with just a few precautions.

http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/nutrition...diets.html

http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_f...anism.html

http://www.drgreene.com/21_921.html

And here is another site with pix of lots of vegan children:

http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/realveganchildren/

Even if you aren't vegan, it's nice to know that even vegan kids are generally very healthy!

And this site has lots of info:

http://www.vrg.org/family/kidsindex.htm

There are also lots of books on the subject of veggie kids. My story is in one of them! (I got interviewed and she included it in the book.)

Basically, if you eats leafy greens, whole grains, legumes, and eggs & dairy, they're fine. If you want to go all the way vegan, that might be harder while living at home. If you do ever go vegan, be sure to take a B12 supplement. (That is the single nutrient not found in a vegan diet.) I would suggest not being too hard on yourself and just do what you can to make the best of your situation, until you become independent or gain the support, or at least tolerance, of your family. But you might just be pleasantly surprised, and your family become more supportive, once you educate them! Families often ridicule their vegetarian kids because they are concerned. Alleviate the concern and they are often more supportive.

I do feel a little better about it though after reading a channelling from Q'uo which stated that there is little impact on the spirit or beingness of an entity if it were of loving nature, they suggested that almost all karma and negativity can be taken out through sending love and light to the 2nd density creature which has passed though its incarnation and thanking it for passing and understanding the negativity it went though at the hands of another entity. Thus before I eat any meat I always have my hand over it (When no one is looking lol) I repeat this is my mind every time. "I thank this 2nd density creature for passing through it's incarnation, to bring sustenance to my body so that I am able to further develop my ways to the Law of One in service to other selves. I understand the fear it went though and send my love and light to it and thank it"

That's wonderful that you are blessing the meat and thanking the animal!

That particular Q'uo quote was discussed at length in this thread. I invite you to read the whole thread; you will find much to ponder.

In the meantime, I commend you for figuring it out much sooner than I did. I didn't become a vegetarian until I was 21, although I refused to eat any meat until age 10. But I didn't eat any veggies either so I can't really say I was a vegetarian.

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If the dracaena plant reaction of Dr Backster were so important, i'm surprised no one has bothered to replicate the experiment or develop a related field of evidence. Such experiments can be performed at low cost. My assumption is that this is far too subjective for big-science and not really interesting beyond speculation.

There have been many bio-research applications for ohm-meters (like Backster's polygraph) in unrelated work. Too many to list. I think this other-researcher had a better use: http://www.wrf.org/men-women-medicine/dr...s-burr.php Yet his work is forgotten and his book has become a rare collector's item. My main point being that the application of ohm meters in science run far and wide. So wide in fact that the Backster observation may yet support other conclusions altogether. (I won't bore you). Perhaps some humans possess strong energy fields, strong enough to change experimental results. The famous "Heisenberg uncertainty principle" comes to mind. Or outside of physics, the ancient concept of mind over matter. Or unawareness of personal power at a distance. So much to pick through and i would expect one will find countless effects which are not particularly replicable.

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I'd go further to say experiments with plant feelings might be bonded to our own feelings.

Well said! That is exactly my point too: The research is inconclusive and quite subject to interpretation. To use it to justify eating animals is faulty logic and flies in the face of everything we know about the plant-based diet, not the least of which is that plants heal.