In regards to eating meat

[Aaron]

Perhaps we're drawing too sharp a delineation between self and other-self when it comes to humans and animals.

The soul is infinite and eternal... In a dream experience that I shared here, I experienced being some sort of cow. (although it seemed to be on a different planet, and I don't think that portion of myself was/is/will be raised for slaughter)

What if, as part of the karmic debt for consuming the bodies of animals, it is a possibility for the soul to choose to incarnate as said animal, and experience being eaten?

Eaten by the self... eaten by other-selves... At the level of the soul, it's all the same. So the circle is closed. :p Suddenly we're not eating "animals" anymore. It's not "us" the humans and "them" the animals. It's literally self eating other-self, and your reaction to it here is what allows for the lessons.