In regards to eating meat

[Ankh]

I've never heard of any black magician sacrificing a carrot in a ritual.

LOL!!

I've never heard of animal sacrifice being used in a white magick working.

Not of the animal, but of the self. It's only taken from the self. It is not recommended, but can be used to "seal" a specific ritual.

I first learned about this, some 20 years ago. There is a huge amount of info available on the subject. Here is a mainstream science article, for starters:

LaTuga is one of several medical researchers at Duke working with microbial ecologists to study the development of the human microbiome—the enormous population of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, that live in the human body, predominantly in the gut. There are 20 times as many of these microbes as there are cells in the body, up to 200 trillion in an adult, and each of us hosts at least 1,000 different species. Seen through the prism of the microbiome, a person is not so much an individual human body as a superorganism made up of diverse ecosystems, each teeming with microscopic creatures that are essential to our well-being

from http://discovermagazine.com/2011/mar/04-...ep-healthy

Interesting. Will read it tonight. =)

As far as STS entities using lower 2D entities (microbes) to do their bidding, Ra said that. I'd have to find the quote.

Please do.