In regards to eating meat

[Ankh]

Upon this highway you are neither old nor young, male or female, wealthy or impoverished. You are one who journeys as the prodigal son and daughter, having been flung far from your source of being. Now you move through illusion upon illusion in the twilight dream within a dream which is incarnational experience. As you sit here, each seeker has the sorrows of unfulfilled hopes, expectations and love. Each feels the pang of suffering. And yet, each is still attempting to find solutions to the suffering rather than finding space and time within to allow each portion of experience, including suffering, to have a hospitable room to dwell in while it visits you.

... I actually take these things to heart and attempt to apply them into my life. Some others might view these as "airy-fairy" or "empty platitudes" with little to no practical application in the everyday world. That is fine. Personally, I view this as central to my spiritual journey.

Tenet Nosce, your whole post was awesome. I needed to hear those things again, but especially the above. Thank you.

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And as this pertains to my feelings haphazardly displayed in this thread-

I see it unfruitful to claim compassion for animals at the same time non compassion is displayed for the persons that slaughter animals as their choice. Or justified non compassion for plant life as plants are "justified" as "less than animals".

My emotions were based on this premise. What I see as the teaching of a movement away from animal killing is not a teaching of compassion but a teaching of justifications. This is because I am witnessing not the active practice of compassion but rather the active practice of justifying through perceived reasoning.

This is very interesting what you've said. The below quote has been of a fascination to me:

34.9 Questioner: Thank you. Can you give me the same type of information about the self in relation to the societal self?

Ra: I am Ra. The unmanifested self may find its lessons those which develop any of the energy influx centers of the mind/body/spirit complex. The societal and self interactions most often concentrate upon the second and third energy centers. Thus those most active in attempting to remake or alter the society are those working from feelings of being correct personally or of having answers which will put power in a more correct configuration. This may be seen to be of a full travel from negative to positive in orientation. Either will activate these energy ray centers.

There are some few whose desires to aid society are of a green ray nature or above. These entities, however, are few due to the understanding, may we say, of fourth ray that universal love freely given is more to be desired than principalities or even the rearrangement of peoples or political structures.