Why I am not a vegan

[Monica]

I'm sure you're familiar with the two uses of the word "meat" in the sessions.  To me, both seem to be cases where Ra is advising Carla to eat meat, and I'm pretty sure that's how Carla understood them, too.

I agree that Carla understood them that way, but I disagree that Ra was advising her to do so. The key here is when Ra said:

in the case of the desire for the more complex proteins.

This is clearly a condition. In the case of is a condition. This sure sounds to me like Ra was granting some concessions, in the case of Carla's desire for meat. Carla's desire for meat was already there, so Ra worked with her where she was at, just as Ra worked with her on her devotion to the Bible, as Diana pointed out.

18.4 Questioner: Are there any foods that are helpful or harmful that the instrument might eat?

Ra: I am Ra. This instrument has body complex distortion towards ill health in the distortion direction corrected best by ingestion of the foodstuffs of your grains and your vegetables, as you call them. However, this is extremely unimportant when regarded as an aid with equality to other aids such as attitude which this instrument has in abundance. It, however, aids the vital energies of this instrument, with less distortion towards ill health, to ingest foodstuffs in the above manner with occasional ingestion of what you call your meats, due to the instrument’s need to lessen the distortion towards low vital energy.

While you are using this quote to make your case that Ra advised her to eat meat, there is another way to look at this. Notice that Ra always included a caution when speaking of meat. Ra even used the word caution when referring to past references to meat. Ra used these cautions:

occasional
to the extent necessary
in the case of the desire for

There ya go. This does not, in any way shape or form, give free license to eat meat on a daily basis, but in fact puts limitations on it. At best, Ra was granting some concessions to Carla, just as they did with the Bible.

NO limits or cautions were given for plant foods. (Cannabis wasn't used as a food, so we can't count that.)