Why I am not a vegan

[AngelofDeath]

This isn't quite exactly on the topic, but it raises a question that I think parallels what we have been discussing.

http://higherperspectives.com/kinessa-johnson/

This woman, an army veteran, protects animals by killing humans (well, they operate without the intent to kill, but that doesn't mean it won't happen). Any thoughts as to what might be happening metaphysically there? I always find it interesting when things turn the other way and animal life is valued more than human life. I think all life should be held equal and sacred, for it is all the One, Shiva.

I totally agree that all life is equal and sacred.

Are you saying that an issue here in this discussion is valuing animals over humans? Or are you saying, as I have, that many humans value their lives over all other life? 

My take on the article (I didn't watch the video): I don't think violence is ever the answer. I don't know what the answer is. But if the world actually cared about suffering, whether human or animal, we could deal with poaching (it's a horrible trade) another way—we have a lot of technology. Regarding the woman and her team: I think they see themselves as fighting crime, rather than that they value animal life over human life. Cops who pursue perpetrators of violent crimes are (hopefully) just trying to stop more violence, rather than valuing the lives of victims over criminals.

I don't agree even with handling violent criminals this way. If I could change our justice system, I would invent phasers like the ones on Star Trek which had only the stun function, and I would transform prisons into places of healing where the imprisoned could learn they are worthy of love.

The poaching business is very cruel. They cut off parts of these animals even if they aren't dead and there is a market for things such as tables made of elephant legs, and ashtrays made of gorilla hands, and sex elixirs made from rhino horns, and on and on (I did a book a few years back on endangered species and had to do the research). That they are endangered species doesn't bother me as much as the suffering caused to each animal.

Metaphysically, violence is being perpetuated. The hamster wheel keeps turning. Not to be negative, but I don't see that things are so much better and we are in 4D. But I don't get out much and I don't watch TV or news, so perhaps I'm wrong. 

What are your thoughts on this and how it applies here?

Honestly, my thoughts are: there must be a reason there is so much violence manifesting through our planetary mind. I don't mean anything that is just tied to one individual's actions. I think our planet is going through an enourmous saga which has many players which have been playing this game for a long time. I think that many of the people involved with all of the major events happening across the planet are individuals whom have become invested in the story of this planet, a karmic investment if you will. I think there were things that happened a long time ago which are still now shadowing this planet and I believe these things having been forgotten is creating a sickness in our planetary mind.

For a long time I moved away from the sickness, believing health and wholeness was something other than sickness and illness. I am beginning to realize that the only way to truly heal a sickness is to go to its core, its source and to balance whatever is out of balance. Thus, you cannot ease sickness by running away from it, only by moving in to it and discovering its nature. Then through acceptance and understanding it can be worked with.

Thus, at this point in time, I have stopped running from my primal self. I stopped running from the brutal, violent self that I know exists within me. I stopped running from being an animal. I'm now, instead, learning about it. Learning about my body and its impulses instead of trying to control them along some path of expectation. If I am to reach 'enlightenment', it will not be through effort, but through relaxing in to my being. I am choosing to be who I am, regardless of who that might enrage.

I believe that the reason, or one of them at least, the violence is manifesting so much is because humans have become so in denial, so guilty about their primal natures that they have become suppressed in the planetary mind. Some see in themselves a more primal nature than others might but each must accept themselves the same. The violence has to come out, because we don't have a healthy outlook on it. It 'has no place' in the 'idealized' society and so it is completely shut out. Yet, nothing is ever truly gone, and that which is suppressed manifests as an enourmous planetary shadow.

Once we begin to accept and embrace this shadow, I believe there will be less violence because violence will no longer be suppressed in the planetary mind and need to manifest through unconscious (night side) actions. Instead, that energy will be used and transmuted through conscious (day side) actions. Violence is actually just a 'lower vibration' stemming from various feelings.

What do you think the 'higher vibrations' of those same energies would be?

(Also no, I don't think it's about people caring about animals more than humans, I was just commenting that I found that interesting that that sometimes appears to be the case.)