Why I am not a vegan

[Diana]

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.)

I agree that embracing the shadow is important. 

We can embrace something such as aggression. Seth explained that there is nothing wrong with aggression, and in fact it is necessary. He gave birth as an example. To be born into 3D requires aggression, an aggressive thrust into this reality. But he said that aggression is not the same as violence. I think aggression, when suppressed and judged as being "wrong," or when a person hides from something they can't face, can manifest as violence and anger.

We are animals in physiology. We have bigger brains, and a neocortex, but we still operate in part from an instinctive/learned standpoint. According to some esoteric teachings, we have the lower mind and higher mind(s). Our basic 3D human mind protects us here, because it knows how to deal with this place, just as animals' brains know how to deal with their existence (they know to run from a predator; they may not know how to run from a car effectively because the experience hasn't evolved long enough perhaps). According to these teachings, in order to operate from the higher mind, we have to overcome the ego—not kill it, but put it in its place. As long as we are here, the ego has a function. It would be analogous to Echart Tolle's description of being in the now—to use time to remind you when you have an have appointments for example, but then let it go and merge with the now again. Aggression might also be seen as the impetus needed to break (change) inertia.

So the higher vibration of violence is perhaps non-harmful aggression. In birth, there may be harm, but that is not from the aggression needed to accomplish the transformation. I think there would be other things that caused harm (resistance, incompetent medical staff, emotions governing the mother, karmic influences).

I think the higher forms of "negative" behaviors would be to cause no harm to others (including self) while using the pure energy of the behavior, as Seth suggests. Which is why the STS path can only go so far—it must evolve to one of no harm.