(08-24-2015, 01:01 PM)Jade Wrote:Quote:Regarding what I eat, I've held the same beliefs as Tanner that all food can be consecreted and seen as sacremental. I've had these beliefs along with inner alchemy since the very beginning of my spiritual path.
The issue comes where we think that the perpetuation of the sacrifice of the animals (their death in trauma to be transmuted into greater life) is a distortion of STO polarity in the Law of One.
Quote:As in our experience the teachings were, for the most part, greatly and grossly perverted to the extent in later times of actual human sacrifice rather than healing of humans.
Ra here is talking of human sacrifice, as that was the great extent it was perverted towards. However, Ra implies that sacrifice is incongruent with healing.
Billions of animals are killed in this country per year, and that equals to many dozens killed per meat consumer per year. I saw a facebook post recently, "Chinese food for dinner! Pork eggrolls, mongolian beef, shrimp lo mein, and crab rangoon!" Is it even possible to create a tally of the conscious lives that were consumed in that meal? No, but by abstaining from meat, we reduce that number that has to be produced. It's not an in the moment alleviation of a death, but a slow process that lowers the demand and therefore the mass quantities of trauma that we are producing.
Those that eat meat: Please continue your transmutation efforts. I know they are not in vain. But to think that by not eating meat you aren't directly saving lives, is nonsense. If you prefer to continue your service so that animals can continue to incarnate in these traumatic situations, as they desire, then by all means, continue your great service. I get it. There is no judgement. Everything is perfect, as is. I personally just can't ever do it again, ever, so thank you sincerely for taking that burden upon yourselves.
What I want to share is that there is not anyone who is being any less truer to itself than any other.
I will be vegan when I feel called to do so as I do with anything else. Calls come and go bringing myself to different focuses, each having a purpose of it's own for others and for myself.
The reason I do think everything ever is perfect, is that to not think so means to me to not focus on the greater causes and effects that made each things spring as it is. The Love of the Creator is behind all things, even those we think are without love. There is LOVE and there are myriads of distortions of that LOVE, none more meaningful and none more meaningless.