Taken from the Q'uo quote Spaced posted:
Strictly speaking, when looking at one aspect of this statement and one only, it is true. If the potato plant just lives, produces fruit, and the fruits die in the ground, and then the plant dies, the plant has been left to its own natural cycle. But, has anyone harvested a potato? I have. It's part of the root system and you can dig out a potato and the plant keeps producing and living.
In my opinion, Q'uo's statement is misleading and frankly ridiculous, and I don't agree with it. Some may revere any channeled messages thinking the information is somehow better than our own. It's not that the sentiments in the whole quote, and session, were not of value. But to say these things—slaughtered animals and plucked beans—are the same is simply not true.
The life cycle of a plant is HELPED by taking its fruit or seed. Even bees help this process by spreading the pollen. Without bees, and humans have interrupted that life cycle to a dangerous point, the plants will disappear. (Would it make sense to just destroy everything but wish it love and transmute the suffering after? Why not just not destroy and still wish it love?) Plants are able to live on and have children because an ambulatory being takes the food they are offering. It's symbiosis—win-win. You cannot take a part of an animal and the animal lives or thrives—try cutting off a leg.
To say it's the same is irresponsible in my opinion. Humans can be easily lead.
Quote:In a very real way, it is as much of an offense, one may say, to pluck a bean or dig a potato from the ground as it is to slaughter an animal, for you have interrupted the cycle of its life and its dancing with the Creator as you do so.
Strictly speaking, when looking at one aspect of this statement and one only, it is true. If the potato plant just lives, produces fruit, and the fruits die in the ground, and then the plant dies, the plant has been left to its own natural cycle. But, has anyone harvested a potato? I have. It's part of the root system and you can dig out a potato and the plant keeps producing and living.
In my opinion, Q'uo's statement is misleading and frankly ridiculous, and I don't agree with it. Some may revere any channeled messages thinking the information is somehow better than our own. It's not that the sentiments in the whole quote, and session, were not of value. But to say these things—slaughtered animals and plucked beans—are the same is simply not true.
The life cycle of a plant is HELPED by taking its fruit or seed. Even bees help this process by spreading the pollen. Without bees, and humans have interrupted that life cycle to a dangerous point, the plants will disappear. (Would it make sense to just destroy everything but wish it love and transmute the suffering after? Why not just not destroy and still wish it love?) Plants are able to live on and have children because an ambulatory being takes the food they are offering. It's symbiosis—win-win. You cannot take a part of an animal and the animal lives or thrives—try cutting off a leg.
To say it's the same is irresponsible in my opinion. Humans can be easily lead.