Why I am not a vegan

[Monica]

the path according to the Ra Material, mind you

Well, yes! This is, after all, a forum based on study of the Ra Material, is it not?

Why assume that everyone who is eating meat is gleefully thinking of the cruelty the animal may have experienced before it died? That seems a little morbid.

On the contrary, I would assume that most otherwise 'good' people prefer to be in denial about the suffering experienced by the animal on their plate. In a court of law it's called callous disregard.

Why is thinking of it morbid?

While yes, you could say that people eating meat leads to animals thus being killed for meat, that is fair reasoning, the minds of those who ultimately receive the meat are not the same as those who raise and slaughter the animals.

In most cases, yes, that is true. But they are contributing just as much, nonetheless. Paying the assassin to do the killing doesn't absolve one of their part of the responsibility, just because they aren't the one who pulled the trigger.

it is easy to say that particular scenario doesn't reflect service to others. That doesn't at all however define the entirety of an individual's path and their work towards service to others. It is part of the STO path to recognize that you enjoy the taste of whatever it is you enjoy. It would also be part of the STO path to accept that about yourself. From there would then be the decision as to how to be more of service to these other selves, the service which would be unique to each individual. There would also be recognizing that others enjoy that taste and accepting that about them, loving them despite their supposed STS nature. Then one would share their understandings of love/light in whatever way they best know as themselves, how each one knows the One Infinite in their own personal way. Then one would begin to conceptualize the taste on a planetary level, and this is where we actually encounter the difficulty that you are focused upon which would be the source, environment and conditions from which the taste arose. There are many, many paths for service to others, so each might go about their own way in finding a way to be of service to the other selves they see to be tied to that experience.

Except for the first sentence, all of this pertains to serving other human selves. What about serving our younger other-selves?