Balance of Service Regarding Sources of Nutrition

[APeacefulWarrior]

I agree with Plenum. At the end of the day, life on Earth is simply impossible without trading life for life. It's all part of the "grand game" of 3D incarnation. Whether someone chooses to eat plants or animals or some mixture thereof, it still means taking life from another entity for the sake of furthering one's own. There is simply no alternative, and it's a tradeoff I have to assume any deliberately-incarnated being on Earth already weighed and evaluated prior to making the commitment.

(And those who are still "trapped" in the cycle of early-density incarnations really don't have any choice in the matter.)

But the other thing is this (and I suspect this may a somewhat controversial view): Broadly speaking, the purpose of 2D life is to die. Over and over and over. According to Ra and other sources, the 2D experience lasts for billions of subjective years and individual incarnations. And the entire point of it is for an entity to A)gain the first glimmerings of self-awareness, along with B)cultivate a desire to find other options for existence.

And they learn those lessons by being born and dying a hell of a lot, until they're tired of it and want something better.

Any individual chicken, for example, is going to be nowhere near ready for 3D harvest. Its 7ish year lifespan is going to be an infinitesimal drop in the bucket compared to the span of time it will end up experiencing (and mostly forgetting) as it oh-so-slowly elevates its own consciousness. If that life gets cut a little short so it can get turned into food for animals or humans really doesn't matter. It's just one more death among billions.

I know this might sound callous, but that's simply how the system works, at least based on everything we've been told about it. An incarnating entity can't develop self-awareness and a desire to improve its lot in life without, in effect, realizing how much the cycle of incarnation really sucks.

I certainly don't advocate animal cruelty and, like Plenum, believe that it's proper to show respect for the entities which have been sacrificed to put food on our table. Beyond that, however, the whole cycle is simply Karma at its grandest, and something none of us can escape without abandoning physical incarnation entirely. As such, I just don't think it's worth feeling terribly guilty about being part of the process. At the end of the day, we're doing our part to help teach these painful but necessary lessons.

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I'm actually reminded of a little lesson I learned a few weeks ago. I was walking along when all of a sudden there was a crunch. I look down, and there's an ex-cockroach beneath my foot. This made me feel a bit guilty, since the roach was presumably just going about its own business and hadn't done anything to deserve being accidentally stepped on. But then I heard one of my guides tell me, "Don't worry; he didn't notice." The death was so swift that the roach-entity simply rejoined the planetary energies seamlessly, transitioning from one form of existence to the next, like a switch being flipped, without even the awareness that anything had changed. And likewise, it would be swiftly reincarnated just as easily, simply moving mindlessly back and forth between worlds until it eventually starts to become aware of the process.