2010.10.16 The responsibility of participation?

[Bring4th_Austin]

I came across this session a couple weeks ago and it has given me much "food" for thought. (har har)

First, to address the issue of this particular session not resonating with people. Q'uo (and most other channels) encourage us to use our own discernment as the ultimate truth. Claiming this session contains more distortions than others simply because it doesn't resonate with you as strong as others seems to be a very personal opinion. If it's possible for that amount of distortion in this session, which you may not particularly agree with, then why feel that all other sessions that do resonate with you are less distorted? It's completely possible they contain just as many distortions, just distortions that you may agree with. Using your own discernment to decide which information to take with you is the key, but I feel that discounting the purity of the message for everyone because it doesn't resonate with you alone is a subjective point of view.

I mean to ruffle no feathers here, but if this session has resonated with someone strongly, claiming that it is more distorted may make that person doubt themselves and to what they resonate. In my personal experience, doubt is very powerful and can be a difficult weed to pull.

Now, my personal experience with this session requires a bit of back-story. A little more than a year ago, my parents fulfilled their dream of owning a farm. The story itself is amazing, full of miracles and great synchronicity, leading my mom to live within an image she has seen since she was a small child. My mom is a very caring, sympathetic, and in touch with nature. In the spirit of following her heart, not only has she started down a path exploring the world of growing vegetables etc., she has acquired goats and chickens.

After learning all she could learn and exploring all options she could in dealing with these animals, she had a great moment of remorse. She could not understand how following her heart led her to a place that most "awakened" people might despise. It became hard for me to convince her that she was living from her heart and she began to doubt her dream. She had lost sight of the love that I saw so strongly within her.

I can watch her spend hours with the animals, sometimes just observing, sometimes walking among them and talking to them. I can almost literally see the love pouring out from her, her gratefulness to them for their lessons and existence nearly palpable. And as I spend time with the animals myself, I can feel that love resonate.

These conscious entities live their lives with my mom's full appreciation. What about the organic vegetables the awakened vegetarians eat? Are all vegetable farmers as appreciative of their crop? As Q'uo said in this session:

So the question becomes, my friends, how to sustain a consciousness that is capable of approaching every meal with the awareness that perhaps the asparagus screamed as it was broken off of its mother. Perhaps the green beans cried to be taken from the vine. Perhaps the steer did not wish to leave its pasture, no matter how pitiful.

Placing the consciousness of animals above that of vegetables (which for a major part DO try to defend their lives with various defense systems) seems to be placing a hierarchy on life.

My mom, without reading this session, has moved into the same vibration as Q'uo's words. With releasing her doubt, she's even started to discover an even greater purpose for her dream. She finds herself working with the local 4H program, where she's able to teach the children she works with about mindfulness and appreciation of the animals with which they have the honor to work (not to mention the importance of sustained and organic farming).

There are further lessons to be learned in our separated lifestyle before we can fully function as a 4D society, and as Q'uo stated in this session, we place the responsibility on ourselves. If you feel it is your responsibility to be vegetarian then do not hesitate. My mom found her responsibility in bringing greater understanding of appreciation of life into this world. Hopefully we can eliminate cruel treatment of food animals, which seems to me to be the next step in eliminating separation in our lives regarding nourishment.

This post is highly biased and personal because of my love for my mom , but I thought I should share.