In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

I will find the Ra quote if I am able to, but there is a passage where Ra speaks of a wooden table (bed stand? something of that nature) which Don made which is teeming with positive vibrations from the love put into its creation.

The implications of this for one who uses the Ra material as a spiritual backdrop are wide. Take from it what you will.

Great point. Here's the quote:

98.16 Questioner: That is perfectly fine with us. That noise occurs at the forty-five minute time period since the tapes are forty-five minutes on a side. I would just ask as the final question, then, if the new table that Jim has built for the appurtenances is satisfactory to hold them since it will give us more room to walk around the bed, and is it better to leave it in its natural condition, or is it better to coat it with linseed oil, varnish, or paint?

Ra: I am Ra. We view this appurtenance. It sings with joy. The pine vibrates in praise. Much investment of this working in wood has been done. It is acceptable. We may suggest it be left either as it is or rubbed with the oil which also is easily magnetized and holds the proffered vibration to a profound extent.

To me, this supports the idea that all of Nature is teeming with life-force: the grass, the trees, the weeds, the carrots, the rocks...I see most plant life as a sea of life energy, like the hair on the head of Mother Gaia. That the tree's wood could still have that life-force, retained, and added to from the craftsman's creative energies as he shaped the piece.

Can anyone honestly say that a mass-produced hamburger, made from dead matter from an animal that was brutally, cruelly killed, has the same life-force?

The way the Native Americans killed those deer, yes, I can see some life-force being retained. But not a fast-food burger.