In regards to eating meat

[3DMonkey]

During my animal rehab days there was a full separation between what I ate, and what I was currently involved in. Food was food, and I could not connect it to the animals in my care. So while I had a form of love for those in my care, it did not translate into full compassion for the animal kingdom itself.

This never came about until the cleaning up of my body. I fully think that having the animal parts in your body will block off certain connections. Whether we want to call it awareness, consciousness, evolving, whatever, I found a definite connection between animal matter in my body, and the nonexistent compassion.

This may be what is described in gospel of peace, "eat of death, death will become you", not so much as death in the sense of dying, but dead to certain aspects/portions of awareness.

I think there is truth in that. In a physical sense and a metaphysical sense. I think I've said this before in this thread- that I am coming at this discussion from a completely metaphysical point of view. And I think the original post was started to discuss it metaphysically.

As for the physical stuff you're speaking about, Pickle, I agree. But the way I see it, I live on earth, and my body itself is pretty gross if I think about it too long . In other words, I'm not putting heroine in my body, but meat... I don't care about that.

Metaphysically, I would rather not digest guilt. Then what would I become?