(04-27-2011, 11:15 PM)Azrael Wrote: Well I will take a particular example from the book Seth Speaks, where the entity Seth claimed to have a dog in incarnation. I always try to remember that our higher entities have many other fragments stemming from them across numerous different times, so you never really can tell what's what sometimes. Although as anti-thesis a violent experience as an animal could perhaps be grounds for a very compassionate person who feels the needs and pains of animals, having experienced it for themselves. I suppose every experience is only an experience until it is reflected upon, it is only a lesson if it is examined for learning.
Also, can't self-awareness exist in potentiation in the same manner of an energy channel needing to be unblocked? It is not the form but the centers which affect the evolution of the consciousness.
I don't know.
(04-27-2011, 11:54 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: I believe a 1D life form IS an entity. I believe the entity that I am experienced myself and creator as a hydrogen atom (or something) fusing together to create helium.
So are you saying that every atom is an entity? Is your fingernail an entity? Is every blade of grass an entity? Or the entire lawn collectively? Is each atom of the computer your're typing on an entity?
How do you define entity?
(04-27-2011, 11:54 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: I believe it becomes 'not okay' when an individual 3D entity determines via their own distortions that it is not okay.
So...if the pedophile thinks it's ok to rape a 6-year old child then it's ok? We shouldn't bother trying to stop him, because, after all, the child isn't really helpless but just as STS as he is?
Please clarify if I'm misunderstanding you! I am asking this sincerely, based on what you said in the other thread.
In your view, should we not bother to try to stop pedophiles, murderers, etc.? As long as they think what they're doing is ok, it's ok?
So we should treat murderers and child rapists the same as we treat those who cut their lawns? For, see how many blades of grass were killed! Is cutting a blade of grass = raping a child?
This just popped up via email; just passing it on fyi:
World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony by Will Tuttle
Quote:Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture’s values and paradigms at the most primal levels. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the choices we make about our food are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures.
Incorporating systems theory, teachings from mythology and religions, and the human sciences, The World Peace Diet presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on a comprehension of the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview those choices reflect and mandate. The author offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that they can follow to reconnect with what we are eating, what was required to get it on our plate, and what happens after it leaves our plates.
The World Peace Diet suggests how we as a species might move our consciousness forward so that we can be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.
From a review:
Quote:This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to grow spiritually, who wants to live a conscious and compassionate life, and who wants to contribute to world peace. I have read many books on the topic of vegetarianism, animal rights and animal welfare, spiritual growth, and peace and nonviolence. This book stands alone in its ability to make the connection between all of these subjects.
Will Tuttle, Ph.D. is a rare combination of extraordinary compassion, scholarly research and education, spiritual commitment and wisdom, intuitive insights, and the courage to challenge a worldview which goes back 10,000 years
In this book, Tuttle explores humanity's relationship with the foods we eat. He points out, very convincingly, that when humans began herding animals, it began to create a consciousness of exploitation which then spread to the control and domination of other humans, as well as animals. So the roots of human's violence to humans are found in the practice of seeing animals as objects to exploit for our own purposes: for food, furs, labor, entertainment, "sport" and experimentation. The use of humans as slaves and the subjugation of women followed the subjugation and enslavement of animals.
One thing that sets this book apart from any of the others that describe the problems associated with a meat-based diet is the focus on the spiritual aspects of our diet. When we take food into our bodies, we are also ingesting the energy contained in this food. Animals that are tortured and filled with terror and agony as they are killed are filled with this very negative energy. When humans eat their flesh, we are also ingesting this fear and anger. This affects us deeply. We cannot live with peace in our hearts as long as we are filling our bodies with the pain and suffering of other beings.
Tuttle helps us to see that none of us have actually chosen a diet based upon meat. Our mothers fed us meat from our infancy. As we got old enough to understand that we were eating animals, we were told that animals were put here for us to eat, so it was okay. We didn't question this, any more than we questioned wearing clothes or taking baths. Thus, we absorbed the acceptance of exploitation of animals so naturally that we didn't know it was happening. And being unconscious, it is hard to recognize the violence that is part of our everyday lives through the eating of animals. Therefore, it is also hard to recognize how insensitive we have become to violence, because we have to protect ourselves from an awareness of the violence we are part of 3 times a day.
This is a very important book for everyone who wants their lives to contribute to more peace in the world, rather than more suffering and violence.
(Read the other reviews too!)
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