Many continue to hold false and unenlightened beliefs regarding the natural world, justifying cruelty and promoting dominance over the natural kingdoms as being the right of humans. This is particularly obvious with regard to the animal kingdom. These beliefs are usually justified by insisting that the bible clearly says man has dominion over all species– a grossly incorrect interpretation of words meant to imply dominion as caring for, protecting, and looking after the natural world.
There is only ONE–one consciousness, one life, one mind, one reality making that ONE the substance from which everything is formed. Since nothing can exist outside of omnipresence, the human, animal, plant, crystal, devic, elemental, nature spirit kingdoms and planet earth herself can only be in and of that ONE.
Nature in all its expressions is alive, conscious, deserving, and entitled to the right to live and express just as much as humans are. Even rocks have consciousness. Everything seen, heard, tasted, touched, and smelled in the third dimension is a spiritual reality, a Divine Idea, an expression of the ONE, being interpreted and translated by mind according to individual and collective states of consciousness.
Because nothing exists outside of the one Divine Consciousness (God) man as an individualization of that ONE is creative and Consciousness is the substance from which he creates. of form. States of consciousness conditioned with beliefs of duality, separation, and external powers that control and dominate have created the three dimensional world you know in which some lives have value and other lives do not–self being most valuable.
Native cultures from all parts of the world, understood the oneness of life and lived for the most part with respect in alignment with the natural world. If there was a need for skins and furs for warmth or animals meat for food, they preceded their hunts with ceremonies asking permission from God and animals willing to allow themselves to be taken. Afterward there were ceremonies of gratitude to God and the animal kingdoms for the sacrifices.
So called “smarter” humans quickly relegated those living in harmony with the natural world to being ignorant savages simply because they did not accept the beliefs of those who considered themselves to be smarter, wiser, and more civilized. Through ego based erroneous beliefs that human intellect and mind are the highest measure of intelligence, these pompous and “more civilized” people as well as many organized religions categorized sacred rituals of Oneness and truth as nothing more than primitive nonsense or paganism.
Those who live only through the mind or interpret every word of the bible literally may be intellectual and well educated but spiritually are very un-evolved, incapable of understanding deeper truth because their mind and consciousness is already filled to capacity with self righteous concepts and beliefs about everything and anything.
Earth is a living soul just as is all life. Earth is not a piece of dirt to be used and abused by those ignorant of her reality. It is time for those living on this spiritually evolving planet to realize and embrace the sacredness of all life, not just the life of themselves or family and friends. Divine Life, God, Source Life, must be understood and accepted as being the life of all life. No one has or can ever give humans the right to take another’s life for pleasure, dominance, or any other reason.
Meditate on this; Since there is only ONE LIFE, whose life is taken? This is the source and bottom line of the karmic situations people find themselves in.
“The Lion will lie down with the Lamb” is a combination of bible quotes all inferring that as mankind evolves into a higher state of awareness, the energy that now manifests on earth as killing, maiming, and hunting will no longer exist. These old ideas are based entirely in beliefs of duality and separation that have been carried from lifetime to lifetime when the ignorance of spiritual truth was the dominant state of collective consciousness making survival everyone’s priority.
This is why there are increasingly more vegan and vegetarian movements. It is not just evolved health awareness but is the dawning of a new and more evolved collective consciousness opening to the fact that all life is sacred.
Animals have consciousness. Animals reincarnate. Animals evolve. They are not “soulless beasts” available to be used and misused for the pleasure of humans. Animals are in and of the angelic realm and are on earth to evolve, serve, and love. They are examples, they heal, they love, they absorb negative energies, and are companions and fellow travelers.
As more and more individuals come to understand ONENESS and allow it to be their state of consciousness, the ability to see and communicate more fully with the natural world will become ordinary.
Trees have always and will continue to speak silently to anyone willing to be quiet, receptive, suspend doubt, and listen. Animals speak intuitively as well as vocally and are easily understood by those in energetic alignment with them. It is only as an individual moves out of and beyond separation, that they will start to communicate with all forms of nature. All natural kingdoms are always speaking but mankind in his arrogance is not listening.
All who seek to spiritually evolve must at some point accept that human life is not the only life of value. That there is only One Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient life and it is forever expressing ITSELF as infinite form and variety.
Marilyn Raffaele 4/10/17 updated 9/25