Many continue to hold false and unenlightened beliefs about 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 and that ONE is the substance of all that is. Since Divine omnipresence means that nothing else exists, 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 as the manifestation of God 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 can exist outside of one omnipresent Divine Consciousness (God) man as an individualized expression of God is creative and Divine Consciousness is the substance from which he creates. Mankind through states of consciousness conditioned with beliefs of duality, separation, and external powers that control and dominate have created for themselves a world that reflects this, a world of separation in which some lives have value and other lives do not–self being considered as most valuable.
Native cultures world over have understood the oneness of life and for the most part lived their lives with respect and 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 orthodox beliefs of those who considered themselves to be smarter, wiser, and more civilized. Through the ego based erroneous belief that the human intellect and minds 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 truths because their mind and consciousness is already filled to capacity with self righteous concepts and beliefs about everything and everybody.
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 to be the only life and therefore the life of all life. No one ever 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, abused, controlled, damaged, or threatened? This truth is bottom line of almost karmic situations people find themselves in.
“The Lion will lie down with the Lamb” is a combination of bible quotes that infer that as mankind evolves into a higher state of awareness, the energy of killing, maiming, and hunting will no longer exist even in the animal kingdom. These concepts are based entirely in the collective belief in separation, beliefs that have been carried into every lifetime from when spiritual ignorance was the dominant state of collective consciousness and survival everyone’s priority.
This is why you are seeing increasingly more vegan and vegetarian movements. It is not just evolved health awareness but is the dawning of a new and more evolved collective that is 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 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 become 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 beyond separation, that they will start to communicate with all forms of nature. The 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 with value, that there is only One Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient life and that Life is forever expressing ITSELF in and as infinite form and variety.
Marilyn Raffaele 4/10/17 updated 4/26