Make Peace by Being Peace

Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth

We cannot really move forward individually and collectively without first making our peace with the planet and all its life forms. It is time to cherish and honor everything that is given to us. Taking the lives of animals and eating them is not their choice. We have put ourselves above other beings that share their presence with us on this Earth. But such superior behavior is backfiring now. Chief Seattle rightly said: “All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. Man does not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

This also applies to the creatures of the Earth. Cows in particular exhibit the qualities of contentedness, gentleness and motherliness. Humans greatly benefit from seeing cows in their natural settings. The cows, which embody the Divine Feminine, instill sacred imagery in our heart and thereby strengthen our feminine qualities of love and tenderness. But we have distanced ourselves so far from our own Divine qualities that we are unable to even conceive of the Divine qualities that all the other creatures living on the Earth represent. The human race at large has denied its Divine Feminine for a long time. As a result of suppressing these nourishing and giving qualities, the aggressive and hostile masculine qualities became the rule of life on Earth.

The exploitation of cows, pigs, sheep, horses, chicken, sea creatures and natural resources has been an exploitation of the Divine Feminine in all these creatures and Mother Earth; it reflects the exploitation of our own feminine essence. We have dishonored and disrespected nature and its creatures because we dishonored and disrespected the Divine Feminine within ourselves. It is the lack of connection with our Divine Feminine that makes it possible for us to kill and eat animals and to destroy our natural world. There are basically two ways to save our environment from further destruction, both of which are already being enacted.

The first and most preferable one is to enliven our inner Divine nature, which naturally translates into a harmonious and caring relationship with the natural world. This may not be easy because it involves the experience of pain that we ourselves have inflicted upon the creatures of Earth, and thereby ourselves, during the eons of abuse and exploitation. This pain is reflected in the current public outcry of large numbers of people who feel they are being called to save the environment from further degradation. Animal protection groups, Greenpeace, ‘Save the Planet’ organizations, etc, are desperately trying to avert the danger that has already come. The more people who start to feel the pain that we all have directly or indirectly ’caused’ to the humans and other creatures sharing our space, and to the Earth herself, the more quickly will we all transform into a harmonious organism of oneness, love and power. Feeling the pain allows us to become peace and to make peace with life.

Disease Starts In The Minds of Men

The second and even more painful solution to heal the imbalanced and wounded relationship between humans and their planet is through disease. The famous words “Wars start in the minds of men” can also be applied to human health. Diseases start in our minds too. They originate in the imbalanced perception of who we are. The new diseases brought to us through animals, such as Mad Cow Disease, merely reflect our own distorted (mad) thinking. The cows are driven mad because we have no respect for them and for their offspring. We even feed them with animal flesh, which completely goes against their bodies’ natural design. Apart from harboring multiple numbers of worms and parasites, their dead flesh contains dozens of poisonous chemicals, hormones, and drugs. They do not mean to harm us, but our actions and passiveness have enslaved them to participate in another human holocaust. The list of diseases caused by eating meat and dairy foods is nearly endless, diseases that are virtually non-existent in places where people do not eat such foods. It drives the cows ‘insane’ to be a part of this massive decimation of the human population. If we are in our hearts, we must be feeling their pain now, as they are slaughtered in their millions at the hands of those who act as butchers on behalf of much of humanity.

Although diseases like Foot and Mouth Disease are no longer a threat to either animal or humans, an outdated post-war law demands the destruction of all farm animals if even only one becomes infected. Foot and Mouth Disease is as dangerous for animals as a cold is for us; the ulcerating sores that form around the mouth and feet heal within two weeks and in nearly all cases the animals recover completely, even leaving it immune against future infection. The disease doesn’t affect the quality of the milk or meat. It is then ironic that those who have profited from exploiting large numbers of farm animals are now experiencing untold hardship and suffering due to an outdated law that forces them to kill their animals and shut down their businesses.

Outbreaks of animal diseases force us to deal with our abusiveness and lack of respect for life and the natural environment. We are collectively participating in the trauma that the animal kingdom has been subjected to for a long time. The animals (through their diseases) show us that feeding them their brethren’s flesh and bones is similar to feeding blood to a human baby. They let us know that the ‘inhuman’ ways with which we are raising, treating and killing them in order to make greater profits bear no fruit in the long term. So the real reason behind the unnecessary destruction of hundreds of thousands of farm animals is a wakeup call for humanity to make peace with all animals, and respect and honor their lives as we respect and honor our own loved ones. As so often in the past, we have chosen to learn this the hard way.

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This is an excerpt from my book LIFTING THE VEIL OF DUALITY