Channeling
I meant to post this last week, but I forgot - still, better late than never.
Last weekend, I went to an evening of trance at a local spiritualist church - it’s where someone channels various ‘guides’ and entities, and they speak through the ‘channel’, which in this case, was a woman in her 50s or 60s. She was led into the room by two other women, and was already in a deep trance with her eyes shut, which she kept shut throughout, until the guides left her and then as herself she spoke to us, and did a quick Q&A before having tea and biscuits with the congregation.
This was the first time I had been to a channeling session, I have always been interested to see it, as the people supposedly take on to an extent the posture, facial expressions, and voice of the entity they channel. Even after this night, I am still a bit cynical about it, but it was definitely interesting to see.
This particular lady channeled 3-4 entities, we saw 3 that night. The main guide was called San-Chen, who spoke softly and answered most questions thoughtfully and well. A loud entity called Charlie came through for a question, and also a Native American man called Black Crow came through, and he was the one who answered my question.
Various questions were asked - about the astral planes, about healing, protecting yourself from lower entities. I had a few questions running through my mind that I wanted to ask:
1) What will happen in 2012 (a date that the Mayans predicted would see huge changes in human consciousness)
2) Indigo children - do they truly exist or is it a made-up label for hyperactive children
3) DNA activation - again, truth or fad? Do we really need to activate the other 22 strands of DNA, or are they truly ‘junk’ as scientists say they are?
In the end, I went for a question I knew no-one else would ask, and a question that I really wanted an answer for. I asked whether we are supposed to eat animals, and a Native American man came through (I leave it up to you whether you believe this or not because I cannot make your own mind up for you, cos that would be domineering and downright rude) and he said that when he walked the earth they took just what they needed and always thanked the spirits - which I am down with.
He said that now it has all gone wrong. He added that it’s a personal moral decision (I agree) and that it’s better to eat an animal who’s had a happy life and killed swiftly and thanked for their flesh than to eat processed factory animals.
He also added that people at one point (and still do in some cases) needed to eat lots of protein, but now humans are evolving to a lighter body that doesn’t need as much protein. He said there are some humans who still need lots of protein, and others that don’t.
I respect people (in a way) who can take the life of an animal, give thanks for it properly, and only eat what they need, like many tribes do.
What I do not respect is people who just eat eat eat and do not think about the suffering the animal has gone through. That I am not down with, and because that is so dominant in our world nowadays, I think that’s what’s caused veggie and veganism.
Note that veganism was only spawned at the beginning of the 20th century, when the world was becoming more and more industrialised and we moved away from genuine animal husbandry towards enslaving and mistreating animals purely for their flesh - which is often now ridden with hormones and antibiotics so it’s questionable how good it is for the human body anyway.
If someone is vegan and has occasional meat and dairy from an organic farm/fishery where the killing is quick and humane and the animals are treated well, then I have a respect for that. The one concession I make to my veganism is that I occasionally eat eggs from hens I know are not mistreated (hens raised by my father’s friend), and in no other instance. I would potentially consider eating fish if it was from a sustainable source, and killed quickly by myself.
But consuming animal products willy-nilly, and not questioning the bullshit and lies the meat and dairy companies tell you is cheating the animals, the planet, and yourself. THAT’S why I’m vegan. Until people learn to live more in harmony with nature, and treat animals properly, you will have always have such movements. People need to wake up.
Even if I did decide to eat fish from a sustainable source, I would never go back to meat or dairy. Studies have shown red meat has a link to bowel cancer, which my father had, luckily he recovered and is now in remission. Same goes for milk - studies have shown probable links to ovarian cancer, and I watched my mother die an EXTREMELY painful death from that disease at the tender age of 62. I am not going to be a victim like they were, simply to satisfy the overwhelming urge by society to conform, and to ‘treat’ my tastebuds.