Vegan Spirituality Coaching:
For those who want to explore and/or increase the incorporation of Vegan Spirituality into their lives in the way They find works best for Them
Resources:
WorldPeaceDiet.com
Vegan Spirituality FaceBook group
Vegan Spirituality - Atlanta FaceBook group
Vegan Spirituality - Western PA FaceBook group
Quotes from Dr. Will Tuttle:
Our actions condition our consciousness; therefore forcing our children to eat animal foods wounds them deeply. It requires them to disconnect from the food on their plates, from their feelings, from animals and nature, and sets up conditions of disease and psychological armoring. The wounds persist and are passed on to the next generation.
Dr. Tuttle states that eating meat causes a "built-in mental disorder" on a cultural level.
In his book The World Peace Diet, he explains that to eat animal products, humans must completely suppress their natural empathy and awareness of the violence involved. He describes how this systemic disconnection and repressed guilt deeply fragment human consciousness, ultimately driving psychological distress, societal violence, and global conflict. Kindle p. 29.
It is understandable that although Vegans may suffer from this fragmented human consciousness, they may still feel deep distress caused by the legal and normalized harm being done to animals.
They may find some comfort in Gary Zukav's book,
Universal Human, where he asserts that The Universe is giving us the gift of expanded consciousness, and we will all get there in our own time.
It may help suffering Vegans to focus on being grateful they were given this gift sooner than others and focus on:
1) Feeling Compassion for those who have not yet been able to receive this gift and are suffering with all that comes with the continued fragmented consciousness, and
2) We can now see the light at the end of the tunnel: Voluminous research from scientifically credible sources has been released showing how eating meat and animal products are harmful. The time will come when treating animals the way our culture does will be viewed as another barbaric part of our history along with the witch trials, the holocaust, and slavery, and being
vegan will be considered normal.
Granted, this doesn't help stop the pain cause by the mistreatment of animals right now. You may find it helpful to also focus on not contributing to it in any way and gently educate people about how eating plants instead of animal products is healthier, remembering that if this is not done very gently, it will likely be rejected.
Gary Zukav writes in his book, Universal Human
(Kindle p. 234):
Previously human consciousness was bound to the evolution of physical matter. It plodded slowly through milennia. Now it is evolving explosively. The scope, scale, and velocity of this evolution are startling. From the perspective of our previous evolution it is occurring faster than a heartbeat, faster than an eye blink.
Hundreds of millions of humans are encountering new realms of experience and potential. Within a few generations, all humans will enter these realms. The transformation that is upon us is so profound and new that few could have imagined it or what we must now become in order to evolve.
In other words, all previous creation stories represent the birth of a five-sensory human species. They belong to the dying consciousness. Our new creation story is about the birth of a new human species that is not limited to the perceptions of the five senses. It belongs to us.
Our new creation story is unfolding inside us and outside us. We are living our new creation story. We stand in two worlds--the new consciousness and the old consciousness. The new consciousness and the old consciousness overlap temporarily in this time of transition. No humans have experienced this before. The dying consciousness is familiar to the five senses. It is imposing and rigid. The new consciousness is evident to our expanded perception. It is liberating and nurturing.
Audible version of Universal Human
by Gary Zukav
