shamanism - Spiritual Blogs - Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community2024-03-29T06:18:42Zhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/shamanismRecovering the Soulhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/recovering-the-soul2017-08-05T13:07:00.000Z2017-08-05T13:07:00.000ZApril Benderhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/AprilBender<div><div>by <a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html" target="_blank">April Bender</a> via integrated Overself<br /><br /></div><div class="separator"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ae43S5B5_es/WYTLaXzGeRI/AAAAAAAABSE/riFYDLyYOTcOdUXZ2FIwzqvj6Z6nfG2awCLcBGAs/s1600/underwater_dreamscene_hd_by_ezio17.jpg"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ae43S5B5_es/WYTLaXzGeRI/AAAAAAAABSE/riFYDLyYOTcOdUXZ2FIwzqvj6Z6nfG2awCLcBGAs/s400/underwater_dreamscene_hd_by_ezio17.jpg" width="400" alt="underwater_dreamscene_hd_by_ezio17.jpg" /></a></div><p><span>The soul is deep, watery, soothing, mysterious and unsettling. It is the deepest parts of the ocean, reflecting back the deepest part of self. At times calm and serene, sometimes terrifyingly tumultuous, and still other times wavy and playful. Mystical and alluring in its beauty and depth, and yet unsettling when experienced as a darkened void. The souls speaks to one through restless nights as well as blissful days, through one's deepest joys as well as their pain. It reflects one's earthy humanness, in the most exquisite shades and hues, reminding one of what it means to be truly alive.</span><br /><br /><span>The soul is one's own fluid nature as a child of Earth/Gaia/the Goddess, and she is a living, conscious manifestation of the blessed </span><a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-heart-one-mind-one-body.html" target="_blank">Divine Mother</a><span>. Her soul is that of the World's Soul of which one's soul is a part. One often thinks of the vertical dimension in relation to its spiritual height, but one must not forget the treasures to be found in combing the soulful depths below, or the womb-like realm of the feminine. Consider the following description:</span><br /><br /><span>"Soul is the invisible, mysterious, and softly radiant element that fuses your being and makes you human. Like plasma is in your veins, it gives you a sense of meaning, feeling, connection and depth. If you have soul, you have a visible glow and are alive and present."</span><br /><span> -Thomas Moore, </span><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Ones-Own-Creating-Spirituality/dp/1592408842/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1501873109&sr=8-1&keywords=a+religion+of+one%27s+own&linkCode=ll1&tag=aprsair-20&linkId=be97d63b1deab26d51e009f8211fc75f" target="_blank">A Religion of One's Own</a></i><br /><br /><span>I would add that Soul is one's source of vitality and sense of belonging on Earth as a child of the Divine Mother/Moon/Earth Goddess as well as the Heavenly Father/Sun (as dual aspects of Source, stepping down into materiality). This is why in many of the older cultures and languages of Earth, objects or nouns were designated as either masculine/feminine.</span><br /><br /><span>Let us now make the distinction between Soul and Spirit. Consider the following description of Spirit:</span><br /><br /><span>"Spirit directs your attention to the cosmos and planet, to huge ideas and vast adventures, to prayer and meditation and other spiritual practices, to a worldview and philosophy of life. Spirit expands your heart and mind, gives you vision and courage, and eventually leaves you with a strong sense of meaning and purpose."</span><br /><span> -Thomas Moore, </span><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Care-Soul-Twenty-fifth-Anniversary-Cultivating/dp/0062415670/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501873157&sr=1-1&keywords=care+of+the+soul&linkCode=ll1&tag=aprsair-20&linkId=3c746a6596606ab5bc146f77042336bc" target="_blank">Care of the Soul</a></i></p><p><a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2017/08/recovering-soul.html" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></div>The Re-Unification of Worlds Begins by April Benderhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/the-re-unification-of-worlds-begins-by-april-bender2017-07-29T17:00:00.000Z2017-07-29T17:00:00.000ZApril Benderhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/AprilBender<div><p>by <a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html">April Bender</a> via integrated Overself</p><div class="post-body-container"><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-8029026588563975279"><br /><div class="separator"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QSxTJg4jrFY/WXvXrjjuBWI/AAAAAAAABOc/0I0vTvSzW80c0f6ynqG49HGfO6CkwEHMACLcBGAs/s1600/20170401_202617.jpg"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QSxTJg4jrFY/WXvXrjjuBWI/AAAAAAAABOc/0I0vTvSzW80c0f6ynqG49HGfO6CkwEHMACLcBGAs/s400/20170401_202617.jpg" width="400" alt="20170401_202617.jpg" /></a></div>Another year has passed, another arc on the grand spiral of time. Your (April's) spirit/essence has lengthened profoundly in breadth as well as height and depth. It has been an expansive year and one of deep integration, and joyful alignment. A time of receiving from Spirit and nourishing Soul unlike any other. You are no longer you, as you have grown/expanded beyond identity, beyond human description, beyond light/dark, beyond form, beyond many such illusory boundaries – while still contained within a human vessel. You have reclaimed the knowledge, the wisdom, the truth contained within the deepest parts of Self, your ancestral blood, your connection to Gaia, Source/Creator, and your connection to worldly and otherworldly allies, seen and unseen (heavenly and planetary). You have served as a bridge, a friend, a code bringer, collaborator, and healer between worlds and as a result, have restored your sense of empowerment, strength, vitality, inner calm, and sense of belonging on this planet.<br /> <br /> This is every human's divine birthright and intended role, though many still struggle to break through the fog (the counter influences and illusions both internal/external), and claim it. But this is indeed what the collective is striving toward. Not only the reintegration and healing of fragmentation and separation, but also the healing of relationships throughout the Web of Life in order to restore greater harmony between worlds. And to be candid, this is the only thing slowing down the actualization of the new paradigm, the ascended Earth experience, or the re-enchantment/sacralization of the world. Everything else has been given and continues to be gifted.<br /> <br /> Many lightworkers as well as other spiritual initiates working for the greater good and upliftment of humanity and planetary conditions need to realize, <a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2017/07/new-integrations-return-to-wholeness.html" target="_blank">as you did</a>, that as a multidimensional being there is more than one aspect of Self, and that these Selves need to be retrieved, integrated and aligned in order to fully reclaim and actualize their divine birthright and ascend as well as to better aid in the ascension/restoration of planetary life.<br /> <b><br /></b> <b>The time has now come for all way-showers to become aware of these various aspects of Self, the various Orders and Hierarchies of Life/Spirit, and humanity's true role within Creation</b> – at least to some degree. Or to put it plainly, it's time for the rounding out of one's spiritual/mystical education in anticipation of the next stage of human evolution – the soulful spiritual evolution/revolution that will see humanity throw off the shackles of illusion and claim its rightful place among Creation. But first, one must awaken to the full truth and glory of who they are. May they come to realize as you have, that your Higher Self (also known as “star or upper world walker” in other traditions) is only one aspect – there is also in the main the Physical Self, and the Dream/Underworld/Soulful Self.<br /> <br /> The Higher Self walks and communes with the Heavenly/Cosmic Hierarchy and receives glimpses into the divine cosmic plan and overall cosmology; the Dream/Underworld/Soul Self walks and communes with the <a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-heart-one-mind-one-body.html" target="_blank">Divine Mother</a>/Planetary Hierarchy and receives glimpses of the divine template for Earth/Gaia and this Self keeps one's vessel and one's energy vital and alive; lastly one's Physical Self serves as the manifest/material world bridge and point of expression/communication and integration between the other two. It is through the Physical Self that you express this inner/outer integration.<br /> <br /> Most spiritual path initiates (in whatever tradition they work with) tend to focus and express through mostly two of these aspects of Self. But all three must be activated, brought into active partnership, aligned, and consciously worked with. Many lightworkers for instance, prefer only to commune with Higher Self and do not want to ground within the Earth/Gaia. There is too much pain, misery, suffering they say, instead they cannot wait to go home – and yet how are they to transmute it and complete their work if they do not want to get their feet (or chakras) dirty? They do not want to accept or embrace their full nature but by being born and incarnated into a human body they are as much of Earth (and soulful living) as Cosmic in origin (and spiritual living), and there is no avoiding passing through both those levels of initiation/education in order to further progress as individuals, as well as help the healing of this planetary world in the <i>fastest</i> and most effective way possible.<br /> <br /> In general, one must be open to learning to work and commune with all orders of Life (seen and unseen) within the local system of which they are a part – or at the very least, become aware and respectful of their presence. As you have discovered, powerful bonds and alliances can be created through friendship, exchange, and support that serve you as much as them. And the vast majority of them, want nothing more than the restoration/ascension of the Gaiac/Earthly experience. Humans were never meant to walk alone, for true strength, empowerment, and vitality comes with the recognition of our inherent unity with other forms of life and/or other forms of consciousness. And these consciousness forms/orders of life are broken or stunted in some way as well, because of the brokenness in humanity.<br /> <br /> <b>All forms of life/consciousness within a local system and spiraling out to connected systems, were meant to exchange energy and information with one another, to be in relationship together</b> – not to be an island upon themselves. And this has been the greatest lie thrust upon humanity – that one is on their own, that one is somehow separate – that other realms or forms of life (seen/unseen) don't exist and if they do, they are evil, untrustworthy and not to be meddled with. And yet they all exist in the first place to be of service to humanity's growth, evolution, and the overall planetary experience. After all, Earth was meant to be a place of rich experience and higher learning - not one of egregious suffering.<br /> <br /> Many earthly realms are considered dark, shadowy, and hellish in nature. The Earth has been bathed in the blood of the suffering, how could it not be so? And while yes, these imprints and memories have been stored within the Earth, within one's psyche's, within one's blood (as you are born of the Earth), they are not evil or out to get anyone. They simply seek acknowledgment, love and healing (just like humanity does) and must be integrated if a healing and eventually a restoration is to be realized, in Self and the greater Collective. There are also many beautiful, joyful and magical realms within Earth to experience as well and many lost aspects of Self within these soulful depths to be retrieved and integrated. All of these things are certainly worth the trouble of such deep excursions.<br /> <br /> For example, the template (or divine plan) that must be restored dwells within the depths of the Earth. It's always been there, a brightly glowing seed/sun that has continued to hold the original intent or etheric blueprint of Earth as well as the etheric blueprint of the Adam Kadmon. Aside from these blueprints, also found within Earth and its many realms are the Planetary Hierarchy including: the Council of 7 (the other councils extend outward from Earth), <a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-heart-one-mind-one-body.html" target="_blank">the world soul (the Divine Feminine/Mother)</a>, one's Soul Self, one's ancestors when not incarnate (moving throughout the inner mansion worlds/lower heavens and yet still attuned to you), the spirits of the plant and animal kingdoms, the mineral intelligences who are very high orders of beings incarnating a small aspect of Self within the planetary experience, the Sidhe/Faery or the “shining ones” and/or Argathans (those who are further along in Earth's evolution than current humanity and who long ago went underground), the elemental and directional spirits, and the spirits of place, not to mention the inner passage from Earth to her many sister realms as recorded in the myths of old.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-re-unification-of-worlds-intensifies.html" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></div></div></div>A PRESENTATION ON MAGIC, RELIGION, AND SCIENCEhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/a-presentation-on-magic-religion-and-science2017-07-28T20:19:55.000Z2017-07-28T20:19:55.000ZApril Benderhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/AprilBender<div><div class="separator"></div><p><a href="https://youtu.be/u-DOXie3FmI">https://youtu.be/u-DOXie3FmI</a></p><p><br /><span>I am excited to share this very engaging presentation by Dean Radin at the Science and NonDuality Conference as it offers readers an inside look at some of the scientific research and findings coming out in experiments conducted in non-local consciousness phenomena, psi research and quantum field "observer" affects through the lens of magic. I share this as evidence and affirmation that the new paradigm and worldview that we all seek manifestation of and have worked so hard for (5D) is at hand. Changes and profound shifts are afoot in many scientific fields, institutions and disciplines and it is my pleasure to share one powerful example and leader of this most needed paradigm shift/movement. It is my desire to inspire and affirm you by periodically sharing such ground-breaking research and resources.</span><br /><br /><span>Enjoy,</span><br /><span>April of </span><a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">April's Airings</a><br /><br /><i>Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the <a href="http://noetic.org/about/overview" target="_blank">Institute of Noetic Sciences</a> (IONS). He earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He is author or coauthor of over 250 technical and popular articles, three dozen book chapters, and three books including the best-selling <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Universe-Scientific-Psychic-Phenomena/dp/0061778990/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501248921&sr=1-1&keywords=the+conscious+universe&linkCode=ll1&tag=aprsair-20&linkId=41c8a65e47cce3b206e96e36ae505af1" target="_blank">The Conscious Universe</a> (HarperOne, 1997), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Minds-Extrasensory-Experiences-Quantum/dp/1416516778/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1501248860&sr=8-1&keywords=entangled+minds+radin&linkCode=ll1&tag=aprsair-20&linkId=50ad708ee0d522320b0c7082a825b60f" target="_blank">Entangled Minds</a>(Simon & Schuster, 2006), and the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Science-Evidence-Extraordinary-Abilities/dp/030798690X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501248960&sr=1-1&keywords=supernormal&linkCode=ll1&tag=aprsair-20&linkId=482251cc8cece9adaf35eec99b93efea" target="_blank">SUPERNORMAL</a>(Random House, 2013).</i><a href="https://youtu.be/u-DOXie3FmI">https://youtu.be/u-DOXie3FmI</a></p></div>NEW INTEGRATIONS: A RETURN TO WHOLENESS AND THIS BLOGhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/new-integrations-a-return-to-wholeness-and-this-blog2017-07-28T12:06:37.000Z2017-07-28T12:06:37.000ZApril Benderhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/AprilBender<div><div class="separator"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BnROnshiFNc/WXph2u30HPI/AAAAAAAABMs/vJhuPD0hUwUhA_F1ra_Rh3GG_cD9ab7tACLcBGAs/s1600/6e9eca8f-c7a5-4753-887b-9a164f2375e8.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BnROnshiFNc/WXph2u30HPI/AAAAAAAABMs/vJhuPD0hUwUhA_F1ra_Rh3GG_cD9ab7tACLcBGAs/s320/6e9eca8f-c7a5-4753-887b-9a164f2375e8.jpg" width="240" alt="6e9eca8f-c7a5-4753-887b-9a164f2375e8.jpg" /></a></div><p><span>Greetings friends,</span><br /><br /><b><span>April's Airings is back!</span></b><br /><br /><i>These past three years or so have been an incredible journey for me to the very soulful depths of my being. </i><span>While I am sorry for my inconsistency in messages during this time, in order to become an even better and more refined channel and healer, this hiatus and some additional training, practice, and study was necessary. I felt overall, that I needed to return to a sense of "wholeness of being" and that I should focus the majority of my energies on this goal.</span><br /><br /><span>You see I realized I was sorely imbalanced, working mostly in and connecting with the upper realms, while beautiful and peaceful, left me not feeling like I belonged or wanted to be on Earth. When I eventually came back down so to speak, I felt only the pang of longing for a home seemingly so far away from our lowly material one. Sound familiar?</span><br /><br /><span>This is perhaps why you've noticed my channeled messages having a bit of an earth-based flavor in the last year or so. I have indeed been working intensely the last three years within various earth-based traditions: Native American, Shamanism (both Native American, Harner's frame, and Celtic), Celtic spirituality and seership practices, and Appalachian Folk Magic. I even made my own hand-held drum with a Michigan Ojibwa tribal elder/leader as well as trained with </span><a href="https://www.shamanism.org/" target="_blank">The Foundation for Shamanic Studies</a><span> for shamanic journeying. I learned a great deal about and received many gifts from the Lower World as well as the Upper World through this practice.</span><br /><br /><span>I learned how to expand my inner channels of communication not only with Upper World beings but with Lower (animal collective essences, planetary heirarchy, the Fey) and Middle World (our physical everyday Earth reality) beings as well. This includes discarnate and incarnate essences. I reconnected and bonded with my earthly ancestors, just as deeply as I am connected with and bonded to my star family. I have made friends and allies with life force essences on many levels of creation as well as Self on many levels of creation. These days, I never walk alone or just with Higher Self, now I actually have a posse! I've never felt more supported and loved in my journey on Earth as I do now. Every morning I awake before dawn in order to welcome the wisdom and energies of the East and to ground and protect myself within my circle of the 7 directions.</span><br /><br /><span>I've also embraced my creativity in ways I had not thought possible. I've been joyfully drawing, painting, and writing poetry. Most of it is inspired by nature, beauty, relationships...LIFE, or as </span><a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_5.html" target="_blank">Thomas Moore</a><span> would say "soul." I learned that spirit/spirituality is not the same as soul/soulful...and that is one distinction that all light-workers and those working towards ascension should know. It would save them from experiences of serious discomfort, loss of health/vitality, and the feeling of desperate homesickness. Connecting with the Earth and Earth Goddess/Divine Feminine energy is necessary and vital, as she sustains our physical existence and inspires us toward the realm of Higher Spirit in multiple ways. So a balance or better yet a partnership between the two is crucial: both spirit and soul; upper and lower world; Mother Earth and Father Sky. We are the conduits to hold and integrate these differing energies/aspects, thus bridging heaven/Earth and what we perceive as duality within us. This is how we and the Earth ascend. Or as many indigenous cultures and magic practitioners put it, the "re-enchantment of the world" begins.</span><br /><br /><span>I also trudged through as much of my psychological belief system network as I could, examining the intricate circuitry of every line and connection. I also read, researched, and studied...voraciously which aided in this self-psychological examination. I stumbled across such illuminations as </span><a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_5.html" target="_blank">Matthew Fox's</a><span> work concerning the concept of "original sin" versus the truth of "original blessing," and all the heartache that has been caused in the world as a result of St. Augustine's ridiculous original sin decree. Is it no wonder that woman, indigenous and other creation-based tradition peoples, the Earth and her creatures have been treated so abysmally? In a fall/redemption, patriarchal paradigm where these things are considered "fallen" or "lowly" of course they are going to be raped, trampled upon, abused, mistrusted, and disregarded. In looking at my own belief systems around this, I realized that yes, even some of the implications of this mindset still lingered within me due to societal conditioning. And this was just one example of such enlightening reading that lead to conversations and reflections with Self to restructure my beliefs and therefore, thinking/manifesting processes.</span><br /><br /><span>I share all this with you dear reader as background context to the redesign and relaunch of </span><a href="https://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">April's Airings</a><span>. I've changed the look, feel and future content of the blog to reflect what is now a more whole, refined, and integrated (ascended and grounded) April. As a result, I will not only offer channeled messages on this blog but also articles, resources, personal musings, and creative expressions in the form of poetry and art. Please take or consume what resonates and feel free to discard the rest. With the relaunch of this blog, I commit whole-heartedly to regular posts and/or timely communications. And please, as always, share your thoughts and experiences with me via the comments section.</span><br /><br /><span>Thank you so much for walking with me on this incredible epic journey...</span><br /><br /><span>In love, light, and immense gratitude,</span><br /><span>April</span></p></div>Meat? Vegies? who is right?https://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right2012-07-03T20:31:25.000Z2012-07-03T20:31:25.000ZAnushhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/Anush<div><p>For a long time this debate has raged. Some wont eat meat as it is wrong to kill something to eat, as animals has souls too. The debate has raged for such a long time and no-one ever end up being right. As there is no right and wrong in this. Its a matter of choice.</p><p>Here I will attempt to <a href="http://newworldilluminists.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">bring</a> together a few views and research, so that you the reader can decide on what side of the fence you are or maybe even on the fence. The choice are <a href="http://crystalseed.ning.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">your</a> own.</p><p style="text-align:center;">----------------------------------</p><p>On 2 February 1966 a world leading Polygraph expert, Cleve Baxter, made an astounding discovery. It was one of those finds that a scientist comes across while looking for something else. In this case there was a plant sale near his office, and his secretary brought in a couple of plants. He saturated then with water, curious as to how long it would take for the moisture to reach the top of the plants, particularly with the Dracaena cane, since the moisture had to climb a long way to the top and to the end of the leaves. He places electrodes that measured the galvanic skin response (one part of the lie detector) in several places to measure the resistance. When the moisture reached a particular electrode, the resistance would drop and be recorded since water is a conductor, not a resistor.</p><p>Baxter noted something unusual on the chart that looked more like what would be expected is a person were taking a lie detector test, even though moisture hadn't yet <a href="http://crystalseed.ning.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">entered</a> the leaf. From this discovery he got curious as to how the plant might react to a threat. He has the image of burning the leaf that he was testing and without having verbalized the thought, he touched the plant with he equipment, and the pen jumped off the chart. He got matches from the secretary's desk and waved a lit one by the leaf a few times, but the reaction was already so intense that it didn't make a difference. When he took the matches <a href="http://newworldilluminists.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">back</a> to the desk in the other room, the plant calmed down.</p><p>He realized that something quite significant was happening, and from there on he dedicated his time and attention to <a href="http://crystalseed.ning.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">look</a> further into this phenomenon. He did various experiments that showed that plants did perceive and respond to human emotions. Rather than calling this capacity extrasensory perception (ESP), he called it Primary perception, since plants don't process sensory apparatus that humans do. Primary perception is something that takes place at a much more fundamental level. Others began to call this the "Baxter effect".</p><p>In the article titled "Man in partnership with Nature" (<a href="http://thenaturelyceum.org/findhorn2.html">http://thenaturelyceum.org/findhorn2.html</a>), Jeff Frank writes.</p><p>Mr Baxter proved scientifically that plants could think and respond! A Consciousness!... Baxter did months of research and found plants respond to threats as well as healing peaceful thoughts. Plants <a href="http://newworldilluminists.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">love</a> to <a href="http://crystalseed.ning.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">listen</a> to easy-listening music and classical music (but no heavy metal) and seemed to be attuned to animal life. The plants wound actually tell when a human subject on the polygraph machine was lying! Baxter found out in stress conditions, as when it is being cut, a plant will "faint" so it can't feel any pain, it goes "flat line" on the machine. With fruit, the plant <a href="http://newworldilluminists.com/profiles/blogs/meat-vegies-who-is-right?xg_source=activity#" style="text-decoration:underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">wish</a> to give up its fruit only in a loving ritual, a communion between the eater and the eaten, a sacrifice. Baxter said, "It may be that a vegetable appreciates becoming another part of another form-of life rather than rotting on the ground, just as a humans death may experience relief to find himself on a higher realm of "being"</p><p>After Baxter's initial discovery, there was considerable interest and further replication of his results by others, yet the Western science community generally reacted with derisiveness followed by ultimately ignoring his work. On the other hand, when Baxter discussed his findings with a Indian Scientist, Buddhist or Hindu he stated, ("Instead of giving me a bunch of grief, they say, "What took you so long?" My work dovetails with many of the concepts embraced by Hinduism and Buddhism." Its also dovetails with what the Findhorn community was discovering at about the same time, what quantum physicists have been telling us, and the research on DNA cited earlier in this book.</p><p style="text-align:center;">--------- taken from the book Earth Magick by Steven D. Farmer-----------</p><p style="text-align:left;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aZaokNmQ4eY?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:left;"></p><p>This clip show more on just how receptive plants are.</p><p>During my training as Shaman and Druid, I was told to go talk to a tree. I thought my guides has gone bonkers. Yet something in me told me to do that. I have learned to open to animals and to speak with them, so why not plants. I went outside took my chair, placed it under the old Oak tree and listened. A hour passed, the horses and the cats came over and settled around me. Then just when I was about to give up, I felt the flicker. A really light touch. At first I thought it was one of the animals, but eventually realized that it was the tree.</p><p>When learning to speak to animals you learn that they have very little words, they speak in emotions and pictures. Domestic animals and familiars tend to speak telepathically, as they learn from young to respond to our language. Trees and plants speak is different, its slow, gentle, fluid. They use energy and emotions, and pictures. That tree showed me its life, pictures of people that moves around it, a little girl sitting under it when she was really sad. How he comforted her. It was aware of all the other plants and animals around it. It was able to communicate to them, as the older ones remember the season cycle, it gives the other plants the ques as to when to conserve energy and water, and when its a time of abundance. They learn, feel, are sad, happy, etc.</p><p>It shocked me at first, but also helped me remember the old teachings, the ancient druid teaching of the old druids that once roamed this world. In a time when nature was still respected. When the plants and the animals meant companionship, healing, food and shelter.</p><p>In the movie Avatar, the man learn to hunt, learn to kill the animal, saying a incantation over him, thanking him for his sacrifice, so that they can live. This is something many do not understand. This system was build for service in love. The souls that come here has to learn to serve those around them in love, and in return they serve themselves. The plant sacrifice its life for the animal to eat, so that it can live. It leaves its life force behind while its soul move on and return to source. The animals body uses that life force as well as the nutrients that is the plants makeup. Us as humans eat the plant and the animals, their sacrifice give us life force. Something our bodies need.</p><p>Animal life force are stronger, its a warmer energy, where plant life force are of a colder energy, together they are what balance the human's life force. the eating of either one or both is a matter of choice. None is right or wrong.</p><p>what is however a issue, is that food produced in a wrong way can affect your life force. There is much research on this issue, but that is another discussion.</p><p>Being vegetarian, or not, is a life choice, you can not tell others their choice is wrong, as its not. A plant gave his life so you can eat, or a animal gave its life. which is right the pot or the kettle, their both in the fire and both burned black.</p><p>You as reader decide it remain our own personal choice.</p></div>