basic question

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Hi Ashtarra,

 

I really enjoyed your thoughts. I do want to say, however, that I know

plenty of vegetarians/vegans who are stuck in samsara (we all are to

varying degrees). Evolutionary consciousness goes hand in hand with our

awareness and flexibility and desire to want to stop suffering... At

least this is where my thoughts are at present - they will probably

change as everything does... :-)

 

I could write on and on, but I wanted to acknowledge your email and

thank you for posting it.

 

Linda

 

 

 

> Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:37:40 -0400

> " Ashtarra J. Brissette " <arcadiapress

>Re: basic question

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>Hi :

>I wonder if the jump in the evolutionary consciousness is really

>associated with the consumption of meat. People can propose all kinds

>of theories to support and justify what they want to believe...Another

>new theory brain researchers are proposing has developed by looking at

>individual jumps in consciousness. They are looking at the brains of

>babies and are suggesting that at the point that babies begin to walk,

>there is a huge jump in brain function (a maturing for that stage of

>development) that coordinates the shift from crawling and babbling to

>walking and talking. I think this individual shift for babies mirrors

>what happened on a much larger level when there was an evolutionary

>jump...it was time. There are other " theories " and maybe heartfelt

>feelings that people, who choose to eat " lighter, " abstain from meat,

>and do the work on themselves in order to live peacefully, are laying

>down the groundwork for there to be another human evolutionary jump in

>brain functioning and ultimately world peace. Marharishi of the

>Transcendental Meditation group, has plenty of research in well

>respected journals that speaks to the change in brain wave patterns once

>people meditate for a few months. Maybe you can get some of those

>articles Bev, because I've read some of the research (usually under

>transcendental meditation in medical journals), and they talk about the

>effect of a vegetarian diet, a change in lifestyle (such as doing

>meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc.), and the impact on the evolution of the

>brain....Blessings, Ashtarra

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