Fruit or Friend?
Amazon just sent me an email highlighting their Vegan-friendly gifts. It included t-shirts and shopping bags with the slogan ‘Eat fruit, not friends’. This immediately made me feel conflicted as it implies that there are certain objects in life that are conscious such as animals and other things that are inanimate and unconscious such as plants.
But when you are a multidimensional person, tuned into many levels of consciousness, you realise that nothing is an inanimate object so the concept that some things are living and conscious and other objects are not, just doesn’t work. It also raises the issue of what to eat when you are dimensionally aware.
Consciousness in all things
Ever since I had a kundalini awakening when I was 18 years old, I have been tuned in to many levels of reality and I realised that everything is actually part of the one mind. It was a moment that profoundly changed my life.
So now I am able to sense the consciousness in all things – both so-called inanimate and animate. And I am not just talking about hearing the spirit of trees, I have even been known to have chats with pieces of furniture! This level of functioning is a bit too much for everyday life so I tend to tune it out.
The Confessions of Basil
A few years ago I had an experience which really made me rethink what it is to be vegan or vegetarian. In the days when I was still eating meat, I was cooking a meal that involved fresh basil. I had shopped for this meal in Tesco supermarket on one of my late night shopping trips after the gym, so none of the packet basil was left. I picked up one of the living herb pots and brought it home.
Later, whilst cooking with the basil and tearing off some of the leaves I heard, with my clairaudient ability, somebody saying ‘ouch’ in an indignant fashion. Perturbed, I carried on but I realised that the Basil plant was speaking to me and telling me its annoyance at having its leaves torn off!
Although I cooked the meal, I continued to ‘hear’ the Basil plant as it complained about being treated in this way. Through telepathic communication, it told me of factory farming of herbs and how difficult it was for them.
I must say I was a bit concerned I would no longer be able to eat anything. I mean if both animals and plants are so alive to me, then what exactly can I eat?
Lessons from Baz and Paz
I told James who thankfully understood and Baz, as he became known, became a member of the family taking pride of place in my office in our then home in Buxton. He started to grow so large that we re-potted him several times.
Me and Baz
We took him for ‘walks’ whilst he was still small enough for us to carry him and he would sit outside in Nature facing the trees in the woods. One day he said, “shall I show you how we talk?” And then he sang a song of consciousness in vibration and colour. He was singing to the trees. He told me that this is how plants communicate.
I also heard Italian Parsley (or Paz as she became known) talk to Baz about their purpose in life. Paz said to Baz, “this is our lot. We are grown to be eaten and then we are born again. Nourishing humans is our purpose.”
But Baz wasn’t having any of it. No humans were worthy of eating his leaves. Now I understand why Basil has a reputation of being King of herbs although, in Native India, Basil is seen as sacred and the Queen of herbs.The British Empire changed it into a masculine herb!
Tuning into your body’s needs
Although I am vegan now, apart from the odd bit of fish, I am not doing this just out of concern for animal cruelty. Truth is, I have long had a difficult relationship with meat and dairy even as a small child and it has been a relief that, as a woman, I have now entered a different phase in life and my body no longer feels like it needs meat.
Spare a thought for the plants and remember Baz
So going back to the Amazon T-shirt slogan, ‘Eat Fruit, not friends’ – to me, there is nothing that isn’t our ‘ friend’. Plants are our friends too. So if you are vegan because you believe that this is the cruelty-free way, spare a thought for the plants who are factory farmed, who feel pain and sacrifice themselves to be part of our cycle of life.
Sadly Basil, a native of much hotter climes did not make it through the cold winter of the Peak District despite a valiant attempt to make it through. As he left me he told me to look for him in all Basil plants as his spirit would go back to be at one with them all.
Baz got even bigger than this!
I hope you have enjoyed the story of Baz. Do let me know what you think in the comments below. 🙂
Image: Pixabay
Hello and thanks for sharing your experience of life in this level of consciousness we call human and even though we humans have many levels of consciousness available to us our particular choice is based mostly on the DNA we are born with and the subconsciousness awareness we recognize as we grow. So it appears that you are aware of much more subtle energy than most of us are or at least you are more in-tuned with it. It is valuable for those of us like myself who have only heard of these connections to become aware of them at least. So we can grow to add the possibility to our own lives and maybe even more since we would bring a new viewpoint for the same sort of information. So, thanks again and I wish you luck in relaying as much of your awareness that you can to this world where the money people are always controlling what we are supposed to believe. I prefer to believe in people such as yourself who are expressing their findings even though the mainstream media is likely to blow it off as delusional until they too can actually recognize the truth of it. Most of the time it takes 50 years to go from first recognition of big change being called blasphemy to having it fully accepted in mainstream. Like when the Pope wanted to behead Leonardo for saying that the Earth went around the Sun, it took 50 years for that to become acceptable but I think we will start accepting everything starting to surface now within 20 years or less. We have to accept it sooner this time because our Planet is changing much faster than normal. And that is due to the position we are in as its movement through the galaxy while it follows our Sun back in its very elliptical orbit of the Sirius Star system, and this too is not an accepted mainstream theory but none-the-less probably has some merit since on July 23rd every year Sirius dawns on the horizon just one minute before our Sun and just happens to align with a certain hole in the pyramid and other temples in Egypt as though someone designed them for that very purpose. (http://www.viewzone.com/sirius.html)
Thank you so much for that feedback Joseph. I am glad it has inspired but I am just me being me so any help that it gives it great. Interesting insights about Sirius which I feel connected to as well. 🙂
“in which” not “if”
Great stuff. Opening to the One Life if which we all part-take, for-giving all. Working with those actively involved with addiction, trauma and mental health recovery, I cannot function in my job without “heavier” foods incl. meat. Yet. The older and clearer I become, the more it seems necessary. Blessings to the beings who nourish our lives! Let my words and actions be a righteous return on their investment. 99% of anyone’s “diet” are the thoughts we think (or that think us). Or not. If a quiet mind has stolen (over) us, we abide in the peace that surpasseth all understanding..Available (the Jesuits say “disponible” – disposed, receptive) waiting upon the Lord, and following (listening – “obeying” from the Latin “obedire”, to listen, harken to) the promptings of Spirit, leading us to die before we die… Living lives of loving service. Such is the Way of Being, yes?
Thanks for your insights, Cheryl. 🙂