Comments on: Spiritual Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:08:56 +0000

Hello!

I had a dream last night, and it’s been with me all day. My brother recently died in a car accident, and I think he visits me every now and then. I think he brought me this message.

In my dream, he was talking to my older sister, and she asked if I thought my brother was hunting in Heaven. He really enjoyed hunting and fishing in life.

I told her the following…
1. No, he’s not hunting in heaven. In heaven, no one eats animals because there is a universal understanding in heaven that animals have souls.

2. It’s OK that we eat animals on earth because we don’t have a universal understanding that animals have souls.

3. Even though it’s ok to eat meat here on earth, to be a vegetarian is to be more godly (the way that “cleanliness is next to Godliness”, vegetarianism is next to Godliness.)

Maybe I read this somewhere, but we were looking for my brother in this dream, and then I got what seems like such an incredibly clear message and judgment free choice about vegetarianism, and it seemed like he brought it to me.

Anyway, I wanted to share this with you because you were my first hit when I searched for vegetarianism and spirituality, and you seemed so open to hearing about my dream. I feel like this is something I definitely need to explore more.

Thanks,
Tricia

By: Lana

Lana — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:33:48 +0000

at this bit: “It felt like eating meat had put kind of a misty, mud-brown guard over me. And when I stopped eating it, it was lifted. I felt brighter and shinier and happier.”

I know EXACTLY what you mean! when i have a steak or something like it i feel sort of *heavy* and like very very full and feels like i need to sit down for a while. but when i have a vegetarian meal i feel really light and happy and YAY!

so i’m becoming a full time vegetarian next year, but i’m going to phase it out by eating a lot of veggie food right now and maybe having the occasional meat until i have stopped all together, i don’t think i would be able to last if i just one day decided to stop altogether. and also i need to learn how to cook better because i still live a home with my family and my mums not going to cook 2 meals every night.

do you have any good recipes you like and think a nearly 15 yearold would be able to make?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:41:18 +0000

Thank you for sharing this Leonie. My story is similar in the process to becoming a vegetarian. The nightmares you mentioned where frequent and true for me too and even increased more so during the period of time when I stopped/detoxed from the meat. But after I cut out all meat, then they just vanished and I felt more at peace in my own body.

Some of the nightmares I had during the process of going from life long meat eater to veggie where so graphic/horrific that I actually dreamt, several times, the farming and slaughter process from the point of view of the animal… that meant that in my dream, I went through the process myself – and I can tell you they are utterly terrified and they *absolutely* DO know they are going to die, and that it will likely be a frightening, painful event of which there is nothing they can do about it, but experience full the terror emitting from both themselves and their companions.

I know it all sounds a bit dramatic – but this is my truth, what I have come to be shown and experience for myself. I am not judging others choices (I was a meat eater for a long time myself) I’m just sharing my experience and what I learnt. But what I came to understand is that this terror and fear is retained in what we consume when eating most factory farmed meat. I have never gone back to eating meat for about 4 years now and I feel much healthier, happier, more relaxed and energised because of my choice.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:43:57 +0000

Wow!

I was never much of a meat eater, I rarely eat meat but after reading this I think I’ll stop having those seldom moments and become a vegetarian.

Thanks for this Leonie.

Blessed be.

By: Trisha Cupra

Trisha Cupra — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:31:38 +0000

“…it bothered me to eat children.”

Good way of stating it!

By: Laurie Pollack

Laurie Pollack — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:42:23 +0000

I had a similar experience: in summer of 2002, I had been gradually eliminating one form of meat after another: first I stopped eating pork because I read that pigs are highly intelligent: smarter than dogs and cats, and just couldn’t eat them anymore. I had given eating veal and lamb a while before just because it bothered me to eat children.
Then I was about to decide whether to give up chicken or beef next: I thought that by eating beef but not chicken, each meal would cost much fewer individual lives. But then chicken were less intelligent.
Then I read a book : “You don’t need the meat” (I don’t remember the author) which described the conditions in slaughterhouses: they seemed like concentration camps/death camps for animals, and after reading that, I just couldn’t eat meat anymore: like you I went “cold turkey”: one day I was eating some meat, the next day I was vegetarian.
Like you I found: that my level of anxiety went down, and I was less impatient, less frustrated and less aggressive; maybe from being exposed to fewer hormones from the meat.
I too am open minded about everyone having to follow their own path. My partner is a meat eater. My partner’s daughter is raising her kids as meat eaters. I think it is a decision that everyone should make for themselves and not have it forced on them: because that way it would not last.
But I think little by little we as a world are changing and
we are all getting closer to caring for our Mother Earth.

Laurie

By: sandra

sandra — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:47:31 +0000

As a child I never really liked meat that much. I been a vegetarian for awile now, and I feel that I made a great decision. my children and husband still eat meat, it must be organic. I have to tell you my husband did buy some chicken from jewel-osco the other day not organic, and it had this rotton egg smell…I told him you should have bought it at wholefoods organic meat dummy. He hates spending money on organic food. He just has no clue. Anyway I think you are a sweet soul Leonie.

By: penny

penny — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:03:09 +0000

“Vegetarian is the greatest physical gift I can give to my body, mind and soul. It’s brought so many changes, blessings, gifts and miracles in my life.”

Yes! Me too. I became a veg a few years ago now and it’s been the best decision. It just feels right for me… body mind and soul.

You rock for writing this, miss.

By: Trisha Cupra

Trisha Cupra — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:02:34 +0000

Hi Fiona, Good on you for deciding to be a vegetarian for a week! Even if you can only decide to be a vegetarian for a day at a time, that's something! My mother switched me over to soy milk when I was about 12 years old by saying that I'd only have soy milk for 6 weeks, and if I wanted to I could go back to cow's milk after. I hated soy milk at first, but by the end of those 6 weeks, I much preferred the taste over cow's milk. Maybe if being a veggie for a week goes well, you could ask for a 6 week trial? If after 6 weeks everybody is happy with your health, then you can make it permanent. I switched from veggie to full vegan when I was a teenager, and cut out junk food altogether. So I know what it's like to be the odd one out in a family as a teenager. (I've since gone back to being non-vegan and enjoying desserts, though!) Trisha Cupra’s last blog post..If Content is king, Design rules the universe

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:54:21 +0000

Hi Leonie, You have inspired me. I am a teenager, living in a non-vegetarian home, yearning to be a vegetarian. The thing that makes it tricky is the fact that I do not live with my own family, but another family who I also love very much, but they have some very different ideas about nutrition that my parents. This creates some conflict coupled with the fact that I am sensitive to corn, gluten, dairy, and eggs. I have decided to try vegetarian for a week, and you have gifted me the courage to ask them if they would be ok with that. Thank you. Blessed Be, Fiona Fiona’s last blog post..Magical