Mrs Campbell of Rainbow Ark recently contacted me to explain that she’s still having problems with the bank, whom are now threatning to hire a company from Liverpool to destroy the animals ~ ~ she’s obviouly under alot of pressure ~ and there really is no need for her to be ~ when we have more than enough hands here to help ~~ ~ as she has said to me, all it takes is £1 a month and yet she’s only received 3 donations apparently ~ am sure we can do better than that! ) ~~~ and thanks to Corals time in creating this beautiful peace of H~art work for us, and bearing the most beautiful words to go with ~ am sure we will ~~ … ~

HELP RESCUE THE ANIMALS ~~

PLEASE DONATE NOW TO SAVE ~~ RAINBOW ARK FROM SIN~KING

WORDS & PAINTING BY CORAL ~~~

This scene depicts the Rainbow Ark saving the animals from certain doom, but without the generosity of the public donations it has found itself in the same predicament & is asking for your support no matter how small it may be it will be used for a very good cause and will save the life of another of God’s Creatures (s)he put on this Earth to live in harmony with mankind and not to be hunted for Sport or slain for their body parts from which poachers sell for a profit ~~~~ …So Please give generously…

1. The Dolphins in the Arc of the rainbow are showing the way for the Rescue helicopter along with The Rainbow Ark Rescue Ship to which both represent Donors coming to save the Animals from certain Doom.

2. The Rabbits on the Log are representing fertility & love, fertility so they can breed so they will not become extinct from Mother Earth & the love they can share with all those who have donated to help save them.

3. The Cat on the log with the Piglet & Rabbits is a symbol of astuteness, intelligence, mystery & independency also cleverness and is assuring the Rabbits & Piglet that help is on the way and to hang on for a while longer.

4. The Dove flying over the Rainbow is delivering divine messages of love, peace & calmness from above to the other animals to say that everything will be fine.

5.The Giraffe a symbol of vision & achievement ,therefore with its height it can see a long way into the future and is re-assuring the other animals as well as the Rainbow Ark & their donors that they will ride out the rough seas they are experiencing at present & achieve all their goals in the future.

6.The Chicken on the Giraffes back symbolises Motherhood ,hope & abundance and is re-assuring the rest of the animals in her motherly fashion not to give up hope but to stay positive, for on the other side of the rainbow,the sky is clearer and there is an abundance of help waiting for them.

7.The Horse is there to give all the others the power & the wisdom to be able to hang in there until help arrives which will be very soon.

8. The Cow is helping the Chicken to Nurture & Mother all the younger animals whose Mother & Father have already been saved and are waiting to be re-united with their off spring.

9. The Lion is there to share his strength, courage & leadership abilities to help head the rescue mission.

10. The Elephant is telling the others through his ability to radiate strength, wisdom & intelligence that if they look they will see that they are going to be rescued & that everything is going to be OK in the end.

11. Finally the Angel in the tree has been given the task from above to ensure that the rescue mission runs smoothly and that all the animals that may be homeless, parentless, starving or in need of medical assistance get the appropriate help or aid they require as quickly as possible ~~

~ we currently have no web~sight which makes this even tougher for the animals, please bear with Us, we shall have one up ASAP ~~ for now, U can Send money donations po/cheques to: Rainbow Ark Animal Sanctuary Milkup Bank Farm Willington Crook DURHAM DL15 0RN

Paypal donations are being received by myself (Adele Maria) ~ and I shall transfer to Sanctuary Founder, Mrs Campbell ~~~ Mercy ~~

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On a blessed afternoon in August 2009 in Bangalore, a *Peas v/s Pills seminar had introduced us to an audio CD entitled, “Living in Harmony With All Life”. Later we got the book, The World Peace Diet on which the CD is based and read it from cover to cover several times; in retrospect, this was an exercise that helped our veganism find zestful expression. After more than two years of the beginning of this beautiful new journey, on a whim, we wrote to Dr. Will Tuttle, the creator of The World Peace Diet—a No.1 Amazon best-seller of March, 2010—and the owner of the exceptionally soothing voice we had heard in the CD. We were thrilled to receive an instant response. Dr. Tuttle consented to a discussion revolving around The World Peace Diet for all of us here in India!

Dr. Will Tuttle needs no introduction, because if we attempt at introducing him, no words will be enough. It is Dr. Tuttle’s gift of thoughts and ideas, contained in his writings, music, and speech that help express the forgotten ideals dwelling in the deepest recesses of all human hearts, which define him. It is how people change their lives for a truly beautiful present and future with his facilitation that define him. He is an institution that we have come to deeply revere. From His Holiness, The Dalai Lama who has acknowledged the wisdom in The World Peace Diet (you will find the kitchen of the monastery of His residence now vegetarian) (Source), to other Tibetan monasteries who have similarly converted their kitchens, to individual selves such as many like us, the book has appealed to the higher good residing in every human being. Hailed as “one of the most important books of the 21st century”, The World Peace Diet has begun a peaceful revolution in the minds of many! Sure enough, if there was a parallel to the Nobel Prize in the ‘Kingdom of Light, Love, and Compassion’ that would include the fascinating Animal Kingdom, The World Peace Diet would receive the undisputed crown.

In this discussion with Dr. Tuttle, we learn about the beginnings of The World Peace Diet, the moral basis of other movements in the world to stream into including the rights of animals, the spiritual approach to veganism, and the substance that comprises the innate intelligence of humans. The discussion ends with an intuitive message from Dr. Tuttle for all of India. Dr. Tuttle reminds us of the nobility of our land, in the collective conscience of which is buried the highest ideals of reverence for all Life. Each section in this discussion in the form of a Q&A is a wholesome commentary by itself; so you will find each section labeled accordingly. Happy reading, dear Readers.

Dr. Will Tuttle at the Animal Acres in Action, CA (http://www.animalacres.org)—a sanctuary for animals rescued from factory farms and slaughterhouses.

On the birthing of The World Peace Diet…

Vegan India!: Dr. Tuttle, your book, The World Peace Diet is a unique modern-day discourse on the universal Law of Karma, perhaps the mother of all laws, that calls urgent attention towards understanding the interconnectedness between every single life-form on Earth, every cultural predicament that we humans face. This universal law of Karma is not alien to our culture—the popular proverb, “as we sow, so we shall we reap” has translations and variations in perhaps all languages. With Newton’s law, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”, we find an acknowledgement even in “scientific” terms. However, when it comes to making food choices, our ability to make connections in line with this universal law simply freezes. We deny that food has any power at all. Your book answers the question—what gives food such power and why this power is unrecognized today. It helps connect the array of problems that beset us—such as “chronic war, terrorism, genocide, starvation, the proliferation of disease, environmental degradation, species extinction, animal abuse, consumerism, drug addiction, alienation, stress, racism, oppression of women, child abuse, corporate exploitation, materialism, poverty, injustice, and social malaise” (pg. xiv-xv)—to the lifestyle choices we make as an individual, community, nation, and world citizen. You have also cautioned that by “refusing to make this essential connection, we condemn others and ourselves to enormous suffering.” Please tell us of that moment which inspired you to write The World Peace Diet when all the connections became clear and how long did it take to complete writing the book?

Dr. Tuttle: Yes, even though I never use the word, karma in the manuscript of The World Peace Diet, you are correct that the book is essentially an in-depth discourse on the karmic repercussions of our food choices. For some reason, I was strongly attracted to eastern religions and cultures from my youth, and in my early twenties an intense yearning for spiritual awakening propelled me into a life of meditation, wandering, and scriptural study. This led pretty quickly to questioning the official stories I had been raised to believe, including the necessity of eating animal flesh to be healthy. I became a vegetarian in 1975 at the age of 22 at a Zen-inspired spiritual community called The Farm in Tennessee, and that opened the doorway to a deeper understanding of the spiritual and karmic effects of my actions. I read ravenously the teachings and life stories of many of the sages from India, such as Ramana Maharshi, Shankara, Patanjali, Yogananda, Vivekenanda, Muktananda, Prabhupada, Nisirgadatta, Krishnamurti, Nagarjuna, and practiced yoga and meditation, and studied Zen and Vajrayana Buddhism, as well as Jainism, Sikhism, Sufism, Taoism, esoteric Christianity, and other traditions. I lived in both Vajrayana (Tibetan) and Zen Buddhist meditation centers, and in 1980 I became a vegan because of grasping the bigger picture of animal suffering not just for meat, but also for dairy products, eggs, clothing, entertainment, research, and so forth.

All the connections between our food choices and our broad range of problems that are elucidated in The World Peace Diet grew gradually in my consciousness over a period of many years, like a garden that takes time and a lot of tending and inputs. The main inputs were the ancient spiritual teachings from Asia, as well as regular meditation practice to free the mind from conditioning, plus many years in academia studying, writing, and teaching literature, drama, philosophy, history, comparative religion, sociology, anthropology, mythology, education, peace studies, and the arts. I feel that many insights emerged through the interplay of this broad range of intellectual study, and also through my regular practice of piano music composition and improvisation as well: music can be an activity that integrates and harmonizes the rational and intuitive capacities of the mind, like meditation, and in retrospect I can see this was an important foundation for the work of writing The World Peace Diet.

After many years of practicing vegan living and studying it in depth, and contemplating the powerful effects of our food choices, I began to see the “big picture” of The World Peace Diet in my consciousness as a vast mandala of interconnections that influences and is influenced by virtually every aspect of our personal and collective lives, as well as the lives of nonhuman animals and the Earth. I began saying to my spouse Madeleine, as I described my vision to her, that there is so much more to veganism than most people realize, and that someone would certainly be writing a book about it soon, and that it would be great to read that book when it was published. I could see clearly that the three main generally-recognized reasons for going vegan—boycotting cruelty to animals, alleviating environmental destruction, and improving health—while hugely important, are just part of the story. There’s actually much more to it—the psychological, spiritual, cultural, and historical dimensions—that were virtually invisible and not discussed or understood.

So I kept telling Madeleine how I would enjoy reading the book that I was sure someone would be writing soon, and as the years went by, and it never appeared, I began to realize that I was being called to write the book myself. After several starts, I got an introductory chapter overview written, and got an agreement with Lantern Books in New York to publish it, and from that point, it took about five years of full-time work to create The World Peace Diet. The creative process of writing and editing the manuscript was helpful in further refining the ideas, and helped me to discover more connections as well.

On other movements in the world and connecting the dots…

Vegan India!: Dr. Tuttle, the tag line of your book is, “Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony.” This is a powerful tagline. However, since many of us construe spirituality as a “wishy-washy” term with “elusive” concepts, we tend not to pay attention. Nevertheless, when we begin to read the book, we cannot help but marvel at the dexterity with which you have combined core concepts from the fields of Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, History, Science, Gender, Politics, Medicine, Ethics, Ecology, Human Rights, Music and so on to present such a remarkable commentary that helps “see” the connections our culture has never taught us to see. As you have rightly pointed out, we are manipulated by vested interests whose profits depend on our inability to make meaningful connections. Our urge to empathize with and protect the vulnerable is repressed by our “herding culture.” You have construed a completely different reality that actually takes us closest to realizing Who We Really Are. Dr. Tuttle, if all the pro peace, justice, equality, rights, and freedom movements in the world were to accept this reality and were to join hands, do you think the “critical mass” would be attained to elevate the Earth of human and animal suffering, alienation, and exploitation? Please elaborate.

Dr. Tuttle: This is an intriguing question, and the implicit question in it is: Why do the millions of people actively working for peace, justice, equality, rights, sustainability, and freedom in our world continue to pay for and eat the flesh and secretions of enslaved animals when it is clearly antithetical to their values and goals? How is such an obvious contradiction not recognized, and why do so many have such a difficult time actually bringing their lives into alignment with their values? I devote several chapters to responding to this question in The World Peace Diet and it seems to me that while there is some progress being made, it must accelerate quickly if we are to survive and successfully transform our culture.

As I discuss in The World Peace Diet, the problems we create are based on the underlying mentality of reductionism, disconnectedness, elitism, and exclusivism required by our most powerful connection with our culture and with Nature and each other: eating. It is absurd to think we can make significant progress in our quest for universal peace, justice, equality, and sustainability while enslaving and killing animals routinely for food. When we look deeply and carefully into these matters, we see that there are two levels at work simultaneously, both of which are consciously and subconsciously suppressed in our awareness and in public conversation and in the media. The first level is that eating animal foods is the primary driving force behind the actual problems that we have—culturally, economically, ecologically, and in virtually every dimension of our shared life. The second level is the inner mentality required to get us to regularly purchase and ingest animal foods.

For the first level, because it takes enormous amounts of land, water, petroleum, pesticides, and fertilizer to grow grain for confined animals, and to graze them (10-30 times more than eating plant foods directly), animal agriculture is the main contributor to environmental devastation, global climate disruption, rainforest destruction, topsoil loss, water pollution and shortage, over-fishing, ocean acidification and dead zones, species extinction, habitat loss, and loss of genetic diversity, as well as human hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. As Thich Nhat Hanh has written, “Every day forty thousand children die for lack of food. We who overeat in the West, who are feeding grain to animals to make meat, are eating the flesh of these children.” These inequities contribute to war and political and cultural tension. In addition, it’s well-recognized now that eating animal-based foods is the main force behind the physical diseases that are pandemic in industrialized countries: diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, strokes, liver and kidney disease, obesity, and autoimmune disease. I discuss in The World Peace Diet how eating animal foods contributes to psychological disease (anxiety, depression, insomnia, and drug addiction are rampant in the animals confined in factory farms and in the people consuming these animals), as well as spiritual, moral, economic, and cultural disease and discord.

The second level, which is the more hidden inner level, is that eating animal foods requires us to adopt precisely the mental and emotional disconnections that reduce our capacity to deal effectively with the problems we’re creating. We’re all born into a culture that conditions us not just to witness the eating of animal flesh and secretions, but to participate in it ourselves from infancy. This suppresses our natural wisdom, compassion, creativity, joy, self-confidence, and sense of being part of a benevolent and beautiful universe. We learn to compete, and to stay shallow in our quest for truth, because we’re unable usually to question the violence we cause and eat with our daily meals, and we become easily manipulated and controlled like the animals we are abusing by proxy every day. We inevitably become obsessed with consuming, which serves the corporations well, and gullible, which serves governments and the ruling elite well.

To create the critical mass necessary for the peace, justice, equality, freedom, and sustainability movements to be effective, we are called to realize that our routine mistreatment of nonhuman animals for food is the defining and driving inner and outer obstacle to progress, and that by radically including animals in our loving and compassionate embrace, we create the actual foundation for success in all the liberation movements, which are all interconnected. Oppressing animals, raping them, stealing and killing their babies, stealing their milk and their lives and their purposes—this all sows the seeds of our own oppression. It also suppresses the inner feminine wisdom residing in all of us (I call this Sophia in The World Peace Diet), and so what we really need to see—and I think we are seeing it—is the resurrection of Sophia in the world today. Sophia, our innate feminine wisdom, is the passionate loving protection of the vulnerable and innocent and is the core of veganism and of the ancient teaching of ahimsa: that nonviolence is the path to joy and liberation for all. We live on a beautiful, abundant planet, and there is nothing stopping us from living healthy, peaceful, celebratory lives, except the habitual practice of enslaving animals for food and the mentality this practice requires of us.

On the spiritual approach to veganism…

Vegan India!: Dr. Tuttle, The World Peace Diet also provides a framework to get into the minds of the entire gamut of human “perpetrators” from the transnational corporations who dominate over and are responsible for the suffering and killing of millions of innocent animals for profit to the person who procures, cooks, and eats animal suffering. Such groups of humans are themselves victims of violence—abused and wounded. It seems that their way to keep the control is by making “victims” of the enslaved animals. In doing so, not only do they hurt the animals but they hurt themselves as well. While this is a very reasonable explanation, at times it becomes very difficult to admit we “understand” this vicious cycle because “understanding” at one level does make us less judgmental and bring about “sympathy” for the perpetrators, something that we want to deny ourselves. This is perhaps where the overarching spiritual approach to veganism could help us in our quest to rid the world of suffering, in a peaceful manner. Could you please elaborate and highlight the basic tenets of the spiritual approach to veganism that can help all of us (“the attentive and articulate bystanders”) spread the essence of a peaceful revolution without being judgmental, yet by acting as the true conscience of the perpetrators, to heal their wounds without feeling outraged?

Dr. Tuttle: Excellent question—it follows from the prior one. A spiritual approach is essential because we are called to go to a higher level to solve our problems. Violence, in the form of judgment and blame, only breeds further hostility and misunderstanding. The spirit of veganism is making an effort to evolve to become an embodiment of universal loving compassion for all—attaining a consciousness of radical inclusion that includes not just those close to us, but all animals and humans, including those who we may not like, such as, for example, hunters, greedy bankers and chemical company executives, and so forth. We cannot force others to change; we can only change and awaken our own consciousness, and to the degree we authentically do this, we will be more effective in being “articulate bystanders” and helping others to evolve in their behavior and understanding.

Meditation is important I believe, because when we quiet our minds and directly experience the truth that we are, we discover that we are, essentially, eternal consciousness, and that our true nature is freedom, joy, and tender compassion. We begin to peel away the layers of cultural conditioning. We reconnect with our authentic feelings and with our inner intuitive wisdom. We question and see through the official stories of our culture, and how they imprison us in lies and delusions. We open to higher understanding and we begin, as Gandhi so poignantly encouraged us, to be the change we wish to see in the world. With this new and higher perspective, rather than blaming and judging others for buying hamburgers, for example, we understand with compassion that they are obediently following a conditioned program that has been powerfully injected into their minds from infancy. It is not their fault that they are eating meat and dairy; they haven’t yet been able to break free of the cultural program and to see that it has been imposed on them, and that it is absolutely not in their best interests, or in the best interests of animals, the Earth, future generations, or any of us, except, perhaps for a tiny handful of wealthy war and drug profiteers.

So a spiritual unfoldment is essential. Veganism and ahimsa are essentially spiritual practices, and they lead onward and upward to ever-higher realizations and awakenings. We can strive to live and exemplify the vegan ideal, and this helps others to do the same.

On the innate intelligence of humans…

Vegan India!: Dr. Tuttle, we understand that we were not born with sensibilities to exploit others. We are socialized into it. In that sense there are no “enemies”, it is simply a quest to realize who we really are. For those of us who have been blessed with this consciousness, it becomes a moral responsibility to help others with a positive approach come closer to whom they really are—a part of that “eternal benevolent consciousness”. Please help summarize for the benefit of our readers what in your opinion comprises the innate intelligence of humans that responds to the call of its highest, true self?

Dr. Tuttle: Yes, this positive approach is essential. Vegan living is a solid foundation for joy in our lives! And the innate intelligence that responds to the call is the inner feminine wisdom I referred to earlier as Sophia. Sophia is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and represents the capacity within all of us to awaken compassion and transform self-centered delusion into healing insight and joyful living. Another name for Sophia is Mahakaruna—“great compassion” in Sanskrit—this is the natural functioning of our true nature, free from the delusion of self-preoccupation that is ritually injected into all of us by our cultural upbringing, and especially by the socially-mandated practices of routinely eating foods derived from imprisoned animals.

It’s important to remember that when we consider nonhuman animals, we know in our bones that these beings, like us, yearn to fulfill their purposes and to avoid pain and confinement, and to live freely, as they did for millions of years before we began to interfere with them and imprison them. We are all called to realize that the very attitude of owning another being is an act of himsa, or violence, and that it is a stealing of a being’s sovereignty for our own ends. We know for ourselves that to be imprisoned is a terrible punishment. It is what we do to condemned criminals. Our sovereignty is precious and is essential for our happiness and fulfillment. Raised in a culture of oppression, though, we are taught that other beings exist for our purposes, and it is of no consequence to own them as property. This is what we did here in the American South for hundreds of years to people from Africa, for example, and what we still do to animals for food.

So if we “own” cows and treat them kindly and use their milk, we are committing violence and cruelty at the fundamental level of stealing their sovereignty. We make them dependent on us for food and protection. We reduce them in countless ways. They are not able to fulfill their inherent drives to live as part of a free-living community of bovines roaming the land and looking after themselves and relating with each other and the rest of Nature in an open, unencumbered way that would provide for them a sense of joy, freedom, and fulfillment that we can barely imagine with all our preconceptions about cows. The fact is that owning cows for milk is utterly unnecessary today. Cows’ milk is a source of no nutrients that we cannot get from plant-based sources, and is the source of a variety of substances that are essentially toxic to us as human beings, such as casein, IGF-1 growth hormone, estrogen, and other hormones, as well as saturated fat, cholesterol, and concentrated environmental toxins, all of which are linked with cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart-disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases. And besides the existential cruelty inherent in all dairy foods is the added and inescapable cruelty in all operations, even small family-owned ones.

I have a friend from India who traveled the country and interviewed small family cow owners and he learned that he could ask two questions that would always reveal the cruelty to cows required by milk products. One question was, “What do you do with the male calves that are born?” The typical answer was, “We sell them.” The vast majority end up being sold and slaughtered for meat (either veal or beef). In some cases, they may be first castrated and used as oxen to work in fields, after which they are sold. The second question was, “What do you do with the female cows after their milk production declines?” Again, the cow owners would get uncomfortable and say, “We sell them.” Meat again. Or perhaps they let them go to wander the countryside, where they often starve slowly.

Our religions often provide justification for cultural practices that are harmful, and part of spiritual awakening is evolving to the point that we can question traditions and official stories that are no longer appropriate. The beauty in all of this is that if we all switched to a plant-based diet of organic foods, we would need a small fraction of the land we are now using for agriculture, and vast areas could be returned to wilderness and habitat for animals, and so there would be plenty of room for bovines to roam freely again throughout central Asia as they did for millions of years, and for chickens to live again in the jungles of southeast Asia, and all the animals to celebrate their lives free from human oppression. New relationships with free-living, powerful, and respected animals could be mutually enriching in ways that we cannot imagine from our current impoverished and shallow relationships with animals whom we treat generally as either property or pests.

Each one of us can be a force for freedom, joy, healing, and compassion. As we rely less on the narratives and dictates of an essentially exploitive culture, and learn through meditation to rely more on our inner intuitive wisdom and compassion, we can help our culture evolve to a higher level. This is, I think, the greatest gift we can give to our loved ones, our world, and ourselves. As Krishnamurti said, “It is not a good idea to be well-adjusted to a sick society.” Although we all want to fit in with our society, at a certain point we awaken and realize that we have a higher purpose than just fitting in and suppressing our inner light of compassion and joy. This is when the spiritual path begins, and we begin to become a true human being.

A message for India…

Vegan India!: Dr. Tuttle, in the last chapter of your book, “Living the Revolution” you have said something very beautiful about the fact that “each one of us has a piece of the puzzle to contribute, and our overall success (to transform our inheritor dominator mentality by liberating those we have enslaved for food) depends on each of us discovering our talents and passion and persistently contributing them.” In the Indian context, vegans in India come from almost every walk of life and many are doing brilliant outreach work in ways they are gifted in and most comfortable with. Definitely, many have started to “live the revolution” and are plugging in myriad ways to educate others. Dr. Tuttle, if you had to share a message with the vegans, vegan aspirants, and everybody else in India, what would it be?

Dr. Tuttle: My basic message to Indians is one of gratitude and encouragement. My own veganism is really a product of the ancient Indian spiritual teachings that came through the centuries to me in the West as Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu teachings and inspired countless people who inspired me, such as Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Gaskin (the founder of The Farm), and going further back, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plotinus, and many others who were also inspired by the sages of India. Your land is the world’s greatest living repository of the spiritual wisdom that can heal and transform our world today. Both the vegetarian and the vegan movements in the West and worldwide can easily be traced back to India. You carry the light and are the keepers of the flame of ahimsa and spiritual liberation. I have nothing but enormous respect and gratitude for your shining example for thousands of years, and up to the present day.

I would encourage you not to be seduced by the mechanistic immaturity of the West, and especially not to adopt the cruel food practices of the West. I would encourage you to remember your glorious heritage of compassion and cooperation, to remember Asoka and other enlightened examples of kindness for all, and to strive to live the teaching of ahimsa and continue to make India the light of sanity and harmony in the world.

How to procure your copy of The World Peace Diet: For those of you who wish to procure a copy of The World Peace Diet, it helps to know that you can purchase via Flipkart. You can also purchase a signed copy of the book from The World Peace Diet website by clicking here. And, for those who would like it, you can borrow the book from the SHARAN library that delivers books on loan anywhere in India. For more information about how the SHARAN library operates, you can click here.

Notes:
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Animal Symbolism
of the Bat

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-symbolism-bat.html

Batfink being chauffered by his aide, Karate

Villain in bat fink = “Queenie Bee” (with her army of bees – Batfink sent Queenie Bee to Sing Sing and her bees to “Sting Sting”) ~~~~ ref Mother Earth, ~ Queen Bee ~~~ Bat~Man uses GREEN torch remember ~ and the bat on the bat mobile = PINK = ~ blind as bats to the femme ~

The Silver Lining, The Spider Webs! An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of SIN-dh have never seen this phenome…non before but, they also report that there are now far fewer mosquitoes than they would expect, given the amount of stagnant, standing water that is around. It is thought that the mosquitoes are getting caught in the spiders web, thus, reducing the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods..~~~

Spider Woman

Spider Woman is a metaphor for she who creates from a central source.
One day it is She who will pull all of her creation – back to her source.

Her web represents the grids or matrix of our reality – the Spider Web Effect. Spider Woman’s web links you to everything and everybody in our reality. It is how we learn to be psychic and to connect telepathically.

Spider woman is linked with Dream Catchers.

During dream time we remove part of our consciousness from physical reality and venture off through ‘her’ web experiencing that which we cannot understand with our physical consciousness.

The Internet is a Web of information that is helping you understand and experience at this level of awareness.

Native Americans believed in the legend of Spider Woman, she who sits at the great galactic center. She is the female force of all creation who joins all nations, all tribes, all galactic families, and all realities together, in her web. This may be the reason UFO sightings are becoming more common. Space travelers have woven their web of destiny with us in the past. Presently, we as a people and as a plane, stand at a crossroads at the end of a major age and the birth of a new age of revelations and inner peace. We stand at the possibility of destroying ourselves environmentally, with war weapons and global politics, and the petty little bickering of dictatorships and power hungry men. We also stand at a place where we can transform our lives with inner healing, planetary healing, and taking responsibility for our choices, and our decisions.

http://www.crystalinks.com/spiderwoman.html

GRAND-MOTHER SPIDER / SPIDER-WOMAN: http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/September05/goddess.htm

http://nimbusnaturetrail.blogspot.com/2011/10/nature-calendar-2012.html

By Will Tuttle

Once again, Will Tuttle aptly puts humanity’s increasingly worsening condition in perspective, not only tackling the issues but also their fundamental cause. This passage should be read, understood and appreciated by every individual on the planet as it contains the commonly overlooked key to creating a more peaceful and harmonious society. I consider anyone who has the privilege of knowing Will Tuttle and reading his heartfelt words to be truly blessed, whether they realize it or not.

OK, everyone! It’s time for us to pay attention. It’s long been obvious that there are apparent forces spreading economic, environmental, and social devastation. Since 9-11, the pace has accelerated noticeably, and since Obama took office, the frequency and intensity of direct attacks on our freedom, our ecosystems, our health, peace, and economic security have further increased.

The question that everyone throughout our local district in the galaxy must be asking (and maybe placing bets on) is whether the humans on Earth will wake up, grow up, and act up, or feebly submit to de facto enslavement and ecocide. Will we awaken from our seeming complacency and distractedness, and grow up out of our disempowering gullibility? And how do we do this?

The precious and hidden key to everything is learning to understand and remove the toxic program that has been injected into all of us through our meals since infancy. It is a program of disconnectedness, elitism, exploitation, infantilization, numbing, and ultimately, our own enslavement. The vegan meme of radical inclusiveness, awareness, kindness, and concern for others is studiously ignored (and feared) in the mass media and popular discourse, but I believe that we know deep down it’s the only gate that leads to a positive future. Everything else is disaster, and horrific disaster at that.

Let me explain. I’ll try to summarize the essence of it in a few paragraphs.

CONTINUED HEAR….

I-MAGE-e = The Independant Mast Head = Master Mag (dalena)~

SCOTLAND COULD INTRODUCE WILD CIRCUS BAN

Fundamentally, cow’s milk is a substance designed by nature for baby cows, not for humans. We are the only species that drinks the milk intended for the young of other species, and we are the only species that insists on drinking milk beyond the time of weaning. It seems we cannot bear the thought of growing up and leaving home. Perhaps we long for infancy and the peaceful oblivion of our mother’s breast, and if hers isn’t available, then we’ll use the breast of any lactating mother, even if she’s a cow and we have to kill her babies to get to it. Just as the complete unnaturalness of humans killing and eating animals is obvious if we contemplate trying to do it without implements, so is the drinking of milk.

The easy availability of veal cutlets and cheap hamburger masks their true cost and the cruelty of their dairy-farm origin, as do the tidy packages of cheese, milk, cream, and butter in the refrigerated dairy sections. In the wild, it is doubtful we’d ever be able to get close enough to a lactating cow, in a forest or grassland somewhere in Asia where cows naturally live, to obtain any milk. Wild bulls are ferociously protective and would gore us or chase us off first. If we managed to get by the bulls, it is unlikely any cow would allow us to get under her and suck on her teats. We would have to compete with the cow’s own baby, the rightful recipient of her milk, and push or kick the calf away, and somehow get the mother to hold still for us while we sucked or squeezed on her teats. The whole image is so absurd that not even the most committed milk-bibber would ever contemplate attempting it. It is only through an ongoing tradition of vicious domination that humans can drink cows’ milk, an unhealthy and perverse action at its core. The dairy products in our grocery stores are the result of many centuries of human manipulation and horrific brutality against cows— a brutality epitomized by today’s mechanized dairy operations, both large and small…

In the wild, a cow, like all mammals, will produce milk after giving birth to a baby, and does so in a classic bell curve for about seven months, beginning at less than ten pounds of milk per day, climaxing at about twenty-five pounds per day, and then tapering back to ten pounds and then to zero as the calf begins to eat solid food. On today’s dairies the newborn calf is immediately removed from the mother, causing enormous anguish to both, and the mother is artificially forced to produce from 90 to 110 pounds of milk per day for a full seven to eight months. Dairy cows are impregnated at a much younger age than would ever occur in the wild, and are kept pregnant virtually continuously, even while they are lactating from the previous pregnancy. The enormous strain of being pushed so hard to produce such abnormally large quantities of milk quickly destroys the health of these cows. Though they would naturally live twenty-five years in the wild, after about four years of this dairy abuse their “productivity” drops off. They are then forced to endure the brutality of the slaughterhouse and be reduced to inexpensive hamburger meat, leather, and animal feed…

Because each dairy cow is forced to produce far more calves than can be used on the dairy, her calves are immediately slaughtered, auctioned to veal operations, or auctioned to build beef herds and killed at one to two years of age. In all these cases, parts of their bodies will end up at the rendering plant, mixed with the offal and unusable body parts of fish, pigs, poultry, road kill, laboratory animals, and euthanized dogs, cats, horses, and other animals, and then cooked, ground up, and added to corn, wheat, soybeans, and other grains to be fed back to the cows. Cows have thus been routinely forced to eat other cows, and quite possibly the flesh and organs of their own young, in their “enriched” feed. The only reason this may now be stopping is the outbreak of mad cow disease, a direct result of such mad agricultural practices. Although the FDA’s ban on feeding the flesh of ruminants to ruminants has reduced the likelihood of cows eating other cows, they are still fed pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, dogs, and other animals. Considering the reputedly lax enforcement and inspection of this FDA policy, some are likely still forced into cannibalism.

This bizarre and outrageous cruelty lurks behind every milk mustache. It is considered business as usual, and no one has questioned it because the animals involved have been reduced to mere objects by the dairy industry, with the sole overriding goal of producing the most milk at the lowest price. (And with the USDA guaranteeing to buy milk surpluses, the industry maximizes production.7) This whole industry is obviously both a result of—and a contributor to—a severely reduced cultural intelligence that has lost its ability to make basic connections….

The whole dairy business is founded upon stealing: forcibly stealing calves from their mothers and mother’s milk from calves. We have become desensitized to just how cruel this actually is, and how it underlies, perhaps in large measure, our culture’s basic repression, confinement, and exploitation of the female and the feminine principle.

The mothers of all mammals feel terrible emotional stress if their newborn offspring are endangered and will do everything in their power to protect them. Human mothers know how deep this feeling is, and how devastating it would be to have their children taken from them. Mother love will often give its own life for its child. We can see this deep maternal caring in dogs, bears, elephants, monkeys, deer, lions, whales: in all mammals it is a defining and obvious characteristic of mothers. For scientists, agribusinessmen, or theologians to deny this, or discount its importance, only shows how reduced their intelligence and sensitivity have become through their cultural woundedness and consequent skill in disconnecting.

Of all the mammals, it is the cow whose maternal instinct has been perhaps the most obvious and celebrated: her gentle and patient eyes, her natural mothering way with her calf, licking and feeding and watching over her baby, and her loud lamenting when the calf is taken from her. She cannot fight the hands that steal her offspring away, or speak to us in human words, telling us how deeply it hurts her. But it is obvious to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. For us to ignore her suffering, and the suffering of her calf—hundreds, thousands, millions of times over—is to ignore and deny our own decency. There is a deep and terrible transgression in this, the unnatural coveting of the calf’s mother’s milk several thousand years ago, and the building of a whole culture around the stealing of milk, the killing of the mother and her children, and justifying the whole horrific thing by mythologizing it: the Lord promising us the land of milk and honey. This violent theft of milk from enslaved mothers planted seeds of war and exploitation that are tragically almost completely invisible. Today, our culture takes milk for granted! It is aggressively promoted around the world. How can we ever hope for peace when we practice such shameful violence on such a massive scale? . . .

Four Pathways to Hell

The calves taken from their mothers are always destined for brutal mistreatment, and the mother cow certainly has an awareness of this. Animals are remarkably sensitive, as countless cultures have recognized and as scientific evidence is increasingly showing. Mother cows are aware that the hands that confine and rape her and push her so hard for her milk cannot mean well for her children. The dairy-born calf will go down one of four doomed pathways. If she is a female, she may be raised to be, like her mother, a slave in the dairy. She will be removed from her mother as early as possible so as not to waste the mother’s marketable milk. She will be dehorned, usually by the use of a red-hot electric iron applied to her horn buttons….This is described in a modern dairy management textbook:

. . . lay the calf on its side and put your knee on the neck. . . . The dehorner has to be left on the button for approximately five to twenty
seconds. The time will seem longer, because of the combined
unpleasantness of burning hair and a struggling calf . . . dehorning
may be complete . . . when you hear a squeaking sound as the
dehorner is twisted. It is the sound of the dehorner tip rubbing
against the bone of the skull.

…Whereas in the wild a heifer would not be ready to have her first calf for at least three to five years, that is far too long to feed her without getting milk money from her. Cow feed is expensive, so operators want to get her into production quickly, which means getting her pregnant as soon as possible, in just a year or less, when she is still a mere child in human terms. This is accomplished through hormone manipulation, administering excessive amounts of estrogen and other hormones, as well as prostaglandin, a hormone that is used to bring cows into heat when dairy operators want to have them inseminated. In the vast majority of cases, the dairy cow will be confined to a stall or milking paddock year-round, often exposed to extreme temperatures, with nothing to do but eat and stand in one place, reduced to the status of a milk-producing machine. She will be inseminated by a sperm gun shoved elbow-deep into her vagina and fired. The sperm comes from a special bull who also exists to be milked—for his sperm—and will be slaughtered when his productivity declines.

As soon as she gives birth, the cow’s baby will be quickly stolen from her, and she will be milked two to three times per day by the milking machines. No longer something done by her, milking is something inflicted upon her. The machines often cause cuts and injuries and can lead to mastitis, infection of the udder, which is rampant in modern dairies. Sometimes the milking machines give electrical shocks as well, causing considerable discomfort and fear. The cow may also be “drenched,” a procedure routinely performed on some cows after giving birth to reduce metabolic diseases in early lactation. Many gallons of nutrient-dense solution are forced into her through a seven-foot tube shoved down her throat. She may drown if the liquid is pumped too fast or if the tube is stuck into her windpipe. A similar procedure called lavage may be imposed on her newborn calf as well, to administer colostrum.

Right after the cow begins to be milked, she is again inseminated on the “rape rack” by the sperm gun. She is thus both pregnant and lactating simultaneously, and will be taken off the milking machine only during the last two months of pregnancy. As soon as she gives birth, the baby is again taken away, and she goes back on the milking machine and is raped and inseminated again.

All this causes enormous suffering for the mother cows, and their health breaks down quickly. The lactogenic hormones and cholesterol laden feed and unnatural milking schedules cause the cows’ udders to become painful and so heavy they sometimes drag on the ground and in their own feces, increasing the painful mastitis and leading to overuse of antibiotics. Their udders are permanently stretched far beyond what they would be in nature, their ankles swollen and sore from standing constantly on concrete.

After three to five years, these mother cows, dairy slaves, are worn out and sent off in overcrowded trucks to face the final insulting brutality of the slaughterhouse. The majority of “downed” cattle arriving at slaughterhouses are dairy cows. These are animals too weak, diseased, or injured to walk off the truck. Their bones may break easily because of osteoporosis brought on by high protein feed and forced high-volume milk production. Transport may last for several days with no food or water through bitter cold or extreme heat. Sometimes the cows are literally frozen to the inner sides of the trucks.

If they have collapsed, these “downers” are shocked with excruciatingly painful prods. If they still can’t move, they are literally dragged by chains, often tearing skin, ripping tendons and ligaments, and breaking bones in the process. They aren’t humanely euthanized because they’re seen merely as meat, and dead carcasses aren’t supposed to be butchered (though that also happens, according to worker affidavits in Gail Eisnitz’s Slaughterhouse). They’re dragged to the killing floor, where their bodies will be ripped apart to produce hamburger meat, animal feed, pet food, leather, gelatin, glue, and other products. The same scenarios apply to dairies that produce so-called organic milk products, except that the feed is organic, there is a limit to some of the hormones and other toxins, and there may be a little more space in the prison stall. The cows are still slaughtered after a few years, and the same pricing mechanism drives the industry: to get the most milk for the cheapest price. Individual cows are worth very little, since maximizing pregnancies boosts milk production and there are always more calves on hand than can be used.

This brings us to the second possible path for calves born on the dairy: they may be killed shortly after birth if the veal industry and beef industry demand is low. The rennet in their young stomachs is valuable for making cheeses. Their bodies are then ground up for animal feed, and their skin is used for more expensive leather. Sometimes pregnant cows are sent off to slaughter. In this case, the fetal calves that fall out of them when they are sliced open must be killed separately by the slaughterhouse workers. These unborn babies are skinned for the soft leather on their small, wet bodies, which fetches quite a high price. The third possible path for dairy-born calves is to be auctioned to the veal industry. Both males and females are forced down this dark and miserable path when they are not needed on the dairy (this includes organic dairies).

The abuse these poor creatures must endure for their short lives is well known and documented. They are forced into veal crates and chained at the neck as soon as they arrive at the veal operation, only days or weeks old. These crates are built small, to confine the calves so they cannot move, causing their muscles to be undeveloped and their “meat” more tender. They are kept in darkness and fed a diet purposefully deficient in iron so their flesh will be pale, which brings a higher price. They will frantically suck on or lick any iron, like nails that happen to be within reach. They endure this cruel confinement, often covered with their own excrement. Their naturally joyful and frolicsome temperaments are destroyed by the pain and hopelessness of their situations. Their liquid diet is laced with chemicals, drugs, and antibiotics, and after three to four months, they are trucked to the slaughterhouse to be killed for the veal and calfskin markets.

The fourth path for dairy-born calves, if they are male, is to be auctioned to the meat industry and raised for beef. In this case they will face the intense pain of unanesthetized castration when they are still young. These poor animals may also be branded—often several times, inflicting extremely painful third-degree burns—and dehorned, which is also highly painful. They spend one to one and a half years either confined or grazing, growing to a size that makes them profitable to slaughter, and then are sent to the feedlot to be fattened.

On feedlots, hundreds or thousands of castrated cattle are crowded together for a few months with little or no shelter, in fetid confinement, and fed whatever the feedlot operators can devise to make them gain as much weight as quickly and cheaply as possible (when they are sold, the operators are paid by the pound). The unfortunate creatures, mere objects in the meat complex, are given artificial steroid growth promotants such as Ralgro, Synovex, or Rumensin so they will grow to be much heavier much younger than they ever would in nature.15 While cows are natural grass eaters who would never eat grain in the wild, feedlot operators, like dairy operators, have found that feeding them grain boosts growth and profits. Because grain (mainly corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats) is relatively expensive, it is supplemented with cheaper additives to add even more weight to the cattle.

…All four of the possible paths that a calf born on a dairy may take are paths of abuse and early death. Since bovines in the wild easily live twenty to thirty years, the industry, in killing calves, steers, and dairy cows at the ages of several months to several years, is really killing infants and children. In this it is the same as the industries that confine and kill lambs, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish: all are pushed to grow abnormally quickly and are slaughtered young. Similarly, in the wars we inflict upon each other, children suffer and die the most, and more than ever they are even forced to do the killing. The animal food culture promotes domination and exploitation of the female and the feminine, which are full of life-giving and nurturing powers, and of infants and children, who are full of the powers of innocence and growth….

That innocent-looking and effective marketing tool, the dairy industry’s milk mustache, is thus actually a mask that hides the most sickening and inhumane industry practically imaginable. These docile vegetarian mothers and their unfortunate children are dominated from birth to death, unnaturally fattened on animal flesh so humans can fatten themselves on dairy products and cow flesh. One would almost hope that for their enormous sacrifice, the dairy cows would at least be supplying humans with something beneficial. And yet the deeper justice is inescapable: by killing them, we kill ourselves; by enslaving them, we enslave ourselves; by sickening them, we sicken ourselves. - Excerpted from The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle

SOURCE http://www.nonhumanslavery.com/behind-the-milk-moustache

Two Turtle ~ Fire Star☆ters☆

By Paige Austin, MAY 13 ‘11

3 homes damaged, One  of which collapsed in flames Thursday afternoon,  in a six-alarm blaze in Sunset Beach.

“It was unbelievable,” one witness said.

The fire, which also shut down traffic on PCH, bedeviled authorities. Six hours after it began, a third home was ablaze, and another engine was rushing to the scene.

Along with dozens of neighbors and his three young grandsons, Jimmy Yanez stood on the beach and watched the flames hollow out his 4-year-old, custom-built home.

Neighbors speculated that a charcoal grill fell over, starting the blaze.

Yanez, despite losing his home, said he felt relieved. “The kids got out. That’s all that matters,” he said. “It’s not about the house. It’s about the kids.”

The children watched and worried about their family’s two pet turtles, which could not be rescued in time.

Yanez’s wife had picked up the grandkids from school—the youngest is in preschool, and the older two attend St. Bonaventure in Huntington Beach.

(Woe unto the crafty who hurt the creatures of God, Woe unto the hunters for they shall become the hunted.” ~Jesus)

~ The Turtles Are SpeaKING two us ~

The Turtle is a symbol, a vehicle, a carrier or container…a womb perhaps…for holding the sacred, the Divine, God, Great Creator Mother, First Creator Father.

It is written, First Father is born through the center of the Turtle’s shell, high up in the heavens, in the constellation Orion.  First Father, which is part of the Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh myth, is also seen as the sun.  The myth of the rebirth of the sun, through the symbol of the Turtle’s cracked shell. The turtle is the immortal Mother who silenty carries the heavy burden of man upon her back, and this symbol is also considered part of the very central core, the hearth stones, of a Maya home.  The hearth stones, three, are used for cooking and are located in the very center of the house…a mirror of the cosmos

Many species have 13 sections to their underBELLy ~ some sources say this represents 13 moons, and moons are a celestial symbol of motherhood.