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VegInspiration. Essential Connections

Adele — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:43:18 +0000

By refusing to dominate animals, we make the essential connections and open inner doorways to understanding and deconstructing the abuse of privilege in our own lives. Justice, equality, veganism, freedom, spiritual evolution, and universal compassion are inextricably connected

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VegInspiration. Culturally Mandated Meals

Adele — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:36:01 +0000

The message ritually injected into us by our culturally mandated meals is, at a fundamental level, the message of privilege.

As humans, we see ourselves as superior to animals, whom we view as objects to be enslaved and killed for our use and pleasure, and with this herder mentality of our special and privileged position over animals, we inevitably create other categories of privilege.

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VegInspiration. Macrobiotic Perspective

Adele — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:32:07 +0000

There is the macrobiotic perspective that animal foods are extremely yang in their energetic impact on the body, contracting the energy field, and that the body will then naturally and inevitably crave foods and substances that are extremely yin and expansive. These extreme yin foods are alcohol, white sugar, drugs of most every kind, tobacco, and caffeine. Grains, legumes, and vegetables tend to be neither excessively yin nor yang, but are more balanced, and so create few cravings. Eating extreme foods forces the body to gyrate continuously between the two poles, alternatively craving contracting foods like meat, cheese, eggs, and salt, and then expansive substances like sweets, coffee, alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, ad nauseam.

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World PeaceDiet.com

Chef BeLive Brian Lucas (Raw Parties, YouTube, Etc)

Adele — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:45:37 +0000

Check out new YouTube channel ChefBeLiveLight “Orgasm of the Taste Buds”.

Chef Brian is going to try to do daily entries of his adventures as much as possible. LIVING A BLESSED LIFE!!

The regular entries are SUPER Raw and Real!

He does have some edited TV show episodes there and more to come in future.

Subscribe and watch at:

CHEFBELIVELIGHT

FACEBOOK EVENT:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=342452344569

VegInspiration. A New Mythos

Adele — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:16:44 +0000

A positive momentum is unquestionably building in spite of the established forces of domination and violent control that would suppress it. Like a birth or metamorphosis, a new mythos is struggling through us to arise and replace the obsolete herding mythos, and the changes occurring may be far larger and more significant than they appear to be. They are ignored and discounted by the mass media, but what may seem to be small changes can suddenly mushroom when critical mass is reached. It is vital that we all contribute to the positive revolution for which our future is calling.

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VegInspiration. The Truth Field

Adele — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:34:47 +0000

As perpetrators, we are thus profoundly challenged by the truth-field established by attentive and articulate bystanders. Eventually, we may respond to the challenge, examine our attitudes and, recognizing our behavior as morally indefensible, cease it and join the ranks of the bystanders. As bystanders, we are also deeply challenged to respond creatively to the situation with love, understanding, and skillful means, and to strive to live in ever more complete alignment with the values of compassion, honesty, and integrity.

Photo By: Ben Heine

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http://www.worldpeacediet.com/2010/07/veginspiration-the-truth-field.html

VEGAN VILLAGE: Great Website for Vegans Old and New :)

Adele — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:18:14 +0000

Amazing resourceful website for those new to veganism ~ and vegans who have yet to check it out:
http://www.veganvillage.co.uk

VegInspiration. Please Stop the Violence

Adele — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:39:16 +0000

PHOTO: Marks Elliot Photography

The bystander offers an example of nonviolence and speaks on behalf of the victims who have no voice (and, on a subtler level, on behalf of the perpetrators who are also victimized by their own actions). Perpetrators may condemn bystanders for judging them and making them feel bad or guilty, but the bystanders are merely acting as the perpetrators’ conscience, asking them to please become more aware and stop their violence, for everyone’s sake

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http://www.worldpeacediet.com/2010/06/veginspiration-please-stop-the-violence.html

VegInspiration. Spiritual Revolution

Adele — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:34:46 +0000

Are we ready for a spiritual revolution? If we refuse, the strife, stress, and destruction will almost certainly intensify due to our ascending numbers and exploitive technology. When is a caterpillar ready to transform? The most obvious sign is the passing of its voracious appetite because an inner urge turns its attention to new directions

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WORLDPEACEDIET.COM

VegInspiration. Lightness of Being

Adele — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:33:52 +0000

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” —Milan Kundera, author, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

http://www.worldpeacediet.com/