A Dignified Farewell

One of the many birds I feed each day at my home in Southern Oregon, a Western Scrub Jay, approached me from the ground and looked up at me in a way that let me know she was in distress.  I knelt down on the ground about two feet from her, looked into her eyes and sent an inquiry via shared energy.  She hopped twice toward me and transmitted back, “I’m experiencing trauma.”

I was on my way to an appointment.  I decided to create a temporary protective shelter with shade, food and water and check her when I returned.  She hopped to the water dish, dipped her beak for a drink, but leaned sideways, off-balance, on legs that looked quite weak.  I hurried to my appointment and rushed back to check on her.

When I returned she had gone.  She ceased to resist the changing of form and permitted her soul the freedom to cross over to the ‘nother places, to continue her infinite journey as a peaceful, gentle LIGHT that once knew flight on Planet Earth.

For all animals that cross my path while in a state of crossing over, or in the after-state of the soul leaving the Earthly body, I conduct a farewell ceremony of respect, honor and dignity that I believe all sentient beings are worthy of.  I prepare the body with elements I gather from nature, including herbs and aroma producing plants.  I carefully choose a resting spot, a private place, surrounded by nature, usually in the shade of a long-living tree, or shrub.  I prepare a place in the ground and line it with plant material, I place the cushioned body into the ground, add a hand-written note.  I say a prayer requesting an ongoing future journey free from suffering and attach a blessing.

I cover the site with brush, fresh cut tree branches and plants I hand pick from the area. In addition to the flowers that are left atop the burial site, I also place a memorial marker; a rock, stone or trinket.  This time, I prepared an angelic piece of garden art.

Literally moments after placing the memorial and expressing my Farewell of Dignity, a feather fell from the sky and landed at my feet.   I experience an enormous amount of emotional joy in this moment.  It was most assuredly a sign, from the Spirit places, acknowledging and honoring my choice, to validate life and the crossing of the soul in respect and reverence of a life and LIGHT that mattered every bit as much as my own.

A DIGNIFIED FAREWELL

Your nameless, lifeless body,

ignored by the masses of “humanity,”

so often invalidated

by those who hold

their own lives so dear.

~~~~~

Last respects

withheld

 funeral, ceremony,  nor memorial  considered

for

WHO

was so recently

a breathing,

feeling,

living being.

~~~~~

I pause to make significant note,

in honor of your meaningful existence,

I ask

a BLESSING

upon your soul,

now ceased to resist the changing of form,

passing on to the ‘nother places.

And in reverent, heartfelt whisper

send  you  intentional confirmation that

“YOU mattered

… to me.”

~~~

 ~Gerean Pflug for The Animal Spirits

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AWAKENING ACCOUNTABILITY

AWAKENING ACCOUNTABILITY 

There can be no reasonable judgement deserved

for ignorance nor indifference,

while we are yet asleep,

However, as awakening increases,

awareness increases,

therefore, accountability increases.

As      you      do      as      you      will   …

consciously choose to do no harm.

~~~

For Nonhuman and Human Animals,

For The Planet,

For Life,

As awareness increases,

increasingly choose,

non-violent, compassionate action

as a priority.

Choose to do No Harm.

~ Gerean Pflug for “The Animal Spirits”

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THE UNIVERSAL SOLVENT

“Empathy is a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.” ~Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy is defined as “a complex form of psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the thoughts and feelings of others.   Empathy is a highly developed and sophisticated emotional response that references self and others. ”

The heinous violence and taking of innocent, sentient life worldwide, can neither be explained nor cured by choice of political party, religious doctrine, international defense strategy nor debate of weapon control.  There always have been and always will be a way to violently do harm and take the life of another.  Violence and cruelty occur because of a lack of human empathy.  A compassionate, empathetic human being does not take action of harm against another sentient, living being of any species.  All life taken by violence violates all of humanity

Can we control the senseless taking of innocent lives?   Sadly, no, we cannot.  Control is an illusion.  We have never and will not ever control the actions, reactions, thoughts and even words of others.  The only things we control are our own individual actions, reactions and words.

While we argue and fight among each other . . .

• Millions of humans worldwide are homeless and/or starving to death
• Worldwide war which only benefits those in political power is rampant
• Human life is being sold into slavery on the black market
• In the most inhumane and cruel ways imaginable, human and nonhuman animal alike are being mercilessly abused, imprisoned, enslaved, exploited, tortured and mercilessly slaughtered
• Our wildlife is being massacred to extinction
• We are abusing our planet to the point that it is crumbling beneath us

Someday The Planet will cease to exist.  Someday the sun will burn out.  We are not promised tomorrow.  We are not even promised the rest of this day.  This moment is all that we have.  If we use this moment to channel our energies into making a positive difference in the lives of others, we will effect profound change of mind, heart and spirit.   As we transmit from places of empathy and compassion, we strengthen in energy, frequency and vibration, affecting universal changes.  These changes ripple and grow and affect the lives of others, not only in this moment, but vastly beyond this moment.

If we choose to spend this moment in argument, competition, debate, anger and words that hurt, what will we achieve?  Nothing.  I believe that this moment is the perfect moment to consciously shift to higher levels of consciousness.  Today is a very good day to begin to act  from the heart, not the critical mind, and to focus on becoming living examples of the peace we wish to see in this world.

I choose to

transmit,

focusing on those things that build up,

encourage,

inspire,

motivate,

uplift,

and propel others toward compassionate choice and action.

I choose

to focus on and promote

the heroes of this world,

rather than the villains

(although one certainly cannot be illuminated without the other).

I choose to hope

that all of us will consider

the powerful opportunity

provided to us in this very moment

to make a profound positive difference

from where we stand

and through the act of

standing together

in unified, common, compassionate objective,

reach for the highest level of consciousness . . .

recognizing that the evidence of this higher level of consciousness will be

a significant and obvious increase in

empathy,

compassion,

kindness,

gentleness,

mercy,

grace,

understanding

and peace.

From places of empathy and compassion,

please continue to unify and transmit.

Together we are changing the world.

Many Blessings.

~Gerean Pflug, The Animal Spirits

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VOICES WE SHALL NEVER HEAR

“For the animal shall not be measured by human.

In a world older and more complete than ours,

they move finished and complete,

gifted with extensions of the senses

we have lost or never attained,

living by voices we shall never hear.”

~ Henry Beston

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BOUND TO SUFFERING

BOUND TO SUFFERING

Empathy

dictates that we,

at the very least,

show the reverence of imagining ourselves

in the place of another.

Compassion

dictates that we feel WITH them.

Mercy

dictates that we take action

to protect other sentient living beings from suffering.

Who is willing to continue to look the other way?

What you allow, will continue.

In empathy, compassion and mercy,

take action.

~ Gerean Pflug for The Animal Spirits

Pigs at Tona Toraja Market in Indonesia. They are mercilessly bound to bamboo poles while still alive, many of them injured. They are refused water or food and left to suffer until a human purchases them for slaughter. Is this mercy? Is this grace? Is this compassion?

THE GREATEST MAGIC TRICK

THE GREATEST MAGIC TRICK 

“The problem is . . .

that humans have victimized animals

to such a degree

that they aren’t even considered victims.

They aren’t considered at all.

They’re nothing.

They don’t count.

They’re commodities

like T.V. sets and cellphones.

We’ve actually turned animals into innate objects~

sandwiches and shoes.

It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.”

~ Gary Yourofsky

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Gary Yourofsky is the founder of

ADAPTT (Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow)

http://www.adaptt.org

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BEFORE HE DID, THE BASTARD MILKED HER

BEFORE HE DID, THE BASTARD MILKED HER

An exerpt from The Philip Wollen Story

“There was no single seminal event, just a gradual realization that I had experienced a paradigm shift in my thinking. There was a time when I used to joke that the only thing that will change a man is if he a) finds religion or b) Has a full frontal lobotomy.  Nowadays, I say it is when he discovers his character.

If there ever was a Damascene event in my case, then it would be the time I visited a large industrial conglomerate in the course of my professional work as a merchant banker. I inspected one of their subsidiaries – which turned out to be a slaughterhouse. It was the most terrifying experience of my life and it affected me profoundly. I made the most important decision of my life that morning. To become a vegetarian; to leave my career; and become an advocate for social justice.

But I was not yet a vegan. I didn’t know enough. I thought that dairy was the bucolic, peaceful image of green pastures and crystal streams, rolling hills and the poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley. Little did I know that behind the dairy walls was a cruel industrial juggernaut, a vile gulag of despair.

I discovered that milk was meat in liquid form. During a business trip to India I saw a milkman dragging and whipping a cow. She had been badly injured in an accident with a lorry. To get her to move, he was throwing chili powder in her eyes, and shoving sharp objects in her anus. He had a chain around her neck and forced her to walk with a broken leg and severe injuries to her spine. Beside her walked her scrawny, starving and terrified calf, ribs protruding and her skinny legs trembling. At the slaughterhouse gate, he unchained her. But before he did so, the bastard milked her.  If that sight does not change the heart of a man, nothing will. . . . ”  ~ Philip Wollen, Kindness Trust

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References:

Video:  Animals should be off the menu – Philip Wollen at Australian debate

Video:  Earthlings

Winsome Constance Kindness Trust 

Kindness Trust on Facebook

My Vegan Story on Facebook

SHADOW PURPOSES

SHADOW PURPOSES

“A shadow is never created in darkness.

It is born of

LIGHT.

We can be

blind to it

and blinded by it.

Our shadow asks us to look

at what we don’t want to see.”

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Be brave.  Dare to bear witness.  Trust your soul.

Fear not the shadow.

The LIGHT

will continually purify the shadow

as the shadow is continually faced.

~ Gerean

NOTE: Thank you my dear animal rights activist friend, Eddie Mah,

for delivering this inspiration to me ~ G 

NEXT STAGE: REVOLUTION OF LOVE

We Are from the Future ~ Next Stage: Revolution ~ of LOVE

~~~

Greetings.

WE are from the future.
Everything is going to be alright

~~~
You

are about to undergo a

 staggering revolution
many have called for this revolution

but few understand what it truly means.

~~~
This coming revolution is part of a great progression towards an

 AWAKENING

of staggering proportions
LIFE FORCE

is the creative self-organizing intelligence orchestrating all of this behind the scenes
LIFE FORCE

is experienced by

YOU

as the feeling of

LOVE

for Life and Love

are the same

~~~
What humanity is about to become is quite inconceivable to you right now
but WE are here to help make this transition a little easier
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
~~~
Like gyroscopic force stabilizes a motorcycle

LIFE FORCE

[Love]

stabilizes all living systems

~~~
Populations full of love cultivate

honesty

courage

and generosity

self-organizing

and self -regulating

without the need for coercive control

~~~
Populations with deficits in love succumb to

fear, violence and corruption

inviting coercive governments

to combat the chaos and entropy

that arises in the absence of love’s organizing intelligence

~~~
Just as Life force is experienced as love

entropy is experienced as ego, hatred and fear
The corrupt and power hungry feed on this fear

~~~
Without enough gyroscopic force to keep it upright a motorcycle falls

likewise without enough love to keep them upright

free and idealistic governments fall
populations too fearful, selfish and chaotic to stand on their own

invite despotic governments to forcefully rule and stabilize them

like a kickstand for those who’ve lost their minds
~~~
As long as a population has more fear than love,

what appears to be democracy

is often little more than a spectacle to mesmerize the masses

autocratic power still operates behind the scenes

Its media directs people’s unconscious fears and aggressions towards

invented enemies

insane competitiveness, rabid consumerism and addiction
THIS SYSTEM WILL SELF DESTRUCT

~~~
This system glorifies the ego, the embodiment of entropy,

which convinces you that you are alone against the world,

causing alienation, fear and aggression
The core values of your culture have been hijacked

forging a pathologically antisocial anti-ecological system

obsessed with profit, power and control.
THIS SYSTEM WILL SELF DESTRUCT

~~~
Real change must now come from outside this system.
Real change must now come from

YOU

~~~
Just as free and idealistic governments can’t survive the entropy of populations filled with fear

egoic coercive governments can’t survive

the creative self-organizing power of people filled with love

~~~
Gandhi called this power

soul force

life force

love force

It is the fundamental force behind all nonviolent revolution and

the unassailable creative intelligence of

LIFE

~~~
True freedom and equality requires a population alive with this self-organizing intelligence

~~~
The coming

awakening

happens in stages
and the next stage is

THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE

~~~
LOVE

is the organizing force behind all that is

beautiful

joyful

and creative

in this world

~~~
Power structures are merely the reflection of a population’s levels of love or fear.
but

true love

casts out all fear

making graceful revolution

not only possible

but inevitable.
so the next stage… is

THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE

~~~
When you unleash the sentient energies of

LOVE

then, for the second time in the history of the world,

humanity will have discovered

fire
The fires of love

will spread

through all people

thus all systems

shaping the world

in its own image
LOVE

is a force of nature

and so are

YOU

~~~
The coming singularity happens in stages
and the next stage… is

THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE
The love that fuels this revolution

starts with you
You can become an agent of love

allowing it to guide you and govern your actions

~~~
Love is increased through

communion

song

mindfulness

prayer

humor

forgiveness

and connection

~~~
(We will reveal more in future transmissions)
For now

communicate to every sentient being you encounter:

“I see you
You are not alone
We are in this together
You are loved
The revolution of love is here 

and all is well.
so

Let there be LIGHT”

~~~

~ by Garret John LoPorto

at:   In the Future

www.wearefromthefuture.com

www.upriser.com

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CALL TO THE WAYSEERS

CALL TO THE WAYSEERS

You see things others don’t

You are hard-wired to change the world

Your mind is irrepressible

You are aware of something more sovereign

than man-made rules or laws could ever express

You know in your heart there is a natural order

This natural order is called…

“The Way”

Known by some as

The Will of God

Divine Providence

The Holy Spirit

The Implicate Order

Life Force

The Way is

the source of

your inspiration,

your passion,

your wisdom,

your enthusiasm,

your intuition,

your spiritual fire,

When expressed by the mind

 genius

When perceived through the eyes

beauty

When felt through the senses

grace

When allowed into the heart

LOVE

~~~

(Excerpt from The Wayseer Manifesto)

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VIDEO: Wayseer Manifesto

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Unify in compassionate heroism

Lead each other home to

The Light

Blessings on The Wayseers,

The Keepers of The Flame.

~ The Animal Spirits