The Way OF VEGETARIANISM, SELFHOOD, AND THE BEYOND

Steven Arthur Collier

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Experience Expansion of Consciousness.  From the very onset penetrating psychological/spiritual/physical principles are woven together here for the facilitation of the most important expedition of your life, ... your journey within, ... your AWAKENING!

Sujets

• Movements
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Transpersonal
• Psychology

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• Publié par: Outskirts Press
• Date de parution: 19 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781977267252
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Way OF VEGETARIANISM, SELFHOOD, AND THE BEYOND All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2023 Steven Arthur Collier Ph.D. v33.0
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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
A UTHOR ’ S N OTES
I NTRODUCTION
I. I T I S S IMPLE
II. R ELATIVE I MMORALITY
III. T HE G REATEST W ALL O F D ENIAL
IV. C REDIBLE O R I NCREDIBLE ?
P REACHERS —D O N OT L ET T HE C OCK C ROW O NCE A GAIN ...F OR T HEE !
P ARENTS —D O N OT T AKE T HE C HILD F ROM C HILDHOOD
M ACHO M ANIA —T HE H UNTER / H URTER S HALL B E T HE H UNTED
T HE F EMININE M YSTIQUE …O R M ISTAKE ?
C HAMPIONS O F C ULINARY C ARNAGE —K EEPERS O F C OMMERCIAL A ND D OMESTIC K ITCHEN M ORGUES
T HE C ULTURALLY D IVERSE —S AVE T HE C ULTURE A ND S AVE T HE A NIMAL C HILDREN
T HE O PPRESSED A S T HE O PPRESSORS
T HERAPISTS A S T HE R EPRESSED
D OCTORS , S CIENTISTS , T ECHNOLOGISTS , H EALTH A UTHORITIES —J UST G IMME S OME T RUTH !
W ORLD L EADERS A ND P OLITICIANS —H OW A BOUT S OME L EADERSHIP ? P LEASE S AVE U S A ND T HE P LANET
V. T HE W AY O F T HE N ATURAL O RDER O F C REATION , E VOLUTION , A ND U NIVERSAL J USTICE
VI. B ONDING W ITH P ETS —C ONDUITS T O C ONNECTION
VII. W HO A RE Y OU ? R EDISCOVER Y OUR C ORE S ELF …A ND R EALIZE C ONNECTION W ITH T HE B EYOND
VIII. I NTRODUCTION T O T HE E XPERIENTIAL A DJUNCTIVE S ELFHOOD T ECHNIQUE : P ART I
IX. I NTRODUCTION T O T HE E XPERIENTIAL A DJUNCTIVE S ELFHOOD T ECHNIQUE : P ART II
X. Q UICK C ORE S ELF R ECAP
XI. C ORE S ELF A FTERTHOUGHTS
XII. G ENUINE E MPATHY —A ND P AIN !
F ACING T HE D EMON
XIII. M ISUNDERSTOOD F AITHS V ERSUS M ATTERS OF THE H EART
XIV. T HE R ETURN T O Y OUR E DEN —T HE R ETURNING T O Y OUR G OD “T HY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN ”
E PILOGUE
A UTHOR ’ S N OTES
Heartfelt appreciation is here accorded to all working intensively against farm animal abuse, and to advocates and clinicians for all animals mistreated, injured, neglected, or in need of shelter. For these people are truly modern-day, nonviolent warriors. These are the heroes who work in the trenches and must witness firsthand the heartbreaking injustices. They are true champions who often suffer right along with the voiceless and defenseless animals. They care for and fight back on behalf of pained, cognizant, innocent creatures when it seems no one else will. Because of them attention is brought forth to the need for not only globally saving persons, but also the precious animals during times of warfare, pandemics, and natural disasters.
A special appreciation is also expressed to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA’s wealth of informative data regarding historical religious ideology and animal livestock production was instrumental to this writing.
This work embraces the idea of a magnificent and effectively comprehensive Selfhood awakening . Psychological concepts are offered for the purposes of illustration and realization of this awakening. The extensive acknowledgment and integration of spirituality and belief should make it clear that the treatise is not a representation of a general or specific psychological orientation nor is it as such intended as a form of psychotherapy within this context. Instead, the reader is advanced a visionary presentation which involves what might be best described as psycho-spiritual self-help guidance.
It is noted that persons with mental/medical health concerns should always consult with a qualified health professional prior to any personal application/participation concerning the adjunctive technique and any exercises or processes of change introduced within this volume or others. This reading was not designed or intended for diagnosing and treating mental/medical disorders.
It is suggested that research findings and data (regarding pollution, use of water and fuel resources, world hunger, health/disease, etc.) be updated by the reader on an ongoing basis. Many become aware over time of continuities/repetitions in findings that involve perceptions of integrated eternal truths and meanings directly related to transcending.
Transcending the fellowship for blood is the actual differentiation from, and the rising above the fellowship/community of those categorically participating in the bloodied ingestion. And this aspect of transcendence seems itself quite introspective in nature, and at times may include the great depth of meaning available for realization of consequential transcendental Connection. We shall speak later regarding a related conceptual hierarchy of needs.
I NTRODUCTION
Thank you. Thank you for opening this book and possibly considering it for your reading. Something very basic is missing for most of us in this world today. A void of hopelessness and surely a darkness too often exists instead of something else very different. I would like to ask you for the opportunity to communicate a message. This may well be the most remarkable and consequential message of your lifetime. I believe this is God’s message for ending cruelty in this world and is universal in spirit. Certainly many differing approaches may well lead us to similar destinations. But it is argued the most joyful experience of wholeness and completion comes through mindfulness of the powerful spirit of kindheartedness and mercy from the very core of our being. This writing is meant for you, regardless of your dietary preferences. It is meant for you, whether your beliefs include a God and/or some type of meaningful eternal and universal system or way of order. This message is for you individually, and for you to give to others. It is meant as a vehicle for transcendence from the negativity that may block both self-discovery in this life and preparation for the transition to the afterlife including the perceptual management of your very own inevitable "death" process. Explanations of "the way" are conveyed quite frequently throughout the chapters with many varied examples to maximize reader comprehension and capacity for utilization.
Please? Now that I have said thank you, it is time to ask please. Content so germane to the understanding of self-discovery , entertaining thought teasers, the use of metaphor and penetrating symbols, and variable intervallic stimulation of the psyche are offered early on and throughout this writing. Regardless of any agreement or disagreement, these spicy offerings hopefully ensure your reading soon begins at and continues through from the very first chapter. The material within is intended to flow out to the reader in the basic order as presented .
And please keep an open mind when so soon and abruptly presented with what may seem to go against much of what has been taught. Please try to make considerations partly on the following basis. "What if? What if there is a possibility that I have been wrong and/or unaware ? What if I have been overly influenced by what others do and say? What do I really think and feel?" Only you can answer for your own person, regardless of affiliations. Please consider your own individual, Connective, humane spirituality. Please contemplate the further expansion of your consciousness and affects you have upon the global context that surrounds you. But again, even if not in agreement, read on for the stimulation of your psyche. Read on for self-discovery and transcendent Connecting with the beyond in life…and in death. And be assured that herein disagreement does not mean inability for this self-discovery with Connection!
This work is not meant to be an assertion of hateful feelings or a condescending discourse toward you the reader or any other persons or groups. I was truly saddened while writing critical commentary regarding so many, including minorities and the oppressed, and those working within some segments of industry for the many who are just trying to make a living to support a family . I found it especially painful to make such disparaging complaints against Christian and Jewish cultural and religious practices. For I truly love the Christian and Jewish peoples, cultures, and faiths most dearly, and deeply feel the deserved negations herein attached to both Christians and Jews to be equivalent . But the greatest urgency for change here and now precludes any softened or toned-down presentation of a most unconscionable reality we have caused and perpetuate.
Harsh words are at times necessary but hardly sufficient when dealing with the subjects of pain, trauma, terrorism, and brutal satanic-style killings. So please, throughout all chapters keep in mind the necessity and appropriate intent of the repeated negative remarks (needed to identify specified atrocious behaviors), and the repeated appropriateness of the anger, the outrage, the protesting. The degree of degeneracy absolutely demands a repetitive counterconditioning awareness along with the most intense OUTRAGE, protesting, and actions which have been many times historically so absent and that are presently so missing.
And it is important that a position is taken differentiating an individual and potential individual behavior. Here your individual core of identity is always thought to remain as a constant, to maintain its own kind of inherent magnifi