Bringing Together Entities That Honor the Sacredness of All Life
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Powered Enlightenment
Your Invitation to a Spiritual Renaissance of Compassion By Frank Lane
Plant Powered Enlightenment
Your Invitation to a Spiritual Renaissance
By Frank Lane
Wake up to a life of freedom, awareness, health and abundance by the self-realization our body can be a Holy Temple of Kindness!
Moved by Mother Teresa to the Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, millions pay tribute to a person’s sacredness of life by raising their prayerful hands to their heart to make a connection with each other’s spirit by saying Namaste.
With a holier-than-thou smile Vegan’s say Namaste Veganwhile opening the Namaste Prayerful Hands into a V for Vegan, to express and acknowledge “The Light within me is grounded in vegan ethics of no harm”. What do they believe that gives them such attitude? Here is what we understand:
This hand gesture opens the heart to allow your mind and body to give your Light to another. This exchange of energy is a sacred act of kindness. For me, I am paying respect to the animal’s soul that died in enslavement.
For millions, the act of Namaste creates a feeling of wellbeing and a loop of bliss to this exchange of positive energy. Our sacred acts of connecting to that which is greater than ourselves give us the vitality that moves the soul and every cell in the Universe.
When we can acknowledge that there is revered energy within all sentient beings, we find sacredness in each other. This act of awareness leads to Enlightenment. Especially, when we put our hands, heart, and feet together in loving kindness. This is the journey of the spiritual seeker.
This Namaste Vegan Exchange is like photosynthesis, where plants capture Light from the Sun and exchange energy for growth for our spiritual evolution. When we eat plants, we become this Light, that brings us closer to our Source from which all life emanates.
Filling your body with Light illuminates and enlightens our Soul, when we can all step into the Light by eating plants. Plants reach towards and becoming the Light, teaching us this sacred dance of vegan spirituality.
If we allow our body to be a Holy Temple in order to receive this Light stored in Plants, we will ascend to a Higher Love. This has been my journey for 33-years as a vegan, living an exalted life of liberation and spiritual adventure, fueled by the Light in plants.
Light knows no faith, religion, ethnicity, economic status, degree, or title. It doesn’t question itself or others. It has no judgment, it just is. All can step into the Light without pomp and circumstance. Fueled with this Light, it has been a wild ride of self-discovery, realizing this Light that moves our hearts, is the same energy that moves the stars in the Universe! Even more profoundly, some call this Light God, because it feeds life on this planet. You are this Light from which life exists and evolves.
Every life is exchanging and converting Light energy, some to a higher form and others to a lower form based on their level of suffering in this exchange. For example, when we consume animal flesh our risk of diet-related diseases increases and our level of happiness decreases, and especially for the animals used for food.
Every church and temple have a special design for the Light to enter. Just as the eyes are the windows of the soul, we get to turn our eyes inward into infinite space and experience other worlds. To prod us in seeing the Light, architecture of great buildings is designed from the perspective of receiving Light. To enhance Light, there is stained glass, and special lighting of art and in entertainment productions. Of special note, there is the all-glass Christ Cathedral, for the purpose of receiving the Light. Your body is a Holy Temple, made to receive the different qualities of Light consumed, so you may become the realization of this Light.
If you open to this journey and allow your body to become a Holy Temple, you will experience a radical revolutionary Awakening of the human spirit. The secret of your soul is discovered by the awakening to your sacredness and the sanctity of all life. By recognizing this Light in all sentient beings, we become Enlightened.
Beyond this transcendence to recognize the Light in another, there is also the acuity of our sense of smell to allure or warn us of predators. If the fox smells like a chicken, then the chicken senses he maybe the fox’s next meal.
This same subconscious olfactory monitoring is constantly giving us information about the lifestyle of others. When you meet someone, they may trigger a negative reaction because they smell like a predator. Many vegans can smell blood and flesh subconsciously and it alerts them of danger.
If you met a cannibal, someone that eats humans, your sense of smell would alarm you not to be eaten. Hence, if you smell like a chicken, dog, or lamb, for example, that animal will avoid you for fear of being a meal. This is a deep subject on the sense of smell as a survival skill, which I will not address, I wanted you to be aware of our subconscious olfaction that causes our undefined reactions.
Our sense of smell is a predominant factor in sexual attraction. Further, a sexual partner’s chemistry will change if the partner is sexually active elsewhere because there is a unique combination of chemicals our body creates with a sexual partner for identification and monogamy. I explore more of this behavioral acuity of our sense of smell in the chapter “Can’t You Smell That Smell.”
Albert Einstein described himself as an agnostic but identified himself as a pantheist following the philosophy of Spinoza. His views on religion were complex but always related to science and did not believe in a personal god, but rather looked on the universe as a manifestation of “God”. In contrast, Saint Francis transitioned from a soldier killer to a lover of life, and Anne Frank, a child Holocaust survivor to having no disdain for her captors.
The common link was by the spiritual act of seeing All Life as Sacred.
The young astute vegan environmentalist, Sweden’s Greta Thunberg reprimands with the statement “How Dare You” speaking to the United Nation World Leaders that refuse to take action against the evil stupidity of animal slaughter industry that greatly contributes to CO2 pollution, mass extinction and global warming in the trade of economic growth that science confirmed to be crystal clear over 30 years ago, she cries out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok
Joaquin Phoenix, a vegan actor makes an international statement at 2020 Oscars for all that suffer injustice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8zVJhP1Ry4
This sacred awakening leads to discovering the miracle of your life. Within your Pain Body (holding painful memories in our muscles) we are acutely aware of the body as a Holy Temple for the realization of God Consciousness. To be able to feel pain is a blessing of awakening. I am a living testament of transforming a life of disaster as described in my first book Be In Heaven Now that has evolved into my new book Plant Powered Enlightenment. Everyone can ascend one bite at a time.
We are rational human beings, that is, we rationalize everything! In doing so we miss reality. Nothing brings reality more into focus than understanding the suffering of any sentient being. When we consider the suffering of all life, including human and non-human animals we start to awaken when we realize we are what we consume, mentally, physically and spiritually.
Humanity’s health has been decimated by diet-related diseases by eating dairy, eggs, fish, and animals because of the karmic debt of consuming a holocaust of suffering from the annual 3 billion tortured and slaughtered animals and fish we take into our bodies! Live by the butcher’s knife, die by the butcher’s knife.
Loudmouth vegans must scream to be heard over the cries of the animals in their concentration camps before being exterminated and cut up.
So, when one starts to wake-up and confront that one’s body is a sacred holy temple, the game changes and the awakening process begins. No longer can one blindly participate in the abject torture, pain, and suffering from ingesting animals and their excretions. You cannot directly or indirectly harm another animal, without harming yourself.
The debt of cause and effect from an animal-based diet represents about 85% of all diet-related diseases including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. This is more than a boomerang of Karma; this is the health care crisis; it is a crisis of lack of compassion for the millions of animals that are slaughtered daily in such a magnitude of cruelty and suffering. Is it any wonder we suffer when we cause life to suffer?
This is why the wisdom is clear in Genesis 1:29-30 ESV / “And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.” Biblically, in the beginning man and the Garden of Eden were plant-based. We all have the free will to sin, but in the end, the Bible says the Lion shall lay down with the Lamb, as we evolve to a higher love by making our body a holy temple. It was no by mistake that Jesus was called the Lamb of God. And many have put this Lamb on the fire, after paying to have its throat and body parts cut-up. Jesus said to love one another, I don’t think it meant to mass murder His creations and cause abject suffering to any life.
We are connected to our environment. We become what we consume. So, is it any wonder the Earth is convulsing in agony responding back with an ecological and moral collapse? Put yourself on a factory farm to experience the suffering from this concentration camp. The terror permeates in every cell of the animal’s body as it shakes itself to death before its slaughter. Farm animals must see us like the devil!
How we treat the least of sentient beings or our compulsion to bring equality into the world with a woman’s right to vote, stopping the killing of children in economic wars, or the civil rights of minorities or the equality of women are tools of self-actualization. There is an arc of compassion that connects all life. To live a consistent life of love and compassion is the key to spiritual liberation. The respect we have for mother earth, the environment, the animals and people are directly connected to the sanctity of life. Going Plant Powered is an answer and remedy for living an exalted life.
This Vegan evolutionary advancement in humanity’s awakening from the barbaric unconsciousness of eating another animal is the savior of humanity's compassion. Vegans are awakening humanity and are historically uniting in mass to stop the slaughter and holocaust of all sentient beings, to evolve loving kindness.
There is a direct relationship with ingesting violence by what we read, watch, work or eat that becomes our experience of life. When we respect an animal’s right to live freely, then there can be Peace on Earth and in the hearts of humankind! A spiritual person has empathy when the most vulnerable suffer. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Said Mahatma Gandhi.
Animal Liberation is Humanity’s Enlightenment because this awareness moves consciousness away from the need and addiction for killing as a way of life. The lack of respect and compassion for any life causes a fundamental breakdown and the defilement of humanity.
Warning: Making your body a graveyard of abject torture and cruelty of animals is dangerous and could be fatal for all life. Humans are evolved animals and eating animal flesh, makes one an animal cannibal!
This karmic debt has been at the expense and demise of our humanity and reparation can be paid by going plant-based; the Compassionate Solution to Climate Change, Hunger, Disease, and Mass Slaughter. Dr. Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers says, we are out of time, and it will take an intelligent miracle to turn the climate crisis around. He states the only saving grace and chance for survival is with a plant-based diet because animal agriculture has destroyed the ecological balance of Life.
Walking the higher road of love and compassion to Plant Powered Enlightenment is the perfect complement to an exalted spiritual life of Light. You can bring Light to the world by making your holy temple a vessel of Light by eating plants. Many in the world pray and give thanks for peace and health before they eat the tortured animals on their plate that will become a part of their body and the demise of humanity.
Remember: Move the body, stretch the mind, eating plants is divine, take a sacred breath, and be kind. Namaste Vegan – Be Love, Be Vegan, Be In Heaven Now
Watch Higher Love: Doing No Harm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_5ceAh7fU - The antidote to Suffering is to have Plant Powered Enlightenment: www.UnitedVegan.com.
Book Release 9-19-2020. Please preorder this book today to become a founding member of Plant Powered Enlightenment at www.UnitedVegan.com
Author/Speaker Frank Lane has been plant-based for 33 years and vegetarian before that in respect for all life. A CEO executive that has dedicated his life to a Vegan World to stop the collapse of the ecologic system of the world. The last nail in the coffin of life is Animal Agriculture, the Leading Cause of Climate Change - A White Paper by Sailesh Rao, Ph.D. https://www.climatehealers.org/animal-agriculture-white-paper
Watch Higher Love: Doing No Harm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_5ceAh7fU - The antidote to Suffering is to have Plant Powered Enlightenment: www.UnitedVegan.com.
Book Release 9-19-2020.
Please preorder this book today to become a founding member of Plant Powered Enlightenment at www.UnitedVegan.com
Author/Speaker Frank Lane has been plant-based for 33 years and vegetarian before that in respect for all life. A CEO executive that has dedicated his life to a Vegan world to stop the collapse of the ecologic system of the world. Animal Agriculture is the Leading Cause of Climate Change - A White Paper by Sailesh Rao, Ph.D. https://www.climatehealers.org/animal-agriculture-white-paper
AWAKENING TO PLANT POWERED ENLIGHTENMENT
By Frank Lane
An introduction article from this new book and video (release September 19, 2020)
“If you live a life of ritual without the sanctity of all life as a core principle, you will be lost in the world.”
There is an awakening in the world, and it is fueled by a Plant Based Movement.
Communities of people are seeing how the Light Energy in Plants (Photons) from the Sun, is fueling their EnLightenment. We see how everything reaches toward the Sun, but
few become EnLightened. But these few say we can save the world, one bite at a time.
The philosophy of this fastest growing social movement is ambitious for all to experience a higher love of existence, by becoming the Light of World by transforming our being.
Plants engage in photosynthesis, taking the Sun’s energy and converting it into nutrition. When we take the Sun’s energy into our bodies by eating plants, we literally become Light or Plant Powered. Going plant-based speeds up our evolutionary process towards self-realization; EnLightenment.
The price of admission to this awakening is to understand the power of predominately eating plants as a complex of superior energy for our ascension. Plants supply the energy that the chlorophyll in the plants converts to chemical energy which is then stored as carbohydrates (mainly in form of sugars).
The light frequencies in plants we see as different colors. The green part of the spectrum is reflected (hence leaves appear green) and all other colors hold their own attributes. The waste product produced by this process is oxygen which, of course, most animals on this planet need to survive.
Our relationship with plants and the light within them is symbiotically sacred. Visible light is a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is one of the four forces that make up our universe. Sugars are the main source of sun induced energy in our diet.
A predominately a plant-based diet supplies these strongest and most dominant animals on the planet with plant proteins; Hippos, Rhinos, Giraffes, Cows, Elephants, Bison, Wildebeest, Horse, Manatee, Deer, Some Whales, Yaks and super humans as seen in the documentary The Game Changers.
When we eat plant-based, our cells become alive with the energy from the Sun. Especially when plants are not corrupted by lower forms of energy, such as animal flesh or milk excretions. Plant foods are a higher energy without the suffering and avoiding the complicit abject torture and mass murder of enslaved animals.
Is your world a friendly place or filled with violence? The answer has to do with what you consume, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. We are what we ingest, and if we eat the tortured flesh of animals, their imprisoned suffering, and forced excretions of milk products, we grieve and become sick.
Brainwashed - We see an average of about 5,000 advertisements per day and most are for unhealthful profit-driven addictive consumption; animal products, drugs, alcohol, and tons of useless stuff the advertiser tells us we need to make us happy. As Beatle George Harrison said, “The Love You Make is Equal to the Love You Take.” Harrison warned we become what we consume and eating tortured animals subjected to pain, suffering and mass murder shifts our ascension. What we consume, consumes us.
Eating Plant Powered is a revolutionary premise that has risen from a blindness of sentient animals being cut up and packaged for food. Have you ever considered how many times a day your mind is being programmed to eat the flesh and bodily fluids of animals without a second thought of its deleterious effect to your health, the animals, and the destruction of the planet or your morals?
Although, the beef, pork, chicken, and dairy industry cannot be blamed solely for the system of animal slaughter that has dictated our eating habits for ages. It is driven by our unconsciousness to consider the mutual suffering of animals. Even though the slaughter industry had supplied the nutritional information to our grade schools to condition children into a life of addiction for the need of animal products. There is no nutritional requirement, other than B12 for pure vegans, that is supplemented in most plant-based milks.
A person transitioning to a plant-based life-style will fail many times for we live in a society where killing and addiction is the norm and encouraged. But turn your eyes around and look inside yourself and find the person of peace and compassion for all life.
Taking Plant Light into our bodies, wakes us up, illuminates our being, moves us from eating death to life. For Rumi says “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.” It is time to wake up and move our carnivore behavior to that of loving kindness for all life.
The greatest lie ever told, is for the “need” of animal products that cause massive disease and death in humans and animals.
Animal blood, flesh, milk excretions and fat are highly addictive, which is economically and divisively used against the masses for deleterious profits. This control comes from many ancient cultures that believed animal sacrifice, drinking, and eating of their blood and flesh is life-giving. The Christian religion has made eating the body and blood of Jesus Christ the cornerstone of the religion to have eternal life. Being raised Catholic and to this day, taking Communion is a most symbolic ritual of bringing holiness into my body and spirit.
Even though most Christians believe eating the body and blood of Christ is ritually symbolic, although some believe there is a spiritual transmission. This ritual has evolved from animal sacrifice, in atonement for our sins.
Beliefs can be mental viruses that has a physical component like Covid 19. The fact that most all epidemic diseases come from animals and are predominantly transferred from animals to humans. Most people would not eat their dog or cat or let alone another human being as being distasteful. But we have been programmed to believe “Eating animals is required for good health”, and our taste for flesh and blood have been imprinted upon our minds to brainwash the masses by a relentless controlling industry.
I as many have revolted against this industry propaganda from childhood. Especially when I found out, I was eating cows, lambs, pigs, and chickens and I realized there was little difference than eating my dog or cat. As a child I felt lied to and betrayed when I found out I was eating my friends! This caused me to meltdown in confusion that brought insightful conviction, when I realized I was an animal eating animals, an animal cannibal!
As a child, I questioned the repulsive bloody dead burned animals shoved into my face! Our hideous system of mass murder hides the body parts by packaging and grinding up the legs, breasts, and thighs, of sentient animals, some call food.
If animal eaters had to look into the eyes of another animal and stick a knife in its throat, until its body stopped convulsing, most would not dare bite into the flesh of a sentient being.
I knew I was a stranger in a strange land of Carnism, when I awoke to this holocaust. So, I jumped ship, changed teams, and joined 33 years ago, with a bunch of “fruits and nuts!”
I will never forget petting my dog’s thigh with one hand and eating a lamb’s with the other hand. I realized; I was an animal cannibal. My companion animal just wants to be loved, and not eaten, like you or any animal.
I have questioned myself many times; What was it that made me transition from my comfort foods of Italian sausage, white bread, cheese, and pasta made with eggs?
Simply, I woke-up when my consciousness yelled out; My body will not be a graveyard for the abject torture and suffering of sentient animals because of my unconsciousness!
I was told not to go see a slaughterhouse, but I had to see with my own eyes. Please never do this, it will scare your sense of humanity forever. I watched a cow being stripped of its skin, still convulsing from a bolt being shot into its brain, I witnessed cruel darkness and the existence of evil. I had PTSD from the experience, so my mother tried to console my shock by teaching me the sacredness and wonder of my existence, the natural world, especially for the sanctity of the unborn, disabled, elderly, animals, and nature that were being discarded in a throwaway society.
“All things are connected” says my friend, vegan revolutionary, John Robbins. When any life, human or animal, is made to suffer it affects the spectrum of all life, because all life is connected. Universally, when any sentient being suffers, all suffer.
All mothers love their children and suffer at their demise. If babies are delivered from a mother’s body, then women are deliverers of sacredness. To any mother, animal or human, her baby is sacred and most precious, and she would give her life for her child. I realize I am prejudice for my species because I think I am superior to other species.
This rationality has led the world to conflict, war, and mass murder. When we use our body as a graveyard of tortured animals, there is a chain reaction of logic to believing killing is necessary and normal. I rejected the whole idea of killing any sentient being, especially in front of their families.
If we are to evolve, we must stand our ground in our truth of non-violence against life from the conviction of a mother or father for their child. This conviction led to the organization Mothers Against Drunk Drivers that suffer from the loss children in an alcohol related accidents. Mourning loss is no different for any mother, animal or human. It is only our speciesism that blinds the truth that all mothers would give their life to save their children.
But slaughterhouses have been hidden from sight and this clandestine industry has lobbied lawmakers to make the dissemination of factoring farming pictures a crime. They do not want you to see a present day holocaust. Thank God, masses of people are waking up to this evil and switching to a plant-based non-violent diet.
When vegan ethics become our principles, we will have an exalted spiritual quality of life. When we take a stand for the greater good, we become our principles.
At 16, I broke away from the whole of the war machine against the killing of any being with a mother and became part of the whole of the peace movement. Forever working with homeless, soldiers and a prison ministry. I became an individual part of bringing peace to a suffering world. This is when these principles started to fall into place, especially the first time I was told, “Meat is Murder.” I was stunned by the inference that one could be thought of as a murderer for killing animals, but in time the cloud lifted uncovering an animal holocaust.
I had to consider deeply how my complacency contributed to the daily slaughter of millions of animal lives that wanted to live, affecting peace on the planet and in the soul of humanity.
The killing of any sentient being was abhorrent to every cell in my body. The bloodbath horrors of torture, agony, and suffering of soldiers, babies in the womb, animals, or those in concentration camps, made no sense. So, I removed myself from these acts of abject torment as a cog in the machine of mass murder by becoming religiously vegan.
I found solace in the vegan ethic, noting “All Life is Sacred,” by making my body a holy temple and receptacle of peace, not death to practice what my religion had taught me, respect for life, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” But, as rational beings, we rationalize everything, even the preciousness of life itself.
We must ask: does our existence depend on the killing and suffering of sentient beings? We live in a symbiotic relationship with killing. The world is at war with each other. Everyone kills, some more overtly, a soldier, politician, and butcher, all kill with a level of discernment, but is it just and necessary? There are rules and regulations to our moral ethics of killing that appease our conscience, but does it allow us to be our spiritual nature?
Veganism is a higher love and the Way of causing the least amount of harm, setting a high bar of ethics. This ideal called to my soul and imbedded a moral conviction for all life.
One only needs to watch the horrific terror animals go through in a slaughterhouse to see unspeakable horror. Babies are stolen from their mothers, raped to become pregnant, left shaking with fear from the smell of blood and by hearing the cries of their family being killed. There is nothing more frightening than this holocaust of torture, pain, and suffering. If this living hell were felt in our soul, it would never exist.
Just as all things are connected, so is our compassion for every creation of life. Albert Einstein was right, “A society can be judged by the way it treats its animals.”
Your level of awareness will dictate your behavior. A vegan spirituality will open the gates of heaven now and dictate your spiritual life. It was this awakening that led me to honor the sacredness of all life and a non-violent diet. That same awakening from ego, selfishness, lack, and fear turned my heart to the sanctity of life itself.
Most of us would never be carnivores if we knew how much pain and suffering, we contribute by our dietary behavior, but the addiction and mental brain washing has cleaned rationality from our minds.
Albert Einstein who became a vegetarian says energy cannot be created or destroyed but is transformed into our lives by Sunlight, a key factor in photosynthesis, the process used by plants and other autotrophicorganisms to convert light energy. This energy from the Sun, can be used to synthesize carbohydrates and is used to fuel our activities. The photon is a type of elementary particle. It is the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force.
The point here, we get to use our Light from photosynthesis to evolve our state of being. Great spiritual vegan teachers such as Lama Alan Dale of Vegan Buddhism.com practice Ahimsa, “Doing no harm” and say it is the path to EnLightenment. Catholic priest Father John Dear a vegan follows the precepts of the Franciscan Order, honoring the sanctity of all animals.
The Plant Based Movement believes the mass slaughter of millions of sentient animals and sea life daily is a holocaust causing a chain reaction of suffering to people, animals, and the planet.
Further, there is building evidence that Covid-19 has been transferred from animals to humans who consume or come in contact with animal flesh. One of highest death rates among a group is slaughterhouse work. There has never been a better time to be plant-based.
Animal slaughter is the primary source of diseases: Most of these diseases are variations of the coronavirus, e.g. SARS, MERS, COVID and various types of Influenza. Even smallpox may have started in a rodent some 10,000 years ago. However, many diseases are plant based, e.g. leprosy, E.Coli, Staph, Strep and many others, but your risk will significantly decrease on a plant-based diet and clean environment.
Shifting to a plant based lifestyle is the most exalted experience leading to a divine sacredness of life. When our being becomes a holy temple, a transformation occurs giving us the experienc
e of heaven now.
My escape 33 years ago came from the realization that a life of dominance against animals was causing mass suffering and the fork in my hand was the answer. This conviction released me from the world of Carnism, for it is my value for the sacredness of all life that gives me freedom. This conviction led my soul to seek a congruency for the honoring and freedom of creation for myself, others, the animals, and the planet.
May We All Be “Free at Last”
Frank Lane
Why Human Animals - Eat Animals - Are we Animal Cannibals?
By Frank Lane – Frank@UnitedVegan.com
I found the answer when reading Mother Teresa’s autobiography about her compassion for all life. She explains how animals were sacrificed for our sins. The sacrificed animal was payment to the Church called Indulgences, where animals were sacrificed to recover from sin. A lie would cost a few chickens and adultery, a lamb, cow, or goat for example.
This follows the same sacrificial logic of redemption for our sins by way of Jesus Christ through receiving His body and blood in Holy Communion, but only after confession of sin and penance, are the sins forgiven.
The sacrifice of an animal's life for our sins have become the Standard American Diet (SAD). Although according to Christian doctrine, Jesus gave His life for our sins, so animal sacrifice was no longer needed, as His mission was to end all suffering. For this reason, He is called the sacrificial lamb of God. But suffering continues for humans and animals are still paying with their lives.
In part, this is because those that have the gold makes the rules and their wealth was in herds of animals, farming, and food, throughout history, tied to slavery. We continue this animal sacrifice ritual as normal and necessary in our everyday life by making the slaughter of animals routine. So, is killing and causing abject suffering of any sentient being normal, necessary, and compassionate?
Cannibals pray before eating another human’s flesh, just as we prayer before we eat the flesh of animals. But one of the fastest growing movements in the world is to a plant-based diet. An estimated half a billion practice vegetarianism. Why this movement? Are human animals spiraling towards compassion for their kindred species?
Humans continue to sin, enslave, and kill sentient beings causing a massive horror of terror and bloody massacre. Animals must think we are the devil.
Barbarically, from tradition and behavioral conditioning, we eat the sacrificed carnage of animals for the forgiveness of sin with a devilish grin and blood dripping from our mouth. Do we really think taking the life of a concentration camp animal and then eating it moral?
We are rational beings, we can rationalize anything, even the brutalization of sentient beings, but somehow steak sauce masks the taste of flesh and our mindfulness.
Just because we pray before our meals, do you think this somehow sanctifies the mass murder of sentient beings? Is it any different how both sides pray to the same God before war? Can we really petition God with our prayers against our evil ways? There are some that live by the golden rule and there are some that are ruled by gold that believe they can we buy their way into heaven and be forgiven for our indiscretions against incarcerated animals that feel pain and suffer until slaughter. Then they haunt carnivores with diet related diseases.
Some people believe animals go to heaven, and if so, I hope the tables are not turned and they are waiting to eat us! But the real conundrum is if aliens exist and they have a taste for people of color. I have heard cannibals say pasty white people are bland.
Considering the sinfulness of humans, no wonder people are still trying to atone for their sins by sacrificing animals in the graveyards of their stomachs, without a second thought of the torture eaten. The test of time says after 2000 years the carnage of slaughter does not forgive sin and is causing the demise of all life.
“Eat Love, not Animals” is the remedy for this epidemic of moral decay that sits in the bowels of humanity. Deep down in our subconscious, humans have been made to believe we are paying for our sinfulness by killing and sacrificing animals. Humans are fighting fire with fire, or death with death. The consequence is heart disease, diabetes, cancer, mental anguish, and mass bloodshed. But further there is a moral consequence for this barbarism. If we can open our eyes, we will see a massive animal holocaust at the demise of humanity.
The pink elephant in the room is Wuhan’s bloody meat market and our butcher’s knife. The breeding place for the Covid Virus, a world epidemic, for the price of sacrificing animals for our addiction to flesh and blood.
Wake up, the slaughterhouse is there for the taste of blood and does not forgive sin, it is the sin! It is the horror birthplace of the Covid Virus.
Humanity has a word for this “Scapegoating” transferring our sins to animals, a belief for the sacrifice of an animal for our sins that continues today by ingesting them to the hell of our stomachs. Humans have ingrained this bizarre behavior by continuing the slaughter of animals for sins and fast food is the new church for this unholy sacrament of redemption, but with an ethical and health price to pay.
Well, if you are going to sin, you might as well go all the way and torture cows for their milk, rape and impregnate them, then steal their babies, leaving the mother emotionally traumatized. What is next, shooting wild animals for a testosterone rush? You should be asking, “Will I be forgiven for this cycle of misery for the billions of sacrificed animals, many call food?”
The slaughter industry has given a whole new meaning to “Sacrificial Lamb”, the host body and blood, but now fast food. There is a massive movement that has awakened to a Plant-based lifestyle to save humanity.
Does a Plant-based lifestyle really have the redemptive qualities we seek to pull back the curtain of a bloody slaughterhouse? Can it reverse the tortuous killing millions of animals daily? Is atonement from massive bloodshed and suffering possible? Is your body a Holy Temple or a graveyard of abject death and misery? If we as a species are going to evolve to a life of compassion, it will start at the end of our fork.
By pondering the question, “Are we Animal Cannibals?” we can awaken and shift our spirituality and relationship with humans and other animals. There is still a large population that does not want to associate with ourselves with primates and consider we are animals eating animals.
Regardless of ideology, the lack of respect for life has caused the current events with Corvid and the tragic death of George Floyd. This suffering has caused a sublimated unrest to come to the surface. God, forgive us for the suffering we human animals have caused other animals. Can this mass murder of animals be redemptive by a plant based lifestyle to reform one’s soul? Many believe compassion starts with each bite and not in the dark graveyard of our stomachs. For this fastest growing plant-based lifestyle movement, vegans see the sunlight in plants as an illumination for the soul.
The Vegan Pope – Frank Lane
For this 33 year vegan, I had my first Beyond Meat burger at Carl's Jr. It was like going into enemy territory. I'd always stayed clear of these fast food joints as mortuaries of suffering and ill repute.
I had to ask the cook to clean and use the grill away from where they laid the dead animals to burn or melted cheesy pus.
I went with a friend, Kundan that has never eaten animals in his life, to watch my virgin bite. For me, when I bit into that burger, it was a shock to my holy body temple, my consciousness yelled out what hell are you doing!
For a frightful moment I felt like a Jewish holocaust survivor waking up in a slaughterhouse surrounded by Nazis. After I brought myself back to the present moment, I bit into the veggie burger that felt and tasted like I was eating bloody flesh!
In a flash my mind said; shall I shall I spit out shall I spit it out shall I spit it out shall I spit it out shall I spit it out or shall I spit it out or swallow shall... I swallowed.
After I settled down from startling my mind and body, I had to agree with my born vegetarian friend;
Why would you want to eat anything that taste and looks like a bloody corpse?
The lettuce, tomato and onion was saving grace as something fresh opposed to the processed patty. Yes it certainly mimics something dead, bloody, fleshy and processed like a ground up animal. At least they say it's not GMO.
It's a two-edged sword of consciousness rising. We are doing less harm to ourselves, the planet and the animals by exchanging animal flesh for plantbased foods. But to the millions of people that don't eat meat, think it's a very bizarre behavior to mimic eating a corpse of a kind loving animal. It would be like eating your dog or cat.
Carl's jr. used it's best food scientists to mimic the experience of eating bloody flesh. But on the other hand I am so glad it is not a sentient being between those buns in my stomach.
One small bite for humanity and animal liberation and one large step for Consciousness Awakening.
Today the Auschwitz Holocaust concentration camp is a museum. It is my prayer that one day all these meat packing institutions of torture, and death will become museums of consciousness evolved.
It's a win for a kinder, smarter, healthier world. Still give me fresh plants from mother earth anyday.
By Frank Lane
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Writer Frank Lane – Frank@UnitedVegan.org – 714-675-0110
First Vegan Banquet after 125 years at the Parliament of World Religions!
Watch it here:
This historical vegan banquet was a turning point for all that suffer. Hosted by the Charter for Compassion and facilitated by the Interfaith Vegan Coalition as part of the weeklong Parliament of World Religions in Toronto, Canada.
Eight thousand devoted to peace gathered from around the world to hear and explore 300 religious leaders’ interactions with the Parliament’s theme “The Promise of Inclusion and the Power of Love.”
When Frank Lane, a life-long vegan heard the Charter for Compassion was going to celebrate their 125th year anniversary with a slaughterhouse of dead animals on the celebratory banquet plates, he almost throw-up in disgust of celebrating compassion with the torture and death of sentient beings. Frank simply said the answer is at the end of our forks and it didn't have a mother, for meat is murder and eating that at a banquet honoring compassion would be absurd and ethically immoral to shallow
At the behest of Frank Lane, the Interfaith Vegan Coalition spring into action and organize a memorable knock your taste buds-off plant-based event to demonstrate compassion. Their mission was clear and vital for bringing respect for all life including animals by serving a delicious vegan meal.
“Our relationship to food is only second to our relationship with God” states Frank Lane a 31 year vegan and Ahimsa advocate. In alignment with the core values of Compassion, Karen Armstrong, the Keynote Speaker and the founder of the Charter for Compassion articulated leadership for the Compassion Movement to major religious leaders.
The Interfaith Vegan Coalition thought it would be nonsense to serve enslaved animals and participate in the animal holocaust of abject torture and suffering, when there is no human need for any animal products. Especially since former Catholic nun Karen Armstrong is now a world leader of interfaith compassion. The banquet represented a significant contribution to the theme of compassion for all sentient beings, expanding the promise of inclusion and love to embrace all animals and helping to question the prevailing narrative of exclusion and exploitation of animals, stated Frank Lane.
Marilyn Turkovich, Executive Director of Charter for Compassion exclaimed about the tasty and delicious plant-based foods served in recognition of compassion. These 300 religious leaders made the connection between their faith and animal suffering with each bite without flesh or blood.
Peace begins at the end of our fork says Lisa Levinson, M.A. and Judy Carman, M.A. the co-directors of the Interfaith Vegan Coalition’s (IVC). They were taken by the diversity of participants from every corner of the world and the appreciation of a meal without animal torture. Click to watch the Higher Love video.
Vegan Chef Sandra Sellani created plant-based foods that delighted even the hardcore carnivores. She is the author of The 40 Year Old Vegan, and succeeded at the formidable task of satisfying the international palettes of the Parliament’s attendees.
Chef Sellani used Good Dot Vegetarian Meat, a wonderful plant-based meat alternative. This vegan meat had an amazing taste, texture and plenty of protein. Abishek Sinha, CEO and Co-Founder of Good Dot travelled from India to bring his delicious Good Dot plant-based meats to the banquet.
Menu:
Rustic breads with vegan spread
Chopped fennel salad with tart cherry vinaigrette
Cookstown greens, roasted grapes, shaved heirloom beets, and Minus 8 vinaigrette
Featuring Good Dot Vegan Meats:
Good Dot Savory puff pie
Good Dot Veg Meat & Proteiz stir fry
Good Dot Veg Meat Red Thai curry
Good Dot Veg Meat Masamman curry
Bitter greens with orzo
Seasonal market vegetables and steamed rice
Blackberry bread pudding with maple cream
Pumpkin pie Freshly brewed Lavazza regular decaffeinated coffee specialty teas.
Plant-Based Meat Dishes
Chef Sellani’s culinary art, of turning the Earth’s bounty into revitalizing and salubrious entrées, seems capable of helping to inspire many caring people to transition to a more vegan way of living. Besides being delicious, the plant-based menu demonstrates and honors Karen Armstrong’s work of spreading compassion not just to other humans, but to all living beings.
For vegans, there is no ethical difference between animals such as dogs and cows, and so they strive to minimize abuse to all animals, refraining from all flesh, dairy, and eggs. Veganism is one of the fastest growing social movements in the world as an indication of mass awakening to the sanctity of all life.
"Dr. Sailesh Rao states urgently that our current rate of killing wild animals will result in Year ZERO: 2026, the year by which virtually 100% of wild animals will become extinct. Throwing the balance of life into this cataclysmic event called “Prevent Year ZERO” by eating plant-based for a truly compassionate Vegan World."
“Our relationship with food is a spiritual communion with God." says Frank Lane, a vegan activist author, who thought it hypocritical to serve tortured animals while honoring compassion! Lane wrote and directed Higher Love, a PSA advocating veganism as a spiritual path: See https://youtu.be/vc_5ceAh7fU or UnitedVegan.org
According to Buddhist teacher Alan Dale, “Compassion is the ultimate spiritual path to our higher self or God. The vegan choice is a choice for compassion with a reverence for all sentient beings. It is a communion that can transform us and make for a better world.”
“There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion,” writes Dr. Will Tuttle, a 38-year vegan, best-selling author, and former Zen Buddhist monk.
The Interfaith Vegan Coalition is committed to engaging religious leaders to consider the effect of food choices on humanity’s health and behavior, on our fellow earthlings, on the environment, and on the world’s hungry.
With faith in the good hearts of all attendees, the Charter for Compassion Banquet shined a light on the war being waged against animals, and the urgent need for all religions to take a stand to bring peace to human and all beings.
“When the power of love and nonviolence is extended to all sentient beings by the religious leaders of the world, then we will have a real chance to end violence, war, poverty, many diseases, and environmental destruction,” writes vegan author Judy Carman.
The World Peace Diet - by Dr. Will Tuttle suggests how eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony how we as a species might move our consciousness forward to be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.
Interview with animal activist Charlotte Cressey and Neal Barnard, M.D. of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine who speaks about his concept of #vegan "Universal Meals" with religious leaders at the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto. Lisa Levinson reports for #JaneUnchained.
https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/videos/266149290913010/
According to Frank Lane, “There is a higher love we can all enjoy by making our body a holy temple. It is our mission to have these 300 religious leaders extend their religious passion for the health of their congregations to include the well-being of animals and the planet.”
Learn more about the Interfaith Vegan Coalition at www.interfaithvegancoalition.org, a project of international nonprofit animal protection organization, In Defense of Animals, www.idausa.org.
By Frank Lane – Writer, Author of United Vegan; a path to Enlightenment – Frank@UnitedVegan.org 714-675-0110 – See https://youtu.be/vc_5ceAh7fU
This Press Release was edited by Judy Carman, author of Peace to All Beings and Dr. Will Tuttle, Author of the World Peace Diet and Public Relations Connector Expert, Susan Leonard at susan@curematch.com
For Interviews of exemplary vegans please contact:
Frank Lane – 714-675-0110 – Frank@UnitedVegan.org – www.UnitedVegan.com
30 year vegan – author of www.BeInHeavenNow.com and the www.TheGreatCompassionMarch.org - Click to watch Higher Love video.
To find a Vegan Potlucks near you, Go to www.VeganSpirituality.org and add your contact information for announcements.
THE INTERFAITH VEGAN COALITION
SHINES A LIGHT ON AHIMSA AND VEGANISM
AT THE PARLIAMENT OF WORLD RELIGIONS
Thanks to the hard work and donations of many people, In Defense of Animals’ Interfaith Vegan Coalition, co-founded by Lisa Levinson and Judy Carman, had a well-received presence at the 2018 Parliament of World Religions. The theme of the Parliament was “The power of love and the promise of inclusion.” Eight thousand people from around the world attended this historic event. Plenaries, talks, and panels went on all day and into the evenings from November 1 to the 7th in Toronto, Canada. We felt it was essential for the animals and the vegan message to be represented there and to reach as many people as we could.
We reached out and spoke out for a Vegan World in six ways: The Interfaith Vegan Coalition (IVC), Good Dot, and Vegan World 2026 booth; networking with attendees; a vegan banquet for the Charter for Compassion; several vegan talks and panels; two showings of the Thomas Jackson’s new film, “A Prayer for Compassion; and a traveling art exhibit entitled “Animals and World Religions,” curated by Dr. Lisa Kemmerer.
The Booth: IVC shared a 20 x 20 foot booth with Abhishek Sinha and Deepak Parihar, co-founders of Good Dot (www.GoodDot.in); with Dr. Sailesh Rao’s Climate Healers’ Vegan World 2026; and with Dr. Lisa Kemmerer’s brand new traveling museum exhibit, “Animals and World Religions.” Good Dot offered samples of their plant-based meats to their visitors on one side of the booth. Good Dot’s mission is “to bring high quality, affordable plant-based meat substitutes all over the world. We want to save lives, both human and animal, by providing tasty, healthy and environment friendly alternatives to meat.”
On the other side of the booth, IVC displayed our Vegan Advocacy Kits for various religions (accessible online at www.interfaithvegancoalition.org) and shared handouts from coalition members such as Vegan Spirituality, Circle of Compassion, Vegetarian Friends, and Christian Vegetarian Association. We also had recipes from Madeleine Tuttle and others, several books and prayer flags to sell, invitations to the film screenings of “A Prayer for Compassion,” etc. Along each side of the booth, Lisa Kemmerer’s “Animals and World Religions” panels were displayed. Sailesh Rao’s Climate Healers’ Vegan World 2026 banner and science-based poster brought attention to the urgency we are facing. By the year 2026, if we do nothing to change the current trajectory of extinction, all wild vertebrates will become extinct. We must create a vegan world soon in order to eliminate animal agriculture, the leading cause of extinction and so many other world crises. The dialogues with visitors to the booth went on steadily throughout each day. We were so encouraged by the many vegans who visited as well as those who were not vegan, but who were very open and interested in the spiritual, environmental, health, and animal connections. The Interfaith Vegan Coalition side of the booth. The panels on the sides are the Animals and World Religions traveling art exhibit. The Good Dot display on the other side of the booth. Delicious samples were offered to booth visitors. People loved them all. Lots of interest, many great discussions, new hope for the animals.
Networking: Some of the religions represented at the Parliament indicated a definite leaning toward veganism as part of their spiritual work. Among them were the Tzu Chi Buddhists (www.tzuchi.us), Aumism (www.aumisme.org); and Caodaism (PortlandCaodaiTemple@yahoo.com). Zoroastrians are asked to be vegetarian one month out of each year; The Sufi Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship recommends vegetarianism. The Urantia Foundation members are approximately half vegetarian or vegan. Many in the Share International group (www.share-international.us) are veg, and they serve vegetarian food at events. The founder of World Clergy (www.worldclergy.org) is vegan. We met several animal ministers. Of course, many of the Jains, Hindus, and Sikhs were veg or vegan. At the Hindu American Foundation (www.HAFsite.org) one third of the meals served are vegan. The Brahma Kumaris group includes a growing minority of vegans. The Ontario Sikhs and the Sikh Gurdwara Council served a free vegan lunch (although the desserts were not vegan) to thousands of people every day. The people in the world who have aligned veganism with their spiritual values is increasing exponentially. It was very encouraging. The loving, generous Sikhs serving thousands of people vegan lunches every day.
The Charter for Compassion Vegan Banquet: The organizers of this banquet for 300 people were very open to IVC’s suggestion to make the banquet vegan. Good Dot provided much of the food, and Chef Sandra Sellani, The 40 Year Old Vegan cookbook author, supplied the recipes and helped the chefs with preparation. The end result was truly delicious. The Banquet took place on November 2 and featured awards, speakers, and music. Although we were not able to offer a meal blessing orally, we were given permission to write a vegan meal blessing. This was printed on beautiful cards and placed at each attendee’s place setting. Abhishek was also given the opportunity to speak about the Good Dot food and why the vegan meal was in perfect alignment with the high aspirations of compassion. IVC plans to follow up with the Charter, as well as its partner, the Golden Rule Project, to create more vegan meals at their future events.
This is the Vegan Meal Blessing that was placed at each person's place setting at the Charter for Compassion Banquet. Many seeds of lovingkindness for animals were planted at the Banquet and all through the week. May they bear beautiful fruit and bring a final end to the killing, domination, ownership, and exploitation of our animal cousins.
Vegan Talks and Panels: Dr. Lisa Kemmerer, author of Animals and World Religions, gave a talk on “Integrated Justice,” showing how nonviolence to animals is critical to justice for all. She also was on the ”Justice for Just Us?” panel, along with Candace Laughinghouse, Charlotte Cressey, and Dr. Alka Arora. Rabbi David Rosen also gave a talk on veganism, as did Dr. Neal Barnard of Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine. There may have been more vegan talks of which we were not aware, as there were many hundreds of talks and panels. At the closing plenary, Swami Chidanand Saraswati stated that he believed the next Parliament should be totally vegan.
Two Showings of Thomas Jackson’s new film, “A Prayer for Compassion”: Dr. Sailesh Rao, producer of the film, hosted two showings during the Parliament, bringing more vegan enlightenment to all attendees. Thomas interviewed many spiritual leaders who are vegan to show how veganism is in perfect alignment with one’s highest spiritual ideals. Please go here to see the trailer and share it.
The traveling art exhibit entitled “Animals and World Religions,” curated by Dr. Lisa Kemmerer and Carolyn Mullin: Each beautiful panel represented various world religions and included statements made by some of their leaders that align the values of those faiths to veganism. Contact Carolyn Mullin at mullin.c@gmail.com to display this traveling exhibit at your local organization, University, or place of worship. The exhibit will have an online component soon.
Heartfelt thanks to the many folks who helped make this happen: Abhishek Sinha, Deepak Parihar, Frank Lane, Dr. Sailesh Rao, Carolyn Mullin, Dr. Lisa Kemmerer, Marilyn Turkovich, Sandra Sellani, Thomas Jackson, Ray Kowalchuk, Steve Kaufman, Reverend Carol Saunders, April Willson, Raquel Fronte, Charlotte Cressey, Dr. Alka Arora, Candace Laughinghouse, Dr. Neal Barnard, Rabbi David Rosen, Beth Redwood, In Defense of Animals, and many more.
