[dmehew]

Most esoteric teachers and groups sense animals as being part of our ‘family’ and don’t eat them. I feel it’s mainly an energetic issue, being in societies which do not treasure animals as much as they should. This is mainly due to heavy industrialization, where the core of society is reliant on a system which is routine, machine-like, and views the material as primary. The spiritual may still be sensed as necessary or essential, but is set aside because of a fear of survival or deprivation, either of social interaction or material goods. Ancient civilizations lived with more connectedness to all things, and may have seen this as a result of a weakening of their bond to the natural world. I myself believe that higher intelligences interfering with humanity’s development created a situation where consumption of animals was normalized.