Vegetarian explanation - from the perspective of an African Shamam

[Guest guest]

The

following is excerpted from an interview with Malidoma Patrice Some', a

Dagara Medicine Man, in a Question and Answer format. The entire

interview is in the "Files" area at

Kundalini-Yoga

I recommend reading the entire interview as his perspective on power of

the group to effect deep healing is reminiscent of White Tantric Yoga

WITH Yogi Bhajan present!

Sat Nam,

Dharam Singh

 

 

 

The

Dagara worldview holds a natural law hierarchy wherein

the vegetable kingdom is closest to a spiritual source, then come the

animals,

and lastly, man. Man is the lowest or farthest from spirit and not the

other

way around as Western beliefs would hold. Why?

 

The

hierarchy from spirit to man is based on an

understanding of cosmic order that the earth and its various elements

participate in. The reason the vegetable world---the world of trees and

plants

and so forth---is considered to be the most evolved and intelligent

species is

that it reveals to the animal and human realms the vortices through

which one

may access other dimensions and other planes.

 

 

How does

the vegetable kingdom reveal itself to humans?

 

This is

simply through the detection of some kind

of communicative mode that plants get into at night.

 

 

The

humans or the vegetables or both?

 

Let me

take it hierarchically. First, the animals

did notice this communicative mode. And what was noticed was that the

light of

the plant at night is different from its light during the day. And that

difference is about a certain cosmic connection. What they noticed was

that a

plant was talking to another plant.

 

 

The

animals tuned in psychically to what was going on in

the plant world?

 

Yes, and a

human was there, a hunter, watching. One thing you have to understand

is that

communication---like you and I talking---could be seen by a third party

watching

us as waves going out of me and lighting up all kinds of different

possibilities. It is possible when someone cannot hear to still

understand what

is going on by setting a shock wave. Follow those lights as they touch

on the

different wires inside your self. You can get meaning out of it. What

happened

is that an animal seeing different lights going off jumped into that

pattern.

 

 

So the

human hunter noticed this---he was very observant.

 

A lot of

what you may call supernatural knowledge

was brought to the tribe mostly by hunters. They'd go out hunting for

days or

months at a time and instead of bringing back dead animals, they'd

bring back

knowledge about the animal world. And the animal world would get its

knowledge

from the plant world. And so you are fed by the very being that is

higher than

you.

 

 

Okay.

Could you explain that?

 

You are

nourished by the being that is higher in

climate than you. What this means is that if you eat vegetables, there

is, in

fact a, cleansing cleansing mechanism taking place. If you eat the body

of an

animal, there's also a cleansing, but there's something nourishing in

it which

is not the same as the plant that you'd eat. And the reason is that

every time

a being is higher, that being is there to help pull lesser beings into

that

higher realm.

 

 

Therefore,

a more evolved source for me to be nourished by,

would be an animal. And higher yet would be the

Vegetable Kingdom.

 

And the

next, next, next----the ultimate is what they call the being of

light.

 

 

How do I

contact the being of Light?

 

You've

got to go through the hierarchy.

 

 

Are you

saying that I would be better off being a vegetarian?

 

That's

right.

 

 

Would I

be better off nourishing myself and opening myself up with the being of

light

if I were eating or surrounding myself with a lot of plants, or

spending time

out in nature? Would my vibrations then become more refined?

 

They

would be constantly under refinement.

 

 

And

through that refinement process I could get myself to a point where I

would be

open to receiving nourishment from a being of light.

 

From the

beings of light that are the ultimate: source of nourishment.

When that happens, you can determine the kind of structure, the kind of

state

your body needs to be in---and stay there.

It's no longer about diet. It's no longer about what we actually

physically

take in. It's about setting a

configuration of your body structure so that you can allow that

constant

nourishment to occur. Because every time we change our body structure,

it

shifts the kind of vibration channel we are attuned to.

In your case, being a vegetarian moves you a

step closer to that being of light, to that state of light. What is

required is

that you dwell in the plant world as if in a place of community. And

when you

are nourished by that community and when you breathe, you bring

something about

yourself, constantly, to that community. Maybe what you need to be

doing is

just pouring water onto the plant. But you see, there has to be something a lot greater

inside of you

that spells love, care, appreciation or something. It can't be this

kind of

blunt, feelingless approach whereby you see the plant just as an

instrument for

your own sustenance, period.

 

 

So I have to relate on more

than just a physical Level to the plant.

 

That's

right.