There is a place, Man, where we live and dream together. And time long past where we shared that memory here on earth. That truth is lost to you. You no longer see beyond the false constructs of your ego, and most of you have lost the vision of anything outside yourselves. The truth is that we are one; that dream is still alive, and all of us in the dream are waiting for you to join us.

You humans have such narrow parameters. You are suspicious, first of all, of anyone outside of your immediate family, and then of different religious groups, other races, towns, countries, and ultimately, all nonhumans. Your fears have led you to persecute others, particularly unpopular groups during various times in your history. Native Americans, African Americans, and Jews have been unmercifully persecuted and are just beginning to be recognized as equals.

What of the animals? We don’t speak your language; we are above all not human and therefore often kept as slaves. Animals are prisoners, in many cases, tortured and held under unthinkable conditions, because you believe we have no feelings. You don’t want to believe that although our form and purpose are different from yours, we are all one in the family of earth. We are no greater or lesser than each other, and we could not live apart from the highly evolved interaction of life, upon which we are all interdependent. You must wake up and learn to know us, to value what is different but no less important in the lessons we all learn here on earth.

Do you really believe that the phrase “everything is for your use” literally means that you should use it, or could it mean that everything is for your growth, and ultimately your spiritual evolution? We can only evolve together, being spiritually one. It is time you understood that what you do to another, you do to yourselves.

Historically, your fear of persecuted minorities is based on lack of knowledge. When you realize the similarities you share with them you can see yourselves in them; you can imagine their pain or their joy. Their joy, in fact, becomes yours when you truly connect in love and understanding. Emotion is not only felt by a select group of humans, but runs hand in hand with living. All creatures love, feel pain, longing, sadness, and joy. We all love our families, and value our lives. If it is easy for you to divorce yourselves from fellow humans, then how much easier is it to convince yourselves that animals should not be awarded feelings?

It serves your views to believe that we don’t have similar feelings. It is no different from when you kept black people in stables and took their children away. You beat them, starved them, and used them as you do us. You experimented on the Jews and kept them as laboratory animals.

Wake up, people! There is a Golden Rule in your Bible that says “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That is because we are all individual cells of one enormous spiritual being. These cells unite to form organs and systems, and all are interdependent on the others to survive. The same thoughts and emotions travel throughout this being. Love that is held in its heart strengthens all of the organs and systems, and thoughts that are true and good benefit every cell. This being cannot survive without its lungs or its liver. All of these individual organs speak a different language; they have specific and important contributions to make for the life of the body, but they are all interconnected by the same intelligence, emotion, and wisdom. We will all of us only be a fully actualized, complete, spiritual being when we know this truth and are united in understanding and in love, loving our neighbors as ourselves, because our neighbor is ourself—because we are one.

It is time to tune into that intelligence and to know empathically the one force of love that permeates all of life. That wisdom radiates with peace, joy, and perfect health when we are one.

One with the Herd – April 27, 2010 — Video Slideshow of the E.A.R.T.H. Program workshops featuring music by Kiara Springs

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