Inula Austin Soul Growth

A: The simple answer is no!

Believe it or not, I get asked this question quite alot. When people find out that I don’t eat meat, they like to know why? For how long? Can you eat meat and still consider yourself ‘spiritual’? What about the highly spiritual Native American tribes people hunting animals and eating them? Shouldn’t we all be vegan for the environment?

I’m not about to lecture anyone on their eating habits. Your journey is yours and yours alone. Besides, I believe in the old saying ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.’

So, this isn’t a post about trying to persuade you to try vegetarianism or convince you to go vegan. This is simply my angle on the whole question, which seems to come up quite a lot.

Firstly, don’t go vegetarian or vegan to ‘save the planet’, that’s a scam. What will save the planet is controlling the indiscriminate pillaging of the earth’s resources in the name of greed, power and money. Stopping big business from the draining of natural aquifers, spraying chemicals in our skies, fracking for gas, drilling for oil and polluting waterways, oceans and wildlife would be a good start. We don’t own this planet. Mother Earth is a living, breathing entity upon whom we live for only a very short time.

We should be acting as custodians not conquerors.

Without human beings, the earth would happily thrive and do her own thing, with human beings living on her, she is limping her way towards death’s door.

If you want to save the planet, lobby big business, big petro chemical conglomerates, big pharma and governments and force them to do better.

Going vegan or vegetarian won’t do any of the above. The recent media push toward veganism and a ‘plant based’ diet is just a neat trick to shift the blame of the destruction of the earth from those responsible onto you and me. Yes, we all have our part to play, but I believe without a doubt that there could be far more achieved at much higher levels and all a lot faster.

I stopped eating meat about 10 years ago.

I tried vegetarianism before as a teenager, but I was only following the crowd. It all came to a screeching halt when I bit into a sausage roll without even noticing.

Nearly 30 years later, here I am, a committed veggie.

What finally made vegetarianism pertinent for me was my spiritual development.

I cannot have the understanding that all creatures are sentient beings that come from the same Source as ourselves and happily continue to eat them. That would be cognitive dissonance verging on denial.

As a medium I have been fortunate to bring back many different types of pets and animals to communicate with their owners during readings. All animals go on to the Spirit World and although pets and domesticated animals have a slightly different existence there to that of farm animals, the spark of life within each living thing has been given by the Great Spirit. Who am I to take that away?

Between that knowledge and the abject horror of modern factory farming, ignorance can be no excuse.

I hear all kinds of arguments in favour of the slaughter of animals for human consumption, ‘human beings are meant to eat meat’, ‘why do we have incisors if we were meant to only eat vegetables?’, ‘You can’t get enough nutrients and minerals by being vegetarian/vegan’……. etc etc.

From where I stand, those are just convenient excuses not to accept what is glaringly obvious; animals suffer terribly so that you can eat meat.

Even ‘Free Range’ and welfare checked meat has to be slaughtered.

The terror that is within an animal at the point of slaughter is heightened psychic energy. Fear, dread, panic, adrenalin, cortisol, is all contained not only within the animals energy field, but within it’s actual flesh, muscles, tissue and organs.

If you understand how energy systems in the body work, you’ll know that these energies will remain in the flesh as toxins, going on to be consumed by humans.

I know very few people who could work in a factory abattoir. I think that if everyone had to kill the animals they eat themselves, there would be a great deal fewer meat eaters. Of course, there are always those macho individuals full of bravado, who insist that hunting their own food wouldn’t be a challenge for them. With modern weapons, this is almost always done at distance, not eye to eye as in a slaughter house.

I became vegetarian by subtle degrees.

At first, I grew to dislike the texture of meat when I was preparing it. Then the taste and texture of it in my mouth was off putting. This happened as I took the first tentative steps along my spiritual path. I can only assume that it was all part of the plan.

Then, one day I was frying bacon for my children’s lunch and looking down to my left, I saw a beautiful pink pig looking back up at me!

Let me explain, this was a spirit pig, a little porker who had passed over to the other side. Was I looking at the creature that I was stood cooking in the frying pan?!

I can’t answer that question, but I do know that that was a crucial moment for me in giving up meat completely. I could no longer kid myself that meat was just ‘meat’ and not a creature, a life, a soul.

People ask me ‘if you don’t eat meat then what do you eat?’

I eat vegetables! Well veggies, pulses, legumes etc. I don’t often eat meat replacements as I feel that the chemical components and manufacturing processes aren’t the best, although I may have meat free meatballs or the like very occasionally.

What about those incisors?

Mine are very handy at tearing into fresh, home baked bread, corn on the cob and roasted honey glazed parsnips thank you!

And the Native American question?

As far as I’m aware, no native tribes people in any country have ever factory farmed animals. They have always lived in balance and harmony with their natural environment. They only ever hunt what is necessary for themselves and their families. They use the whole animal so that nothing is wasted and have a entire set of rituals, prayers and celebrations that not only give thanks to the animal for giving its life for their own survival, but to the Earth Mother for her abundant bounty.

When was the last time you said ‘Thank You’ for what you were about to eat? It’s certainly something to think about.

I believe that due to their forced habitation on reservations, most native people around the World no longer hunt for their dinner and rely on supermarkets like the rest of us, you see EVOLUTION is a major part of our individual and collective Soul Growth.

As we develop and evolve in awareness of ourselves and each other (including eco systems, the Earth as an entity in and of herself and animals) I believe that we will all eventually evolve out of eating meat. NOT out of some misguided principle forced down our throats by mass media owned by the corporations and ultimately, the handful of individuals who own all of the wealth and power, NOT even for reasons of health and wellbeing. But for the simple fact that raising and slaughtering animals, hunting for ‘sport’ or ‘fun’ or even eating meat for the sake of taste and ‘tradition’ is simply wrong.

We will eventually come to the understanding in future societies that it is unnecessary to harm a defenseless creature for our own gain.

What if you were starving to death in the wilderness and had to trap and kill an animal to eat?

In that highly unlikely scenario I would probably do what I could to stave off death. But may I remind us all that the vast majority of us have a bewildering choice of foodstuffs from which to choose on a daily basis and, although hardened carnivores like to try and trip up us veggies with this conundrum, how many of us actually personally know anyone who has ever nearly starved to death in the wilderness? (I’d wager none?)

My journey to becoming a non-meat eater was a gradual one and it still surprised me. But it is something I am very grateful for.

I remember asking my teacher about it one day, was it a usual thing to happen to developing mediums?

Not essential at all, apparently, ‘but, one must always remember that the purer the instrument, the purer the message.’

That has really stuck with me.

Whilst being vegetarian, vegan, teetotal etc are not pre-requisites for becoming a medium, as instruments of the Spirit World, the cleaner and healthier our bodies and energies are, the better instruments we may be.

It is a reminder that the Law of Attraction is always in operation-the state of ourselves; our physical, mental, spiritual health gives us a particular, individual vibrational frequency (a unique ‘tone’) which will attract to it others on both sides of life who have an affinity with or similarity to that frequency.

Our Spirit Guides are assigned to us in accordance with this Universal Spiritual Law. Therefore, the higher, clearer and finer our own vibration, the higher, clearer and finer the vibration of our guides. This will of course, effect the clarity and style of our Work.

You don’t have to be spiritually minded to work with the people on the Other Side of Life. You can attract helpers and guides from any sphere of the Next Realm, depending upon your own personality, characteristics, knowledge etc.

In the lower realms of the Astral Realm, those closest to our World, people may still eat and drink or smoke if they choose to (NO harm can come from nicotine and tar there).

As there is no necessity for food or hydration in the Next World (after all, we will no longer have a physical body to be fuelled or hydrated and receive energy in the form of rays into and around our etheric body), this desire usually drops away with an individuals progress and growth on the Other Side. It is possible therefore to attract help from those realms if it matches one’s own vibrational state. In which case, you may be fooled into thinking that we all need to continue to eat and drink after we have passed over.

There are many reasons to become ‘meat free’ and as long it is something that you have decided to do, whether it is for your own health, the welfare of animals and the planet or any other reason, then it is a good thing.

I can assure you that if you had the ability to communicate with animals (both here and in the Spirit World) it would undoubtedly put pay to you ever wanting to eat meat again!