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meat-eating, why it began

Why Meat-Eating Began

or The Temple and the Precipice

(The root of meat-eating is cultural, not biological, and that cultural root can be logically traced to the earliest temple societies)

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

--Maynard

(Man is an herbivore by natural design and designed to eat plant foods exclusively including fruits, pulpy vegetables, nuts and seeds)

Be Thy Nature

Is there any other creature that has violated its natural design so absolutely as man? We do have evolutionary examples of animals faced with powerfully altered environmental determinants. Whales and dolphins are possibly a good example; it appears that some of the ancestors of dogs were forced to learn to fish in a locale that became more water than land.

Did such radically altered environments (from the habitats in which humans were co-evolved) also force man to choose to begin eating meat instead of his naturally rich herbivorous diet of fruits, seeds, leafy greens and nuts? We think not and we think that possibly we must ask ourselves why and how and when from an attempted identity with earliest man. Who would he have been?

And we find that he must have possessed an intelligence and understanding far greater than our own. How can we assert this? It is in those times of great and revelatory communion with nature that we have pierced the web of deceit and found ourselves in the very honest and honestly compassionate company of other animals and their partners, the trees, rocks and yes, the earth herself.

So, early man would not have been an intellectual midget, an inferior but rather a being capable of a very rich earthly experience, a heightened spiritual being of profound and beneficent understanding. Early man would have enjoyed the grace of partnership with nature, its natural abundance and the understanding of being loved.

Eve and Adam Ladies Shirt by allinharmony

Isn't it about time we set the record straight on this one? Eve AND Adam are innocent. And, like all indigenous people, only left their natural habitats because of crimes perpetrated by the temple-based empire(military/corporate order).

Would such a person decide to kill and ingest that which would render him stupid, constipated, lethargic, repulsed? Not likely. So what has produced this result that today all but a very few can even guess at what their natural diet is?

We explain this process in the Temple and the Precipice and divulge for the first time the extremely ancient roots of the Temple in human society and the role it played in introducing meat eating in order to form a unique group of individuals, a group behaviorally modified so radically that they could be counted upon to behave violently at the behest of the Temple.

The temple culture has indoctrinated all human children into unnatural behaviors that are destructive to the children, other creatures and the environment. We must rescue our children and remind them of the most basic facts of human anatomy and why this is the key to a better life... for all lives.

And we explain how a social organization (the Temple) formed for the purposes of archiving, sharing and learning could become convinced that such an unnatural departure from its most basic teachings regarding ecology in general and human health and ecology in particular was warranted.

We go on to explain that the Temple was, at its inception, a distributed system. The Temple was built on every continent and communications between the various temple communities were considered of the utmost importance for sharing, developing and preserving knowledge, insight and wisdom.

In The Temple and the Precipice we explore the pathway to social exclusions, distinctions, elitism, separation from non-temple groups and we discover the reasonings that eventually would lead to justification for the experiments to create a class of protectors (the warrior class) that would be fundamentally and culturally isolated from other temple members but controlled by them and would serve their perceived need for protection.

And then, we explore those ancient and long term trends that predict the overthrow of the original temple culture and its ultimate replacement by members trained in the artificially contrived culture of the warrior class... and we demonstrate that it is this culture, the culture of the warrior class, artificially scripted to engender violence, begun early in man's history by those most interested in the preservation of wisdom (the Temple) that has succeeded in dominating all other cultural impulses to the extent that they only survive by its (the warrior class's) acquiescence.

The Temple and the Precipice proposes a new historical theory based upon the reason developed over a lifetime searching for the roots of violence in human society. We think this introduction is the first logical historical formulation capable of explaining the birth, emergence, growth and spread of unnatural behaviors and their violence and deception-based societies. In its grand design, we expect this theory to be proven correct.

So let's begin now, a history and historical theories that are sensible, are plausible and can help guide us into a reality more like we were designed to experience and share.

(We will add to this introductory essay when time permits. In the meantime, we hope others will use the core hypothesis as a point of historical, psychological, anthropological, and sociological reflection and to develop their own contributions to a more factual account of human cultural and ecological history.)

The Riddle of the Sphinx

As revealed above, the temple would likely have decided at some point to create guardians for its treasures, of which an important principal would probably have been esoteric knowledge. Thus the sphinx may have represented a warning to all would-be transgressors (much like posting a sign today: "Beware of Attack Dog"), that a 'strange and unnatural beast', part human and part carnivore, guarded the treasures.

This may indeed be ancient proof that the thesis presented here is in fact the reason that some humans were initially inculcated to ingest the flesh of other creatures.

"It seems there are three main reasons why people continue to eat animals in spite of the horror and tragedy this behavior generates. The first and essential reason is that eating animals is not a behavior people have ever chosen freely. It has, instead, been forced upon them, starting at an early age. People have been indoctrinated to do it.

The second reason is because of social pressure. Being so gregarious, we humans like to fit in and be part of the group, and this militates strongly against questioning the eating of animal foods. The third big reason is that people like the taste: they get a certain pleasure that they are loath to give up. Fortunately, these three fundamental reasons for eating animal foods are all ultimately invalid and indefensible.

Indoctrination, social pressure, and the self-centered pursuit of pleasure have been behind all the atrocities we humans have committed, and when we shine the light of our awareness and truth on them, they are seen for the weak, erroneous delusions that they truly are."

Dr Will Tuttle, PhD, Author of “The World Peace Diet”

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