A while back, I briefly shared somewhere within a post of this blog my observations of crabs desperately trying to climb out of a boiling pot while watching a TV show (update inserted 8/8/18: that post was, “Destiny from Earthly and Cosmic Perspectives“).

I wasn’t a vegetarian or vegan then, but I recall feeling deeply sad for them. I have no doubt that my empathy further developed after experiencing some traumatic events during my childhood.

Note: Poster on right found next to link => Funnyjunk; though it’s not pleasant to think about a baby being harmed in any way, it makes a valid point using dark humor.

When I was three years old, my mother left me with her close friend to babysit. While wandering around a living room-like area, I somehow burned my left forearm onto the traditional, black stove.

I recall screaming and crying from pain, and my mother’s friend rushed over and poured some liquid onto my arm, which I found out many years later was soy sauce.

I had an obvious, four inch scar on my arm that gradually faded as I became older; now, in my mid-forties, it’s very subtle.

Note: Image on left above found next to link => nshoremag.com

When I was four or five years old, I vividly recall my parents holding my arms and legs as I was kicking, screaming, and crying at the top of my lungs as they took me into the bathroom and forced me into a tub filled with ice water.

When I asked my mother about that horrific experience, she told me that I had a very high fever; that’s all I recall from that conversation.

Note: Image on right above found next to link => myhusbandhatesveggies.com

When I was in sixth grade, my mother found out that my adoptive dad was having a decade-long affair. When he came home from his monthly “business trip,” she had a big surprise for him.

To make a long story short—details in post, “Not Flight or Fight…but Freeze“ (trauma)—–while they were physically fighting as usual, she poured boiling water on top of him, and he ended up with third degree burns.

Using my imagination, and doing my best to feel, I visualized visiting these past three incidents, and gently comforting my child version of self with much unconditional love.

Note: Image on left above found next to link => footage.framepool.com 

Throughout childhood, I was often told by my mother, “You’re way too sensitive!” or asked by my adoptive dad, “What the hell are you crying about now?”

As I’ve mentioned in another post—“Embracing a Setback to Set Forward” (so-called failures in life—all stepping stones of success)—I learned to unconditionally accept, embrace, and even deeply love my high sensitivity as a gift rather than a weakness (often portrayed by the overly patriarchal, left-brained centered, general society).

Note: Image on right above found next to link => Flickr

I have no doubt that my highly (or ultra) sensitive nature, personal traumatic experiences, and ability to deeply empathize with interconnected Life (most of the time)—to include humans and animals—have all helped with the expanding of my individual and collective consciousness (soul growth and spiritual evolution).

Note: Image on left found next to link => YouTube

Images below found next to links => 1) Science News for Students/”Mantis shrimp [female below] are related to crabs and lobsters. They come in a gorgeous array of colors.”2) CTV Atlantic – CTV News 3) TripAdvisor /”Dive Puako: Rainbow Swimming Crab” 4) Peta /”17 Reasons Why Crabs Are Cooler Than You Thought”

Note: Image on right below found next to link => Napoleon Grills/”Meet Pinchy, female, live lobster”

I came upon the following readings and videos today that reminded me why my husband and I have been incorporating more and more plant-based food, though I don’t consider myself vegetarian or vegan due to not desiring to Be and live within earthly labeled boxes:

• “Crayfish amputates own claw to escape boiling hotpot“
  • One of the comments from the above video by Groucho Maximair 1 month ago:
    Goes to demonstrate the awareness and intelligence of all living things which are all wonderful in their own way. Sadly we are so damn ignorant about and desensitised to essentialy everything that is basically unrelated to ourselves in the most egotistical sense or as a human species in general. We most certainly continue to do so at our own peril ultimately.
  • Happy ending to the story in above video, “A Crayfish Amputated Its Own Claw to Avoid Being Boiled Alive in a Hotpot“:
    • The diner who captured the video, known as “Jiuke” on Weibo, claims to have adopted the critter and taken it home as a pet. “I let him live, I already took him home and I’m raising him in an aquarium,” he said, according to the Times.
• “Live Lobsters on the Grill“: I left the following comments for this very insensitive video:
  • To Christian van’t Vlie (who created and/or shared this video): You stated under your name, “Watch these bad boys squirm,” which is truly sad at the deepest level. Insensitive and cruel statements like that sound like something a sociopath, psychopath, and/or serial killer would say during childhood and adulthood. I suppose you’ve never experienced being burnt before; hence, you seem to have zero compassion in your closed heart. I’ve been burnt during childhood, so I know that it feels horrible. Perhaps one miraculous and magical day, you, too, will have a similar experience as those lobsters, where you will finally know what it feels like to be a sentient being tortured by a seemingly heartless and soulless being (ultimately a wounded wounder/lost soul).
  • I left a shorter reply comment for this knucklehead who made a similar comment => EhrgeizUnlimited (2 years ago):
    • LOL. The one on the left is really feeling the burn. (“Pinned by Christian van’t Vlie,” the one who created and/or shared this video)
  • A reply comment to TheWorst (8 months ago) who stated, “contracts13 it doesn’t feel pain so it can’t be torture.”:
    • TheWorst: First of all, I wonder why you chose such a name for yourself; after all, whenever you give yourself a negative label, or put yourself down, you’re basically inviting others to perceive you in the same way.When one doesn’t love self unconditionally—which includes self respect and having self-worth and self-compassion—one is NOT able to respect, have compassion for, and love interconnected life.Secondly, do your current, scientific research about lobsters (and similar sentient beings) not being able to feel pain.And last but not least, reverse the roles. How would you feel if a fear-based, insensitive, alien abducted you to eat, and as it watched you squirm on the giant grill, it convinced itself (and others)—without doing its homework—that you can’t feel pain; hence, you can’t be tortured.Think about that, because it’s a probability among MANY probabilities and unlimited possibilities.Note: Like humans, not all aliens and E.T.’s within this Galaxy, Universe and beyond are seemingly heartless.
• “Why Are We Still Boiling Lobsters Alive?” The following is an excerpt from this reading:
  • But it’s that latter distinction—between “boiled alive” and “humanely killed, then boiled”—that has people arguing. Both the Swiss law and the British petition argue that lobsters are sentient beings, and therefore, shouldn’t suffer unnecessarily. Per the petition: “Scientific evidence has now demonstrated that crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish are highly likely to experience pain and even emotional anxiety.”
• “Do lobsters feel pain? Switzerland says yes“
• “Lobsters and Crabs Used for Food“
  • A video within the reading, “Exposé: Live Lobsters, Crabs Torn Apart” (Undercover Lobster and Crab Slaughterhouse)
    • One of the many comments from the above video by Chef Danger 3 years ago:
      I’m a professional chef with 17 years experience. I can’t lie, hundreds, possibly even thousands of lobsters and crabs have met their demise at my hands; but there’s a right way and a wrong way to kill a crustacean. You don’t start pulling it’s claws off before the kill has been performed. Ever since the Crustastun device came out it’s the only method I use. I stopped boiling them alive years ago, but even that is far more humane than this. Splitting them is a quick death, but it makes for lousy presentation.While I am strongly opposed to the tactics used in many slaughterhouses, the fact of the matter is that people are always going to eat meat. The only thing that will stop them is an outright ban on meat, which will never happen. Sadly, you are always going to have cruel and immature jerks like this guy working in slaughterhouses. And I cannot lie, jerks like that exist among the ranks of chefs as well. But not this one.

Updates

7/8/2018

Continuation post, “Transcending Our Triggers for Self-Empowerment“

8/8/18

I was drawn to two, related videos this morning—“30 Ton Black Sarcophagus Discovered in Alexandria, Egypt – Ancient Egyptian Mummy” and “THIS is What You MUST Know about OPENED Sarcophagus Discovered from Ancient Egypt – Egyptian Mummies“—-that instantly reminded me of a vivid dream I had, summarized in a recent post, “Dream of Shouting at Ibis, ‘God Thoth, Wake Up!’”; and which I initially shared in post/link below (I also shared this insight as a comment for these videos, along with, “I don’t know for sure if these are related, but I have a strange feeling that they are in some way, shape, or form.”).

The following is an excerpt related to the topic of this post from, “Destiny from Earthly and Cosmic Perspectives,” under subtitle, “Dream #2: Being Concerned E.T. Observing Steamed Human in Sarcophagus-like Machine“:

[…] I don’t recall verbatim, but I asked some other being if the human (in the sarcophagus-like machine) was suffering, and if we would be able to tell if the human was suffering from any sounds that it made; I was concerned.

When the sarcophagus-like machine opened, steam was coming out of it, and I saw the whole human body (with its muscles intact) instantaneously fall part, like meat cooked for a long time falling off the bones. I recall feeling shocked at that very moment.

I assume most of humanity would be shocked if they ever discovered that alien beings cooked and ate humans in such a manner.

However, if we judged them for what they did (or even still do), what makes that of us who often kill animals on our own planet in an inhumane manner (whether directly or indirectly), so that we can enjoy eating their tender flesh that fell off their bones from having been cooked for so long?

We would be hypocrites, of course, if we judged others for doing the exact same thing.

In addition, most humans may not have compassion for life forms like crabs desperately trying to crawl out of a pot of boiling water; but who says that crabs can’t feel and don’t deserve to die peacefully?

Do we perceive them as a lower life form not deserving of compassion because they’re much smaller that humans, less intelligent, and simple in nature?

How would we feel if some highly knowledgeable (not intelligent/wise), yet completely insensitive E.T. or alien had no compassion to instantly end our suffering, threw us in a giant pot of boiling water, and just shut a lid on top of us without a second thought or ounce of guilt?

If we’re unable to show compassion for what we consider to be lower life forms of lesser intelligence, then it should be no surprise to us if we ever find ourselves in a situation where a more knowledgeable being has no compassion for humans, who they may consider as lesser life forms.

On the other hand, my interpretation of this dream could be off center or completely wrong due to my limited physical mind’s ability to fully comprehend such a seemingly foreign scenario.

What if the E.T.’s (to include myself) wasn’t intending to eat the humans at all, but was conducting some type of experiment to help the humans—like transporting them via the sarcophagus like machine, or using the machine as a healing device?

Perhaps the human body that I saw was too dense in its physical form; hence, it basically ended up overheating, which explains why I felt shocked.

Regardless of the scenario, I realize, more than ever before, that my daily intention statements are surely coming into fruition in Divine perfect timing and order.

Since one of my daily intentions statements include, “I am effortlessly intending to accept and love all aspects of self unconditionally so that I may accept and love others unconditionally,” I’m doing exactly that.

It’s too easy to unconditionally accept the familiar, likable, and loving aspects of ourselves and others; however, like Jesus once taught, the true challenge is to love our so-called enemies, which I trust includes the unknown.

Humans are often very fearful of the unknown—especially what happens after death—and have a tendency to give unknown things that we don’t understand negative labels.

For instance, highly evolved, wise, and unconditionally loving E.T.’s or celestial beings could visit planet Earth, and some of the governments of our world, especially the U.S. government, would no doubt immediately think the worst of the situation and label the angelic beings as “enemies.”

When I found out that more and more governments of various countries throughout our world are now disclosing once secretly kept information of the existence of E.T.’s and alien beings, not only outside of planet Earth, but living on and inside Earth as well, I was so relieved and grateful. 

Often times, we believe that our enemies are ‘out there’ in our outer world; however, I’ve come to learn/remember that these outer enemies are merely reflecting all the enemies within (i.e., judgment, resentment, greed, jealousy, superiority, anger, aggressiveness, hatred, condemnation, and everything else that stems from fear energy)—our own lack of unconditional acceptance and love toward ourselves.

Posts within this blog that have helped me to remember more of this truth includes, “Outer Angels and Demons Reflecting All the Inner Ones.”