Articles by Armin Risi
1. The Spiritual Origin of Mankind
The
spiritual Origin of Mankind
Human
beings did not always eat meat!
A
vegetarian world will come about as the result of a
world-wide change of consciousness. This broadened
view of ourselves and our responsibilities here on
earth will also open up a new understanding of our
origin as humans. As the future is the product of
the past, a new understanding of our past will
change our future.
Today’s generally accepted teaching says that the
first life forms on earth were primitive bacteria
and monocellular organisms that had evolved out of
inorganic matter. These first organisms are said to
be the original ancestors of all plants and
animals, with the human being as a very late
offspring in the line of ape-like mammals. Using
his larger brain the «primitive human being»
supposedly started to hunt animals and to fight
each other. «Humans have always been violent, there
have always been wars, and eating animals has
always been part of the natural life of the human
being.» This is one of the most common pro-meat
arguments.
The world-view outlined above is called
materialism: the world-view that considers life to
be a product of matter. «In the beginning there was
matter, and there is nothing else but matter.» A
living being is reduced to its physical, material
aspect: the body. When the body dies, the life of
that particular living being (plant, animal, human
being) as a «temporary epiphenomenon» of matter is
finished, too.
Materialism in all its forms entails a
materialistic understanding of life: Everything is
matter, matter is energy, and energy follows
abstract, impersonal laws that are mechanistic (or
quantum-mechanistic, respectively). Consequently,
the materialistic definition of reality says:
Everything is energy, and «energy» is without
consciousness, without love and without mercy.
This so-called consequent view of reality is the
highest form of realism, or truth, according to
materialism.
Imagine the ethics that corresponds to this
world-view! In short, it says that «good» and «bad»
are defined according to the necessities of
realism. What helps to further this (materialistic)
realism—which means: to further the interests of
those representing this «realism»—is good.
Everything else is bad and has to be removed or
overcome. It is like in chess: those who know to
apply and exploit the laws better are the
legitimate winners. (Interestingly enough, these
«realists» consider life nothing but a game.)
Is this really the ultimate truth? We can judge
according to the fruits this world-view bears:
destruction of the ecological balance, world-wide
pollution, exploitation of animals and plants,
cutting down of the rain forest, violence,
profiteering, etc. There is no real love and no
real respect of life; otherwise these things would
not happen.
The change of consciousness that will lead to a
vegetarian world will correct the fallacious errors
of materialism, too. People at large will then
understand that energy is not just abstract and
material. Energy is the expression of
consciousness, and the direction consciousness
takes is the consequence of our free will. (Matter
and its laws have no consciousness and no free
will.) Thus, consciousness will again be recognized
as the overriding factor of life.
Accordingly, it will become a common truth again
that we as humans are beings of consciousness and
not beings that evolved out of matter. Neither are
the animal beings that evolved out of matter. In
the vegetarian world, even children will laugh
about the blindness of today’s materialistic
«biology» which says that amphibians have evolved
into reptiles, reptiles into birds and into mammals
and human beings.
Just imagine the funny creatures this scenario
proposes: creatures that are 90 % reptile and 10 %
mammal, then 80 % reptile and 20 % mammal, etc.
There is not the slightest proof that this
impossible «evolution» ever happened.
Along with the change of consciousness that will
bring peace and harmony (including vegetarianism)
to the world, we as humans will gain new insights
into our own past: We are beings with a spiritual
origin, just as all other living beings. And,
matter itself has a spiritual origin, too.
Consciousness is not a product of matter (the
brain), it is vice versa. In other words, the early
humans were not primitive, ape-like beings. Humans
did not «always eat meat». Rather, all lasting
problems started when humans began to eat meat,
especially when some peoples started to breed
animals in order to kill and eat them—and to
sacrifice them …
The «paradise» of the past is the «utopia» of
tomorrow, which will become reality on the basis of
mankind’s real, spiritual evolution.