Corporations were created for one reason: to avoid responsibility; spirituality and veganism, if they are expressions of anything, are expressions of taking responsibility. In the big picture, we are all responsible for our treatment of others, as well as for our failures to act to help others. To finally solve the dilemma we see reflected in political corruption, we must cut the root of the problem, which is the herding mentality that commodifies animals and the weak and gives rise to the corporate worldview. Veganism is the only lasting solution.

Veganism is the natural flowering of consciousness freed from the continuous programming of the inherent violence in our culture. The word vegan is precious, inspiring, and demanding, because it questions the core mentality of our culture and it is the key to our culture’s transformation and to its very survival.

So please, let’s love, defend, respect, understand, and propagate this word and what it stands for as if all our lives depended upon it; they very well may.

Photo: Martin Heigan

Veganism is actually a spectrum of psychospiritual development, and the most basic level of veganism is refraining from buying foods and products that cause suffering to animals. As our veganism deepens, we realize that veganism is radical inclusion, and that it calls us to act with respect and kindness in all our relations with everyone, all the time. A tall order! In short, veganism is an ideal that is perhaps ultimately unattainable, but that draws us ever onward to greater love and compassion in every dimension of our lives.

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Every person who authentically goes vegan is a person who is rediscovering the lost chalice of intuitive wisdom, and by refusing to participate in the killing and enslaving of mothers and babies, and honoring the sacred dimension and reclaiming intuitive wisdom, is helping to transform our culture in profound and significant ways. As Goethe said, “To know is not enough. You must apply.” Spiritual teachings emphasize that whatever we deeply desire we must first give to others. To recover the lost chalice, we are called to give the female animals we exploit the opportunity to express their maternal wisdom again.

Photo: Society of Peace

Crossposted from VegSource

The last two days have been an uplifting and heartening experience for me.

Working to bring the vegan message of compassion to our culture has been like climbing a huge and daunting mountain. For many years I toiled, collecting information, reflecting, and sharing. Then I decided to write a comprehensive book and undertook writing The World Peace Diet, which took another five years of full-time, nearly continuous labor. Since then has been another four years of scheduling an unending speaking tour, living on the road, putting on over 150 events annually in order to help move the message of The World Peace Diet into whatever receptive communities I could find in our culture. Then about 8 months ago, I decided to fashion a campaign that would hopefully catapult The World Peace Diet into the mainstream. Its message is so intensely transformational that I knew I'd have to rely upon the vegan communities to be successful in the endeavor.

For years and years I worked and worked and worked and worked.

The mountain so enormous, all I could do was just keep putting one foot in front of another, and never stop. My spouse Madeleine was an angel, and so were huge numbers of beautiful friends and colleagues who have provided support. But it always felt basically like a huge, unending labor.

Then yesterday, I watched as the campaign came to fruition and The World Peace Diet started climbing on Amazon - from number 25,352 to number 8,228 to number 2,452 to 389 to 68 to 24 to 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, all the way to number 5, just above Karl Rove's book! #1 in Ethics & Morality, #1 in Healthy Living

As I write this, The World Peace Diet has been in the Amazon top ten for 2 straight days now -- this is nothing short of a miracle. It has received no support from Oprah, Ellen, the Today Show, or Glenn Beck. It has been completely due to the cooperation of the many and diverse branches of the vegan, vegetarian, animal rights, health, raw food, macrobiotic, peace, green, yoga, and progressive spiritual communities, and many more beyond this.

This is a shining example of how we can all come together, forget our differences, and work together for a common soul-stirring cause: to transform our culture so that we can create a world where peace, radiant health, and sustainability are actually possible. One long-time vegan organizer just wrote to me:

"I am really impressed how the vegan community came together and coalesced on this promotion. I have not seen this community collaborate or cooperate on this scale in all my years of being a vegetarian and vegan. If we can keep this enthusiam alive I really have hope that we can make some significant & timely progress in promoting a plant-based lifestyle in the upcoming years."

I want to thank from my heart the countless kind and concerned people who have worked and participated in this uplifting campaign. We have literally worked a miracle, and it's not over yet!

If you are able to participate, you are warmly invited to do so!

All of the proceeds from this campaign are being donated to grass-roots vegan education.

Peace and blessings to all. The power of love is ultimately unstoppable.

Will

Here are the links:

http://worldpeacediet.org
http://tinyurl.com/ylgmmmb
http://worldpeacediet.org/email.htm

Even though people may resist hearing it, spreading the vegan message is the greatest gift we can give, for it is ultimately liberating for everyone. With study and practice, we can articulate it skillfully, passionately, and effectively, and help other people to understand as well!

Photo: Animal Place

Dear friends,

There is a book, written by Dr. Will Tuttle, called The World Peace Diet. It helps you understand the power of food, and the cultural mentality reinforced by our practice of food, for many levels of healing-–physical, psychological, cultural, ecological, and spiritual.

Many people have called it a revelation, and one of the most important books of the 21st century.

Today, Friday, March 12, Dr. Tuttle is coordinating a special offer for this critically-acclaimed book called “The March 12 World Peace Diet Compassion and Health Campaign.” It is my recommendation that you get a copy of The World Peace Diet today.

Many generous and caring sponsors have donated excellent bonus gifts and prizes to anyone who buys The World Peace Diet (today only).

There are downloadable audio books, recipes, music, e-books, discount coupons and the chance to enter drawings for some terrific prizes! There are over 50 gifts and prizes, all told, and anyone who buys the book on March 12 (only) is eligible to receive them. Here’s the link to this special campaign: http://worldpeacediet.org

You can help strengthen the forces of health, truth, transparency, sustainability, and peace by buying a copy of The World Peace Diet today (for yourself or to give to a library or friend). It’s a great way to help animals, the Earth, hungry people, and all of us, and spread the message we believe in.

This is the page to go to - http://worldpeacediet.org - everything is explained there.

As we practice leaving home by examining our own societal indoctrination and questioning all the propaganda continually spewed forth by the military-industrial-meat-medical complex, we can liberate ourselves and live a life of greater compassion based on vegan ethics and a plant-based diet, and be a voice for those vulnerable sentient creatures who have no voice. In this we fulfill the universal teachings that promote spiritual living. We are practicing compassion and making connections, and our life can become a field of freedom and love as we continually affirm our interdependence with all life, and practice non-cooperation with those forces that see beings as mere commodities.

Photo: Animal Place

We will hopefully be able to create more and more opportunities for people to experience vegan community in North America and elsewhere.  Practicing compassionate living together can send boundless waves of healing energy into our world and help awaken the slumbering conscience of our species.

Photo by: Rinalia

I hope that all vegans or aspiring vegans have the opportunity at some point in our  lives to live in a vegan community for a while.  I have had this opportunity a few times and it’s been transformative.  Many of the difficulties we encounter in living a vegan lifestyle, for our families and ourselves, arise because we are basically alone in a culture that is hostile to our values.  I found when I was immersed in large-scale vegan communities, contradictions and complications evaporated in a remarkable feeling of inner wholeness.

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