March 25, 2006

Spiritual reasons for abolishing the seal hunt.


In the Universe of laws we find that which is all consuming at the expense of others to be considered negative. As humans we strive to create abundance in our lives and the lives of others at the expense of no one. Humans passing through creation, observed as evolution, did in fact, have the necessity to be consumers of energy at the expense of others. These practices have diminished over time and are now considered primitive and even barbaric and predatory.

Given that the seal hunt is a consumption of life energy in exchange for material benefit, a benefit that has no spiritual gain, I would expect that evolution or the continued progress of creation, will, in time, resolve this imbalance. The aboriginal understood this law and gave thanks and gratitude and ceremony to the Earth and animal used for survival. Homo Sapiens were very good at negative consumption of life energy for material gain without giving it a second thought.

Homo Spiritus values life above all else and has respect for the laws of the Universe. Homo Spiritus creates abundance in lives using the laws of the Universe and not by breaking them. The law; each action has an equal and opposite reaction, when placed in the context of the seal hunt, means to me, that the Universe will balance the consumption of 320,000 seals. How? I'm not even going to guess but a butterfly just flapped it's wings off the coast of Africa and Canada seems to owe the Universe a debt.

Perhaps we will just end the seal hunt but my guess is that some Homo Sapiens will blame God and CNN will get a spike in ratings when the debt is being paid.

9 Comments:

Blogger Havril said...

Something to ponder.

4:56 PM  
Blogger Alison said...

Derek, I don't understand the blaming god reference. I've read this three days running and think I understand what you're saying about balance and karma, but I still don't get how blaming god fits in.
Can you help me out here?

1:33 AM  
Blogger Derek Richards said...

Hi Alison,

Again I was in Vancouver so I haven't been able to respond as quick as I would have liked.

Usually, it is the case that people will find blame in someone or something else when repaying karmic debts. Paying debts of this nature can be very sad and trying.

Individuals seldom take responsiblity for that which befalls them, even less so when it is a collective effort.

While Canada kills seals with it's right hand, on it's left hand, a ferry sinks. The left hand searches for cause and grieves and tries to blame the Captain, Harper, Campbell, and perhaps God. What the left hand could do is look at the bloody club (No havril, it is not the latest from Subway.) in it's right hand and understand the balance.

Why does the left hand know not what the right hand doeth? Because that would mean taking responsibility as individuals, as well as collectively. CNN, CBC, et all, depends on the blame game for it's ratings and this allows us to disconnect from introspective growth.

The above is just an example and I have no way to link the events, but I do know that the Universe finds a balance and it will have the final say when the debt is paid.

10:15 AM  
Blogger Havril said...

No joking here. I have a serious question for once. (Don't tell anyone... it could ruin my rep.)

I know you didn't explicitly make the link between the hunt and the sinking of the Queen of the North, but your comments contemplated it as a possiblity. So I ask...

Assuming that the killing of seals does leave a spiritual debt to be repayed, how does the Universe define the pool of responsible debtors?

I can grasp the concept that those who do the wield the club, sell the skins, wear the fur might be (pardon the pun) on the hook.

But how far does that go? Passengers on a ferry thousands of kilometres away, whose only connection to the hunt may be that they pay taxes to the same distant government in Ottawa as do the hunters? And what about people who oppose the hunt? Could they be caught in the balance?

Is it that each one of us, as humans, are spiritually responsible for the misdeeds of all other members of our species -- irrespective of our individual moral culpability?

Just asking.

12:44 PM  
Blogger Derek Richards said...

Easy question Hav, thanks.

First I should say that natural disasters have been going on long before humans had the 'where with all' to owe a karmic debt.

Each nation on earth has a spirit that is unique in it's own right. Think of it as a school of fish darting about in unison. Suddenly, Bruce the shark gobbles up as many as possible without stopping to pick only the bad ones.

The individuals agree to live by a set of laws and call themselves, "one". If a terrible thing occurs to some of them, the "whole" is affected. The entire nation will move to heal that wounded part. The consequence being a greater understanding of brotherly love and the like.

So if an individual was saintly and negatively affected by the national karmic debt paid, I'm sure the karmic rewards would be plenty. How many of us are truly saintly, however.

Yes Havril the entire human race is negatively affected by famine, war, illness, and crime. Individually and collectively we are being held back by the existence of these powerful negatives in our society. They can be overcome, even if they serve to remove old karma from nations and individuals.
The quickest way to overcome the negatives, I believe, is through love, understanding, and forgiveness. As nations and people we need to educate as many of the willing as possible in the laws of the Universe to lessen the woes that afflict us.

5:42 PM  
Blogger Havril said...

I have a knack for asking easy questions. Me, in Home Depot: "So, like, do you have, like, tools?"

And thanks for the explanation.

9:44 PM  
Blogger dookoo said...

How do you know that there is such a thing as "karmic debt"?

Curious.

10:16 AM  
Blogger Derek Richards said...

Jesse,

Has to do with quantum physics and the laws of the Universe as they pertain to non-linear dynamics.

Subtle movements of energy known as thoughts and actions impact on the larger matrix that are recorded and returned in kind. What we project is what we experience.

11:01 PM  
Blogger talk talk talk / Shireen said...

I don't know if I believe in karmic debt or not, but I have two observations.

Martimers eat seals like most Canadians eat cows and chickens. Given that most Canadians buy their meat from the supermarket, thus supporting factory farms, thus not only supporting killing of cows and chickens and pigs in a similar way to the way hunters kill seals, but also supporting a tortuous existence for the animals when they're alive (not true for the seals as they get to live as they have for centuries), what then is the karmic debt for all the meat-eating, factory-farm supporting that's been going on? If the Queen of the North sinking could be construed as the karmic debt for one year of seal hunting, then what huge disaster would balance out all the other animals killed for human consumption in one year in Canada?

Second, the seal hunt is partly rebalancing the idiocy of fishing cod to near-extinction and hunting seal predators to the point that seals have been able to proliferate without fear of being eaten (except by us). So is it better to not cull the herd and allow large numbers to die due to starvation from overpopulation and insufficient food, and in the process allow the seals to finish off the extinction of the cod, thus blooming even more the population of lobster, which will result in who knows what? It's a conundrum.

9:17 AM  

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