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Q : I’m clear that if we are to adopt the behaviors of an awakened species we’ll have to bring our cosmology (our philosophies, beliefs, and understandings about the world and our decisions about who we are) up to speed with our technology (our weaponry, our genetic altering of crops, our cloning of mammals [and soon, humans], our life-extension medicine, and all the rest).
I’m clear that if we were awakened we would stop damaging our environment at every turn . . . stop poisoning ourselves with the things we eat and drink and smoke and breathe and inject and listen to and watch . . . and stop our endless and often ruthless competitions for everything—money, power, fame, love, attention, sex, everything.
I’m clear that when we live as an awakened species we will transform what we’ve imagined to be our needs into preferences, and we will truly (and at last) love everyone without condition, even as we embrace and accept a God who does the same with us.
Item #10 says that members of an awakened species would never under any circumstances terminate the current physical expression of another sentient being without that other person requesting it. Humans kill other humans every minute of every day somewhere on their planet.
A : All attack is called a defense in primitive cultures. Yet even as what you term “defense,” a HEB would never terminate the physical expression of another sentient being without that being having asked it to do so.
Q : We don’t have a right to defend ourselves? Wow. That expectation is so high that no one on this planet could possibly buy into it. Even our religions and our laws tell us self-defense can justify killing. Are you saying that we do not have the right to protect ourselves if we have to kill another to do so?
A : You “have a right” to do anything you wish. What you are invited to remember is that every act is an act of self-definition. If you wish to define yourselves as a species that kills its own kind in order for some of its kind to survive, you may do so, and no one will stop you.
But the day may come when you will choose to stop yourself, if only out of seeing that in your frenzy to protect your species, you have nearly destroyed it.