Surviving without Pork

I live in a bacon obsessed culture, yet I do not eat pork.  The reason I do not eat pork is not religious in nature.

When I was a kid, I didn't want to eat pork, but I started eating it because that's what was being served for dinner and it was either eat it or starve.  At some point, I forgot about not wanting to eat pork and ate lots of bacon and ham.  When I moved to Las Vegas, I remembered, after filling up half a plate with bacon at a breakfast buffet, that I once didn't want to eat pork.  So I made the decision to stop eating it...after I finished off the plate I'd just filled up.

If you have not yet read my book Time to Shine, then you don't yet know that I remember my life before coming down to Earth.  I remember Heaven (Home), and I remember the reason that pigs were placed on the Earth.

Humans were on the Earth long before pigs were.  How did ancient humans exist without pork in their lives?!  Are you so sure they did?  They may not have had pig, but they had human meat to eat.

What?  That is correct, cannibalism was rampant.  God, me, and other spirits communicated to the humans that they needed to stop eating each other, but the majority didn't listen because human meat tasted so good.  Good ol' free will.

The majority of humans were addicted to human meat.  Since the majority wouldn't stop just because we said so, an animal was created as a substitute for eating human: the pig; a much stronger, suggestion on our part to stop cannibalism. Therefore, pigs had to taste enough like human so that cannibalism would stop.  For the most part, that worked.  

Pigs are so close to humans that we now use their hormones for replacement therapies and their valves for heart valve transplants, and in 2012, scientists sequenced the entire pig genome and found similarities to humans.

But, because pig was just not quite as delicious as human to some, those people still ate human flesh. So, laws banning cannibalism were introduced to Earth. 

In 2007, convicted German cannibal Armin Meiws said, "The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good."

In Heaven, I was so disgusted with humans eating humans, that I was also disgusted with humans eating pork, because, well...pretty much the same thing.  So, when I came down to Earth, I had a seemingly innate disgust of pork.  And as for the people eating pork, I eventually realized that even I made a choice to eat pork for a short period of time in my life.  Time to let it go and embrace the gift of free will.

So, while so very many people love their bacon, and are free do so, I choose to live pork free.

For me, living pork free in a bacon obsessed world, isn't just about pork; it's become a symbol of living my life by my choices (standing up for myself rather than succumbing to outside pressure from friends, family, culture, and/or the masses)  and being okay with that.

Shine the Light of You

What is it that I want to say?
Everything. And nothing.
So much to say.
So much feeling to express.

The world is so precious, so fragile.
The people, the animals, the everything...amazing.
So many people blinded to the truth.
So many people scared.
So many people hurting.
So many people in the dark, afraid of the dark.

We are light.
Yet we are dimmed.
But not really.
We just forgot who we are.

Break through the darkness.
Shine the light of you.
Remember.  See.
We are light.  We are love.