# MEAT IS FOOD

By [Knepala](https://paragraph.com/@knepala) · 2025-07-06

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Meat is Food.  
  
While I deeply appreciate and respect the sentiment from my vegetarian and vegan friends and family, in the unconditional truth of things  
/ it speaks to kindness, but not to the whole design.  
/ it reflects the heart — but not always the pattern.

* * *

Once you understand that every being chooses its own path  
/ not just the shape of its body, but the circumstances of its birth,  
the challenges, the curses and the blessings,  
and also several set exit points,  
  
/ something softens.

**  
You stop needing everything to be fair.  
You stop needing everything to be clean.**  
(even if it is to end up as someone else’s food)

Some lives are chosen to shine.  
Others, to burn.  
And some souls come here just to be devoured  
/ by teeth, or time, or grief.  
  
**Every path is a soul contract / signed in silence.**

You were not sent here to survive.  
You were sent here to **feel**  
and to leave behind a resonance that only your pain could tune.

**Devoured or Devourer,**  
we come from unconditional love

and we will return to it— no matter the choices carved along the way.

  
We are not here to learn about love and light.  
  
We _are_ that. Permanently.  
We came to learn pain.  
To move through suffering, messiness, trauma, mistakes  
/ and still find the beauty in the wreckage.  
  
Your soul contracts, etched into the body of matter..  
  
Each life is like a layer:

One life teaches humility.  
Another: power  
Another: loss, or joy, or silence.  
  
All of it imprints the soul and subtly reconfigures the Merkaba.

_You don’t just drift through illusion_  
/ you build the geometry through which you experience it.

And all of it can be messy or even destructive  
  
Your Oversoul is experiencing all its fragments at once  
/ some dreaming,  
/ some dying,  
some being eaten or killed,  
  
some blooming.  
  
some are a river  
(to learn flow and surrender)

or a wind  
(to learn presence without form)

**_And I am sure i get eaten thousands of times_**

tiny little pieces of your Oversoul can even inhabit a plant,  
a legume or a fruit so you could also end up as food for a herbivore as well.

You upgrade you build your Merkaba  
by integrating polarity, feeling duality,  
through sacred practice by choosing alignment.  
By holding contradiction without collapse  
by weaving chaos into coherence  
**by letting the shadow teach you as much as the light.**

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**This is the soul’s playground**  
/ a crucible where pain and beauty both sculpt us.

And when you’ve walked through the dark,  
  
you get to see the light.

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Though, would I save a small bird from my cat if I got the chance?  
Of course I would.  
  
And she does not like that.

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