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The patterns of human existence and survival have shifted so dramatically over the last twenty to fifty years that at least two generations have been utterly disconnected from a way of life that connected humanity to the earth in a manner that caused human beings to instinctively respect the earth. In turn, the earth gave healing and life to our souls which are housed in layers of her clay. That disconnect has brought about an ignorance and disrespect that bores into the soul of humanity and is described by the American Medical Association as Depression. There is a way back, and that way involves reconnecting with the earth, not dulling ones connection even more by the ingestion of drugs, whether illegal or prescribed by an allopathic physician. Incidentally, the term allopathic literally means to go against nature.

Just one example of these changing patterns is the way we obtain meat. Today, we drive to Wal-Mart and buy our ground beef in a plastic wrap a packaged food product - understanding nothing about the process of life that was given to provide us with this valued meat. The process of slaughtering animals and butchering the meat is a very important age old skill that has, for the most part, been lost. With the passing of the skill something of even greater value has fallen by the wayside and that is our connection to the life we take in order to eat meat. Teaching yourself and your young adult children how to process your own animals for food can have a profound impact on your lives. It will radically change your perspective on life and provide you with a clear understanding of the importance and place you hold in this temporal realm of existence.

Meat has historically been one of the most valued commodities to give and receive. In tribal communities when someone important came to visit, an animal was slaughtered and prepared with great ceremony to honor the visitors and serve the guests the very best offering it was a charity and a sign of great respect. People were honored to offer their sheep for the occasion and even more honored to process it themselves placing their own good energy into the meat. Otherwise, among tribal communities, meat was a fairly rare commodity for most people. Today we may honor our guests with a barbeque, but the understanding of where that meat came from is gone. Meat is now just packaged food, although still very much valued.

Young people were always involved in the process of raising, slaughtering and eating meat. This process

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