In this final episode, speakers reflect on media’s role in inspiring change, while Supreme Master Ching Hai offers closing insights highlighting veganism as an optimistic solution to global warming.
John Raatz: Briefly, my general operating principle as much as possible is “Don’t chase the media. Be the media,” and operate according to the principle of the highest first, which means to go for that – whether it’s a cause, or most importantly, consciousness and transformation itself – let that be your guiding principle for selecting your approach, your tactic, your strategy and so forth.
So, there’s so many issues and it’s mind numbing. And maybe you even know the term “compassion fatigue.” There’s just so much to do, and we don’t have a lot of time to do it. So how do you choose?
Well, align with what you feel inside, align with your intuition about what you should follow, and don’t chase the mainstream media, but be the media. Use the internet because it’s the most effective tool right now for affecting social change. And there are so many ways of using the media, from a marketing and public relations and publicity standpoint, as you know. And I feel that that’s one of the best ways to marshal mass consciousness right now.
A minor example: there’s a movie in development right now called The Shift. As soon as the trailer for The Shift got out, there were hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who saw it. And the movie is profiling those individuals, companies, and organizations that are creating the shift in the world – not waiting for the mainstream media to report on it, but saying, “Look at what these people are doing.” And there’s tremendous support for it. And so just use your heart, your intuition, your consciousness to promote itself – consciousness and transformation – and whatever the manifestations of that are for you, go with that.
Master: Very good, very good. Very good. Very good, John. Mr. Raatz, very good. (Thank you very much, John and Scott.)
Scott Baden-Notch: So, as you can tell, conscious media is being taken care of. John Raatz and the Elizabeth Estradas and Daryll Merchant’s Elevate Films, Free Range Studios – these people are doing it, and they’re doing it very, very well, and I look forward to seeing what they come out with in the future. The one take that I would have is sort of practical stuff. While it’s very clear that if people shift their consciousness, they will also become sustainable in their daily lives, because the first step is consciousness, but also, I think there’s a big gap for people, especially in certain areas of this country, that it’s kind of hard to take that leap from totally unconscious to conscious. So, I think that giving people sort of solutions – the stuff that we focus on – stuff that’s really practical for them and realistic and... So we’re actually working with Free Range Studios to come out with a movie about creative solutions – things that people can do in their daily lives to save the environment and themselves. And that’s one area that I’d really like to target – a demographic that’s still a long way away from being truly conscious. But I have faith that the rest of it is in very, very good hands.
(Great answers from our panel. And now we do move on to Supreme Master and Her closing thoughts. And Supreme Master Ching Hai, if You could kind of sum it all up. We’ve covered so much ground. We’ve covered spirituality. We’ve covered the global warming crisis and the connection to the food consumption habits of Americans and the rest of the world. We’ve covered transformational media. What’s the commonality there? How do we sort of compress all of this so that we can take it away with us?)
Master: Good question. Jane and all the distinguished people, I am a very simple woman. We can only say that everything takes so long. To get the media involved in this maybe takes some time. To have the technology for sustainable energy takes some time. To invent new cars with less pollution and all that, and the production of them takes a long time – longer than several years – and we don’t have many years. That’s why I have only one solution for everything – that is the vegan diet. So now, if people agree to be vegan, I’m already very grateful.
And once all of us or at least the majority of us become vegan, then the karma of the planet will change – I mean the pattern of our destiny will change – and everything will become better. And we will invent much, much better things for our comfort without costing the Earth. And vegan diet will stop the global warming almost immediately. Two weeks until two years – that’s the maximum. Within two years is the maximum. Otherwise, if we all become vegan, or almost all of us become vegan, it takes maybe two months or three months to see the effect right away, like the ice will go back to where it was, the Earth will cool off again, and our life will be much more abundant, and war will stop.
Everybody would think completely differently. They would treat each other completely differently, because the compassion in their heart will return to its pristine power again. Right now, because of all this (animal-people) meat and poison – drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol – the compassionate nature of people is being suppressed by the heaviness of the negative power that we have generated by using this poisonous stuff, especially the killing energy – that is the worst thing we can do to ourselves. So, I have only one solution, that is being vegan, and the sooner the better. And then everything else, we will have time to take care of. We will have time to develop different technology. We will have time to invent new cars. We will have time to tackle many other things that right now are not that urgent as the planetary warming. Because, truly, it might destroy the whole planet and we will all go.
Well, I don’t mind going. It’s just that – how about the other people who like to live, who want to live on this planet? Because they do not know yet there is another place that they could go. And if they die in such a situation, it’s very difficult for their spiritual upliftment. And this is still a very beautiful planet, it’s still repairable. So just one request: vegan diet. Then everything else, we will have time to do and to think of. Very simple.
Eighty percent of global warming is caused by (animal-people) meat-eating, so 80% of global warming will be solved by turning away from (animal-people) meat diet and adopting a vegan diet. Now, the other 20%, it is no problem really. Even if we still keep the cars, airplanes, trains and take a lot of showers, it doesn’t matter that much, because it’s only 20% of pollution, only 20% of damage – the Earth can take care of it for us. Truly, it’s like that. So just spread veganism, spread all that information about the benefits of it. And that’s the best thing we can do for the planet and for our children. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for your trust and your love for me. I wish all of you all the best. And God bless you in your mission. Thank you.
Jane Velez-Mitchell: Thank You, Supreme Master Ching Hai. I’m speaking for Donald, I’m sure, this has been…. I’m humbled and honored to have had the privilege of, and seeing this amazing event and meeting so many wonderful, evolved people, it gives me hope. Because sometimes I do get depressed about what’s happening in the world today. There’s a lot of reasons for hope as we wrap up tonight and conclude. Let me tell you that here in California, there is a proposition on the November ballot called Prop 2, which is the Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act, which will ban pig gestation crates, veal crates and battery crates. And it’s on the November ballot, so you can vote yes on Prop 2. (Wow.) And this weekend, we are holding parties all across. I’m holding one with 375 RSVPs in Beverly Hills tomorrow, where people are coming together and all of Hollywood is coming there to say, “We want to do whatever we can to stop this cruelty.”
So, (Wow.) we are caring people, we are going to turn this around, and we can solve all these problems – literarily waking up tomorrow, and not only going vegan ourselves. And I’m vegan, and I hope most of the people in this audience, raise your hand, are you vegetarian or vegan? How many of you? OK, right there, that’s great! And I’m sure the rest of you after this are on your way! On your way! So, I’m filled with hope, and I have a renewed sense that we are going to keep moving forward, and we are going to make this world a compassionate place and a compassionate planet, right? (Yes.) (Yes!) Let’s do it! (Yes, yes.)
Donald: And on behalf of my wife, Valentina, the rest of the Canadian team who came down to help with this event this weekend, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to Supreme Master Ching Hai for giving us this opportunity, and to our incredible Los Angeles host. We appreciate everything you’ve done and wish you all the very best in taking what you’ve learned today out and expanding it around the world. Thank you.
Master: Thank you! Thank you, everybody, really thank you. Thank you, Jane. Thank you, Donald. Thank you, all the hosts, the panels, great personages – we thank you all. Thank you, the organizing people, as well. God bless you all. God bless you. Goodbye now, so long. And please be vegan if you’re not yet. Try it; it will help you to see the world in a different perspective and to be closer to Heaven. Just envision, for me at least the world in which all beings live without fear of one another. We will all be vegan and we will all live in happiness and blessing from Heaven. God bless you. Go enjoy your (vegan) dinner. Bye.
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