DO ANIMALS REINCARNATE?

Since I tried to shed some light on the idea of animal souls in my last article, I thought it might be a good idea to dive a little deeper into "Animal Experience" as it pertains to reincarnation. I realize that there are many who are not sold on the idea of reincarnation in humans, so for those of you who do not accept the idea of the continuance of life after death, this material will be of little or no value. For those who understand or at least intuitively feel the truth in the concept of the inevitability of eternal life, you will find that you already know much of what is said here. And NO, it is not too good to be true.

I have often said that in many cases, my purpose is not to teach, but to remind you of knowledge that you already have access to and have forgotten or that you are not consciously aware. You reincarnate whether or not you are aware of it and whether or not you consciously approve. There is nothing you can do to negate the process of continuing consecutive lives, and if you have found yourself interested in the material discussed on this site, you are already living a reincarnated life. First timers simply would not be interested.

Having said that, and after discussing the attributes of the animal soul, I think this is the appropriate time to add this information. Many animal lovers will not be surprised to learn that animals are smart, not smart in the sense of intellectual prowess, but in the sense of natural leanings, a close connection with the environment, the earth consciousness and an inner sense of the transition of the life spirit, that is somewhat masked to the human species at this time.

There is a vast difference even within the animal kingdom in how the species developed and in what areas their attention is focused. You cannot learn much from studying the various species that you capture and enclose in a zoo or aquarium, since the very captivity itself causes a change of behavior patterns of the animals that renders their reality beyond any kind of meaningful understanding of their true characteristics. You can also not learn anything about the true nature of animals by killing and dissecting them.

On the other hand, there are some species of which you are very familiar that have adopted a symbiotic relationship with humans and have evolved to share the human world while retaining some peripheral connection to their previous natural environment. They have not totally forsaken the forests for the sofa in your home, but they have put their previous natural leanings aside to adapt to a new kind of nature within man's domain. This is not so much as you might think, a degraded form of animal reality, but a newly forming animal reality.

I should also mention that animals still focus on a totally different type of reality while still adapting to a more domestic view of reality than their other cousins still roaming in the wild, whatever wild there is left for them to roam. But that's another story.

Cats, dogs and some other species have made this transition rather nicely and given the choice would not even consider to going back to stalking and killing their food for survival. As you may have noticed, especially with cats, they have still retained the habitual stalking and killing of their prey (mice and birds, to name a few), even though they may have no thought of eating them. With them it is instinctual and the more they are permitted access to the outside environment, the longer they will retain those leanings.

I have said this so many times that I am sure if you are a regular reader you may say "enough already", but I persist, since this is such an important point that I don't want it misunderstood, as it has been for centuries.

"All consciousness comes from the SAME SOURCE, and therefore all consciousnesses are of the same quality. The consciousness of a human and the consciousness of an ant are equal in value. The real differences between even different animal species and animals and men/women is in the differentiation, meaning the level of evolved self-awareness.

Animals to the most part operate in a more generalized way, with a limited self-awareness and they do not develop what you as humans do, a personification of identity. They do not possess the ability to contemplate their ("I"ness), to use the imagination to solve problems, to think; they do solve problems, but they do it without what you would call the use of the intellect.

All plants, insects, birds, animals and for that matter, even the electrons and atoms that form your organs are aware of their existence and possess a more generalized view of self-awareness. There is nothing that is materialized that does not possess some degree of consciousness, and as an aside, if the animals were to disappear from the planet, mankind would also disappear. But that is one of those things that you already KNOW, but may have forgotten, and I intend to discuss that in some detail in the future.

The earth, as you know it only exists because of the existence of all of its living species and all of the probable species that have ever existed waiting in abeyance. The probable dinosaurs still exist in a probable reality, and so do all other species that you think are extinct. In earth history, some classifications of living self-aware consciousness carry more traffic at one time or another; they are waiting for times when the conditions are right for their reemergence.

You have been taught that the human species is at the top of the pile of consciousness, but that is only true in the level of differentiation and nothing more. This difference in differentiation is not the result of the time factor in the process of evolution, but of conscious choice made by the various species of animals.

In other words, in the early days of planet earth, consciousness went through what could best be called a sorting-out process, where each adopted the most appropriate form that would bring forth the most desirable personal physical focus that would allow for the maximum fulfillment and satisfactions for each species in line with their inherent characteristics. Dogs then, chose to be dogs; fish chose to be fish and so on.

To stay on the same track, there is no reality that includes transmutation of species, and no matter what you have been taught, that is another one of the ingrown tidbits of knowledge that is latent within your genes at birth and is known by your subconscious and your inner self. Dogs will never reincarnate into humans and neither will humans reincarnate as cattle.

It only makes sense, since all consciousness is on an equal footing when it comes to quality, then it follows that if human consciousness reincarnates, so does animal consciousness. Humans always reincarnate as humans. Mammals reincarnate as mammals, allowing for changes of species within the classification of Mammalia. Fish will reincarnate as fish, birds as birds. An eagle may be reborn as a sparrow, a flounder as a minnow. That's enough of that; you get the idea.

All consciousness continues through one or another processes. Consciousness, of whatever level, is eternal and provisions always exist for the continuation of even the smallest unit of consciousness with no exceptions.

This insures a wide variety of experience, which is what the soul/entity desires.

Human beings, possessing a more personified type of consciousness than animals, are usually quite specific when making reincarnational life choices, including deciding on future parents, future race, gender and locations where that life will be lived, or at least begun. Changes can be made, but generally, if you are fond of your present parents, you may choose to experience another life with them, the relationships will be changed of course. Same family groupings are common, where father becomes a daughter in the next life or other changes in gender or family roles. 

Animals experience life in a more generalized way and are aware of more or less happy, loved and content lives or unhappy, unloved and unfulfilled within their animal potentials. They do not deal in specifics as do humans, but a domestic animal for instance, having experienced a life with a human that they were fond of and content with, will follow it's instincts to return to the past satisfying life situation.

We are speaking here of domestic animals, dogs and cats primarily. 

 They do not plan to specifically return to the home of good old Bob and Grace in their comfy little bungalow on the corner of 5th, and Elm streets in Oswego, but driven by their instincts to replicate a happy past existence, will sometimes reincarnate in the same neighborhood where their past experience was fulfilling to them.

For this reason it is not unusual for previous owners to find, in one way or another, a new animal addition to the family shortly after losing a beloved pet. The new pet need not particularly look like the recently dead animal, but sometimes the characters will be remarkably similar. Humans can sometimes wait for hundreds of years before reincarnating where animals, not having to deal with the compartment of the ego and not subject to the number of choices that the human species must make, move easily between lives with much impatience. It is not uncommon for a departed pet to reincarnate within a few days or weeks of his previous death.

There are reasons for these things that are hard to explain, but generally there is a psychic attraction between animals and their loved owners, as there are with humans, that transcends the apparent separation between life and death, and they will be drawn together, following each other into new life situations.

A newly reincarnated pet could perhaps be born in the same neighborhood by a stray mother cat, the litter of kittens found and taken to an animal shelter, where a previous owner who will adopt them will unconsciously discover them.

So, if you are mourning the death of a favorite pet, keep your eyes open and follow your instincts and you may be surprised what or who you find or who will find you.

There is something else that should be mentioned about the mixing of consciousness where animal, men and earth spirit meet.

When a human or an animal dies, which all living consciousness must do, the cells and other bodily components are returned to the earth where they originated. Plants grow and assimilate the same elements that were once part of humans and animals. They are then eaten by other humans and other birds and animals, so in a diffused sort of way, the cellular consciousness of all are intermixed throughout the world of physical matter. In this way, all remain separate identities, but the individual consciousness carries the imprint of all other living species.

When you think about it, it's a beautiful thing.

DO ANIMALS HAVE A SOUL? Part 2

An individual personality such as yourself introduces your soul to the kind of physical perceptions and events that it could experience in no other way. You unknowingly open the doors to new worlds of knowledge and experience.

Entities are the directing force behind all worlds, and yet they are not participators in specificities, but operate in a more general field providing the impetus that makes it possible for other consciousness to form universes and worlds, while they themselves remain in the background and never inhabit a human form.

Between these evolved psychological intellectual gestalts and human identities lie many layers of evolving conscious personalities, some of which you are more familiar, at least in terminology if not substance. We are speaking of entities/whole selves/souls and here we may have some difficulty sorting things out, so we will keep the sorting and categorizing to a minimum and deal with more conventional understandings.

Of course, names and designations are meaningless and there are actually no separate layers, just increasing levels of spiritual, intellectual and psychic development of all entities and personalities.

It is true, that there are really no formal layers of consciousness, one progressing more than the others, but one immense psychological gestalt of which all are a part. It could be called the God Pyramid Gestalt, for it contains All That Is and everything else. One rule that is pertinent in all universes, planes, dimensions and worlds, is that "everything is a part of something else" and so on.

You are part of your whole self, soul or entity. As many of you know, I prefer the term entity, because of the strength of misleading religious connotation connected with the term "Soul". If we must establish some hierarchy of evolution of the personality, then it would be; plant, animal, human, inner self, soul, over-soul, entity, intelligence psychological gestalt, God.

Obviously, this is again a great oversimplification, but nevertheless it does convey the idea of evolving consciousness and in-between these designations, there are countless variations and deviations, which are not necessary in this discussion.

It is necessary to understand the term "Soul" which I will sometimes capitalize, with intent of reminding you of the Godlike characteristics of the Soul.

God, despite all that you have been told, or taught over the centuries, did not create you. I realize that I am treading on dangerous ground here, but what should be said, must be said, and you will see that this statement of ultimate truth, in no way diminishes the divinity of the one God, the one All That Is.

That one God represents the energy that becomes everything. The distortions held by your societies since the beginning are understandable and I hope to clarify things in these communications. In another gross oversimplification, this Prime Source supplies Himself, His unlimited self aware energy and the Entities, Souls and other psychological identities, direct this energy into countless universes, planes, dimensions and worlds, some made physical and some that need no atomic structure. Many of the most advanced Entities have never passed through the worlds of physical manifestation.

God is not a person; He does not sit on a golden throne on a cloud, carefully observing every living thing on planet Earth for indiscretions in order to mete out punishments. Since He has no actual form, he does not look like Charleton Heston carrying his staff and directing lightening bolts to smite the sinners and punish the wicked. In a greater sense, in ancient times God divided Itself into all of the consciousnesses that have ever lived and will ever live, and do to that ultimate fragmentation, She increases Herself exponentially with each micro-second.

I will make some attempt at times to mete out the pronouns between the sexes to emphasize that the God that exists, has no sex, but is all sexes, so please bear with me.

God is within all forms from the lowest to the grandest, from the least to the most and still retains Itself no less than before the division. The God Energy completely replenishes itself with each energy expenditure so there is no lessening of His power and grandeur. He always becomes more.

Again, an oversimplification, realizing the potential for exponential increase of His experience, God fragmented and released portions of Himself, quite a monumental altruistic act. In addition to that, he endowed each and every released consciousness with eternal life, and imparted the gift of creation to all individual identities. This creative ability is spread among souls, entities and independent personalities through all universes and worlds.

The first Energy released in what has been described, as the Big Bang resulted in the creation of Entities that are massive creators of the universe you know and other entities and souls who also created countless specified worlds. The foresight indicated here is beyond comprehension, so every consciousness ever created has the inherent ability to create at its own level, forming consciousness gestalts at all levels of life, as you know it.

The Soul/Entity creates individual personalities in the same manner that they were themselves created by All That Is (God). The Soul and the Entity always remains in the background as the energy activators and the available energy is never depleted or diminished, insuring that there will always be more and never less. There is then a flow of creative energy that spills over to sustain all that exists.

The Soul hardly gives its created personalities a second thought, but experiences everything that the personality experiences, and the personality, usually unknowingly, has access to the vast knowledge and experience of the Soul and Entity. The Soul experiences you in much the same way as you experience the existence of your "Dream Personalities" that you create every night in your dreams. Don't take this too literally, but to the Soul, you and the entire earth reality system is like a "Dream of the Soul".

When you awaken in the morning from your dream, the dream personality and the dream drama that you have created in your sleep seems to vanish, yet it continues, although to you it may seem to die. Once created, it is eternal and continues to exist in its own dream dimension. No dream has ever ceased to exist.

In much the same way there is a spillover of the always-excess energy of the universe, directed through the Entity, through your Soul and through your being to create the natural environment and the animal world. This is rather difficult to understand, but it would not be too far off base to say that the creatures of the earth and the earth environment create each other in a kind of circular motion. One could not exist without the other.

 This is not easy to explain, but through psychic manipulation, you begin to psychically support your world, your future environment, plant and animal kingdoms while still a fetus in the womb. In fact, the minute you are born, you take on certain responsibilities to unconsciously redirect energy to sustain the physical world and its other creatures.

You have a Soul, and through your soul-derived energy, redirected to the world environment, so do the animals have a soul. Your soul is an independent identity, but your soul is not yours alone and also supports other facets of your identity, of which you are not yet familiar. The fact that you do not have a soul to yourself, in no way diminishes your soul relationship.

In that sense, all entities, souls and personalities co-operate and for all practical purposes are the source have the creative energy that insures the continuation of the world that you know. It would be true to say that all animals have all souls and in a limited way, you could be said to be junior souls of the plant and animal kingdom. Of course, it's much broader than that.

In the pyramid consciousness gestalt, the more always adds to and supports the less. In your body, every particle, every cell has a self-aware consciousness. The cells form a gestalt consciousness that directs the bodies condition every second of the day. The health of the body's organs is maintained by the body consciousness gestalt. To this gestalt, your overriding directive consciousness is the top of the body pyramid consciousness gestalt. When your consciousness leaves the body in dream projections, the body consciousness maintains the body at a maintenance level until the overall directive consciousness returns.

Again, everything is part of something else and this is probably the biggest understatement of this article. The multitudinous ways that consciousness disperses itself, joins with, merges with and comprehends reality is beyond the imagination. You have a Soul as I have explained. In much the same way, animals have a soul, and since the "have a soul" connotation is so distorted, let me further say that trees have souls, violets have souls, rocks have souls, waves have souls and nothing that you perceive is "Soul-less".

The soul gives life and without its participation, nothing would or could exist.

Here is one of my infamous analogies that may help explain what I am trying to convey. Imagine that the earth reality is a bowl of vegetable soup. The vegetables and noodles would be the manifest personalities, you, animals, plants, lichens, virus, bacteria, rocks, and earth, down to the smallest mote of dust. The broth would represent the un-manifest Soul and Entity and all higher evolved Gestalts within whom you exist. In that light, all are immersed in soulness.

I know it isn't the best analogy but we're not dealing with simple matters here.

DO ANIMALS HAVE A SOUL? - Part 1

This is a question that comes up often, and for very good reason, since almost everyone has a pet that they love, even if it is just a goldfish in a bowl sitting on the mantle. Of course, it is easier to love a cute little furry kitten than a goldfish, but bear in mind in this discussion the consciousness of a goldfish is no less value than the consciousness of a dog or cat, or of a human for that matter. They all emanate from the same source, so there is no way that one could be more or less than the other. All consciousness has a common origin and it's all-good.

There is however a vast difference between the individuation of the consciousness of plants, fish, animals and men, at least from the perspective of the human species. There is also a vast difference between the differentiation within the animal kingdom and as a rough rule of thumb, you may assume that when it comes to the quality of consciousness, none is better than any other, they just view their ("I"ness) in a different way in relation to the rest of the physical world.

To really answer the question of whether or not animals have souls, you would first have to agree on what a soul really is and therein lies the problem. Unfortunately, religion has so distorted the understanding of the nature of the soul, I almost have to start from scratch, and even then, I have to, in a sense, try and surmount the teachings that many of you hold dear. But it needs to be done if you are to understand my explanation.

Let me start by saying that the soul is not something that you have or possess. It is not something that you can hold in your hand and it is not something you can lose. No soul has ever been lost. Period!

To understand animal awareness, human awareness, soul awareness and entity awareness, you must at least during the reading of this article, jettison your assumption that you exist as a separate something from everything else. All consciousness is connected, but this connection became more and more transparent as humans developed the attribute of the ego over the centuries. The human ego wants to separate itself from the rest of nature even though; inwardly it knows that is impossible.

Now, you guard your individual identity, as something separate from everything else and even any hint of other aspects of your own identity seem to in some way minimize or jeopardize the existence of your own, so you tend to ignore those other portions of your own identity.

There are other aspects of your total identity that exist in other reality systems that you are presently unaware of except for occasional contact in the dream state. The only real thing that keeps your knowledge of these other portions of your identity unknown is your belief structure and the characteristics of earthly tuned consciousness as it has evolved. There are other systems where this knowledge is common.

The existence of other portions of your personality does not make you any less and in fact, makes you more, since these other "you" aspects add to the totality of your overall identity in terms of available multidimensional information that would not otherwise be easily accessible to you in your waking reality. You sometimes intermingle with these "other yous" in your dreams.

You do not have a soul. You are soul temporarily in physical clothing or more accurately, you are a portion of your soul, a soul that never fully materializes itself within the physical world. You are then, while you are alive, the earthly appearance of the soul. The soul is a self-aware psychic energy gestalt identity that for many reasons must remain aloof from physical form. I want to emphasize here that in terms of power, ability and multi-dimensional capabilities, the soul is more than equivalent to attributes that you usually only ascribe to the Prime Source, All That Is or God.

You cannot legitimately comprehend the soul and its goals, intentions and purposes in terms of the physical world; in fact to understand the physical world is the intention of the soul, and it accomplishes this through YOU and your life experiences. The soul is NOT A PERSON, but a soul is an identity that experiences what you would consider yours and alien worlds, other than your own.

The soul gobbles experience, and it gobbles on many fronts simultaneously. As the soul learns from your earthly adventures, it also learns from the adventures of other personality aspects of yourself. In terms of life experience, souls are immortal, but so are you. The soul thrives on the experience of its individual "selves" and your lifetime is "only a day" to your soul.

You belong to your soul, but the soul does not concentrate on your physical escapades, yet It senses everything you do, but never tries to control its personalities. You then, reside within the subtle psychic embrace of your soul and that connection is also eternal, though the relationship may change.

There is an inner connection between your inner self, your soul and your entity, which is as far as we will go up the ladder of evolved consciousness for this discussion. Beyond the entity lie dimensions of existence that are not translatable since we enter a psychological area approaching the ultimate, and I am not prepared to go there in this article. Let it be known, that the psychological entities of which I speak here, possess abilities and characteristics far beyond any that have been attributed to your mythical gods suggested by your religions.

You are part of your whole self, soul or entity. As many of you know, I prefer the term entity, because of the strength of misleading religious connotation connected with the term "Soul". If we must establish some hierarchy of evolution of the personality, then it would be; plant, animal, human, inner self, soul, over-soul, entity, intelligence psychological gestalt, God.

Obviously, this is again a great oversimplification, but nevertheless it does convey the idea of evolving consciousness and in-between these designations, there are countless variations and deviations, which are not necessary in this discussion

There are then, powerful entities beyond souls, (and I am not fond of the term powerful, but I don't know what other words would convey these massive psychological entities that activate vast amounts of energy that provide the background for earthlike realities to spring into existence.

These Souls and Entities are difficult to describe but they are both psychic, mental gestalts. They both are action oriented, purposeful and creative within their own sphere of interest. They are what could be called, very ancient and evolved psychic individualities in their own right.

Their abilities, aspirations and involvement in other dimensions are beyond description. The main differences between the Soul and the Entity are in the level of intellectual and spiritual development, the Entity being more than the Soul.

The soul creates and manages a group of human personalities, or conversely speaking, a group of human personalities makes up a soul. Both are a part of each other and neither violates the others individuality. A group of Souls create and support an Entity and the entity includes a group of souls within its psychic reality. Entities exist within and under the umbrella psychic existence of other more advanced entity gestalts.

All just mentioned exist within the reality of All That Is (God). All of this is of course, a great oversimplification, but I don't see any other way to get started with this material, so it will have to do for starters.

Again, it is important to remember that everything that exists is part of something else. None infringes on any other, yet all benefit from these gestalt arrangements.

The most advanced psychological entities have evolved far beyond the ability to see into the earthlike reality systems, or to materialize themselves into human identities for direct experience in any physical world, but they do savor the kind of earth experience that can be tasted in no other way, through creation and activation of individual personalities such as yourselves, through which they can sense the needs and feelings of entire civilizations, the beauties of earthly sunrises, sunsets and the events of the ages.

Pictured below is an approximation of how all consciousness exists as part of the God Consciousness Gestalt hierarchy. Everything that exists in the lower portions are part of the consciousness of that which exists above. As a generality, everything that exists nearer the bottom of the pyramid would be newer consciousness and at the upper reaches, you approach the ultimate. The rule is that as you grow, learn, expand your consciousness and move higher in the pyramid, you become more aware of these connections. As an example, Souls are quite aware of the existence of their Entity affiliations.

To be continued in a few days.