As a follow-up to the last post: I was reading an excerpt from Craig Hamilton-Parker’s book What to Do When You Are Dead. Hamilton-Parker works as a spiritual medium. There was a passage in his book that I found particularly fascinating and eye-opening, where he talks about animals and their spiritual evolution:
“My spirit guide has told us that animals do not all survive as individual identities after death. Some merge to what he calls a ‘group consciousness’. Their spirits return to a collective awareness for that particular species, and from this pool of awareness different animal souls are born. It is only when an animal becomes self-aware that its soul continues after death and starts the long process of climbing the evolutionary ladder toward human and angelic consciousness.
For many animals, this journey begins if it receives love from a human. In particular, pets and domestic animals gain a sense of identity because of prolonged exposure to humans. Our consciousness ‘rubs off’ on them, so to speak, causing them to forsake much of their instinctive nature and start to develop free will. Some people lavish love on their pets and treat them like their own children. Although in many ways this is a form of psychological transference, they are in fact helping the animal progress spiritually. The love they lavish on them enables the pet to quickly attain a sense of identity. The owner is thereby helping to create a new soul. I suppose you could say that pets are children in a real sense, for their souls are brand new!”
This is definitely a revelation to me. I’ve heard before that animals are here on Earth to help us human develop spiritually, but it could also well be that we’re here to help them spiritually develop as well!
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