D: Well. what about the animals? You said they do not have individual souls? S: No. The spirits of animals are different from humans. It is just so different from the soul of a human that I cannot explain it very well. They have group spirits, and these are worked out with the other elementals. Some animals, such as cows and horses, have the herd tendency which is easily identifiable as a group spirit. But animal spirits do not have personality as humans do. They are life forces, however, and do inhabit bodies animal bodies. D: Do they have incarnations the same as humans do? S: It is incarnation, yes. There is the filling of the physical body with a life force, yes, so it would be incarnation in that respect. D: Does an animal spirit ever incarnate as a human being? S: (He frowned and seemed puzzled. ) Yes, it does eventually. It is part of its spiritual growth. Just like you will go on to higher levels, so does an animal's spirit separate from the group spirit and become an individual soul and begin the process of growing spiritually. Many of the people on Earth have been animals in other lifetimes on other planets, eons of time ago. D: And this was part of the evolution? I am curious about where we began. What type of an energy were we when we first started? S: We must go through all the series of development: gas, matter, plant, animal, human, spirit, divine. D: Then an animal is part of a group spirit and it can become individualized and break off from the group! S: Yes, it happens because of love. Humans showing love to an animal gives it a personality. Love helps it to separate and makes it more individualistic. This raises their conscious- ness. This is why you should always be loving to all crea- tures. But I don't understand about those noxious creatures like bugs and wasps and mosquitoes. (He made a disgusted face, and I laughed.) They arc part of the plan. Most of the bugs were put there for a reason, but I feel some just do not need to be there because they are not really productive. But after the Earth change, they are not going to be there any more. D: Would the animal spirits be on a certain level? S: Some are in the second, some are in the third; and some o them are somewhere in between. For instance, an ant would be on a different level than a much-loved dog or horse. There are not always distinct levels saying this is on this one and that one is on that one. There are many facets to each char- acter. There are also those who are in earthly human form who are on these lower levels. They are allowed to do this in hopes that they will raise themselves. Some people are on the third level even after they have incarnated. They are those humans who have no conscience. They just live an existence. They do not live a life. They live less than a life. D: How do you mean? Are they bad, or just have no interest? S: They do not have the intelligence to be either good or bad. There are very few of these. There are more fourth-level incarnates than there are third levels. What you would call a sociopath would be a fourth-level individual. Again, they have no conscience, but they have the intelligence to know how to use this against others. Interview with a Reincarnation subject Delores Cannon Conversations with a Spirit |
"Michael, Archangel, revealed many wondrous
things to me about animals. He said they all
were innocent before God and when they die their
souls go at once to the highest glory. They can
meet humans who loved them when a mortal dies.
They have short lives because they have no
lessons to learn here as we do. The higher realms
of the "spirit world" are full of the glory of
every plant, flower, tree, and souls of all
creatures. And they all add to the beauty of
higher realms.
Can you imagine a world more beautiful than
one populated with creatures and the abundance of
forests, jungles and meadow lands? There are many
such worlds in the higher spheres beyond life. On
these worlds in heaven no creature need eat. The
light of the Godhead nourishes every soul. This
goes for human souls as well, so animals are not
afraid and are as pets, tame and free. Lucky
indeed are mortals who are deserving to share the
spirit worlds of the creatures, for the flora and
the fauna are the Godhead's first children and
greatly beloved are they. Woe, indeed, unto a
human who is cruel to creatures! They won't
share in the highest glory of the spirit realm!"
Mary Seiler Pahrump, NV 10/93 Angel experiencer
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We didn't find American cases of dancing and playing. Perhaps our Heaven is too solemn for that. But why did they all come back from such lovely places? Here are those who didn't want to return. A college-educated patient in his thirties suffering from a liver disease thought that he was dead and told the nurse later: "After death I went to heaven. It looked beautiful. There were beautiful gardens full of flowers. I saw Yamdoots [messengers of death], of black complexion. I also saw Yamaraj (king of death], all black, tall, and in robust health." This patient didn't want to come back; he wanted to remain there, Here he made his choice in favor of dying a choice which he dreaded before the vision. A college-educated man in his twenties chose to end his life in suicide by barbiturate poisoning. He felt himself to be in Heaven, but the doctor thought otherwise. The patient was calling irrelevantly, saying, 'I am in heaven. There are so many houses around me, so many streets with big trees bearing sweet fruit and small birds singing in the trees.' |
| Hindu Near Death Experience
subjects At the Hour of Death Karl Osis, Ph. D & Erlender Haraldsson, Ph. D. 1977 |
An eight year old boy attended our May IANDS meeting. He had a near-death experience in January, 1969, when the family car left the road below Stevens Pass and landed upside down in an icy river. Despite 10 minutes submerged in the water, he survived. His dad died; his morn, who also attended the meeting, suffered a broken back. The pluckiness of this kid delighted us, as did his near-death experience (in true 4-year-old fashion he went through a "noodle," first to an animal heaven, then to a people heaven). Grown-ups asked him many questions, which he patiently answered. Then a fellow who could see auras, after his own NDE, asked if the boy could see colors around people. "Oh, yes," was the reply. Practically drooling the NDEr asked, "and what did the colors look like?" "Why," came the answer "they look like clothes I " |
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Chapter I |
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"f have not come to convert you to any new faith, any new philosophy. I have not been sent to you by him who is my Master to provide answers to the questions which puzzle you at present. The only way in which I can do this is to tell you about die fundamental facts of life in the hope that this will give you a foundation of knowledge through which you can build up a philosophy of your own. I shall also assist you in gaining practical experience through which you can prove things for yourself. Much of what I say will sound unusual to you but, in many lives, I have studied much and had proof of which has convinced me that certain facts are true. I nave no desire that you accept what I say as facts or truth, for you can only do so when you get to know such things within your own conscious- ness. "There is an old saying of the Lord Buddha, Who founded the religion which bears His name, which illustrates my point. One day one of His disciples came to Him and said: 'Lord, whom shall I believe? One man telleth me this and another that, and both seem sure they are right.' The Lord Buddha replied: 'My son, believe not that which any man saith, not even I, the Lord Budd, unless it appeals to your common sense. And even then do not believe it, but treat it as a reasonable hypo- thesis until such time as you can prove it for yourself.' "First of all I shall give you a rough outline of the path which is called evolution and of how that indefinable thing called life is found to flow through the kingdoms of Nature. "Of the source of life, I can give you no idea. I do not know and I have never met anyone who did. But does that matter? All thinking men are agreed that there must be a creative power behind the Universe: whether we think of that Power as a personal God or just the power of creation does not seem to be a matter of great importance. There are many who still like to think of God as a venerable old man with a beard, an idealistic figure based on the highest that each person can imagine, but with unlimited powers and an understanding of justice that is un- equalled amongst men. Who shall say that such an idea is foolish? It may satisfy many but it has no foundation in {act, for no man lives who can speak with knowledge of either the creation of the universe or of that thing which we call life. "Although we cannot analyse life, we can contact it. Who has not seen an animal or a human, living one minute and dead the next? What has happened during that minute? Certainly something has gone out of the body which one saw in action, and left behind the still flesh which, even as one looks, seems to start to disintegrate and return to Mother Earth. So we can recognise life as a fact, although we may not be able to under- stand it, and certainly we cannot create it as we can so many other things in these enlightened days. The mind of man has pro- duced many synthetic aids to nature, but not synthetic life. "The world of science tells us that life is found in all the four kingdoms of nature -- the mineral, vegetable, animal and human kingdoms. We do not need to be told that there is life in the animal and human kingdoms -- we can see that for our- selves but it is more difficult to credit that there is life in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms also. Reliable sources tell us that even rocks have life and that when the life-force is with- drawn from such rocks, they commence to decay; in time they crumble and return to the dust, much as a human body does, though the process takes a longer time. It is certainly easier for us to accept the fact that vegetables have life than that rocks have, for when they are withdrawn from the ground, the source of life in their case, we see for ourselves that they wither and die; in due time they become dust, as do all living things when the life-force is withdrawn. "Philosophers trace life still further into an additional king- dom, which they term the super-human kingdom, for when man has conquered the human Kingdom, his evolution does not come to a sudden end, but goes on upwards, ever upwards, until |
at last it reaches the source (torn which it sprang, how many
countless ages before this one, no mere man has been able even
to guess. They state further that life is progressive, as are all things.
in nature, and that the goal of life is experience; this it garners
and harvests as it progresses through the kingdom of nature
from the lowest form in which life is found, to the highest,
which can be described as the Perfect Man, or a 'man made
perfect'.
"Next we must consider what is the difference between life
as found in the mineral kingdom and life as we know it in the
animal and human kingdoms. Its essence is undoubtedly the same
for, as I have stated, the origin of all life is Divine, but how
different is its expression. When life starts functioning as various
minerals, it has no individuality as we understand such a thing
at the human level. In the lower types of minerals the life-force,
after having gained the experience it must obtain, passes into the
higher forms; later it passes to the lower type of vegetable and so
to the higher types of the same kingdom. All this cakes many
thousands of years as time is reckoned on this planet, but it is only
when life passes from the vegetable to the animal kingdom that
any sort of division becomes apparent. Even at this stage there is
no individuality but merely a group consciousness or group
soul, common to all the different animals of the same species,
which works on and directs these animals from without. When
the life-force passes to the human kingdom, an indwelling spirit
or ego inhabits each individual body and dictates the thoughts and
actions of every human being. At this stage of evolution group
souls have an influence upon races -- but none on individuals,
who now have free-will.
"To animals man is a super-animal, just as to man a perfect
man is a super-man. It is unfortunate to find that this super-
animal is inclined to act with cruelty to his younger brothers
rather than with compassion and understanding, in fact he seems
to be the main cause of the suffering they undergo. If man killed
only for the purpose of obtaining food, as animals do, or because
a wild animal is threatening to kill him, that might be regarded
as conforming to the laws of nature, but he tortures animals by
various mean so that his women folk may be adorned with furs
and feathers, and he kills for what he terms 'sport' when he prac-
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tices his 'skill' in marksmanship, regardless of the suffering he may
cause to those not so well equipped as himself. All this thought-
less cruelty brings into manifestation the emotion of fear, the
most retarding of all emotions. Fear of the super-animal begins
in the lowest forms of animal life and continues throughout the
animal kingdom till animals contact man in domestic life, then
the fear that was born in the early stages is slowly but surely
replaced by love. Until this happens, the progress of animals
along the evolutionary path is slow.
"I shall trace for you the passage of the life-force through the
animal kingdom. Try to imagine the life-force as constituting
the water of a slowly moving canal; it is bounded on both sides
by the banks of the canal, thus giving the impression of a con-
trolled purpose. There is practically no difference in this stream
when passing through the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, but
there is a distinct change as it emerges from the canal into the
conditions ruling in the animal kingdom."
"The animal kingdom is a complex structure of different
levels of evolution, from microbes and worms, through the wild
animals of the jungle, to the animals which man has domesticated.
In passing through the animal kingdom the life force acquires the
colouration of experience. It takes form as, shall we say, myriads
of tadpoles. The life-force was contained in the larvae which were
produced by a frog; in due course it emerged as many thousands
of tadpoles. These were born to contact life and to gain experi-
ence which will colour the water that was clear. Many tadpoles
die in infancy, never reaching their destiny as frogs, and these
units of water may be said to return to the soul groups scarcely
coloured at all. Some become frogs, and although through lack
of food or for a thousand different reasons their lives may be
short, when they eventually come to an end, the units of water
comprising these young frogs return to their soul groups,
coloured only with the small experience of discomfort or suffering
due to the cause of their deaths. Others live longer and in due
course contact human life. The frog learns to fear its tormentors,
to run from them, to hide when possible and avoid contact with
them. In due course it dies; cither by a natural death, which
in the majority of cases is unlikely, by the unthinking cruelty of
the human kingdom or by an attack from one of the natural
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enemies of frogs, such as snakes. When the units of water com-
prising these fragments of life return to the compartments, their
experience most certainly colours the water, which when it start-
ed out was clear, with many colours expressing sufferings in its
diverse forms. The whole experience, blended together, leaves
that compartment coloured with the experiences of all the units,
none of which has a separate identity, all being part of the
complete group soul.
"After one or two lives at this stage of evolution, the life
force with its accumulated water experiences passes to the next
level. Instead of tens of thousands of tadpoles, it is divided into
about ten thousand units of rats, or mice, for example. The rat is
born with a fear of the human being and of its natural enemies, for
is not the water coloured with the fear that was brought back from
the lives lived in the earlier stage. In this series of lives fear con-
tinues to grow. In his early life the rat is taught by bitter experi-
ence to avoid man at all costs, to work by night when man is less
of a terror than by day, and if he manages to live to a ripe old age
it is certainly due to his cunning and mastery of methods of cir-
cumventing his natural enemies."
While I was still pondering his final words, I looked up and
the room was empty. I sat quite still for a while and tried to
grasp the idea of what he had said, and after a time much of if
came back. At first I did not consider whether I believed it or
not; that did not seem to matter. It was all so new but it cer-
tainly was interesting; already, although I was tired, I began to
look forward to the morrow, for I was confident he would
return.
The following day I sat at my desk with my eyes on the door;
I was determined I would be on the look-out to see if he opened
the door or came through it. But if I expected something super-
natural to happen I was disappointed, for just on 11 o'clock the
door opened noiselessly in the ordinary way and he greeted me,
as I should have expected him to do, just by saying: "Well, are
you ready to hear more, or did I bore you yesterday?" I suppose
my reply must have satisfied him, for he continued from where
he left off.
"The level of evolution of the life force reached in the wild
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animals is as far removed from the humble worm, as he is from
the plant world. The animals themselves live by the natural law,
which is 'the survival of the strongest', and the key-note of the
animal kingdom is self preservation. The weaker animals are
killed for food, and fear for survival colours the experiences of all
such animals from the day they are born to the day they die,
whether their death be a natural one or due to the exploitation
of the stronger animal or a bullet from the gun of a hunter. Is it
any wonder that the predominating instinct of all wild animals is
fear? Fear of the stronger animals and fear of the super-animal
called man.
"Many lives are lived by group souls in the bodies of wild
animals, because in such incarnations they learn the important
lessons of self preservation and the necessity to work in order to
survive, for the obtaining of food alone for each and every animal
becomes a daily duty which can never be neglected. During the
periods when food is scarce, the instinct of the animal teaches it to
seek new pastures and to learn adaptability, which will stand the
soul in good stead when the time comes for it to emerge as a
separate human entity. Maternal instinct is in evidence for the
first time in this stage of the life of the group soul.
"I have said enough for you to realise that the wild animals
represent the top of the spiral covering the lives lived by the
group soul in the animal kingdom, for when ready to progress
further the group soul inhabits bodies that bring it into closer
and closer touch with the human kingdom, to which it must pass
in the fullness of time.
"In their wild state elephants, donkeys and buffaloes will
fight wildly against capture by man, and when caught it is only
if they are tamed by kindness that they become at all domesticated
and willing to use their natural powers in the interests of human
progress. Even after years of captivity they seldom become
really domesticated. However in the lives which follow they
are mostly born in captivity, therefore their environment from
birth teaches them to lose some of the natural fear that past lives
have produced in them. The most evolved of this group are
the cattle for they are often stall fed in the winter months, and it
is generally admitted that the providing of food for an animal
does more to gain its confidence and eradicate its natural fear of
man than anything else.
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