Evolution and Ecology!
By
Dr Joshua David Stone
The Animal Kingdom
The main difference between man and animals is in the type of consciousness displayed. Human beings have self consciousness and an individual soul. Where animals are guided by more of an instinctive consciousness, rather than reasoning mind as in mankind, and are connected to a group soul.
It is possible for more evolved animals usually have a domesticated nature to evolve eventually into the human kingdom. This doorway was open prior to Atlantis and was then closed at that time except for special cases. Sai Baba has said that his pet elephant Sai Bita will be a human in his next lifetime.
If more people realized that animals can evolve into humans, then people might treat them with more respect. It is absolutely atrocious how animals are treated in our society. They are not looked at as equals as they should be.
Every animals is God visiting us in physical form. Animals also reincarnate. In one of the Cayce readings a woman asked if she had known her cat in a past life. The Universal Mind said, through Cayce, that her cat had been with her in an incarnation in Egypt as a pet lion.
Eventually over eons of time the entire animal kingdom will transfer to the lower levels of the human kingdom. Since animals have group souls, individualization is the portal of entry into the human kingdom. An animal may experience life as an individual as a domesticated animal, or sometimes in a pack of animals or as a loner. It is usually through the animals interaction with humans that their goals of fully expressing as an individual are achieved.
The animal kingdom serves in the capacity of being a type of emotional buffer for mankind. Animals are very sensitive to emotions. We have all seen how animals will growl at certain people and not at others, depending on the vibration the human is putting out. Animals are able to absorb and to a certain degree transmute negative human emotions and imbalances.
Wild animals are apparently able to take in the imbalance of massive group action such as war, famine poverty, and mass death. The animals who serve as our pets do the same thing for their individual human caretakers. Dogs and cats will diffuse an argument by asking for love and attention. Other times the companion animal will reflect those human emotions of a negative nature in their own behavior.
Recently my sister went through a very powerful emotional crisis, and a week later her cat stopped eating for four days and almost died of thyroid failure. A spiritual teacher told her that her cat was running the crisis energy through her little body and it was much too powerful for it. As soon as my sister disconnected emotionally from her cat in this manner she was fine.
Findhorn and the Animal Kingdom
There is a wonderful story about the animal kingdom that occurred in the first year at Findhorn. Because of all the compost that was being spread around there were a great many earth worms. Earthworms are the favorite food of the moles. The moles attacked the garden building tunnels everywhere.
Dorothy MacLean began to meditate and tuned into a rather scary looking great king mole with a crown on his head sitting in an underground cavern. She proceeded to explain the situation to him and promised not to hurt his moles. She also suggested that he go to a neighboring area close by that was not used for gardening. Lo and behold the moles left the garden. Several years later when Findhorn was given the neighboring area of land, there were the moles exactly where she had asked them to go.
Perelandra and the Animal Kingdom
There are a number of fascinating stories that occurred at Perelandra of a similar nature. As part of Machaelle’s desire for good soil she put out a call for earthworms. Sure enough when planting season came there were earthworms everywhere. The problem was that it was impossible to till the soil without killing earth worms in the process.
Machaelle got very frustrated and declared out loud that she was going to have a fifteen minute tea break and when she returned she wanted the earthworms out of a particular row of soil. When she returned the earth worms were out of the row. When she was done working she said, "You can come back now." and they did.
Machaelle had a similar problem with moles in her garden also. She spoke with the mole deva and thirty minutes later she looked up and saw a whole band of over 100 moles heading towards the open field exactly where she asked them to go.
She tried this one more time with cabbage worms. They had infested all her vegetables. She connected with the deva of the cabbage worm. She requested that they leave all her vegetables except four special ones that were specifically being planted for their purposes. When she woke up in the morning all the worms were gone except for the one plant at the end of each row that was specifically designated for them.
Can you imagine if the farmers and gardeners of the world would communicate with the minerals, plants and animals. We would need no insecticides and pesticides. This applies even to our home. We can ask the deva of the ants or cockroaches or fleas to ask them not to enter the house.
One interesting story on this subject. Sai Baba was asked if it was ever permissible to kill insects invading one’s house. Sai Baba said it was permissible and no karma would be incurred if the insects were invading the house, but karma would be incurred if you killed them outside. Even a better method, however, would be to just tune in and ask them to leave. Why not?! An ant, flea, and cockroach are God incarnate. Everything has its place in nature, and all kingdom resound to the call of God.
In the future those people choosing to eat meat will receive their meat from cattlemen who put out a call to the overlighting deva of cattle, and draw to themselves those cows that wish to serve humanity in this capacity.
Eventually mankind will evolve out of the eating of meat, however, humanity is not at that level of evolution yet. Certain animals are willing to serve in this capacity as a service to mankind if it is part of the divine plan. The above mentioned example would be an ideal way for this to happen.
The Wonderful Pig Story
One of my favorite stories of all time has to do with a set of tapes I once listened to told by John Robbins, who wrote Diet for a New America. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. In these tapes I remember him telling a story about a pig farmer he visited while doing research for his book.
He was invited to dinner but did not let on about who he was. I forget a lot of the details, but the gist of the story was that the pig farmer was basically running what might be called a pig concentration camp. The pigs were stacked in super small cages one on top of each other. In the most horrendous of conditions a person can possibly imagine.
The pig farmer, towards the end of dinner, intuitively picked up on who John Robbins was and slammed his fist on the table in anger and the wife left the room. John Robbins was rather frightened. However, the man calmed down and then proceeded to talk. He explained that he was just trying to make a living and compete with the other pig farmers.
He told a story of how, as a young child, he had a pet pig who was super smart. The pig actually, if I am not mistaken, even saved him from drowning in the lake one time. One day the pig farmer’s father told his son that they were going to have the pig for dinner. The boy was crushed. The father made him choose between the pig and him. It was after that that the boy started to shut down emotionally.
John Robbins sent a copy of his book to the pig farmer. The pig farmer was disgusted by the book and actually threw it in the toilet. He was also getting severe migraine headaches, on a regular basis. Finally his wife fished the book out of the toilet and dried it off and said maybe if he read the whole thing his headaches would go away.
One day after reading the book the pig farmer decided to sell his pig farm. The headaches immediately stopped. John Robbins received this information in a letter and didn’t hear from him for a while. Approximately a year later he received another letter that not only had the pig farmer sold his pig concentration camp, but he had bought a new farm and opened a pig petting zoo where children from all over the communities could come and learn about how smart pigs were and could pet and play with the pigs. The pigs had become his pets and no longer were locked up in cages. Needless to say, the pig farmer had never been happier or more at peace with himself.
Last Comments on Animals
Animals are our younger brothers. We are here to help them as they are here to help us. We can help them just as we can help a young child. We can help them evolve and become more spiritual. For example an unevolved dog would be one that is rabid and biting everyone. A more evolved dog is happy and loves and serves his master to the highest abilities.
Domestic animals usually take on the personality of their master. A vicious dog comes from a vicious owner. A dog owner who trains his animal to hunt and kill and be an attack dog is degrading the animal spiritually. Just the opposite should be occurring. We should be teaching our animals to be of the Christ consciousness and to realize our Godly nature to the fullest.
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