BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by Stuart Wilde in an article THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS
"We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. We can’t see in the dark and we can’t fly except crammed in a noisy tube like sardines, which doesn’t count. Humans compared to animals are almost totally deaf, and we can’t smell a fart in an elevator by their standards.
We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities.
The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally."
Stuart Wilde, in an article entitled "The Spiritual Evolution of Animals"
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We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities.
The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally."
Stuart Wilde, in an article entitled "The Spiritual Evolution of Animals"
For more information regarding Stuart Wilde and his work, visit his blog.
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This article is wonderful. People need to be more aware of animals and their importance to humanity. We can not assume that animals are any less important to God than we are. I once had two cats who just happened to have litters at nearly the same time. One of the new mothers abandoned her litter. I thought that they would all perish but to my surprise and delight the other mother adopted the abandoned litter and raised them as her own. Look at that which animals can teach us if we just pay attention, patience, humility, respect, love, compassion among other things. What do you want to learn today?
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