The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (25 page)

It’s no wonder, then, that immersed in the illusions as you are, when you see your young companion’s life slip away you feel devastation, grief, and a profound sense of loss. God has come and gone from your life, or so it would seem. Yet losses are only devastating when you think they’re permanent. They never are. Your loved ones, furry and otherwise, are here. As happy as they have ever been. And you will be together again, only to fall even deeper in love. Nothing has been lost, only gained, you will see—and this, too, the “dead” long to tell you.

A
NIMAL
C
ONSCIOUSNESS

The main difference between animal consciousness and your own is that animals don’t possess your self-reflective abilities. They’re not as aware of themselves as you are of yourself, which is why they’re generally nonexpectant and nonjudgmental. Which, in turn, means they’re completely unconcerned with the past and the future, and this in turn allows them to focus almost exclusively in the present. Their instincts alone are sufficient to guide them into the wisest behavior to ensure their survival. Otherwise, they love, fear, trust, resent, guard, discard, protect, envy, obey, and genuinely feel many of the very same emotions you feel, for the very same reasons you feel them—although usually in healthier, more immediate doses.

Yet for all their focus in the moment, they’re not Creators as people are; their thoughts do not become things. They are reactors to the world, not projectors of it. They’re also pure God, of God, by God, yet they exist:

1. To perceive, experience, and revel in life’s magic and
   
2. To create new dimensions of learning for those who do have self-reflective abilities—like you.
   

They achieve this by creatively living in the moment, following impulses, urges, and their innate desire to play and explore. Additionally, their mere presence makes the world more interesting, diverse, fun, and interactive for the self-reflectors while balancing ecosystems, adding to the believability of time and space, and helping self-reflectors not self-reflect too much.

Generally, animal consciousness
not
touched by a relationship with a self-reflector does not reincarnate, as these animals don’t have any forward-leaning vision and thus no unfinished business. They do not, however, cease to exist, dissolving back into the Divine. Remember, that could only happen if time were absolute. Time is an illusion. In ways you cannot comprehend from within it, once any being or God particle exists, it does so eternally in an ever-evolving “now.”

P
ET
C
ONSCIOUSNESS

Pet consciousness is like animal consciousness—pure God, “alive” and responding to everything—yet is changed by the personality and love of the pet’s owner.

Animals absorb and react to the energy of those they live with. Expectations are mildly aroused, sufficient to change their spiritual evolution. Plus, the projection of human qualities upon them by their owners
instills such qualities.
And as reactors, they mirror the energies they receive. Richer personalities thus develop, and they become forward-seeing, not as self-reflectors but able to continue exploring and expanding at new levels.

In any household with pets, the animals rise to meet the expectations imposed upon them (for example, to behave or misbehave, to nurture or protect) while also reflecting the patience, compassion, exuberance, anger, openness, and shyness of those around them. Owners can always find “themselves” in their pets.

Loved pets not only evolve in an eternal “now” like all animals, but the personalities they develop create will, intention, and desire sufficient to generate unfinished business and a return to a subsequent time and space incarnation, whether with the same owners or new ones. The choice of whom to return with is left to all involved.

W
HO
R
ESCUED
W
HOM

As with all time-space connections, there’s always groundwork that comes first. A commingling of thoughts, expectations, and desires (aka beliefs or vibe) in the unseen—including the animal’s—precedes any physical-world circumstances that lead to meet-ups. And like all manifestations, this is exactly how you came to meet and adopt your furry friends, assuming you have such, or perhaps how they came to meet and adopt you.

Whether first-time connections or the continuation of unfinished business, serendipities lead to “accidents and coincidences” that enable the most authentic, spontaneous, and believably real events to transpire, bringing together the loving parties.

Like attracts like. Thoughts, people, animals, pets. And given that there are always multiple choices and probabilities in your world of illusions for the manifestation to answer every need, that you “found” who you “found” and that they “found” you has deep meaning and occurs with flawless precision. The world would not and could not have proceeded even one more day on the path it was on until each of you was present for the other, to be shaped by each other’s love, to learn by each other’s example, to teach, to laugh, and to heal.

P
LANT
C
ONSCIOUSNESS

You’re going to ask, so yeah, plants have consciousness. Not like the living or the “dead” or animals or pets, yet they’re aware, they’re intelligent, and they yearn to expand. They’re simple. They’re joyful. They are pure God. And they
respond
to their environment—to sunlight, water, birds, bees, and all other forms of consciousness that share their time and space. They especially respond to your expectations and feelings, far more than they do to your voice. Speak to your plants expecting them to positively respond and they will, not because you spoke to them but because of the energy, intentions, and expectations that sent your words forth.

Like animals and pets, plants understand that their existence is paramount to the survival of life—for everything to exist within the jungles—and to the earth herself. They know that to exist is to serve. Yet surviving is not their goal; it’s just a first step. Thriving is the goal for every form and expression of life. When one species thrives, growing healthy and strong, all are aided. And all life senses this, with the exception of most humans, given the early stage of human development.

Ours is the species that can most affect other species.

Yet while there’s a universal recognition of the symbiosis at play in time and space in which each particle, cell, or species is serving the greater good of the whole through its mere existence, all understand and honor their sacred, irreplaceable individuality. They understand that it’s their unique expression as much as their contribution to the whole that adds to and expands the very definition of All That Is—the very reason for their being.

D
OLPHINS AND
W
HALES

More than pets, loved by humans or not, there are other species on earth with such profound intellectual, emotional, and self-reflective abilities that the variety of adventures and discoveries that are possible for them can’t be contained in one mere lifetime. So in the same way humans reincarnate (which was kind of, sort of), so do dolphins, whales, and very likely other species.

In this passage, the dead would love to be more precise, but they’re only dead; they’re not all-knowing. Perhaps one day
The Top Ten Things All-Knowing Beings Want to Tell YOU
will be written,
yet you’d hardly need to read it to begin immediately respecting and revering all life,
reincarnational or otherwise. Besides, apart from it being a fascinating question, it doesn’t matter whether or not elephants, octopuses, or ravens reincarnate. What matters is your life now. Your challenges, your discoveries, your thriving, all of which you’re most capable of without further animal studies. The life of every creature, each being of and for God, is obviously known and understood by God, serving its purpose, fulfilling its role. And when it’s relevant, no doubt you will share in this knowing.

As for dolphins and whales, as with humans, some are baby souls while others are experienced and wiser. Some have found that love and compassion are the only choices that will achieve lasting joy and fulfillment, and others are still finding their way through experimentations in anger and other shortsighted behaviors. They communicate as much telepathically (as do thousands of the earth’s species, unbeknownst to you) as they do audibly and behaviorally. Expression, cooperation, and service could be named as their ultimate reasons for being, just as they could for you, with each equally important, although patience, tolerance, and other lessons are theirs as well.

They are love-beings, as you are a love-being. Unlike plants, other sanimals, and pets, however, they have creative will, intentions, and time-forward vision, all of which radically increases future possibilities and probabilities for their spiritual evolution. They are truly your brothers from different mothers, fully fledged God particles, Mini-Me’s of the Divine.

D
OMINION OVER
A
LL
T
HINGS

By the way, “dominion over all things,” as is quoted from the Bible so often throughout much of the world, has been grossly misinterpreted to mean “power over all things” or “do whatever you want to all things.” As most holy books’ original meanings have been lost in translation, this phrase has been misused to such a degree that many casually believe that the very reason fowl, cattle, and fish exist is for you to eat them.

You may do so. You have free will. You have the ability. You will not be judged either way. But just because you
can
do something doesn’t mean you’re
supposed
to do it.

Again, with great power comes great responsibility. Being the only (known) land-dwelling species on the planet bestowed with time-forward thinking and thumbs, humans are the species that can most affect other species. We, therefore, have
the greatest responsibility over all things.
As we’ve multiplied into the billions, our presence is so monumentally sweeping that we have no choice but to consider other species when we make decisions that will affect them. We have, therefore, unintentionally become the de facto
guardian over all things,
including our precious planet herself. We’re beginning to clearly see the power we have over our environment, food supplies, and natural resources, and as the pendulum swings it’s now within our reach to see our responsibilities as well. Again, this awakening is what the 2012 buzz was all about: acceptance of, versus resistance to, our stewardship role,
individually and collectively.

By the way, since dominion over “all things,” which would obviously include trees, boulders, and hillsides, clearly does not mean eating “all things,” why do you think it might mean this for the animals? Because they’re edible? So are bugs, grass, and people. Because your ancestors ate them? They were mostly baby souls. Because you breed and sustain them? You do that for your children. Plus, aren’t there many obvious reasons for the existence of animals other than your nourishment? Aren’t there obvious resource costs and sacrifices associated with converting them into food, financially and environmentally, that do not present themselves when growing a nonanimal diet? And isn’t there an enormous diversity of other foods that have long been scientifically proven to be equally nourishing?

You may have already surmised by now that the animals in question knew the probabilities for their being consumed as food that they were getting themselves into. Indeed they did. But so do
people
know the probabilities of possible violations before choosing a lifetime, and they choose to come anyway, which by no means excuses any violations that may later follow.

If you’re curious, the solution that seems most fitting to resolve an “omnivore’s dilemma” is to ask yourself before any meal, “Are the meat options before me necessary for my
survival
or just more convenient than other foods?” No doubt, if you find yourself starving to death, even the animals you eat would celebrate that their life might extend yours. Otherwise, however, you might reconsider your options to be more win-win for the other species that equally crave the experience called “life on earth.”

A
LIEN
C
ONSCIOUSNESS

Yes, from other planets. They’re real. Some of us are their descendants; some of them are our descendants. The lines of origin are blurry and unimportant. Besides, any objective definitions of source depend on the “lies” of time and space, so to debate which came first, the chicken or the egg, is always futile.

Simply know: you are not alone, you live in a loving Universe, nothing is by chance, everyone is doing their best (as they then define it), thoughtful cooperation is essential whenever two or more share “space” (which would then always be of their co-creation), and accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately discovering your power, individually, collectively, and “intergalactically.”

M
OTHER
E
ARTH

A big rock? A figment of your imagination? Both. But then, both rocks and imagination are more than you’ve ever thought they might be.

To cut to the chase, earth also has a consciousness. That you think of it, talk to it, have expectations of it,
adds
to its consciousness. Yet it was living and breathing long “before” you physically appeared—although, significantly, so that you
could
physically appear.

Think of your own body. What’s it made of? Whirling electrons and protons, atoms, molecules, and chemical collections; tissues, bones, and organs; extremities, torso, and head. Then ask yourself where “you” reside within this masterpiece. Does the conscious, thinking you live in the head? Somewhere in the brain—left lobe, right lobe? The heart or the solar plexus?