BLOG 107: NATURE, ANIMALS AND THE NEW AGE

19th Dec 2021 Week Before Christmas

A week doesn’t go by that there isn’t a video clip of extremely clever animals performing tricks, particularly the antics of dogs and cats.

More intriguing is the intelligence of some non domesticated animals. In particular, there is an old clip on social media of a young boy falling into a gorilla pen, lying unconscious, and the male gorilla coming to his aid, sheltering him from possible danger.

Or whales seeking assistance from humans when others have been caught in nets.

Or dolphins that interact in human behaviour: A dolphin mimicking a young lad doing cartwheels in an aquarium.

I am fortunate to be living in rural Australia, where the quiet of the country allows me to observe nature, unfettered from human intervention. Birds, especially our Cockatoos, Galahs, Budgerigars and the brilliantly mimicking Lyre Bird, are my fascination,

I would like to see any man made plane, jet or even drones, dart in and out of obstacles the way many bird species do through forests, trees and tight spaces.

Even the seemingly basic of species, the frog, has skills that I am sure most people are not aware of. There is one in my (out side) toilet that croaks to a pattern of five, silent, five, silent, four, silent and back to five. And repeats this all night long. Frogs can count?

Many people keep a variety of animals, from carnivores to herbivores. Some as pets and others they leave to their own nature, to run wild within certain perameters.

How many of us spend time, more than casual observations, to absorb the changes that domestic animals are going through?

As an example, I have seen some pretty savage dogs that have been trained to guard properties, work with police or are aggressive because they have been seriously mistreated. None of them compare to the wild dogs I have seen in traps and snares on rural properties over my many years in rural Australia. Their instincts are far more attuned to danger than are domesticated dogs, and unless observed.

I have two domesticated species of animals here at my rural property. Six laying hens and a Nubian Saanen wether goat.

The original seven laying hens, we Aussies call Chooks, were what was left after a neighbour’s dog pack wiped out their twenty four member family, over three separate attacks.

They were still quite young when the repeated domestic dog attack occurred and they needed to be handled, for delousing, physical check ups and self protection.

So I would visit their lockup every evening as they roosted, taking each one separately and handling them gently before returning them to their particular perch.

I also would approach them with a lot of talk, with similar patterns of speech, so that they became familiar with my approaching, knowing they were safe. I never tried to catch them of a day time, choosing the night visit, so that they were easy to handle.

This process has completely changed six startled hens (sadly, one died from the dog attack injures a few months ago) to the point where I am seen as their benefactor, especially when I fill their feed and clean their water trough.

Beau, the goat, originally came from my very good friends who were wanting to move on with their lives, and the goats were holding them back.

He (Beau) was quite the recluse from the time he was born. My friends had relayed the story of how he, as a very young kid, would disappear into the hollowed out root of a large tree until his mother called him for milk.

He had been free ranging, as had the rest of his goat family before he came here, and it was very obvious, from his timidness on his arrival, that some of my original plans had to be adjusted. I set about building a darkened annex to his shed, the next best thing to a hollowed out tree root, within the first few months of his arriving here.

I applied the same principle to Beau as I had for the Chooks (I previously had a small dairy heard so was very familiar with goats.) I used similar and repeated calls, regular feeding programming and gradual familiarising habits with him, and slowly got him used to being handled of an evening as he had his night treats.

Now, fourteen months after his arriving here, his original fears of any unfamiliar sounds, such as when I opened and closed the sliding door to my house, started up my tractor or started the ride on mower, have completely gone. In fact, as I’m writing this now, he is at that same sliding door chewing on a set of milk crates I use in the door way to prevent him coming inside.

And this leads me onto this week’s, rather long, Blog.

In the same way we have segregated people because they are different, we have segregated other animals because of their differences. And yes, we are all animals and all Creations of the Creator.

Does Beau or my chooks have a soul? Do animals generally have souls?

Yes, most definitely. In previous Blogs my Spirit Friends have used the example of a car and it’s driver to explain us humans and our souls. The car being the outer body, while the driver is the soul.

In the case of animals and their souls being different, it’s like having helicopters, planes, amphibious vehicles as a comparison for birds. Or forklifts, graders and pneumatic rollers as best examples for other species of animals. Trucks, semis, freight trains and cargo ships are obviously the best examples for other animals.

The soul (machine operator) has to devise different skills when it comes to different bodies (machines). From the soul perspective, just like the skills of those that drive a car, so too do these other creatures need skilled ‘drivers’ to journey them through their perspective lives.

There is no doubt that my goat is comparable to a combine harvester; feeding copious quantities of fodder in the front and discharging tiny pellets out the back, with the occasional fluid release when, and where, he feels like it.

So yes, animals do have souls, and they do have Spirit Friends who are no different to human Spirit Friends, except in their training and skills. It is all a part of Creation’s expansions.

As humans have evolved, so have they encouraged the evolution of all creatures, wild and domestic. The wild animals around my place here, such as the possums, kangaroos now rely on pasture improvement and so are less fearful of human activity than previously.

As we move into this more friendly Aquarian Age, so too will communication between all species of animal, be it human or other, bring about a very strong bond as we grow together.

Carnivores will still need to devour herbivores, and herbivores will still need to devour vegetation in it’s varying form.

However, as humans have found ways to ‘humanely’ kill cattle for human consumption, so will nature continue to find ways to prevent pain and injury to other creatures.

The ‘dog eat dog’ mentality of the past three Ages, where species killed to survive, will slowly evolve into a less fearful approach to life, bringing with it a much higher evolution in all species of life on this planet Creation has given us all to share.

I will be taking a break until early January, unless my Spirit Friends have other ideas.

So, may each and every one of you, your families, your friends and your animal mates,

HAVE A SAFE AND JOYOUS CHRISTMAS

AND A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR

PETE

Email: petesyc@gmail.com

For an excellent take on this new Aquarian Age from a professional Astrologer’s perspective, I highly recommend you visit my friend Leo Knighton Tallarico:

https://spiritualtherapy.wpcomstaging.com/.