*Animal Reincarnation*


Q:  You've talked about animals being guides - could you talk about in what
sense they are guides?

B:  They are willing reflections of all the ideas you are exemplifying
within your different strata of consciousness upon your planet. They are
reflections of how you see yourself. Understand, for example, animals on
your planet are territorial because you are. Do you follow me?

Q:  Yes.

B:  They are always willing to act as a mirror for your emotionality.
Always with unconditional love and support for whatever you are willing to
do. They will die for you.

Q:  Is this true of insects as well as other animals?

B:  Yes. It is true of plants, minerals, everything. You and the life forms
you call cetacean, whale and dolphin, are the only two groups upon your
planet that are karmically reincarnated. All other life forms on your
planet are simply reincarnated, and exist in any life within conscious
knowingness, not within any idea of the process of analyzation or thought
or judgment or separation.

And to a great degree, the dolphins and the whales have not really chosen
to experience very much of this separation either.

Q:  Could you clarify how animals are reincarnated, as you have referred
to?

B:  Simply in the manner that you are reincarnated physically, it is simply
that they do not do it out of a sense of karma. They do it out of a sense
of the idea of attachment, of being a reflection, a loving reflection, of
whatever you need them to be here for.

Q:  Do their individual consciousnesses then reincarnate much as ours do,
only without this idea of karma?

B:  To some degree, yes, but it is more connected, in the sense that they
see themselves not only as individuals, but primarily as a series of
relationships to every other being in their reality. They see themselves
/as/ relationships to other things, more than as an individual.

Q:  What about pets, especially pet dogs and cats? Are they not more
individualistic than other kinds of animals?

B: They take on and reflect the individuality of those they are reflecting.
They themselves are not intrinsically more individualized. They are perfect
mirrors reflecting the individuals around whom they congregate.

Q:  How do pets feel about their bodies once their consciousness leaves -
once they die? Does it matter what we do with their bodies?

B:  No.

Q:  Well, we have such a tradition with humans.

B:  All right, but allow me to remind you that when you leave you physical
body you will not care either.

Q:  I thought not. So, why have a funeral?

B:  You can have whatever you wish. ( Audience laughter)

Q:  (Laughing) Okay. Well, I've been wondering about how we have this
tradition, and a lot of times these traditions do mean something more than
just a tradition.

B:  You may always implant symbolic interpretation into any tool or ritual.
It will be viewed quite differently from your non-physical perspective.

Q:  Right.

B:  It will not be judged, it will simply be viewed differently.

Q:  Aren't rituals very much for the people who are remaining alive?

B:  Yes.

Q:  That's what I thought, okay. Thank you.

B:   Thank you.