04-04-2015, 01:44 PM
(04-03-2015, 06:28 PM)Monica Wrote: This thread is all about point of view. Would anyone be interested in discussing higher 2D consciousness, from the point of view of the entities, rather than from the point of view of those who objectify them as mere 'lower' beings or things to be used/killed as we wish?
Getting back on-topic, they are mind-body complexes. What do we know about their minds? Their thoughts? Their ability to learn? Their ability to feel emotions? What does this tell us about their consciousness?
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That's a great poem by Shel Silverstein. I remember the first time I read The Giving Tree. I was in a book store and I bawled my eyes out.
It is always a difficult time for me at Thanksgiving thinking of how many turkeys are slaughtered. It's not that I spend my days depressed over things like this. I make the effort every day to embrace and project better feelings than that. But sometimes it is challenging.
I still use the visualization Icaro came up with for the horses I see when I'm on the road. (There are so many horses kept where I live, forced to exist in bleak circumstances.)
It is very obvious to me, and I would think to anyone who would actually look, that though animals operate most of the time from instinct, they have higher emotions too. I see this even in javelina, who don't seem as "bright" as the deer who visit my property.
When observing the same animals over a time, you will see different personalities. This is most evident in the deer herd I am friends with. They all have names and are all very different. One of them, Sweetie, has shown up at my property three times, out of the blue and at a time when the deer herd is elsewhere for months, when I was very upset and down. Her presence was like an angel showing up. She wasn't hungry those times so it wasn't for food. I would walk into the kitchen and see her looking in through the French window. So I have a notion that animals can be very connected to humans, even wild animals, and even respond to that connection in some telepathic way.
Certainly our pets have feelings such as devotion, love, hurt feelings, etc. If they do, then don't all animals have that potential? Ra says they do because of interaction with us. But Ra also says it can develop on its own though it takes longer.
I can also say that I feel a connection to plants I tend. It feels different to me though, than the connection I have to the animals. The lives of plants are very different than ours, so perhaps this why it is more difficult to apprehend their consciousness in a clear way.