Purpose of Animals
Let's talk about your friends and loved ones, the animals. They are complex creatures, some of them. Others are quite simple. Gaia is the consciousness of the Earth. As humans have physical bodies, the Earth is my body. As humans have physical partners to assist them in their spiritual and physical journeys, Gaia has the Sun and Moon. The other planets are like siblings who provide influence from afar. Gaia grieves the demise of one of her Moons in eons past. She has seen much upheaval and change during her long lifetime. She has let each phase come and go as her body is the playing board for numerous "games" by different creative entities.
First, she was the setting for games played by the creators who seeded and cultivated her atmosphere, waters, continents, and plants until the setting was stable enough to introduce animals and , later, humans, to the mix. The planet is a wonder of creativity and innovation. Many of the plants and animals that grace her surface, sub-surface, and skies were borrowed from other planets of similar atmosphere. Some flourished, some adapted and changed, and some could not sustain themselves. Other plants and animals are uniquely Earth's. She is proud that she has been a host to these, for the entire Universe benefits from their addition to the gene pool.
Whereas many planets have experienced the demise of their vegetation and human gene-pool, she has not yet reached that point, although the day may yet come. Nonetheless, she has nurtured and cultivated a strong human gene-pool. She has brought together the four major seed-pools: Yellow/Oriental, Black, Red/Indian, and White races. Although each group was seeded from different planets and grew strong in their own right, the current mixing of races will result in an even stronger and more versatile gene pool. This has been carefully watched and tended by the Council and groups who worked to seed this planet in order to strengthen the galactic gene pool.
You have come here today, asking questions about the animals, for which you have a deep and abiding love and respect. You know, intuitively, there you do not have a clear picture of these beings. They are a complex conundrum to you. Some seem extraordinary; others seem rather one-dimensional. You need a philosophy or structure that makes sense of it all. Very well, then, let us discuss the magnificent animals that grace the planet's surface, subsurface, waters, and air.
There is a structure to the animal kingdom. Animals have a different energy, depending upon whether they are creatures of the land, air or sea. Each has its own frequency of energy that it holds in the natural world. Each of the four frequency families acts somewhat like a musical octave; it denotes an energy family. The land animals hold the bass notes for the planet, the sea animals the tenor notes. The air animals are our mezzo-sopranos, and the unseen (multi-dimensional) realms are the sopranos. Their are some animal forms which are not recognized as such. Water, for instance, shares characteristics of both the mineral and animal kingdoms. All water has a basic level of consciousness, as do the minerals and small-cell animals. But some water that has a greater level of consciousness, and it belongs more in the "unseen" kingdom -- that of multidimensional energy -- with orbs and other forms which are unseen and largely pure energy.
All of the animal kingdoms are orchestrated by different spiritual managers. Gaia is the consciousness of the plant, All who reside are under her domain on the physical level. Each of the four groups have their own manager. Humans have their own structure, but their physical bodies are within her sphere of authority, regardless of their spiritual level or prowess. While they are in bodies, their bodies are entrusted to the Earth's care and management.
You have been searching for the oversoul of all animal life on the planet. It is Gaia. She works through her caretakers, but she is the ultimate one that sees how everything fits together. She nurtures all the planetary occupants, and they in turn nurture her. Well, some more than others.
The Christ Oversoul sees to the needs of the planet's human population. It works with Gaia to orchestrate a dance more complex than any computer could ever calculate. They deal constantly with probabilities and work to set up situations for the betterment of us all. The angels and individual people's guides assist us in this endeavor, to put people at the right place at the right time to experience that which they wish to create. What sometimes looks like a horrible catastrophe nonetheless often has calculated to cause the maximum soul growth by both the participants and those left behind.
The animals are managed by a part of Gaia's spirit which has subdivided or individuated for this purpose. Some people have referred to this aspect as Pan or Mother Earth. Gaia thinks of this as her Shepherdess energy. It is this aspect of Gaia that takes care of the animals and sees to their care and growth. The Shepherdess is simply a splinter of Gaia, dedicated to this charge. She works sometimes at the mercy of the Sun, Moon, and planetary weather, but she seeks to support the animal kingdoms as much as she can, for they are the ones who nurture the planet by their presence and maintenance of the ecosystem. They are finding their task harder and harder to achieve as the balance is more and more disturbed by the human element. But they are spirits of good intention and great affection for Gaia, who favors them as much as she can.
Each of the four realms (land, sea, air, and multi-dimensional) has its own rules and its own management system of sorts. Gaia is more like the detached overseer who allows her creations to seek their own balance. When the balance no longer serves, it shifts of its own accord. She maintains detached until the balance is so extreme that the Earth's survival depends upon her interference. Her management tools are few: water, fire, volcanoes, earthquake, wind. Although she alone does not control the weather, her consciousness works with human consciousness to affect the weather. She tries to leave that as much as possible to the planet's human consciousness. Humans affect the weather both ways: for maintenance of the usual pattern and for a change to make a new balance. You all have a part in that.
Where there is hopeless imbalance, be sure that flood, wildfire, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and destruction will follow. The only way Gaia can really affect that which lives on and within my physical structure is to move her own energy, which humans experience as a change in water, fire, volcanoes, earthquake, and wind. When she stimulates these energies, humans often find their environment so affected that those in the area must start anew. She has faith that the humans' new beginning will be a better work than what was destroyed.
But your interest is in animals, so let us talk about their spiritual evolution.
Wild: The wild animals serve the planet and they choose to serve in this capacity only. They have consciousness capable of loving their young, and helping each other. Some of these animals are more capable of these characteristics than others. Some live only to fulfill their place in the eco-system. They derive joy from their existence, short though it might be. Theirs is the basic pleasure of fulfilling their purpose, and little else. These creatures respond to their instincts and cellular programming. Each animal, insect, and bacteria is a different frequency. Each frequency corresponds to a different purpose in the ecosystem. The frequency of plants correspond to different emotions, so that they may positively bring emotional balance to the world.
Each animal embodies different and complex characteristics that bring balance to the structure as a whole. For example, while many animals individuate, the bees do not. They are tuned into the hive mentality, hive consciousness. They have little individual memory or individuation. They exist as a member of the hive, not an individual. A bee on its own is unable to function and soon dies. There are others that function almost exclusively as animals alone, with no group or mate. Animals such as the mountain lion is a largely singular animal that does not stay with its mate or its kind. A mother will raise her kits and release them when they are grown with no regrets. The bees and the mountain lions balance each other in a way. So the animals balance each other to maintain an ecosystem that, when properly working, balances the world. But the humans have upset the balance everywhere they live, with few exceptions. In many ways, the animals have adapted, and a new balance of sorts is achieved, but it is never as pure or complete as what the new system replaced. Invariably, the full spectrum of frequencies are not as well represented in the new balance as in the old.
Individualization: Some animals individuate beyond their basic nature. Animals that interact with humans often begin to individuate in a new way. Some choose to serve the emotional and physical needs of the humans they interact with. Others choose to observe the humans, learning from them without participating in the human conflict. Others are here working in partnership with specific humans that have chosen to work together. Still other animals are here in service to the planet in ways that we hope will influence the humans in a way that will help return to planet into a better balance. Most wild animals have a very basic level of consciousness, which is normally focused on survival and propagation of the species.
Observers: There are times when a singular animal individuates somehow to the point that it is interested in the human species. This is the result of a human encounter that has in some way challenged the animal or made it want to learn more about the human species. These animals will work with Oversoul of that species to incarnate in a place or body that gives that animal an opportunity to watch the humans without interacting with them much. They may be city sparrows, barn owls, feral cats, or elephants on a reserve. They are in a position to learn about humans without being too involved with them. These animals understand that humans are of a somewhat higher consciousness and want to learn about this process. So they watch and learn. Perhaps they eventually decide to become more involved with humans. It is a path that can lead to consciousness growth for these animals as an individual.
Ambassadors: For example, the animals in a human zoo have chosen to sacrifice their natural roles in nature. They choose to act as ambassadors of their species which instruct humans on the beauty, grace, and uniqueness of the natural world. They work to teach the humans how their choices have influenced the natural environment. They especially enjoy their roles in educating children, in hope that they will learn to care about their world and fellow (animal) inhabitants. These efforts may help stimulate children to extend their awareness beyond their own home to the remainder of the planet, its inhabitants, and its environment. Thus zoo animals are acting in ways that they hope will inspire future generations to return balance to the planet. These brave animals have chosen a life of sacrifice and unnatural confinement in service to the planet.
Pets: There is a wide spectrum of consciousness in human companion animals, also known as pets. Some may simply be advanced observers. They can bond with humans, and in so doing advance their consciousness. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, and an animal that is loved advances in consciousness far more quickly than the detached observer. Animals that live with humans learn emotions that are more complex than what they may learn in the wild. The biological origins of love a wild animal has for its young is different than the bonding origins of love that an animal may develop with its human caretaker. These animals also learn emotions such as abandonment, disappointment, loneliness, and worry that they may never experience as simple wild beings. There is the potential for great love and dedication in living with humans, but also the potential for great hurt and confusion. All of these are opportunities for growth, similar to those that humans can experience, life after life.
Soul: Some animals, through individuation and reincarnation many times, grow to a point that they have spiritually evolved as far as they can go. Consciously advanced animals usually incarnate time after time with a specific individual or group of individuals with which they have a developed a partnership. The love bond works powerfully in these partnerships to support the consciousness growth for them both.
After lifetimes of partnership, the animals reach a level where they can no longer evolve their consciousness; they have reached the limits of the animal kingdom. Sometimes the partnership bond has grown so deeply that the pair changes the animal forever. Before incarnating into flesh, at the spiritual level where a given lifetime is planned, the human partner breathes a spark of his own soul into the consciousness of his animal partners. The animal's consciousness elevates to a higher level, which humans often characterize as having "soul." (more of this is found in Spiritual Path of Animals)
Animals which have progressed to this level dedicate their work generally in partnership with their human counterparts. Often, they chose a life of service to all. Remember the temple cats and dogs of ancient Egypt. They were conscious healers assisting the temple priests and priestesses; they were not simply the pawns as portrayed in human history. The temple cats and dogs maintained the calm, serenity, compassion, and love necessary to be instruments of healing and service to the human population.
The management of these animals transcends their species Oversoul. Their work is coordinated as an adjunct to the human's work, and planning is generally handled by the human partner's higher self and soul rather than the animal species' Oversoul. Sometimes, planning for the animal's incarnation will be handled by other beings in Spirit, but once the soul-level of consciousness has been achieved, animals leave the planning/incarnation cycle of the animal kingdoms.
