[Spiritmessenger]

Question
Is the group's soul situated on the animal planes?

Answer
I have one great advantage over you. I do not have to learn lessons in geography. We have no situations. Space is boundless and spiritual conditions do not occupy space. Were thinking in terms of physical location and spirit does not require habitation, unless it is too as assume form. But a group soul requires no form. When it does, then it has to have a mode of manifestation and a place where that mode is manifested.

Question
Do pet animals visit the spirit world and sleep?

Answer
No.

Are they not familiar with it when they pass?

Answer
No. When in your sleep state you come to our world you do so because you have your guides to take you by the hand. But none can do that for the animal except the one it knows, and that one is still in the world of matter.

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Suppose that one had passed on?

Answer
That is a little different, but I speak generally.

Question
Why are animals, particularly cats and dogs, often more psychic than human beings?

Answer
Because all though they have not as yet, as far as evolution goes, reached the stage where they become humans, they have not had to face "civilised" life that human beings do. If the human had not had the benefits of what you call "civilisation" then before now he would have reached the stage where the exercise of psychic qualities was part of his normal life. He has sacrificed that for his civilisation. The animal, not faced with the economic problems, with the sociological problems that affect human beings, has continued in the evolutionary line to the stage that humans should have reached, but have not, and therefore is in possession of those psychic qualities which humans have, but often repress, because of the material life they have to lead. Then again, those whom you call mediums are the precursors of the evolutionary line. They are exhibiting to day what will be natural tomorrow.

Question
Animals have what is called a sixth sense... they have premonitions and the ability to find their way over unknown territory. Is that a psychic quality?

Answer
Yes, that is what mediums can do. But sometimes it is a quality of the species because; there again, you get a precursor of evolution manifest in one quality, like the pigeon, which has developed the one quality of finding its way home. It is called instinct, but it is really a form of lucidity. They are qualities, which are precursors to the line of evolution.

Question
Sometimes when a medium describes a "dead" animal, it is accompanied by another one. Does one animal help the other to return?

Answer
No, unless there was an association between the two animals already in your earthly world.

Is it always a human spirit who helps them?
Yes, because the higher helps the lower always. In is the law.

Question
What sort of animals are on the animal plane?

Answer
All those animals which were your pets, which you thought to be almost your equals, which you endowed with affection, with love, and stimulated their reason and the ability to think. Rather than that they should be lonely, disconsolate, lost without the one to whom they were attached, they come to this plane where they mingle with other animals and receive the special care of those who, have devoted their lives to the study of animals, are able to minister to them and to give them the kindness which is their natural expression. In this world they find all the things that will delight animals, all the pursuits of enjoyment that prevent them from fretting. And occasionally they are brought within the radius of the home, so that they can still feel the affection of the ones from whom they are part for a while. That is why so many sometimes see or hear the dog or the cat, even though they do not possess knowledge of spiritualism. They only know that there is a sense, or feeling, that the dog is there. And other animals always see them because of their higher psychic qualities.

Question
Do the people who work on the animal plane bring them back?

Answer
It is the ones who minister to them on the animal plane who bring them back because they would not come back with any body else. And do you know who are the ones who minister to them? Those who were passionately devoted to animals and never had the opportunity of befriending them, just is in our world the children who pass before their parents are cared for by those who had strong maternal instincts, which were never satisfied. Dogs and the cats and all the pets are cared for by those who were devoted to them and did not have the means of lavishing their devotion upon them. Of course, they are aided by those who have specialised knowledge of animals, which is always used in our world. Knowledge is never wasted.

Question
If an animal is ill when it passes over, does it get nursed, as human beings do?

Answer
Yes, because there are many in our world who are glad to have the opportunity.

Are there different sections, or do the animals mingle?
No, the boundaries are fixed.
Though it is one animal plain, has it different boundaries?
Yes. It is very natural. It is not like a huge pen.
Are cat separated from the dogs?
Yes, they are.
Except the friendly ones, and I suppose they are near the boundaries?
Yes, it is all very natural.
Which is next in the line of animal evolution after the dog - the cat or the monkey?
The cat.
Why not the monkey, considering he is so much like us?
Evolution, as I have tried to explain, is not in a straight line. There are always pre-cursors and retrograde. Whilst man has developed in his line of evolution from the monkey, that pace has not been maintained and the dog has passed the monkey stage, largely because man has conferred friendship on the dog.

Did the monkey break the law?
They did not break the law, but they fail to live up to what they could have done.

Is it possible that in the future the dog will slip backwards?
No, I do not think so, because now, after all these millions of years, the species have become defined. The pattern has become almost standardised and the chances of physical evolution are diminishing. You must remember that there is a limit to physical evolution, in the sense that there can be changes in form, but not in the essential pattern there can be various but not complete changes. For example, take your physical body. You will not outgrow, for generations, this form, this shape- the two arms, two eyes, one nose, two legs. That pattern has now becomes fairly standardised. There will be variations according to race and country, but not changes in the pattern. This is more so in regard to the animals, so that there will be an emergence of the group spirit in the animal world but not so much in the physical world.

Would the slipping back of the monkey be the result of free will?
No, because it is a condition that affects the whole group.

How could the group will decide if it had no individual consciousness?
There is a difference between the behavior of animals according to their instincts and also lack of instincts. Even in animals, where there is no individual reasoning ability, there is a power either for Labour or for our idleness. It can respond, or failed to respond. It can sharpen up or awaken the instincts of the group. And, though it has no individual judgment, there can be, in the line of evolution, epochs where the whole species is failing to respond to what it is capable of doing.

Question
How do you view the ever-increasing practice of experiments on living animals, often causing terrible painter helpless creatures? Many people on this side are striving to get this unholy thing stopped. Is there any help in any way from the spirit world?

Answer
All those who desire to serve at once bring to their aid those in my world who were inspired and sustain and bring them the power of the spirit to aid the work that they seek to do. It is wrong to administer pain to any of the creatures of the great spirit, but you must remember that there are many who do it in ignorance, not realising the pain that they inflict, only possessed with motives to help their fellow men. But they are still breaking the law.

Question
But if, as we are often told, only the motive counts, will these people who inflict pain in what they conceived to be service to their fellow men have to pay the penalty for breaking the law?

Answer
The motives may be good, but the principle is unaltered. If one deliberately inflicts pain, knowing it will hurt, that means that the one who does it is conscious of his responsibility. His motives, of course, are good, but he has inflicted pain. All these factors are taken into account, I cannot agree with the practice of inflicting pain.

Are animals sent to earth to help mankind?
Yes. And mankind is sent to help them.
But the sole purpose of the animal creation is not to be of use to man.
No, that is only part of the work.

Do you believe that vivisection can be right when it is undertaken with a good motive?
No. How can that which is cruel be right? How can that which causes pain, which inflicts torture, be right? It is contrary to all we teach. It is wrong to experiment on those who are not capable of resisting.

Do you agree that no cure for cancer will ever be found by that method?
Your world cannot produce remedies for the diseases, which it has created by living contrary to the laws of the Great Spirit. There will be found remedies for all your diseases, but they will not be found by experiments on animals.

Why does not the spirit world interfere when it sees so many appalling atrocities committed on animals?
Because the Universe is ruled by natural laws.

At the end of these questions the guide made this comment:
"Just as animals strive to serve us with devotion, let us always tried to serve others with equal devotion, with equal faithfulness, for it is all part of the divine love restlessly stirring which seeks to find expression everywhere. In a world that is so full of hatred and anger and jealousy, rage and fierce passion, it is increasingly necessary for divine love to be made manifest."

Love light and blessings to all
Spiritmessenger