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Originally Posted by BigJohn
An interesting aspect of being re-born in Buddhism is that Western Buddhist typically believe animals can not be re-borned as people. In this inderstanding, animals can be re-borned but there is no hope for them to become human and then finally be able to reach nirvana.
This also applies to plants, minerals, etc. Jains believe you can be reborn as a plant, but virtually all Buddhists do not believe so. Buddha claimed he had lives as animals but Western Buddhists claim those accounts are not true but only analogies. Hindus also believe you can come back as an animal, plant and mineral.
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Comparing several teachings, you can observe variations about their idea about reincarnation.
In the Law of One by Ra animals are 2nd density and will at a certain stage of evolution, incarnate in humans. I've heard Djwahl Khul teaches something similar except there are cosmic cycles when the "door is closed" and we're actually in a time frame when animals don't reincarnate as humans.
The Law of One teaches it has happened in history (a very long time ago) for human to come back in animal, a kind of monkeys. But it is only because those humans did evolved very badly and it's not normal.
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