Once upon a time, the creative force of love hovered over the chaos of the universe and said, “Let there be life”. And the universe shuttered and heaved, rocked and rolled and Life was born. Life came in many forms and many varieties, but all life was intelligent, beautiful and good. Life took up space in the universe and all Life lived in unison with each other, the four legged, the two legged, those who could fly, those who slithered across the land, from humanoid to insectoid, all Life was in communion. All of Life could speak with each other in the spirit, from the heart. There was no hierarchy of Life. All was one and all was good. Then something entered the heart of the humanoid and he began to feel he was above the other forms of life. Since he walked on two legs and since his intellectual and creative processes seemed to him to be different from other Life, he saw it as better and claimed dominion over all he could see. Then the Creative Force of Love said “Oh no. This is not good. This is not as I had hoped. Now Life will be divided and no longer in communion. Now many forms and varieties of Life will not be able to commune freely with the humanoid form. But there will always be some humans who remember….who attempt to re-member the union of all Life. Hopefully these will grow in number and teach those who have forgotten. And their number will continue to grow and I will be with them, until all of Life re-members and we have communion again.” This is my Genesis, my story of creation, the Garden of Eden, the Fall from Grace, the Tower of Babel and the origin of our separation from the rest of creation. This is why for so long so few could “talk with the animals”. But it seems that we are now in a time of re-membering. We have a chance to bring the communion of Life back into being for all. We also have the chance to destroy it all forever. That is our choice in this time. I for one will choose Life and have been blessed over the last 15 years with a chance to re-member how to hear our fellow beings on this earth through what is usually called “Animal Communication” or “Interspecies Communication”. There have always been those who remained open and could hear the animal/insect world. Who could hear the trees and grasses sing. There have always been the stories and spirituality of so many indigenous peoples all over the globe of communion with the animal spirits and family, of the unity of Life. And within the “major” religions of the world, there have always been those same beliefs, even if they are pushed to the edges of those religions/spiritualities. Buddha forbade his followers to cause any harm to other life forms, forbade them to eat animals or cause them suffering in any way. Jesus proclaimed “the rocks and stones themselves will start to sing.” Within my own Judeo-Christian tradition we find Francis of Assisi communion telepathically with the animals and discussing spirituality and preaching to them. Teihard de Charden, a major Catholic theologian, wrote often of the communion of all life and the sacredness of what humans considered “profane”. He believed that animate and inanimate things all had souls, all had spirits, all were a part of the communion if we would only re-member it.  |
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CategoriesA Genesis Story - unity of creationAnimal Communication and Mainstream Religion Ethics Learning Animal Communication Origins
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