The Brilliance of the Universe:
How Animal and Human Lessons Intertwine©
Self-Mastery Exercise # 23: Experience the Brilliance in Nature
By Sharmai Amber with Keith Amber
Excerpt taken from Steps to Enlightenment ©
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We read an article one day about a lady who had been repeatedly bitten by several pit bulls. Not a pretty thought. In the article, the devastated daughter declared that her mother, who was 60 years old when at the time of the incident, had been an angel all her life. The daughter couldn't understand why such a horrible thing would happen to such a wonderful person. The story intrigued us because we know the universe doesn't make mistakes. What was the lesson embedded in this experience?
Keith psychically tuned in, and discovered that the bitten woman had a pertinent past life that was influencing this experience. In that past life, the woman owned a donkey that she used to pull her cart. She had been very cruel to her loyal donkey, whipping it mercilessly. The donkey had suffered greatly. And while the donkey had somehow earned that treatment karmically, it did not excuse the woman's cruel behavior. The woman had accumulated a great deal of negative karma for her behavior.
In this life, to balance the excessive cruelty of the past life, she was excessively kind. Her kindness began to pay the karmic debt by learning how to respect others. However, it was not enough to pay her debt to the donkey. She had a significant way to go yet.
In the neighborhood where she lived, there had been problems with the pit bulls that lived a couple doors down. They were vicious animals and the owners did not keep them contained. The pit bulls often terrorized the neighborhood. Their owners needed to learn responsibility and accountability. To facilitate that lesson, the spirit guides of the pit bull owners went in search of a neighbor with the appropriate karma to be hurt by the pit bulls. The soul of the 60 year old woman volunteered. The agreement stated that the 60 year old woman, who still owed karma to the animal world for her cruelty to her donkey, would pay her karma in five intense, horrible minutes of cruelty by being bitten by these dogs. This experience would clear her, and her soul's karma to the donkey. She would experience what cruelty felt like and would hopefully never behave that way again. The owners of the pit bulls would be forced to face their irresponsibility around their dogs. And the pit bulls would be put down for their inappropriate behavior and would accrue negative karma.
This story shows us:
- In God's eyes, animals deserve respect, and humans accrue negative karma for mistreating them
- Pet owners must also share in the responsibility for pet behavior, just as parents must take responsibility for their children's misbehavior
- To facilitate clearing karma quickly, souls sometimes choose horrendous conditions for their lower self
- There are often amazing explanations underneath every experience
- The pit bulls accrue negative karma by being disrespectful
Human and Animal Lessons Interweave
Keith and I once had a cat, called Monkey, whose soul, also a cat called Monk-up, lived with my higher self on the ethereal plane. My higher self and Monk-up came together on the ethereal plane because both were born out of God with some similar negative patterns: sucking energy off others in an effort to find wholeness and wanting to have special relationships rather than being whole unto themselves needing no one else to make them whole. They were good mirrors for each other and held each other as special. Both my higher self and Monk-up decided to transform these patterns together in this lifetime on earth and designed prebirth contracts to facilitate these intents.
I share this story with you to illustrate:
- Animals also have souls with inherent dysfunctional patterns in need of transforming just as humans do
- Animals have prebirth contracts and the awareness and intelligence to work through lessons
- Human lessons interweave with animal lessons, and can also mirror each other to facilitate each other's lessons
- Humans are not above animals, they are simply a different species
Keith and I had another cat, Booper. She was unique. As a kitten, and far into her adult life, whenever either of us picked Booper up, she pushed us away with her front paws. There was no cuddling with her, and she was moody all the time. She also started to poop on the carpet. At this time, we had a friend we trusted who channeled a high source, so we took the opportunity to ask about both of Booper's unfavorable behaviors. We were told that Booper's higher self was a high-vibration angel who decided to have an animal lifetime on earth. Keith's and my vibration was not refined enough and we made her uncomfortable. Her negative attention getting behavior was her attempt to become more grounded and anchor in this dimension.
Booper continually resisted having a life on earth as a cat, and learning her lessons in flexibility. She was antisocial, hardly played as a kitten, and did not like being petted, especially on the tummy. In short, she just didn't know how to be a cat and wasn't interested in learning. Instinctual activities, such as how to bathe, eluded her. When we asked Monkey to help teach her how to bathe herself, he telepathically told us that she wasn't interested in learning.
When Booper was about two and a half years old, Monkey got into a fight with another cat and was gouged in the belly. It was touch and go for a few days. As Monkey lay immobile on a massage table, Booper lay down directly underneath him and offered Monkey all of her life-force. Monkey's well-being improved immediately. Booper didn't move for two days. On the third day, we realized that Booper, left alone, would die if we didn't intervene for her. We fed her through an eye-dropper, a mixture of tuna juice, brewers yeast, and egg yolk every two hours until her natural hunger kicked in. Suddenly, she blinked her eyes as if waking up from a long night's nap, and pushed herself out of my lap and went to the bedroom. There she found a lizard that she promptly caught and ate. It was the only time, in her ten years on earth, that she ever did that.
As the years went by, Keith's and my vibration raised, and Booper increased her flexibility and willingness to make compromises. She began to enjoy hour-long naps on my chest, including tummy rubs. A few months before her death, a vet confirmed her perfect health. Accustomed to sleeping indoors, we were surprised when she started sleeping outside at night. Then, one night, she napped an hour on my chest, went out for the night, lay underneath a tree and died. It was then that we realized that her week of new sleeping habits was in preparation of departing the physical plane. Her final nap on my chest was a gift, as I knew from that nap that she was fine. In the weeks that followed she came to both Keith and I in our dreams first in her cat form, then in her higher self angel form so we could see that she was fine and moving on in her evolution. She was at peace. She had progressed well in her lessons while on earth.
Through this story we learn:
- Humanoid, angelic, and other species can choose lifetimes as animals
- Animals sometimes give all of themselves in service to others, including taking illnesses off of humans
- Animals can be loyal through to their death
- Animals don't avoid death as humans often do
- Natural instincts aren't always strong when one is totally out of their element
- Death can be natural when lessons are learned and it is time to go to your ethereal home
- Humans and animals can regularly communicate telepathically with each other
- Animals have emotional bodies just as humans do
Elephants Are Similar To Humans
A lot of traits elephants are known for are very similar to human traits. We learned a great deal from an article we recently read about the extensive work of Dr. Daphne Sheldrick, a Kenyan woman who has devoted her entire life to saving Africa's wild animals. She is believed to be the only person in the world to have successfully hand-raised and rehabilitated orphaned, milk-dependent baby elephants, the most difficult of Africa's wild animal orphans to save.
They are difficult for a number of reasons. First, an elephant's lifespan echoes human duration, and they're not fully grown for 20 years, so taking on an orphaned elephant is a huge commitment. Secondly, the baby elephants are extremely emotional. They sulk, have temper tantrums, are happy, sad, and get jealous. When they are brought to Daphne they are physically and psychologically damaged, grief-stricken, and traumatized. They've seen their loved ones shot down by poachers or hunted by tribesmen. They just want to die, as their mothers and extended families are their whole world. Healing their minds is as important as healing their bodies.
But, according to Daphne, an elephant can always be emotionally healed. "They are naturally very peaceful and forgiving animals. With tender loving care from keepers, and input from the other orphans, they always come right." And coming right is vital. If an elephant is not psychologically sound, it will not be welcomed back into the wild herds.
Probably the biggest challenge was creating a formula that would work. The correct formula was created through a process of trial and error that took Daphne 28 years to perfect while many elephants died in the process.
Through the years of working with the orphan elephants, Daphne discovered other amazing aspects about elephant intelligence and behavior. For instance, an elephant never forgets. It remembers moments of cruelty and maltreatment, and can wait for the right moment for revenge. It also remembers acts of love and kindness. Their affection does not extend to humanity in general either, but to the specific people who nurtured them. One of Daphne's earliest elephants, Eleanor, instantly recognized a man who cared for her when she was five, even after an absence of 37 years.
Elephants can also count. Daphne realized this when they were trying to wean one of their babies, Olmeg, many years ago. They started giving him just three bottles while the others got four. He made such a fuss at every feeding and they finally figured out why. So they filled an extra bottle with water and he was happy. The orphaned elephants under Daphne's care love playing, charging after other animals for fun, playing football together, wrestling, and piling on top of one another for fun.
From this story we learn:
- Elephants share human like intelligence, family structures, and emotional bodies
- They are playful, engaging in activities beyond mere survival
- Elephants do not accept dysfunctional members back into their community for the sake of the wellbeing of the community
- Elephants maintain life-long friendships, loyalties, and grudges
The Wonder of Birds
We recently watched The Life of Birds narrated by David Attenborough (1998). We were struck by the brilliance of nature. Various species had very clever solutions for housing, ranging from individual holes in trees, to huge community structures that they built in cooperation. Types of protection varied from sentinels that warned entire communities, to individuals who had slits in their eyelids that allowed them to watch intruders while they were camouflaged and appeared to sleep unawares. In the video they had incredible mating rituals, including one species that perfectly mimics any sounds it hears, from the sound of a chain saw to the jingling of a set of keys opening a car door. There were babies with neon inner mouths to help the parents see where to feed, and birds that survived in the most rigorous climates from Antarctica to the desert. The bird's actions reflected moods and emotions, which were evident in the way they nurtured their young and the fights they occasionally had. Their intelligence was astounding.
We were also struck by the similarities in the bird's traits and those of humans. For instance, there were birds whose nature was to steal, while others were gracious and yielding. Some worked as a community while others were loners. Some were bullies while others were gentle. Nature itself, without influence by mankind, has a natural flow that keeps food and resources in check.
From this story we realize:
- Birds mimic many of man's traits: or is it the other way around?
- Birds have families, communities, intelligence, and emotions
- Birds have various personalities
- Birds have various creative gifts
God's Engineers
Where did the physical body originally come from? There are engineers who reside on dimensions above the fourth dimension who design species to inhabit various planets. They prepare a planet, and when it is inhabitable, such as earth, these engineers set about to seed the planet with interwoven species that have the potential of serving one another in the natural ebb and flow of life. Each level, from mineral to plants to animals to humans is designed to serve each other and ultimately to serve God. The system is designed to be self-contained with solutions to all potential problems contained within the system. It is also designed to spark growth and evolution. When one system's time draws to an end, another system is already seeded and has begun to take its place. The system is consciously and meticulously designed, and is flawless. These engineers are brilliant.
Examples of the system include:
- The meridians of the body that allow a needle (acupuncture) placed in one part of the body to assist in the healing of another part of the body
- That plants in the rainforest can heal a man's illnesses
- A tiny seed can turn into a towering 300 foot tree
- How fast a fetus grows, and what it becomes from just a seed and egg
- The number of different species that grow on this planet, many of which are unique to this planet
- How we can discern our lessons by the body ailments we have (check out Louise Hay's Your Can Heal Your Life)
- The interdependent food chain
- Where flowers get the know-how and substance to produce brilliant colors with different colors growing right next to each other
- How a tree can make a juicy orange or nut
- The amazing way a caterpillar turns into a butterfly
- Rainbows
- How a bee can fly, human engineers say it should be impossible
- Ants and bees have huge organized colonies where everyone has a specific job
- How the male and female bodies fit each other perfectly
- The digestive, circulatory, nervous, skeletal, muscular, and immune systems
- How the human body is made of the same salinity as the oceans
- Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen while humans breath oxygen and release carbon dioxide
There is a lot to respect in nature: how animals kill for sustenance only, nature's innate intelligence, how one system supports another in balance, the love seen in two polar bears hugging, the unconditional love our pets freely offer up to us, how minerals can help us on our spiritual path, how profound and beautiful earth is, the power in nature's fury. It is in arrogance that humans believe themselves to be above any other aspect of God's vast creation. There are many races, species, planet types, and dimensions available throughout the universe. Humans are but a small speck in this huge system.
We on earth need to work on getting along with each other and with nature. It is profoundly humbling to peer into the intricacies of nature and realize the vast intelligence it took to create the system to which we are a part. Part of the path to enlightenment is to become one with, and respect, all of God's creation: to blend rather than dominate, to be caretakers rather than owners, to work in harmony rather than obliterate, to use what is given freely to us from other species to serve the greater good and God.
We on earth need to work on getting along with each other and with nature.
Self-Mastery Exercise # 23: Experience the Brilliance in Nature
Choose one of more of the following (or another preference) to experience and explore nature:
- Zoo
- Snorkel
- Hike
- Telescope
- Microscope
- Biology course
- Astronomy course
- Forest
- Vision quest in nature
- Mountain climbing
- Nature books and movies
- Your own backyard and neighborhood, etc.
Learn to observe nature with the awe of a child. There are so many neat mysteries of nature to discover and appreciate. Dig and look for them. Why did the bioengineers make them like that? How does this species or behavior interact with the grand scheme of nature? Appreciate it. Learn some of the talents, strengths, powers, lessons that each part of nature uniquely has mastery of and has to offer for your information and also for wisdom in life.
Excerpt taken from Steps to Enlightenment ©
For Accurate, Pertinent Information regarding Your Own Spiritual Path,
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