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Animals fulfil God's will most faithfully: they live to fulfil their Creator's purpose. We do not do this. We meddle with the work of the Creator. But the animals are themselves, and they fulfil the will of God that is within them in a true and faithful manner.

                                Carl Jung

March 27, 2011, Editor's Prefatory Note: My friend Art in the Netherlands sent to me a heart-warming account of Jasmine the dog who rescued other animals. I suddenly realized that I needed to preserve stories such as these as we have much to learn from our fellow creatures. Please send your best animal stories to me for inclusion here.  Wayne Becker

click on each of these titles:

Jasmine the dog who rescued other animals

The story of the hippo who saved the antelope

Brutus the grizzly bear at the Thanksgiving meal

The polar bear who came in peace - no really, I do!

The tiny koala who asked for a drink

Judy the nurse dog

The dachshund & Pink the pig

Maria the devoted goose

the open-eyed and unpretentious mind of God

Immanuel Kant: He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Anatole France: Until one has loved an animal, part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Mohandas Gandhi: Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Winston Churchill: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

John Berger: Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

baby hedgehog

Richard Adams: Animals don't behave like men, he said. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

Victor Zammit, The Scientific Evidence For The AfterLife, April 7, 2011: We are receiving magnificent reports fromDavid Thompson (a direct-materialization medium) ... A pet dog materialized, barked and jumped on its owner for a reunion. Physical medium Scott Milligan, who has known David for many years, writes: "David Thompson was outstanding... having a dog run out of the cabinet at the beginning, finding the owner and jumping up at her and William still in the middle of the room." Full tapes will be available in a few weeks ... you can hear William, David's friend from the spirit world, walking across the floor and then the barking of a dog which materializes and runs across to its owner. As William says, there is an afterlife for animals too.

Victor Zammit, The Scientific Evidence For The AfterLife, April 14, 2011: Last week we reported that a dog materialized in a seance with David Thompson and was heard barking. Checking back through the records of psychic research we found that this has been well attested in the past. Nandor Fodor in his Encyclopedia of Psychic Science writes: "The barking of fairly well materialized dogs, three in number, was heard by Lieut. Col. E. R. Johnson in a London seance with Mrs. Etta Wriedt. Dennis H. Bradley in The Wisdom of the Gods speaks of a direct voice seance in which very loud and distinct barks were heard. "There came back an answering bark of my Alsatian wolfhound in an outhouse some distance away from the room in which the seance was being held." Mr. John M. Dick, the sporting journalist, was told that the dog was a Great Dane, in fact, his own. They had deep affection for it. This dog would always bark in four distinct barks at a time."

Silver Birch: "There is individual survival for domestic animals that have had positive association with humans. Thus they have been helped to achieve an individual evolution that is not possible with animals who are still in a group soul, or soul group, even on earth. It is part of the wonderful relationship that can exist between humans and animals, each helping the other to develop spiritually. You help the animal that comes into your surroundings to achieve a consciousness that is more personal and individual that it otherwise would have been. It is that which survives death. But where there is not this more evolved 'human' expression it joins the soul group or group soul."

Editor's note: I have personally experienced Silver Birch's refererence, "humans and animals, each helping the other to develop spiritually." I was more than a little surprised to receive, via psychic medium, a message from the AfterLife, from my horse and dog, known to me during my teen years! This information was given to me in a manner that would convince only me of its authenticity. I have many reasons for wanting to "go home," but now I have two more. See P.S. #42.

A sad story: Socks, my daughter Sara's cat, managed to dash out the front door and lost himself in a nearby cornfield. One month later he was found about a half-mile from home, but with evidence of having been mauled by forest creatures. Pictured here, Socks is being bathed and would soon be taken to a veterinarian; sadly, however, he died the next day after his return.   Sara's new kitten, Mox - much larger than this now. As a tiny thing, Mox would peer around a corner and, at the first hint of a moving foot, would come charging across the room to capture his prey; moreover, in this process of great fun for himself, he would stand upright and box. Very funny. These days, however, having left kitten-antics far behind, he lives a sedentary life of royal feline ease and leisure and considers playfulness quite beneath his dignity.

Noah's Ark Society: Do Animals Survive Death?

Carl Jung: Animals fulfil God's will most faithfully: they live to fulfil their Creator's purpose. We do not do this. We meddle with the work of the Creator. But the animals are themselves and they fulfil the will of God that is within them in a true and faithful manner.

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, interviewed by Alex Tsakiris: "The research really was designed to look at the idea that telepathy and other psychic abilities, like premonitions and the sense of direction, are part of biological nature. If humans have them, we have them not because we're special or supernatural but because they're natural and these are normal abilities which occur in animals. So as a biologist I thought, 'Well, if these phenomena exist at all they should exist in animals.' That's where I looked for them and I collected more than 5,000 case histories from people who work with animals, including dog trainers, police dog handlers, blind people with guide dogs, riders, etc., and also vets and cat owners. I found that many people had noticed things that suggested that animals could pick up their intentions. One of the easiest to test scientifically was the claim that many people make that their dog or cat knows when they're coming home and goes and waits at the door or window... I did proper experiments to test this. We had people come at random times in unfamiliar vehicles and we filmed the place where the dog waited. We found that with a dog called J.T. that 85% of the occasions when the owner was coming home, the dog was indeed waiting for her. He started when she decided to come home, before she even got into the vehicle, and he waited there most of the time. This happened at random times of day in different vehicles, taxis and other vehicles, that she'd never been in before. We built up a body of evidence from this and other dogs showing that there seems to be a real ability and that it seems to be a matter of the dog picking up the person's intention."

Frieda

MEDIUM'S DOG, FREIDA, MATERIALIZES: On April 17, 2011, Kai Meugge, the medium of the Felix Experimental Group, posted on Facebook the sad news that his dog Freida, whom he had rescued from the streets of Athens and lived with "in total symbiosis" for eight years, had died unexpectedly. He hoped that she would be throwing sticks with his friend Hans Bender in the spirit world. However, that hope turned into knowing when Freida materialized in his seance a week later. In the presence of Dr. M. Mnahm and several other sitters, Frieda was giving signs of survival in the seance room. Above the plaque where usually only hands of spirit people are showing, suddenly her small paw became visible. Then she was doing her typical demand-behaviour, touching considerably with her paw the knee of sitter, as if wanting a treat or something. Her tail was waggling extensively at the lower legs of many sitters.

Robert Louis Stevenson: You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Unknown: Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Unknown: To err is human, to forgive, canine.

Samuel Butler: All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

perfect trust

December 10, 2011   Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly toward his boat.   "Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to... circle the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that the young bucks were distressed. I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it! Once on-board, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering. We headed for Taku Harbour. Once we reached the dock, the first buck that we had been pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say 'thank you' and disappeared into the forest.   "After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help. My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck to its feet. We didn't know how long they had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive. My daughter later told me that the experience was something that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!"

Hans Christian Andersen, excerpts from The Ugly Duckling: "Even his brothers and sisters were unkind to him, and would say, 'Ah, you ugly creature, I wish the cat would get you,' and his mother said she wished he had never been born. The ducks pecked him, the chickens beat him, and the girl who fed the poultry kicked him." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Mahatma Gandhi: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Rudyard Kipling: The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Editor's note: Friends called her Maribelle, a beautiful and gentle dove that made a nest on my livingroom windowsill. She had grown less timid, more accepting, of momentary glances assessing her progress. Sadly, one morning (May 1, 2011), both Maribelle and her eggs, without a trace, were gone! the victim, I presume, of some natural predator.

Mary Bly: Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Abraham Lincoln: I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

turtle power!   See this remarkable video about two turtles helping each other. Maybe it was the great music, maybe it was some hard things I've gone through recently, but this short film elicited, from me, immediate convulsive weeping.   CLICK HERE

Alfred North Whitehead: If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Montaigne: When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?

The Happenings, I Got Rhythm!    "I got starlight, I got sweet dreams, I got my girl, who could ask for anything more, I got good times, no more bad times, I got my girl, who could ask for anything more, I got rhythm, I got music, I got my girl, who could ask for, who could ask for more!"

Editor's note: see my Personal Statement #46: Love In The AfterLife: Romance at the Pinnacle of Existence! The Ultimate Dualistic-Halves of Eternal Twin-Soul Love! Why Your Deepest Yearning is the Voice of the Universe Proclaiming Its Truest Cosmic Message! I will love no other! no other!

Edward C. Randall, the Buffalo attorney who, for 22 years, worked with medium Emily French and received thousands of direct-voice communications from the Spirit World. One on the other side relates her experience on crossing over: "[My Guide] said the place I was in was the destination [a most beautiful world] of those who spend their lives and energy on earth for the sake of their fellow-creatures, people who do great deeds for the uplift of the oppressed - the abode of people who showed equal compassion to both men and beasts."

An amazing story of animal love, devotion, and loyalty! Hachi waits 10 years for his master to return!

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