A Dignified Farewell

One of the many birds I feed each day at my home in Southern Oregon, a Western Scrub Jay, approached me from the ground and looked up at me in a way that let me know she was in distress.  I knelt down on the ground about two feet from her, looked into her eyes and sent an inquiry via shared energy.  She hopped twice toward me and transmitted back, “I’m experiencing trauma.”

I was on my way to an appointment.  I decided to create a temporary protective shelter with shade, food and water and check her when I returned.  She hopped to the water dish, dipped her beak for a drink, but leaned sideways, off-balance, on legs that looked quite weak.  I hurried to my appointment and rushed back to check on her.

When I returned she had gone.  She ceased to resist the changing of form and permitted her soul the freedom to cross over to the ‘nother places, to continue her infinite journey as a peaceful, gentle LIGHT that once knew flight on Planet Earth.

For all animals that cross my path while in a state of crossing over, or in the after-state of the soul leaving the Earthly body, I conduct a farewell ceremony of respect, honor and dignity that I believe all sentient beings are worthy of.  I prepare the body with elements I gather from nature, including herbs and aroma producing plants.  I carefully choose a resting spot, a private place, surrounded by nature, usually in the shade of a long-living tree, or shrub.  I prepare a place in the ground and line it with plant material, I place the cushioned body into the ground, add a hand-written note.  I say a prayer requesting an ongoing future journey free from suffering and attach a blessing.

I cover the site with brush, fresh cut tree branches and plants I hand pick from the area. In addition to the flowers that are left atop the burial site, I also place a memorial marker; a rock, stone or trinket.  This time, I prepared an angelic piece of garden art.

Literally moments after placing the memorial and expressing my Farewell of Dignity, a feather fell from the sky and landed at my feet.   I experience an enormous amount of emotional joy in this moment.  It was most assuredly a sign, from the Spirit places, acknowledging and honoring my choice, to validate life and the crossing of the soul in respect and reverence of a life and LIGHT that mattered every bit as much as my own.

A DIGNIFIED FAREWELL

Your nameless, lifeless body,

ignored by the masses of “humanity,”

so often invalidated

by those who hold

their own lives so dear.

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Last respects

withheld

 funeral, ceremony,  nor memorial  considered

for

WHO

was so recently

a breathing,

feeling,

living being.

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I pause to make significant note,

in honor of your meaningful existence,

I ask

a BLESSING

upon your soul,

now ceased to resist the changing of form,

passing on to the ‘nother places.

And in reverent, heartfelt whisper

send  you  intentional confirmation that

“YOU mattered

… to me.”

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 ~Gerean Pflug for The Animal Spirits

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OF COMMON COMPASSIONATE OBJECTIVE

OF COMMON COMPASSIONATE OBJECTIVE

Welcome.

You are not alone.

We see you, hear you and are with you

in common, compassionate objective.

More and more humans are awakening each day to the reality of the cruelty we are inflicting and allowing to be inflicted upon other sentient living beings.

We are unifying and becoming part of one gigantic international compassionate movement. Some of us are focusing on the legal aspects, some…the physical aspects, some on the psychological aspects, some on the emotional aspects and most of us are realizing that spiritually, we are all connected.

There are opportunities everywhere to become involved and to make a difference; In our communities and beyond. The issues of social injustice and inhumanity are found in issues of merciless cruelty, starvation/hunger, homelessness, medical need and are being experienced by all animals, human and nonhuman.

The compassionate movement recognizes that we cannot depend upon our respective governments to solve problems of social injustice worldwide. They never have and they never will solve moral issues such as these. It is up to the international community to take action, as individuals and in unification.

We must set apart our differences, i.e. religion, politics, national origins and focus together on the elements of love and peace, which are: Empathy, compassion, kindness, gentleness, mercy and grace. The members of the international compassionate movement are doing just that. The numbers are growing by the day and we are recognizing great progress. Still…there is much work to be done and we need every human who is drawn toward service, to The Planet as a whole, to take action.

As you experience this calling, have no doubt that you are meant to serve not only a mighty individual purpose, but also a powerful collective purpose. Avoid isolation. Adhere to others of like, compassionate mind, heart and spirit.

Please feel free to bond with this community “The Animal Spirits” as well as the MANY others that are available. Act upon the freedom to lend voice and do not hesitate to share, dialogue and form relationships with others. We are all teachers and students, one to another. As we interact, we generate amazing amounts of energy, frequency and vibration that propel our transmissions in a powerful way.

Times….they most assuredly are changing. It is a privilege to be on the side of The LIGHT in these unprecedented times of world change.  As we unify in compassion, we are changing the world.

Blessings on those who from places of empathy and compassion, choose to protect, defend and lend voice to, innocent sentient, living beings of ALL species, who cannot protect, defend or speak for themselves.

In compassionate, common objective, please continue to transmit.

~ Gerean Pflug for “The Animal Spirits” (March 24, 2015)

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Rule of Stupid

I had seen you on television
where you were easily ignored
but here you breathe
twenty feet from me
black as coal
with the same potential
to burn

from the set of shoulders
like cannonballs
through massive chest
articulate fingers
that could crack bone
and cup infants

What is this majestic
not primitive
not natural

It is your connectedness
the roots and trunks
dawns and calls
are you
and you them
undivided

Then I see
written in the depthless
sadness of your eyes
the bars 
are not to protect me


A response to Susan's prompt.

Almost certainly I should edit this for the hackneyed bits – but heck – critical feedback welcome.

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THEY FEEL

In my lifetime, I have observed every emotion imaginable exhibited by animals of a myriad of species.  They feel.  All one must do is be present to know this to be so.   ~ Gerean Pflug, The Animal Spirits

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”People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines…. It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections.  It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.”

~ Voltaire, Treatise on Tolerance

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Jessica’s life here on earth has made a profound positive difference. She is powerful from the ‘nother places, where her spirit continues to make a profound difference. How wonderful that her family, friends and others are honoring her life by honoring the life of others; these innocent horses, that she loves, are not only being spared one-life-at-a-time but a MIGHTY message is being sent worldwide that influences the hearts, minds and spirits of man’kind’ that empathy and compassion are the keys to universal well being.

I love the ancient Native American belief of “The Bridge” and find it so comforting :

https://animalspirits222.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/the-bridge/

Blessings on Jessica’s sweet, innocent spirit. Blessings on Jessica’s family who in the face of grieving her loss, honor her. Blessings on the spirits of the horses that have passed on …also at the hands of men. Blessings on all who work to promoted respect, kindness and peace for all living beings.

Thank you for your post. I believe it touched the hearts of many today. It certainly touched my heart. Thank you for all that you do to raise public awareness of the need for protection of the innocent lives of the horse spirits. I will post a link to this on “The Animal Spirits”on Facebook today.

~Gerean Pflug, The Animal Spirits

Straight from the Horse's Heart

By Jonathan Phelps Staff writer for the Salem News

“Jessica loved everything about horses…”

“Today is ‘Feel Good Sunday‘ and we fully intend to fulfill our weekly commitment to supply our readers with a story that will help to uplift spirits and recharge the soul, today shall hopefully not disappoint but this installment comes with a bit of a warning; your heart strings will be pulled.  So with that in mind, revel in the good things that good people do in an effort to flush the evil from our lives.  Only occasionally am I proud to be a member of this species and after reading this story, today has become one of these days.  Keep the faith.” ~ R.T.

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HAMILTON, MASS — Six-year-old Jessica Rekos dreamed of having her own horse one day.

While her parents promised to get her one when she turned 10, Jessica’s dream will never come true…

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EMPATHY ~ THE UNIVERSAL SOLVENT

“Empathy is a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.” ~Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy is defined as “a complex form of psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the thoughts and feellings of others.   Empathy is a highly developed and sophisticated emotional response that references self and others. ”

The heinous taking of innocent lives not only in Newtown Connecticut, but worldwide, can neither be explained nor cured by debate of weapon control.  There always have been and always will be a way to take the life of another.  The recent travesty in Newtown did not happen because of guns, it happened because of a human being who had no empathy.  An empathetic human being does not take such action of harm against another living being.  All life taken by violence violates all of humanity

Can we control the senseless taking of innocent lives?   Sadly, no, we cannot.  Control is an illusion.  We have never and will not ever control the actions, reactions, thoughts and even words of others.  The only things we control are our own individual actions, reactions and words.

While we argue and fight among each other . . .

• Millions of humans worldwide are homeless and/or starving to death
• Worldwide war which only benefits those in political power is rampant
• Human life is being sold into slavery on the black market
• In the most inhumane and cruel ways imaginable, man and animal alike are being abused tortured and mercilessly slaughtered
• Our wildlife is being massacred to extinction
• We are abusing our planet to the point that it is crumbling beneath us

Someday the planet earth will cease to exist.  Someday the sun will burn out.  We are not promised tomorrow.  We are not even promised the rest of this day.  This moment is all that we have.  If we use this moment to channel our energies into making a positive difference in the lives of others, we will effect profound change of mind, heart and spirit.   These changes ripple and grow and affect the lives of others, not only in the moment, but vastly beyond this moment.

If we choose to spend this moment in argument, competition, debate, anger and words that hurt, what will we achieve?  Nothing.  I believe that this moment is the perfect moment to shift to higher levels of consciousness.  Today is a very good day to begin to act  from the heart, not the critical mind and to focus on becoming true models of the good we wish to see in this world.

For myself . . .

I choose to

support, discuss and write about

those things that build up,

encourage,

inspire,

motivate,

uplift

and propel others toward love.

I choose

to focus on

and promote

the heroes of this world,

rather than the villains

(although one certainly cannot be illuminated without the other).

I choose

to hope

that all of us will consider

the powerful opportunity

provided to us

to make a profound positive difference

from where we stand

and through the act of

standing together

in unity

reaching for the highest level of consciousness . . .

the evidence of this consciousness being . . .

empathy,

compassion,

kindness,

gentleness,

understanding

and peace.

Many Blessings.

~Gerean Pflug, The Animal Spirits

INHUMANITY UPON HUMANITY

Blessings

on the minds,

hearts

and spirits

of the families

who will suffer

irreversible

senses of loss

due to the heartbreaking events

taking so many innocent lives today

in Newtown, Connecticut USA.

Let us generate our energy

not into anger,

but into an even stronger dedication toward

empathy,

compassion,

kindness,

gentleness . . .

these are the neccessary elements

to achieving higher levels

of consciousness

and peace.

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Blessings

on all of you

who choose to live your lives in a way

to make a positive difference

in the lives of other living beings

for in doing so,

you make a positive difference

upon not merely the planet

but upon the infinite Universe.

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~Gerean Pflug, The Animal Spirits

FOR ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE

“Verily these are your fellow creatures

of the great Household of God,

yea, they are your brethren and sisters,

having the same breath of life in the Eternal.    

And whosoever careth

for one of the least of these,

and giveth it to eat and drink in its need,

the same doeth it unto me,

and whoso willingly suffereth

one of these to be in want,

and defendeth it not when evilly entreated,

suffereth the evil as done unto me;

for as ye have done in this life,

so shall it be done unto you in the life to come.”

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The Gospel of the Holy Twelve

Translated from the original Aramaic

by Rev. G.J.R. Ouseley

 THE LOVE OF JESUS FOR ALL CREATURES

Lection 34:

1. WHEN Jesus knew how the Pharisees had murmured and complained because he made and baptized more disciples than John, he left Judea, and departed unto Galilee.

2. AND Jesus came to a certain Tree and abode beneath it many days. And there came Mary Magdalene and other women and ministered unto him of their substance, and he taught daily all that came unto him.

3. And the birds gathered around him, and welcomed him with their song, and other living creatures came unto his feet, and he fed them, and they ate out of his hands.

4. And when he departed he blessed the women who shewed love unto him, and turning to the fig tree, he blessed it also, saying. Thou hast given me shelter and shade from the burning heat, and withal thou hast given me food also.

5. Blessed be thou, increase and be fruitful, and let all who come to thee, find rest and shade and food, and let the birds of the air rejoice in thy branches.

6. And behold the tree grew and flourished exceedingly, and its branches took root downward, and sent shoots upward, and it spread mightily, so that no tree was like unto it for its size and beauty, and the abundance and goodness of its fruit.

7. AND as Jesus entered into a certain village he saw a young cat which had none to care for her, and she was hungry and cried unto him, and he took her up, and put her inside his garment, and she lay in his bosom.

8. And when he came into the village he set food and drink before the cat, and she ate and drank, and shewed thanks unto him. And he gave her unto one of his disciples, who was a widow, whose name was Lorenza, and she took care of her.

9. And some of the people said, This man careth for all creatures, are they his brothers and sisters that he should love them ? And he said unto them, Verily these are your fellow creatures of the great Household of God, yea, they are your brethren and sisters, having the same breath of life in the Eternal.

10. And whosoever careth for one of the least of these, and giveth it to eat and drink in its need, the same doeth it unto me, and whoso willingly suffereth one of these to be in want, and defendeth it not when evilly entreated, suffereth the evil as done unto me; for as ye have done in this life, so shall it be done unto you in the life to come.

NOTE: The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, also known as the Gospel of the Nazarenes, is believed by some to be the Gospel described by many commentators of the early Church as the original teachings of the Nazarene called Christ. Others point to several sections that are found, word-for-word, in the King James Version of the Bible, which they say proves it to be a fraud. To read more about this documentation

Click:     GOSPEL OF THE HOLY TWELVE

CHOICES AND VOICES

“May our daily choices

be a reflection of our deepest values,

and may we use our voices

to speak for those who need us most…

Those who have no voices,

those who have no choices.”

~Colleen Patrick-Goudreau~