Animals and survival

[Guest guest]

hi everyone,

 

I was triggered by Debs posts on watching animal planet and crying for the

struggle the animals have. I also feel this struggle, not just for the animals

but for a large amount of the human race, as most people are still bound by a

survival/instinctive/fear based consciousness that holds them captive.

(personally, I feel the 2012 prophecies have something to do with a shift from

survival consciousness to a consciousness that trusts in Spirit).

 

Just putting this in context, my learning came after a trip to the Kruger

National Park a couple of months ago. The Kruger is wild africa, about 450 km

long and just animals. We saw lions, elephants, rhino, leopard, buffalo and all

kinds of other animals while we were there, and from one angle its beautiful,

yet from another its a tough place of survival. While I was there, it just so

happened that my best friend was also there, through independant circusmtances,

and as he came to visit me, he felt he had a message from Spirit for me that

'there is a lot of fear in the Kruger'.

 

This was true; most of the animals live a fear based existance, worried about

their survival (and if you have ever been near some wild lions its not

surprising.. a wild cat weighing over 200kg and as strong as an ox is a fearsome

thing..). As humans, we have a reptilian brain stem, which is the source of

some of our most powerful survival and self-preservation instincts. After I

returned to Durban, K. took me on a little trip into fear where these instincts

needed to be faced, transformed and surrendered. This wasn't too pleasant and

took a little while, yet its given rise to what feels like a fundamental shift

at the root of consciousness into feeling that i am taking care of, I am guided

and i do not have to be concerned about my survival, which is liberating as I am

free, with Gods guidance, to begin to pursue what I feel is my destiny.

 

God, or Shakti, is an abundant creative God, and (this may be my foolishness),

yet God can provide miracles. There are people in my church who have received

gold teeth as blessings from God. God can create what he wants and raise people

from the dead and if we are under Gods care and protection, and not trying to

run our own show driven by our fear of survival and scarcity mentalities, then

we will be ok. For a long time I rejected many of the miraculous accounts in the

bible as myths, or as symbolic of psychological and spiritual transformation,

which I feel they are, yet now I also see them as being literally possible..

 

...and this has made me realize that I can trust Shakti, or God, to do miracles

in my life and there is nothing to worry about, and if nothing happens, then

thats also okay because I have surrendered

 

So swinging back to Deb crying for the animals, perhaps if our hearts were

really open, we would be crying for most of the human race, deeply embedded in

painful dramas of seperation from God, of seeking, and of feeling the fearful

need to survive and to be responsible for that survival. I think it was Ramana

Maharshi, who said something to the effect of 'give your burdens to God the way

a traveller takes his pack off his back and puts it on the wagon when he gets a

ride'..

 

 

and if anyone reading this is driven by fear of survival which drives aspect of

life like financial concern, I strongly suggest to pray and do your best to

resolve the fear as the root problem, and not finances..

 

love

bruce

[Guest guest]

Hi Bruce and Debs – your posts re animals and the world struck a strong note!

There is regrettably a growing trend worldwide where the overall level of

integrity is not where it should or could be and is possibly dropping. The

impact of all this `attack' on many of the world's inhabitants (animals

included), and the earth itself is changing, in many cases adversely, due to the

downstream effects of man's actions (war, global warming, water shortages, food

shortages).

 

I was listening to a review of a newly published book recently called " The

Master and His Emissary " by a Dr Ian McGilchrest. McGilchrist, a former Oxford

literary scholar, now a doctor and psychiatrist, suggests that the left and

right hemispheres of the human brain have opposing personalities which have been

at war ever since the time of Plato, and especially since the Enlightenment. The

brain's left hemisphere (the " Emissary " of his title) is the villain of the

piece, since it has wrested control from the right (the " Master " , who ought to

be in charge). The upstart left hemisphere has created a dehumanised society in

the West, driven by power, greed and many of the negatives we see in the world

today.

 

Mr McGilchrist dismisses the pop-science idea that the left brain is rational,

dull and male, while the right is creative, impressionistic and female. Almost

everything once thought to happen in just one hemisphere turns out to involve

both, and the differences between them concern not what the brain does, but the

way it does things. In particular, he says, the left specialises in narrowly

focused attention, while the right attends to broader contexts.

 

The left's world is " ultimately narcissistic " ; its " prime motivation is power " .

The sainted right, by contrast, has " ideals " that are in harmony with an

" essentially local, agrarian, communitarian, organic " conception of democracy –

the " whole " including the issue of spirituality.

 

In the West we have been driven predominantly by left brain thinking, while

previously in the East the balanced and holistic right hemisphere has been

dominant – hence the once high levels of spirituality evident in the East.

 

The rub comes with the significant shift of those in the East towards left brain

dominance in their quest for power and wealth, with the overall world trend

being towards that largely limited and often negative thinking. The effect of

this trend is obvious – the wars, the greed and so on and with it the

" downgrading " of many aspects of life on this planet – animals included.

 

Food for thought!

 

Blessings - Jonathan

[Guest guest]

Dear Jonathan,

 

food for thought indeed, thank you for posting and I would like to thank you for

all your posts which although I might not respond to them I do  read with

great interest and find them to be insightful and very helpful.

Love Julia

 

 

 

 

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jonrow_2914 <jrowland

 

Tue, December 8, 2009 6:44:41 AM

Re: Animals and survival

 

 

Hi Bruce and Debs – your posts re animals and the world struck a strong note!

There is regrettably a growing trend worldwide where the overall level of

integrity is not where it should or could be and is possibly dropping. The

impact of all this `attack' on many of the world's inhabitants (animals

included), and the earth itself is changing, in many cases adversely, due to the

downstream effects of man's actions (war, global warming, water shortages, food

shortages).

 

I was listening to a review of a newly published book recently called " The

Master and His Emissary " by a Dr Ian McGilchrest. McGilchrist, a former Oxford

literary scholar, now a doctor and psychiatrist, suggests that the left and

right hemispheres of the human brain have opposing personalities which have been

at war ever since the time of Plato, and especially since the Enlightenment. The

brain's left hemisphere (the " Emissary " of his title) is the villain of the

piece, since it has wrested control from the right (the " Master " , who ought to

be in charge). The upstart left hemisphere has created a dehumanised society in

the West, driven by power, greed and many of the negatives we see in the world

today.

 

Mr McGilchrist dismisses the pop-science idea that the left brain is rational,

dull and male, while the right is creative, impressionistic and female. Almost

everything once thought to happen in just one hemisphere turns out to involve

both, and the differences between them concern not what the brain does, but the

way it does things. In particular, he says, the left specialises in narrowly

focused attention, while the right attends to broader contexts.

 

The left's world is " ultimately narcissistic " ; its " prime motivation is power " .

The sainted right, by contrast, has " ideals " that are in harmony with an

" essentially local, agrarian, communitarian, organic " conception of democracy

– the " whole " including the issue of spirituality.

 

In the West we have been driven predominantly by left brain thinking, while

previously in the East the balanced and holistic right hemisphere has been

dominant – hence the once high levels of spirituality evident in the East.

 

The rub comes with the significant shift of those in the East towards left brain

dominance in their quest for power and wealth, with the overall world trend

being towards that largely limited and often negative thinking. The effect of

this trend is obvious – the wars, the greed and so on and with it the

" downgrading " of many aspects of life on this planet – animals included.

 

Food for thought!

 

Blessings - Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Jonathan,

 

Our fast paced society - keeping everyone so busy - i think consciousness though

as a whole is changing i hope for the better - i know it seems things are at its

worst which they are but i think more people are awakening and as more people do

and the scales tip a bit - then real change will take place -

 

Well that or something big ... like the branch in the wind- what does not

bend...breaks

 

Guess it depends on what comes first... but everyday - yes the suffering...

 

its .....so much

 

Thank you for the food for thought - I will post some videos I found when I get

a chance on some incredibly great things though that give me hope -

 

Debs (:

 

, " jonrow_2914 "

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