ANGELS, ANIMALS, AND NATURE

Dear Students, I am posting today an email I sent to a client (not a student of the school) who lives in another country. She consulted me because her cat, Goldie, has been missing. This is the written response that came to me from the angels. I thought you might like to read it. I have changed her name and the name of her cat, for anonymity.  There is a deep message here from the angels about animals and nature and the role humans ought to play. I hope you enjoy this and learn something from it. I know that some of you are deep lovers of nature and animals, and this message might be especially relevant to your heart.

Dear Iris, 
    
     It's interesting when you describe Goldie to me, because lately I have been thinking of a cat this color, seeing them around me in pictures and advertisements, thinking they must be popular cats and how pretty they are.

     
     The angels regret they cannot answer your email, as you might like, that is to tell you exactly how to find Goldie. What they can tell you is that animals also have their own guardian spirits or angels, just as humans, flowers, trees, and all growing things do. To animals, who can see what we cannot, angels and spirits are a natural part of their existence, as trees and flowers are part of ours. Those human beings with a higher sense take actual notice of the nature around them--from a "lowly" weed to a magnificent tree or mountain--and human beings with little "sense" do not even notice the nature around them, or see it only as something to use for their own selfish interests. And so Goldie is loved, guided, and cared for by angels, just as you are.  

     The angels say: please do not fear for him. He is safe and warm and cared for. If he can one day regain strength and return to you, he will. Just as each human being has their own karma--what they must go through in this world--so does each animal. Goldie had a life before you--and he has a life now.  

     
     The angels say, send him and surround him with love and light. He will feel your presence. For a cat, such as Goldie, he does not feel separation in the way you do. We must remember that animals do not experience life from a human point of view.

     What Goldie needs, like any living thing, is warmth, comfort, food, water, and love. This he has right now. When one person disappears physically from his life (or in Goldie's case, two people)--he still senses and feels your energy with him -- because cats like Goldie (and I say "like Goldie"--because he has his own personality, which is distinct from other cats, but also similar to other cats who have been loved--being loved changes the energy of any animal -- it raises the vibration of that animal -- and this is part of our role on earth as humans -- to treat animals with love and respect.

      The angels speak to the human race: "Your own vibrational level as a human race can be raised only so high, for so long as you continue to cause pain to animals in your slaughter houses, on your farms, even in your homes, when you do not love and honor them.  Animals are your children, your companions, and quiet teachers. For some of you they are also your food. 

As angels, we have a higher knowledge than you. We live from the compassion of One Heart. We see more than you do with your human eyes. We know the Light. And yet we always treat each of you, whom we guard over and protect, to whom we whisper constantly messages of Truth -- we treat you always with love and respect.

We ask that you do the same with the animals and plants of the earth, with Mother Earth herself. And yet, as a race, you heed us not. You continue to raise animals as feed, without thought for their suffering; you raise nuclear power plants; without thought for the destruction inherent within them; you fail to harness the great power of the wind, which is so freely given to you; the power of the sun that shines equally upon all of you; the power of water. Instead, you poison the very water that is here to quench your great thirst. Your thirst for more and more than you need leads you to use more and more. This is specifically true for countries which use the most energy and ignore the needs of Mother Earth. As a human race, you ought to give gratitude and tender care to those animals who give their lives to you, and yet you do not.]

There is a disease called, "mad cow" -- and the angels say: it is not cows who are mad. It is the human beings who cause animals to live in such a way that diseases like this are created and spread. If animals are treated with loving kindness and respect, there would be no diseases like this. For so long as humans are going to eat meat, they ought to do this in a way that is friendly to all beings.

Even if the human race does not, you, yourself, can evolve. You can step apart from the masses and commit to living your life in a kind and friendly way. You cannot change the world; thankfully, you can change yourself. 

And so, dear Iris, trust that Goldie has been guided to a place of enough: enough warmth, food, water, and love. He is resting here in this place, another home, and being cared for. If he recovers sufficiently, trust that he will return to you. If not, then he will rest here until it is his time to return to the Great Oneness. Your suffering will not help him. I hear his spirit speaking to you, not in words, but in feelings, which I can write here for you, and he is saying: 

"Please do not suffer. I cannot return to you right now. I was lost, tired, and hungry and traveled far and now I am safe. We are not separate in love. I experience one heart and you are in that one heart with me. I want you to be free and light and happy. I want you to think of me and feel my warm embrace reaching out to surround you. Please remember the way it felt to hold me, the soft warm energy. I want my life always to bring you happiness. We cannot always tell the way our lives will go: the paths we must follow. Trust, as I do, that the path is the right one.

You have asked the angels for support, so please heed these words, which they allow me to 'speak' to you. All is well. There is only love. And you brought me love. I loved the freedom of being outside in the new home you provided. This gave me a new experience, a new sense of freedom, a memory of something far away. In this new freedom, I wandered too far and was tired and was taken in by a new warmth and compassion. Does this not make you happy? 

Yes, be happy that I can be loved wherever I am. Do not be too sad. If I can return I will, but this is not yet known to me. I do not know how long I have left to walk this earth in this cat body. Never fear. I am not afraid. You helped me connect with something higher than this cat body, then the life I had before you. You touched me with your heart and I knew a bright light, a deep safety and warmth. I knew your soul and it was beautiful. Thank you. Be safe."