Do animals exist in the spiritual world?
- This page is part of an ERW course, section: Divine Principle - The spiritual world.
- By John Eagles, Sept. 15, 2009.
Many people wonder if animals live on in the spiritual world after they died. What I am telling you here is based on my observations in the spiritual world and it may be surprising in some ways.
I have often seen animals in the spiritual world. Many people believe that animals have no spirit and therefore don't live on in the afterlife. The reality is a little more complex.
I have seen a man in spirit world that carried an eagle on his right shoulder. The eagle could fly away and performed all kinds of tasks for this man. The eagle would fly around to warn the man of possible dangers around him. The eagle could also be sent out to bring messages elsewhere in the spiritual world.
Other animals that I saw in spirit world are horses. They belonged to Mongol horsemen whose horses had been killed after these men died and they were buried sitting on their horses.
There are other examples that I could mention about animals in spirit world. How can this be understood? Do animals have spirits that live on for eternity? Based on what I saw my conclusion is that, most of the time, animals that lived in the physical world don't live on in the spiritual world. They don't have a spirit like we have. But there do exist two kinds of animals in the spiritual world nevertheless.
The first type are those that have been made as spiritual beings, usually by angels. These animals have never existed in the physical world.
The second type are those animals that have lived in the physical world, but I believe that just like angels can make animals in the spiritual world, these animals were made by the people who once lived on earth and who loved those animals. Some people have much love for their pets and when these people have reached a certain spiritual level, they can recreate the spirit of that animal in the spiritual world. These spiritual animals are not really the spirits of the physical animals but they do carry all the characteristics of the physical animal they once loved.
Do we not very much form the character of a dog or any pet that we love and kept for a long time? When people give much love to an animal in the physical world, they make the foundation for that animal to be recreated as a creation in the spiritual world.
How is it then that many people speak about the spirit of animals, like for example many Native Americans do? What kind of spirit is that? I believe this to be a certain spiritual essence of an animal species. In addition to this, each animal is formed by the circumstances under which it was born and lived. Also this forms a type of spiritual character of that animal. There is a spiritual aspect of all that is created. There is 'spirit' in all of God's creations. But that doesn't mean that these animals automatically have an eternal spiritual life like people and angels do have. In order for us to have animals in the spiritual world, we need to develop our love for these animals during our lives in the physical world. We also need to have developed our own spirit to the degree that we recreate such animals once we have entered the afterlife.
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- Question: If a pet was loved by siblings would each of them be able to recreate that pet? How much of 'a mind of their own' would animals have. In other words would there be rodeos in the spirit realm?
A pet loved by siblings:
Let me begin with giving you some other observations of phenomena in spirit world.
If a person is dependent on glasses, he or she usually wears them also in spirit world, but not always. In case that the person who wears the physical glasses is spiritually independent from them, he or she may be without them in the spiritual world.
A man had short hairs in his physical life until he came in a prison. After that he had long hairs and a beard. He died in that prison cell and most likely, in the spiritual world he will have long hairs and a beard. This will be until in spirit world he gets released from the cell, until he feels released from the burden of that cell. This will be when the spiritual causes for his imprisonment were overcome. After that he will have suddenly short hairs again in the spiritual world.
The change of appearance can happen suddenly, in an instant and is not done by an act of will of the man. It is the result of changes in his internal situation. His entire being transformed because of being liberated.
In the case of siblings with pets. If they were siblings living in a realm of heaven, they would probably each be able to recreate the pet, but there would not be a need to do it. Animals in spirit world have functions or missions. They cannot be made just for having fun. Nothing in the spiritual world works just for the fun of it. All that is in the spiritual world has a meaning, good or bad. That is in the essence of the spiritual world and in order to live well in the spiritual world, we need to learn the meaning of all things, of all 'household' objects and other things in the physical world.
So the siblings would have the dog if it has a mission to fulfill in the spiritual world.
Just like the glasses that some people wear in spirit world, personal animals become extensions of the body of a person. It depends on the level of development of a person to what extent such an animal is created with an act of will or appears as a natural extension of that person's spiritual or energetic existence.
Can someone recreate an animal in spirit world? Only when such a person has a deep enough understanding of the mission or function of that animal in a spiritual sense. Love for the animal is very important but it should not be a love to only enjoy that animal for yourself. The animal needs to be having a task that gives it a reason to exist for a higher purpose. This can also be a higher purpose in the sense of evil, as with the Mongol horsemen who use the horses to attack other people.
This brings me to your second question whether animals can have a mind of their own and perform in maybe rodeos. That is possible as you already assumed.
The minds of the animals are created by their makers, but are influenced by circumstances and spirits around. That already is true in the physical world. If many enough people would influence a horse with bad thoughts, that could change the mind of the horse to make it do harm to its rider. Because animals are not having a free will entirely of their own, their mind is sort of made mostly by their owners, but also by other people and by their environment and of course also by the spiritual world. Because their mind is like that, depending on how the maker thought them to be, the animals will show more or less dependency and predictability in their behavior.
What could be the meaning of a rodeo? The spiritual meaning could be a test of the rider's command over a horse or other animal under certain adverse circumstances.
The situation is one of test and training both, especially for the rider. The animal could have been prepared for this event, possible by angels or human spirits. The animal would represent something, have a deeper internal meaning, for example the resistance of a group of people against the mission of the rider. Also in physical life, animals often can give us such tests.
For example, a Native American man catches a wild horse that once escaped from another tribe. To tame or break the horse, the man must make a spiritual victory over the spirit of the horse, the spirit that the horse inherited from the other tribe and from living in the wild.
It is thus that all things and especially animals have a deeper meaning in life. The more we gain understanding of this, the more that we can appreciate Creator's gift of creation and the more we become able to become co-creators ourselves.
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