Animals
'R Us
by
Betsy Otter Thompson
 There was a time when all the
creatures roaming this Earth communed in
perfect harmony. The biggest beasts and the
smallest insects were your friends and
helpmates. They ate as you ate, lived as you
lived, and loved as you loved. When you began
to kill, they began to kill; when you bit into
their flesh, they bit into yours; when you
slaughtered your own, they slaughtered their
own. Even the insects started to bite when you
believed it was fine to swat them. Have you
ever wondered why they bother you at all when
they have such a multitude of food to feast
upon? They only attack because you have an
aura that says "attack" is
acceptable.
Animals don't have a mind of their own in
the sense that they make contemplative
decisions. They repeat patterns to get what
they want. They also serve as reflective
energy. Your pet can tell you a great deal
about yourself because the animal takes its
cue from you when interpreting life. Yes,
whether you have a dog, a cat, or a canary,
their disposition will mirror your own. If you're fearful, hostile, or
aggressive, the animal will accordingly
reflect timidity, anger, or will attack you.
When you play victim, it will cower. If you're
nervous, it will be edgy and if you're
undisciplined, expect the animal to be
untrainable. However, when you display a
joyful attitude, expect to see your pet
radiate the same benefaction.
If you have several pets, each will reveal
a facet of your personality. How well you deal with each pet's character depends
on how willingly you look into that aspect of
your own. So don't expect them to return a
nature to you that you don't embrace yourself.
Animals work purely on instinct and their
natural instinct is to love, regardless of how
you treat them. But they learn how to behave
from you. Even the animal trained to kill
won't feel hatred toward his victim. He just
performs the task he's been taught to do.
Young animals learn how to fend for
themselves from their parents, but it is my
belief that the consciousness of the wild
animal reflects the temperament of the
wildness in man.
What do you suppose invites an animal to
attack? What makes you ready to? Are the two
of you really so different? Abused animals
react the same as you would, if abused. When
they've received more mistreatment than
they're capable of handling, they explode as
you would in the same situation.
What makes a wild animal tame? Some people
live with these beasts in their homes with no
ill effects whatsoever. In fact, owners and
pets are quite devoted to one another. An
animal has no inclination to harm his/her
master, if all it receives is kindness and
love. Why would an animal want to hurt you in
the first place? The animal doesn't reason
that someone took something from him and,
therefore, should have to pay for his cruelty.
Animals act through their instincts for
survival. If a species has been threatened
enough times, the members develop a new
instinct that will enable them to survive.
If you have a hard time believing that all
the fauna were once your friends and
helpmates, ask if you have a hard time
believing that of people as well. If there was
a time when everyone lived on this Earth as an
adoring soul in the Garden of Eden, where
death was unheard of, beauty all-pervasive,
and nature understood as man's own magnificent
creation, how could there be animals who
reflected something else? Who would have
created them if God was the Creator of
everything? Animals began to feel differently
about the blessedness of energy when you did.
The beasts of this Earth aren't going to
find a healthy existence until you find your
own. God senses your widespread hope for the
end of cruelty, but creating this blissful
co-existence isn't about changing your eating
habits or protesting the meat industry. It's
about remembering that all who inhabit this
Earth are a part of you.
Vegetarianism does not end brutality, it
just defines your diet. Animals will stay
alive when you discard the idea of killing.
And when you stop killing each other, your
focus for kindness will move to the fauna. If
you prefer a diet of vegetables, by all means
honor your pleasure. If you enjoy meat or
poultry, but deny yourself because of guilt,
ask what there is to be guilty about if the
animal's sweet essence is already back in
God's totality. When you deny what is
pleasurable, you just increase your belief in
denial.
The mistreatment of the animals will end
when you stop mistreating each other, and this
is the only healing that will work. There may
be beasts and insects now who can only survive
on the feeding of carnivores, but as the mass
aura changes, these creatures will either
adapt or perish. The same is true for the
human species. As the mass consciousness
decides that peace is what satisfies their
inner longings, those who can't adjust will
depart. Not to die in ignominy, but to
reconsider why they thought the human
experience was such a blessed path to begin
with. Insects will cease to feed off of you if you cease to feed off of other
sensate hearts, and you can test this theory
individually if you care to. Bugs won't be
attracted to you if you don't share their
instincts, just as you won't spend time around
those who don't share yours. If the entire
population stopped eating that which existed
through God's pulsating heart, then insects
who had to survive this way would disappear.
"God's pulsating heart" means
anything that lives with feelings. You are
your emotions, and they connect to everything
else that has them. Therefore, when you are
cruel to other feeling creatures, you are
cruel to yourself.
When you welcome these creatures as the
gift they truly are, you receive the help you
thought they would offer. When you deny that
the energy around you has anything to do with
yours, you live in cruelty in its purest form.
This puts you in a state of isolation where
nothing can care for you.
God's nourishment is an energy, regardless
of the look it presents when it arrives. If
this energy is bestial, take a good look at
its behavior, because this is the mirror of
yours. If you want your pet's temperament to
change, change your own. If you want his
habits to change, change your own.
The animals are here to aid your rebirth
into Godliness. Be attentive to how they can
teach you more about yourself. Then, when you
notice their sweet inner essence emerging,
you'll be sensing your own.
Animals express and embody the devotion of
God, the curiosity of existence and the
playfulness of matter. Study them well to know
yourself.
THIS ARTICLE
WAS EXCERPTED with permission from the book:
You Are What You Think: Make Your
Thoughts Delicious
by Betsy Otter Thompson.
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About the Author
A
native Philadelphian with a B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Betsy
Otter Thompson worked as an account executive for WFIL radio in Philadelphia,
and from there went to radio stations WPEN and WFLN. After that, she became a
commercial print model and acted in television commercials in New York and
Philadelphia. For seventeen years, she worked in Los Angeles at the motion
picture and television company Castle Rock Entertainment as the Assistant to the
Chairman and CEO. In August '99, she followed her boss to Warner Bros. as he
took a new position there as President and COO, and became his Executive
Assistant. She is now writing full time. Betsy's writing began unexpectedly
while going through an especially difficult time in her life. She believes that
her books were the answer to her prayers.
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