Animal Souls Animals have group souls predominantly, with approximately 10% of their personality being individuated soul and approximately 90% of their personality being group soul. Humans have individuated souls predominantly, with approximately 10% of their personality being group soul and approximately 90% of their personality being individuated soul. The animal instinct is the evidence of the wisdom of the group soul. It also evidences the lack of individuation to function independently. One of my favorite classical examples of this is to watch a cat use a cat box, and then use their front paw to scrape the linoleum all around the cat box, failing to cover their poop, which was the intent of the behaviour in the first place. This is the group knowledge inappropriately applied to circumstances not accomodated for by the individuated soul aspect of the animal consciousness. The instinctual group wisdom serves the survival of cats in general, who cover their tracks in nature, but unless the individual consciousness is aware enough, the individual does not override the group soul "instinct". Cohabitation with humans facilitates learning individuation. And many pets are great healers of humans, often to their own detriment. Whereas we relate to the Chakra system of the human body as having 7 major chakras along the spine, animals often occupy simpler energy systems, e.g. cats and dogs have only 5 major chakras along the spine, with the top one combining the equivalent of the human crown and third-eye chakras, and the bottom one combining the equivalent of the root and spleen chakras of the human system. Unlike humans who have fallen into lack of consciousness during the Kali Yuga, most animals are very psychicly aware. Dogs bark at spirits without bodies as well as those with bodies. Cats, so very aloof at times, only like to be with people who vibrate loving energies. The cetaceans predate much of human earthly experience, and are wiser and more developed spititually than humanity. Mankind's continuing harrassment, hunting, and devaluing of cetaceans is evidence of our refusal to deal with our own history, so conveniently denied and avoided, and so well recorded in cetacean wisdom. While it is true that no form of life on earth exists without consuming some other form of life as its food, humans are designed as omnivores only to keep them alive when suitable vegetarian food is not available. Most human health problems come from overconsumption of animals as food. The cultural distinction humans make between pets, food, zoo residents, and free animals are entirely arbitrary. However we would be extremely foolish to continue to devalue our older and wiser cetacean relatives. We should instead be learning to communicate with them and cocreating the future with them. To move forward into our future requires healing our collective karma about our past. That past includes the fact that many human souls have incarnated in other bodies on other planets, and that we have been at war with each other for aeons. It is time to end the war. Our ability to dominate, kill, wage war, and devalue others needs to be healed into unconditional love, regardless which form we occupy or the form occupied by others we encounter. The minor differences humans have about color of skin, local culture, and religious beliefs are small compared to what we need to learn to be comfortable with to fully rejoin our galactic family. We need to remember that we too occupy animal bodies. As encounters with our galactic family continue to increase, we need to be prepared to see as co-equals everything from reptilians to insect-like animals. We have much work to do, since we have so many wars of such minor differences among humans. As we awaken more to our own soul history, we will come to realize that many of our wars were brought with us when we incarnated together in human form on Terra/Gaia/Earth. It is time to forgive and remember, rather than forget and fight, in order to heal our collective galactic karma. -- Copyright 1998 by Angela Kahealani.