Actually, after doing over 10,000 psychic readings with people from all over the globe, all backgrounds, levels of intelligence, types of morality/spirituality, etc., I beg to differ.
A lot of these folks were not individuals in the sense of questioning why they were here on earth or operating beyond what you might call "animal" level. They were pod people. Lovely folks oftentimes with big hearts and good intentions, and not toxic, necessarily. But POD PEOPLE.
I realize that's not politically correct to say that, but it's true. They were hivemind inviduals who might well prove the idea that certain souls do not have much individualization and might actually operate more according to Steiner's framework for the grouped souls of animals.
I assume there's a reason and a purpose behind that and that they are evolving exactly as they need to....kind of as one big glob of souls sloughing along together like cattle on the evolutional track. You would assume that beneath that is a spark of free will, a sense of spiritual sovereignty, and so forth....but I dunno. It's awfully hard to light a spark with pod people. They are very resistant, almost to the point of not having the receptors to receive that spark and to be reminded of their uniqueness, their power, their beauty as sparks of the Divine.
Once I learned to stop trying to light a fire beneath them, I learned to enjoy and appreciate and honor them for exactly where they are now, and I genuinely enjoyed reading for them. I found them refreshing in their simplicity and lack of complication, actually. I just had to switch gears and make sure that the reading was about sex and breeding, making money, and death. Because that's all they were willing to encompass - that was the maximum breadth of their thoughts.
(*Note - there's nothing wrong with sex, breeding, making money, or thinking about death! It's just that that is ALL pod people seem able to think about. Literally. Their eyes glaze over whenever you go towards any richer subjects.)
So where does that fit in with Steiner's view of incarnations? Does his work encompass the idea of hivemind pod people? Where do they stand in his view of incarnations and the evolution of man? I'm asking this sincerely, because I've never studied Steiner and I don't know his work.
druid wrote:If you know how a rotweller behaves, you know how all rotwellers behave, so you know how to train one.
Again, not so. I've encountered many animals from dogs to cats to rabbits that do NOT behave as "all rotweillers/cats/rabbits" do. VERY unique. Not trainable or responsive in the typical ways that you would associate with their breed type.
druid wrote:Dogs do not elaborate theories of relativity nor questionate themselves concerning the reason why they're here on earth and what is their destiny.
Not true. Listen to a few and you'll learn that they have their own cosmology, their own spirituality, their own clear sense of a past and a future, and all the other referential points that the more "tuned in" humans do. And again, I am not only talking about pets who have potentially become "humanized" through hanging out with humans. I'm talking about wild crows, hawks, eagles, fish, and any number of other wild animals who have shared such things with me. And let me also say that their cosmologies are not the same as mine, either - so to hear "straight from the horse's mouth," so to speak, extensive, elaborate, intelligent ruminations on life, the universe and everything is quite an eye-opener. Very humbling and amazing.
From much of what the wild animals have shared with me, many of them will be leaving this incarnational school in years to come, which doesn't gel with the theory of them one day becoming humans living here on Earth. I think that's the last thing that many of them would want to do!
Also, from what the angels have shared with me when I've asked them about the spiritual and physical evolution of animals, I've gleaned that animals are no "less" than humans and many of them are of a higher spiritual vibration than humans are, and many of them chose to be in the bodies they are in for the unique experiences of living as that particular species. It simply suited them to be in, say, a crow's body vs. something else.
druid wrote:Jesus Christ washed the feet of others, to express this truth: that some beings must sacrifice themselves in order for other beings to evolve spiritually. Without the sacrifice of animals plants and other organisms, humans couldn't be what they are and couldn't evolve on earth properly.
I agree that animals are very special and have their own spiritual destiny, and that there is much sacrifice involved with them given that so many of them are our food source!
Yet, as I explained in another thread about deer, ages ago when man needed to survive by taking flesh, many sacred agreements were made between species. Adn there is a balance within that that we've lost sight of. The deer agreed for man to take the old, the infirm, or the weak among its herds for food and for using the skins in clothing/shelter. etc. In return, humans were to do "proper kills," which is a whole different subject but it involves the killing of another in a sacred way (invoking beforehand and raising spiritual energy around the deed; working with the free will of the animal; gently pushing the animal's spirit partly out of body before the actual kill so it doesn't feel any pain; and then killing with love in the heart instead of bloodlust in the mind.)
So sacrifice is involved in such an exchange, yes, yet humanity's killing of the members of the herd who wouldn't otherwise survive or who were weakened and who would otherwise pass along failed genetics (which over time would weaken the herd)....sounds like a pretty even and right exchange to me.
druid wrote:Nature has planned that only a few will actually grow spiritually and bear fruit and become seed-carriers. All the others will perish. This is not tragic, this is life. Many will fail their spiritual ascension, but it takes only a few exceptional people to perpetuate the human race towards higher goals and greater duties.
I don't agree with any of this, but I respect your views all the same. Thank you for sharing your viewpoints. Myself, I find the spiritual evolution and unique destiny of the animal species I've been blessed to receive information from to be compelling, attractive, and fascinating - just as legitimate and spiritually "wise" as human's evolution, sometimes even more so. And they do question their path - just talk to an animal who is dying, and you'll hear all the questions, the fears, the worries that they have - just like humans.
LipstickMystic aka Jennifer
Should I ever get bored with this one, there's plenty more! 
Also, people will kick up a stink, being unable to realize that A) There are very psychic people out there and those "in the know" who know for a *fact* that that there are pod people going on in this world, and non-human creatures masquerading as humans walking among us, even if they lack the psychic vision to be able to see it themselves, and B) there's a big difference between "noticing" that this fact is happening, in a neutral, matter-of-fact way, and then "judging," advocating hate and division, and even more extreme...advocating the Nazi/Hitler path to dealing with the situation. 