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Purr
 
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  Dog’s Wagging Tail
 
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    From the map of consciousness of the animal kingdom, we can make several interesting and very significant observations. Up to level 200, animal life survives by predation and, therefore, the very life of the predator is solely dependent upon consumption of the prey. From the viewpoint of human values, animal life up to that level is totally egocentric, selfish, and self-centered, as well as voracious. Survival at that level is not dependent upon choice but upon necessity. The predator sees the prey not as something to kill but strictly as a meal. If we ask through consciousness research whether the predator intends the killing of its seeming victim, we get the answer ‘no’. Its intention is not to kill but to eat (i.e., it is dependent upon predation to acquire the energy necessary to sustain its life). Inasmuch as life itself cannot be killed (calibrates as true) but can only change form, the animal spirit lives on to inhabit another physical body. In the case of the human, the spirit does not enter the fetus until the third month of gestation (calibrates as true). In the lower animals, it occurs earlier but still awaits a viable fetus to energize.
    With consciousness research, it can also be discovered that the ‘prey’ does not actually value physical life in the way humans do and, in fact, does not even notice the transition from physicality to its etheric continuation and subsequent periodic return to other physical bodies. If a fly or a moth is swatted, it goes right on flying along in its etheric body, unaware of the change, and soon returns in another physical body (calibrates as true). According to the ancient Rig Veda (cal. 705), each level of organic life ‘sacrifices’ its life to the higher and thus karmically sanctifies its life and earns its own evolution to higher forms (life serves higher life).
    Humans who have had either near-death or out-of-body experiences or have experienced past-life regression can appreciate these statements. In all of these, the sense of self-identity is unchanged. It is always the same ‘me’. Similarly, in dreams, the dreamer’s sense of self remains unimpaired. This is also true in hypnotically induced past-life recall where the subject relives a very clear-cut lifetime experience and situation. It is always the same sense of self-identity, no matter what type of body form may prevail. Insects, therefore, do not even notice the transition, and animals consider their dream worlds to have the same degree of reality and validity as their everyday physicality. To the cat or dog, the dream chase has the same authenticity as a waking chase (calibrates as true).
    The calibrated levels of the animal kingdom represent averages of the total population within which there is individual variation, and there is also variation in calibrated levels of behavior. Thus, ‘play’ calibrates about ten points higher than the average level of function, which is significant. Once a human family adopts an animal, the animal’s level of consciousness advances by five or ten points. Another area of major interest is that certain birds and animals that have experienced prolonged interaction with humans actually calibrate at 400. This calibration level indicates the capacity for thinking and reason; thus, the calibration level helps to resolve the argument among experimental scientists about whether or not certain animal behaviors actually reflect the capacity for reason.
    A unique discovery is that a cat’s purr, a song bird’s song, and a dog’s wagging tail all calibrate extremely high—in fact, higher than a large portion of the human population. That pet animals have the capacity to interact and emanate love indicates an area for further research to discover why these beloved animals are capable of love, i.e., they exhibit an advanced development of the ‘heart chakra’ and have a therapeutic healing effect on people with a variety of