That is a very good question.  I had a dog once that I swear felt an unwelcome presence I was feeling in my home that I perceived during an awake/asleep incident.  He too was asleep near my feet and began growling in his sleep as this presence drew near.  I am convinced to this day that his (Rocky the pitbull's) spirit was aware of mine and the other while he slept.  I believe all life force has spirit/soul in some manner and has purpose.  It got here somehow, just as we did.  It leaves here as we do, it dies.  This will be interesting to follow people's beliefs. 
Janice

Thanks for the info so far.

Also,

Can a human who has crossed over reincarnate as an animal, plant or insect?

Could an animal choose to become a human?


Simon

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There is no reason for a human to reincarnate as an animal, plant or insect. When I was at The Monroe Institute in one of their programs, I entered the consciousness of animals, plants, insects, rocks, etc. We can do that while in the physical to experience what it is like.

There is much debate about whether or not an animal, such as a dog, can graduate in their consciousness to incarnate as a human. In Robert Monroe's book "Far Journeys" he talks about watching those who were in line to enter into the physical life (reincarnate) again. He talks about a small dog who was so excited that he was going to incarnate into a human.

This has been discussed here before and I don't have an answer to this. I don't know if it's possible or not. I would like to think that it is because of the PUL (pure unconditional love) that dogs give to humans, even those who have been abused.

Love, Mairlyn

I KNEW this would be a post I would be interested in.  For me, I have always felt an equine presense in my life, though I was not raised around horses, I have been drawing them with suprising accuracy since I was 4.  My sign is Sagitarius, the centaur, horse body, human torso and head, very strong...archer. defender, protector.  Much of my poety has an equine theme that has never been a conscious effort to me, it just happens, and it is a very powerful image in the soul of my writing.
I am currently married to a miracle man, as I never thought I would marry a man again in all my years due to the abuse of my past marriage.  He has an inate sense into my innermost being....he calls me a "SHEEP in WOLF'S clothing."  I see in his early life that HE has been a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and he readily admits and knows it.  But his vision of me is that I am so good at looking tough and strong and sometimes yes even MEAN, underneath all that snarling, I am still an herbavor.  I am still a lamb.  I am the strongest darn lamb you will ever meet and DON"T YOU FORGET IT!  but a lamb none the less, and yes, I do expend gobs of energy trying to protect the "sheep" around me from what I have always perceived that I can see and they cannot, often in vain.  Hope this doesn't sound crazy, or condescending or goofy, it's just the "animal" mainifestation of what I feel.  I do not mean that the people I love around me are sheep per-se, what I mean is, their conscious minds are OBLIVIOUS to what many of us here on this board have experienced and cannot ever begin to share with them.  What's so funny is that this is something my husband and I talk about often.  I don't believe I have ever been an animal, but I believe if I wanted to be one bad enough, I could be.  I identify with nature on a very intimate level sometimes, and I have been heard to say that I love animals more than people, they have no hidden agendas, no natural evil in their hearts.
thanks,
Janice

Alysia,
My Bday is the 16th also!  LOL!  The miracle man is a miracle in many ways to me because I have for the first time in my life received, taught, learned, shared and celebrated PUL with another person in this world in the way I believe God has intended it to be between a man and a woman.  I was abused and neglected much of my life and the love of this man has eased or erased so much pain it's just a plain miracle.
He beliieves in my white flame I see on a spiritual level that I try to help people with, he is willing to take it from me if he can if it hurts me or when it feels like a curse or a burden, even though he doesn't understand it. 
Love IS the miracle and I think, to kind of keep to this thread, that animals are born with with it, and we are the only creatures that can damage or ruin it.
Janice

Thanks for the info so far guys its been very interesting.

I find this afterlife stuff amazing but a bit scary.

By the way I am also the sign of the horse.

Simon