Roger:
Perhaps animals and insects don't need any spiritual teachers because they simply act according to their programmed nature. When they return to the spirit World they don't have a belief system to contend with.
Us humans on the other hand, we seem to have higher intellects, more of an ability to make choices, and therefore we get lost at times.
The minds of animals do get messed with at times when people do things like train them to become fighting pitbulls.
If a being is aware, then it is able to suffer or experience happiness and love just like humans are able to, and its being comes from no place other than God. Why treat the Souls of animals as insignificant?
Look at a dog real closely, and notice that physiologically it isn't that much different than a human body. Animals and humans reproduce, animals and humans get sick, animals and humans eat, animals and humans...
Albert
Rog_B wrote on Sep 4th, 2008 at 5:21pm:<<It is human vanity that makes a big deal out of human incarnations.>>
Albert- didn't Jesus come in human form for a reason?
His teachings, after all, were directed to humans, not to insects or animals.
To me, being created as a human is a precious gift, and yes, a very big deal indeed.