Animals don’t re-incarnate in the same sense that we do. Because we have an egoic level that animals don’t have, we can have
repeated earth lives. Animals have, rather, an astral aspect, which dissipates into the general pool of astrality.
Nor do animals and humans “inter-carnate.” Each kingdom keeps to itself. However, some of the questions that go
out from this article are - do animals inter-carnate among themselves, that is, one species to another? And, in what ways
are animals spiritually evolving, becoming more egoic? In what ways is the nature-human relationship evolving?
Another
important difference between animals and humans is entailed in how animals tend to be specialists, while humans are the generalists. Every animal has either an ability or knowledge, or understanding, in a specialized area, that transcends our capacity. A horse
can out-run us. Birds can fly. Fish can breath under water, and so on. Humans, however, are the generalists. Humanity is able to address many of its lesser abilities by creative invention. We can make things that run faster than horses,
or construct a craft that can fly.
Although animals do not yet reincarnate in the same sense as humans, they are still able to
devise plans for their incarnations on a soul level, make choices, seek to learn and unfold specific lessons, and set out to accomplish
spiritual goals. But they do so via their group soul aspect, the over-lighting ego of the species, or one of several groupings
within a species.
The Spirit of the Bison, for example, is orchestrating plans on this level. (see the Earth Vision article The
Return of Bison and Wolf for more on this.
The naturo-human interchange is designed for teaching and learning - as a two way
street. Ourselves and beings in nature are at once students and teachers of each other.
As presented in The Spiritual Ecology
of Evolution, we owe a dept to the animals, who have gone before us to help us find our way. This comprises the deeper basis
of stewardship, our responsibility to the animals.
The Return
of Bison and Wolf - from the Earth Vision project – www.evsite.net
The Spiritual Ecology of Evolution - from Insight21 - www.insight21.net
The Four-Fold Human - from Insight21 - www.insight21.net
The
foregoing article was written by Josef Graf, coordinator of the Earth Vision project and Insight21 - presenting nature in the
light of spiritual ecology, and answers for the 21st Century.