Animals can communicate with man and man can
communicate with other species with all species. Such communication has
always gone on. Man cannot afford to become aware of such communication at this
point simply because your entire culture is
based upon the idea of the animal natural subordinate position.
The men that
slaughter animals cannot afford to treat those animals as possessors of living
consciousness.
There is beneath
it all an important unity. A sense of communion as one portion of earth’s
living consciousness dies
to insure the continued life of all nature.
The natural
sacrament however turns into something else entirely when the gift is so
misunderstood and when the donor is treated so poorly.
Many animals enjoy
work and purpose. They enjoy working with man. Horses enjoyed the contribution
they made to man’s world. They understood their riders far more that the riders
understood them.
Many dogs enjoy
being family protection. There are deep emotional bonds between men and many
species of animals.
There is emotional
response. Dolphins for example respond emotionally to man’s world. The animals
of a farm are emotionally aware of the overall psychological content of the
farmer’s life and that of each member of his family.
Consciousness is
filled with content. The farmer’s animals understand that in a certain fashion
he is a midwife responsible for some of their births. Food comes from his
hands.
The animals understand
on their own that life ends with death and that the physical properties must be
returned to the earth from which they came.
Animals do
not blame human beings for anything.