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Many religions teach reincarnation. The major difference in the one I adhere to is that you cannot return as an animal. In my beliefs, as humans have their own spiritual “force”, or plane if you will, as does each other major type of animal. In other words, there is a human “heaven”, a canid “heaven”, a bovine “heaven”, and so on. In prayers, protection and healing work, one can tap into that individual animal spiritual force. Different animals have different attributes, which one could utilize to affect change in your life, as that individual animal “essence” can teach and guide you, through the basic attributes of that animal. This is of course in addition to those human spiritual guides and Ancestors that also assist and teach
As for consciousness, in the belief structure I follow, one retains consciousness on the “other side”, and the portion of the spiritual self that makes up a person’s “soul” is merely a part of that spiritual self, the remaining portion of which remains on the spiritual plane. I have been getting brain cramps trying to remember the author of a book I read in my early twenties. This gentleman claims to have followed Houdini about, after his death, talking to those Mediums the magician could not disprove, there are several. They all describe the “other side” the same way, and is as follows...
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When a person dies on the material plane (Earth), it takes several days for the cord that connects the spiritual self, or soul, to the body to dissolve, and the deceased will coalesce on the astral plane (what some refer to as heaven). If a person is cremated, then the transformation takes longer, and that entity is very confused when the transformation is complete. On the other side, another spiritual person waits for the recently deceased, to help them readjust, as the spiritual self is reformed and made complete with the dissolving of the “soul” and the “silver cord”. That helper may be part of your soul family, or a soul mate or friend, or a complete “stranger”, depending on who is available, and not busy elsewhere (on Earth).
The “other side” is basically the same as Earth in form, but of a very sylvan appearance, and different portions of this heaven contain different weather patterns. Every book ever written, or to be written, is available for study. Food is plentiful and varied, but there is no hunger, one eats merely for pleasure. Music is of course present, as are all musical instruments. Fatigue is unknown, but there are places to rest, meditate, and contemplate. Those who have attained higher learning (learned more of the lessons necessary) are available for consultation. This Celestial plane is merely a way station however, as one climbs the Celestial Ladder in their efforts to attain Perfection, and return once more to whence they came, the Source of all (what I refer to as the Universal Source, or Buddhists refer to as Nirvana).
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Sorry if that is abit muddled, I am going on memory, and compressing a three hundred some odd page book. To the best of the Authors knowledge, these several Mediums had no or minimal contact with one another, and were spread over several countries.
"Oops, it appears I have run over your dogma with my karma."
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