Let's be honest and lets face this question, how many of us would let their pet partner with them during prayers?
I bet a great many of you would say NEVER!.
But, according to Discovery News, "...neurologists and other scientists argue that animals are capable of having spiritual experiences." arguing that "..spiritual experiences originate within primitive parts of the human brain, structures shared by animals."
But how do you prove it? Animals don't speak human language, although they can be thought to understand and obey it.
Some researchers argue that animals are spirit beings too and some of them are receptive to and can actually see further than humans.
But according to, Discovery News, the contenders to this theory, like Kevin Nelson, a professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky, "Since only humans are capable of language that can communicate the richness of spiritual experience, it is unlikely we will ever know with certainty what an animal subjectively experiences."
In "God Spelled Backwards" Jean Houston told Lisa Schneider she believes pets are more than just furry friends and can be our spiritual guides and soul companions.
Jean Houston author of "Mystical Dogs," explored the ways in which the dogs in her life have guided her on each stage of the mystic path, say Schneider.
When asked about cats, Dr. Houston said though Cats are very different from dogs, they are "equally evocative of our spiritual depths because "the way they will sit there and look at you and kneed bread on your chest and be so bright and shining. They have a kind of daemonic -- not demonic -- but a daemonic (as in the old Greek) aspect."
She said although Cats are tricksters who play games with us, "like great saints and monks and people like Don Juan are tricksters and fool our expectations and bring us to new ways of being, they, too, are guides.
In `Developing A Spiritual Connection With Your Pet', Allen and Linda Anderson even advises you explore ways to connect with your pet spiritually.
According to them will allow the development of the human-animal relationships to move into greater awareness, enlightenment, and divine love.
But their claim that pets demonstrate spiritual qualities–joy, unconditional love, creativity, gratitude–in abundance may be subject to further scrutiny if one considers the number of attacks on humans by pets - including their owners and owners children with whom they have played together.
But they argue that developing a deeper spiritual connection with your pets will mean using some sacrid practices that will the "allow human-animal relationships to move into greater awareness, enlightenment, and divine love."
These they say include a) Keeping A Pet Gratitude Journal, b) Imagining and Dreaming Together, c) Expressing Affection in Special Ways d) Singing A Spiritual Song and 5) Asking Yourself and Your Pet Why Are We Together?
Considering that a great many of us live alone with our pets, will you partner with your pet for prayers?
Write in and let me know what it feels like.
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