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Originally Posted by Athena  Are animal and human souls interchangeable?
And at what level do living things have souls.. if dogs do, do birds? insects? amoeba?
I saw a dvd on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and in one of the death ceremonies, the monk said that the man was a wild boar in his last life, and would be a bird in his next. |
Think of every living form as a container. And consciousness as water.
Because water (consciousness) is without a fixed form it is able to fit any sized container (form/body). When the container is destroyed the water is then able to move back into the main body of water (source/god/One) and be redistributed into a new container. And because the ego is but a mental construct it's of no consequence when the identity/name of the container is destroyed.
So that being said, it's irrelevant if the 'soul' is that of a human or a dog. But, from what I've heard and read, it seems that human 'souls' appear to show up far more often to inform the 'souls' still within form than a dog or cat would care to. (?)
And as said, heaven is a state of being. Which means you don't need to discard your body to experience it here on earth.
That's it in a nutshell.