Book Excerpts
Chapter two
The programming begins: the birth of the ego
Excerpt
It doesn’t take a lot to realise that childhood abuse, in its many forms, can lead to low self esteem. It leads us to believe that we are worth less than anyone else.
Low self esteem means that individuals are carrying around myriad beliefs about themselves that aren’t true, because those beliefs are more about the caregivers who didn’t have the time, patience, love, wisdom, or temperament to cherish the children in their care. Those caregivers, in turn, were the product of their own parents’ traumas.
Conversely, a child can be spiritually abused if they are over-indulged, thus setting them up to believe that they are God-like: better than others, always right, and allowed to behave as they please. This produces children who become adults who suffer from ‘grandiosity’.
Chapter six
How the animals help us
Excerpt
Sue Warren, at the age of 93, told me a remarkable story after the death of a dearly beloved dog called Slainte. Sue told me, “There was no need for us to talk, although we often did. We had only to look each other in the eye to know what the other wanted to say. I knew the time would come when we would have to be parted but, try as I would to prepare myself, when the time came I was devastated.
“About a month after he died, one day I came into the kitchen and stood there transfixed. I was looking towards a rather dark passage where I could see a vague golden mist, which gradually formed into a firmer golden ball of nebulosity about a foot in circumference. I knew it was Slainte, and wondered if he was going to form into his body. Instead, the ball came rushing towards me and stopped at my feet. I could feel a gentle bump as it stayed there.
“All I can say is that, as it disappeared, it travelled up me and came into my heart and became one with me. From being desperately miserable and always crying, from that moment I became calm and happy. I may add that I am a Buddhist, and the explanation given to me was that, because of the orange or golden colour, he has gone to the world of the divas, which is a plane above the humans.
Chapter seven
Animals understand that we are imprisoned in illusion
Excerpt
Our task on this earth is to overcome the limitations of the physical, as well as the limitations of our history, our emotions, and our minds, and to tap into the power of the infinite. We are here to realise ourselves as gods: aspects of God; creations of God. We are here to experience joy, and to create our own heaven on earth.
Chappie, my ‘first born’ Golden Retriever, told me:
“Humans suffer because they have thoughts which go round and round in their heads. They – humans - are not those thoughts. The thoughts are like a computer whirring noisily in the background. They are stored memories.
“It’s useful to retain information. Information is the accumulation of experience, and can be incorporated as wisdom, but the physical system needs to be mastered. Unless humans consciously choose the information they want in their heads, they are tossed about and abused by thoughts which reverberate in their minds. The mind needs to be subjugated by conscious thought.
“Many humans are unaware that they can control their thoughts. Animals are aware in the present moment, whereas most humans carry their wounds with them to the now. In order to be at peace, humans are asked by the Creator to consciously create their reality. But humans are so easily lost in the illusions created by the mind. They need teaching at an early age to let the past and the future go, and to live in the moment. Once this ability has been mastered, humans are capable of creating heaven on earth.
“We animals are here, along with all of Nature, to remind humans to be here now, in the moment. The reason we have chosen not to talk to humans as you talk to each other, is so that we can demonstrate with our being the way out of delusion and hell. We are the silent witnesses of the earth, showing humans how to find peace.
“My only wish for you is that you live in the now, experiencing the peace of renunciation. If you don’t hark back to the past or project forward into the future, you establish contact with the infinity of eternity. Love and peace reside in the now.”
Chapter eight
We are not who we think we are
Excerpt
Quantum physics demonstrates that anything we perceive as physical is mostly comprised of energy and space. The atoms which make up our physical bodies swim in a sea of electromagnetic energy. The space between atoms is vast compared to the atoms themselves. What we think we see and feel is therefore not actually what we are seeing or feeling. The seemingly solid chair you’re sitting on is more ‘insubstantial’ energy than it is physical matter.
Similarly, the thoughts we have about ourselves and the world are not necessarily what we think they are. We are going on clues from the outside world and interpreting those clues through the limitations of our physical bodies, coloured by the distorted viewpoints of our egos – our pain bodies.
I am not who I think I am, and you are not who I think you are. Neither are you who you think you are. We are all something else entirely, something wonderful. The animals know this and want us to know this.
The rules of tribe - the illusory game we are playing together – collectively keeps the hologram of our own creation alive. We have all made the basic erroneous assumption that we are not good enough and that we must continue to strive to go somewhere, or to be something better. Our belief in our own imperfection keeps the hologram, the illusion – the game – going.
Each of us is trying to play the game perfectly, according to our beliefs. We either believe we must control everyone and everything outside ourselves in order to make a perfect planet or at least make it manageable, or we believe that we must be obedient and ‘good’, and gain approval.
We come into this world and start, from the very beginning, from a faulty hypothesis. Physical life represents the reverse of what is true. Our world is quite literally back to front and inside out. We come to earth and get caught up in the illusions handed down by our parents, and the illusions we ourselves create in an attempt to make sense of the world we have entered.
The programming begins: the birth of the ego
Excerpt
It doesn’t take a lot to realise that childhood abuse, in its many forms, can lead to low self esteem. It leads us to believe that we are worth less than anyone else.
Low self esteem means that individuals are carrying around myriad beliefs about themselves that aren’t true, because those beliefs are more about the caregivers who didn’t have the time, patience, love, wisdom, or temperament to cherish the children in their care. Those caregivers, in turn, were the product of their own parents’ traumas.
Conversely, a child can be spiritually abused if they are over-indulged, thus setting them up to believe that they are God-like: better than others, always right, and allowed to behave as they please. This produces children who become adults who suffer from ‘grandiosity’.
Chapter six
How the animals help us
Excerpt
Sue Warren, at the age of 93, told me a remarkable story after the death of a dearly beloved dog called Slainte. Sue told me, “There was no need for us to talk, although we often did. We had only to look each other in the eye to know what the other wanted to say. I knew the time would come when we would have to be parted but, try as I would to prepare myself, when the time came I was devastated.
“About a month after he died, one day I came into the kitchen and stood there transfixed. I was looking towards a rather dark passage where I could see a vague golden mist, which gradually formed into a firmer golden ball of nebulosity about a foot in circumference. I knew it was Slainte, and wondered if he was going to form into his body. Instead, the ball came rushing towards me and stopped at my feet. I could feel a gentle bump as it stayed there.
“All I can say is that, as it disappeared, it travelled up me and came into my heart and became one with me. From being desperately miserable and always crying, from that moment I became calm and happy. I may add that I am a Buddhist, and the explanation given to me was that, because of the orange or golden colour, he has gone to the world of the divas, which is a plane above the humans.
Chapter seven
Animals understand that we are imprisoned in illusion
Excerpt
Our task on this earth is to overcome the limitations of the physical, as well as the limitations of our history, our emotions, and our minds, and to tap into the power of the infinite. We are here to realise ourselves as gods: aspects of God; creations of God. We are here to experience joy, and to create our own heaven on earth.
Chappie, my ‘first born’ Golden Retriever, told me:
“Humans suffer because they have thoughts which go round and round in their heads. They – humans - are not those thoughts. The thoughts are like a computer whirring noisily in the background. They are stored memories.
“It’s useful to retain information. Information is the accumulation of experience, and can be incorporated as wisdom, but the physical system needs to be mastered. Unless humans consciously choose the information they want in their heads, they are tossed about and abused by thoughts which reverberate in their minds. The mind needs to be subjugated by conscious thought.
“Many humans are unaware that they can control their thoughts. Animals are aware in the present moment, whereas most humans carry their wounds with them to the now. In order to be at peace, humans are asked by the Creator to consciously create their reality. But humans are so easily lost in the illusions created by the mind. They need teaching at an early age to let the past and the future go, and to live in the moment. Once this ability has been mastered, humans are capable of creating heaven on earth.
“We animals are here, along with all of Nature, to remind humans to be here now, in the moment. The reason we have chosen not to talk to humans as you talk to each other, is so that we can demonstrate with our being the way out of delusion and hell. We are the silent witnesses of the earth, showing humans how to find peace.
“My only wish for you is that you live in the now, experiencing the peace of renunciation. If you don’t hark back to the past or project forward into the future, you establish contact with the infinity of eternity. Love and peace reside in the now.”
Chapter eight
We are not who we think we are
Excerpt
Quantum physics demonstrates that anything we perceive as physical is mostly comprised of energy and space. The atoms which make up our physical bodies swim in a sea of electromagnetic energy. The space between atoms is vast compared to the atoms themselves. What we think we see and feel is therefore not actually what we are seeing or feeling. The seemingly solid chair you’re sitting on is more ‘insubstantial’ energy than it is physical matter.
Similarly, the thoughts we have about ourselves and the world are not necessarily what we think they are. We are going on clues from the outside world and interpreting those clues through the limitations of our physical bodies, coloured by the distorted viewpoints of our egos – our pain bodies.
I am not who I think I am, and you are not who I think you are. Neither are you who you think you are. We are all something else entirely, something wonderful. The animals know this and want us to know this.
The rules of tribe - the illusory game we are playing together – collectively keeps the hologram of our own creation alive. We have all made the basic erroneous assumption that we are not good enough and that we must continue to strive to go somewhere, or to be something better. Our belief in our own imperfection keeps the hologram, the illusion – the game – going.
Each of us is trying to play the game perfectly, according to our beliefs. We either believe we must control everyone and everything outside ourselves in order to make a perfect planet or at least make it manageable, or we believe that we must be obedient and ‘good’, and gain approval.
We come into this world and start, from the very beginning, from a faulty hypothesis. Physical life represents the reverse of what is true. Our world is quite literally back to front and inside out. We come to earth and get caught up in the illusions handed down by our parents, and the illusions we ourselves create in an attempt to make sense of the world we have entered.