They are a curiosity – these domesticated animals who share life with us.

Who, for instance, turned the lions of the Savanah grasslands and the tigers of the rainforests, into pussy cats?

Certainly, this transition was complete over two or three thousand years ago for the house cat was sacred to the Ancient Egyptians as the goddess Bastet.

The common explanation of domestication is that lions hung around nomadic hunter’s camps waiting to be thrown scraps of meat. Was their a truce between two apex predators? Did the ‘king of the jungle’ give up his throne? Really?

Similar symbiotic relationships are meant to have happened with bovines, canines, felines and other wild animals who have come to live with humans.

All of this I have focused on in a previous essay, but I came across a report by Edgar Cayce on You Tube recently that has confirmed something fascinating.

One of the most well-known psychics of the twentieth century, Edgar Cayce, maintained that this difference between wild and domesticated animals extended into the astral plane; the dimension to which souls return after bodily death. There, wild animals behave much as they did on earth as a single species consciousness – the hive mind. They do not possess individual thought but live as one.

In contrast domesticated animals and in particular ‘pets’ such as cats and dogs will have acquired some individuality during their lifetimes on earth. Traditional farmers give individual animals such as cows names, and respect their family and social groups. Farmers grow an attachment to individual animals and, in a way, become one of the bovine family.

Observers notice that the closer companion animals are emotionally integrated with humans, the more individual pets become.

Many cat and dog owners treat their furry friends as if they were human members of their family. They adopt them from birth, name them, feed them, cuddle them and grant them their free will.

In the most extreme example, some pet owners dress their pets in human clothes, although personally I think this is a step too far! The mental process of anthropomorphic projection features in epic and fanciful narratives from ancient times to today. Animals give magical support to the hero to complete an otherwise impossible quest. In the twelfth century Persia poet Farid ud-Din Attar epic fable, ‘Conference of the Birds’ it is the birds who complete an heroic journey. In our modern era Walt Disney famously brought cinema screens to life with colour, movement, music and talking animals caught up in whimsical and impossible tales.

But there is inevitably a flaw to the process of domestication and individual empowerment. Both can work backwards as well as forwards. When several family dogs form a pack, they can revert to their ‘collective’ instincts. Sadly, such domestic canines attacking humans is not uncommon.

You may be wondering where this speculation of the symbiotic partnership between humans and their pet animals is going. Well, the American clairvoyant and faith healer Edgar Cayce believed that the animal soul craves human love and companionship; a position I personally know well as a ‘mother’ of four very individual cats.

The ‘old crone’ archetype was the ‘witch’ in past times, and her supernatural companion was a black cat. This relationship was symbiotic, for cats have a reputation for clairvoyance. The felines spiritual purpose was, and remains, as a protector of humans from malevolent spirits and elementals. Cats are well known for staring into ’empty space’ such as high corners of rooms.

The overall process of evolution from animal spirit to human spirit, according to Edgar Cayce, is to learn three essential qualities that humans also aspire to;

Love.

Peace giving passive behaviour.

Unselfishness.

I think this idea of the purpose of domestication of ‘wild animals’ shows a deeper understanding than the modern view of bonding between human and pet being merely for mutual pleasure.

But again, this process of aspiring to higher spiritual realms for both humans and animals through their formation of deep ‘family’ and ‘familial’ bonding, has a dark side. We know that some humans on their Soul journey fail to aspire to and or achieve the above three higher self qualities. Examples of such humans in leadership roles sadly abound throughout history and today

Persons who have persistently offended social values are likely to be re-incarnated not as human but as animal. A psychic once told me that a miser, for instance, will be reincarnated as a mouse.

Sumerian tablets tell of the race of gods who lived in earth thousands of years ago known as the Anunnaki.

There is a clay tablet that says the Anunnaki gods brought down the domestic cat from higher realms.

In 1971, an Oxford philologist named Eleanor Ashworth found a four-thousand-year-old Sumerian tablet in a collection at Pennsylvania University. It describes a four-legged creature that ‘came down from their dwelling places in the sky’. The full description is undeniably that of a domestic cat whose purpose was to be; watching, guarding and keeping. Humans were then and now being preyed upon by malevolent spirits for their energy or as is termed today ‘lushe’. Pet cats today will follow you on walks and sit beside you in the house, not only for love, but because they are ‘on duty’.

If we can accept the notion of DNA editing by minor gods to produce domestic animals, it is worthwhile considering the evolution of homo sapien sapien and why there is a ‘missing link’ between us and our cousin Chimpanzees who share 98% of our DNA. It is an intriguing thought that humans may be self-improving souls through repeated reincarnations, in a similar way to the incarnations of loving, peaceful and unselfish domesticated animals. Were humans the also the product of genome editing; categorised by Dr. Desmond Morris as ‘naked apes’?

As humans are repeatedly reincarnated, are we not also given the task and free-will to aspire to the Divine values of love, peace and unselfishness? Are we not all on a potentially evolving towards realising our true Divine nature? Could this be the long sought ‘meaning of life’?