Dogs have long been celebrated as loyal companions, trusted friends, and beloved members of our families. Their unwavering devotion, intuitive nature, and ability to comfort us during life’s most challenging moments have earned them a special place in our hearts. But what if their role in our lives extends beyond companionship? What if they are here to help us heal, grow, and reconnect with the deepest parts of ourselves?
In The Spiritual Dog: Emissary of Unconditional Love and Healing, author JJ Flowers explores the extraordinary bond between humans and dogs through a spiritual lens, inviting readers to discover the profound wisdom, compassion, and healing energy our canine companions bring into our lives. Drawing from her spiritual practice and personal experiences, Flowers presents the compelling idea that dogs are natural emissaries of unconditional love, arriving in our lives with a purpose that goes far beyond friendship.
Through insightful observations and practical guidance, the book takes readers on a journey into the emotional and spiritual world of dogs, revealing how deeper awareness, compassion, and intuitive connection can transform our relationship with them. From understanding their behaviors and communication styles to recognizing the lessons they offer throughout every stage of life, Flowers encourages us to see our dogs not simply as pets, but as teachers, healers, and cherished partners on our personal journeys.
Heartwarming, enlightening, and inspiring, The Spiritual Dog: Emissary of Unconditional Love and Healing reminds us that the love our dogs freely give may be one of the most powerful healing forces available to us, and that by opening our hearts to them, we may discover a deeper connection to ourselves as well.
If you’re on a spiritual path, and we are all on a spiritual path, nothing helps us more than an understanding of the basic metaphysics of reincarnation. Few people grasp the astonishing rules of the game we are playing. Knowing these helps answer the important question, What the heck am I doing here?
Let’s start at the very beginning.
First, you incarnated with a meaningful intention for this life.
Second, you have not had one or two past lives, but for the vast majority of people alive now, hundreds of them.
Think of your soul as a great playwright and each life as a play. The setting changes with each incarnation. The characters change with each play, though many of these characters are played by the same actors. With the aid of your Spirit team—the beings who love, support, and help you from the spiritual realm—you choose most circumstances of this life: you choose your parents and siblings, the place and time of your birth, your closest friends and spouse(s), and all of your children. The important people in your life were chosen before your life began.
You also choose the main events in your life.
I am told more consideration goes into the choosing of a new life (the writing of the play) and its components than can possibly be conveyed—it is a science more intricate than any on Earth.
Each play has a different theme, structure, outcome, and lesson.
The larger purpose of these hundreds of reincarnational cycles is to grow our souls toward understanding and acceptance, compassion and love, and finally, to discover the full creative power of our consciousness to effect reality. Once you fully understand how your consciousness creates your reality through your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs, you can align with love/God/Source with the expressed purpose of creating the highest (and most beautiful) reality. This is when your reincarnational cycle will probably end, though I am told many souls at this point then volunteer to return as teachers.
In other words, everyone in the world is marching to enlightenment.
Except… well, obviously, some people have such a long way to go. (Don’t make me name names.)
Here are some common soul intentions and reasons for incarnating:
- To learn about love through our families.
Families are the great teachers of the power of love. I am told that if you are living in this period, you have probably experienced all roles in a family: motherhood, fatherhood, childhood, and, of course, the best role, grandparents. You have probably even been a parent who has lost a child, a child who has lost a parent, and a child whose life ended early.
- To learn to transcend poverty.
This might be surprising, but it shouldn’t be. Wealth and its creation are the great teachers of how our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs shape our reality. Seth, a high-level light being channeled through Jane Roberts, said it required five lifetimes for him to learn how to transcend poverty. His favorite life, as the mother of eleven children, was also his poorest. They rarely had a roof over their heads and wore only rags, but this life was full of more joy, laughter, and love, grief, and tragedy than all others. It was when he learned that a piece of stale bread can taste better than a cake made for a king.
- To learn how to sacrifice and care for another person who is dependent on you, and to do it in love.
Similarly, some people come to learn the grace of being cared for by another person.
- To learn compassion through a physical challenge.
- To express your light through art or to explore a keen interest.
Everyone receives a soul gift with each incarnation, an ability or interest that helps you connect back to God/Source, and serves as your greatest joy. These are most often artistic talent or interests: a specific science, species of plant or animal, type of architecture, a period in history, or a type of poetry. People often arrive with the intention to become an expert and teacher on this or that subject.
All great artists acquired their talent through many lifetimes. If you are attracted to art, music, or writing, any advancement or growth in this arena can be drawn upon in your next life. This means if you are 80 and thinking, “I am too old to take up the piano,” you would be wrong.
- Many people come to learn how to overcome obstacles on their path.
A powerful spiritual exercise begins by viewing every small and large thing that happens in your life as your teacher.
To realize that whatever appears in your field, each and every family member or friend, your home, dog, car, the bluebird in that tree, the drug-addicted beggar outside the supermarket, the refugees at the border, none of it is an accident. Every single thing is a teacher bearing a gift.
- The belligerent boss or neighbor? Here to teach you how to meet the difficult person with equanimity, courage, and compassion.
- The envy of a friend? Here to teach you how to transcend envy, that jealousy arises when your soul sees a characteristic in someone else that it wants. The obvious solution is to discover how you can pull the thing you are admiring and desiring into your life.
- A long line at the post office? You are learning how to overcome irritation, to let go and let God, and to stop sweating the small stuff.
Are you a little bit depressed? Are you having trouble sleeping? Teachers here to show you something.
Some soul intentions are narrowly focused but with powerful payoffs:
- To learn the discipline necessary to maintain human health. That’s it. That is their main focus in this life.
- To experience human super intelligence. Then, perhaps in your next life, for a consciousness-blowing contrast, you choose to march through life with a mental challenge.
- Likewise, some people come to experience fantastic athleticism in one sport or another. And perhaps in their next life, they choose to experience physical challenges.
- Too many people arrive knowing they will experience lives at war, disrupted by war, or ended in war. They do so to help humanity understand why we must transcend this barbarity. Our Guides say that in the next two decades, this will finally happen. Humanity will transcend war.
Many people choose difficult lives for the highest reason. Souls often arrive on earth in service to others; their hard lives serve as a challenge to all other souls. The harshest lives are often chosen by highly evolved souls, and they serve as mirrors to those who bear witness to their suffering.
In other words, many souls signed up for a difficult life in order to inspire the rest of us to act, finally, in defense of the most vulnerable among us. Another human being’s suffering is always our own.
This is, of course, one of the two great lessons of Jesus.
Every soul is moving toward the universal truth: we are all born of the one light; we are all one; what happens to a dying baby or an old man on the other side of the world happens to us all.
As we reach for our full potential, we are meant to take someone’s hand and help walk them home.
By JJ Flowers
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