The Karma Of Animal Cruelty

Our cats, dogs and all the other wonderful animals we call our pets are like tiny buddhas. We receive wisdom from them in so many ways. They never use words to convey anything, only feeling. If we are in-tune with them, and watch their behavior, we get a sense of how they are feeling.

Venturing into the Akashic record, to read for my clients, I have come to understand that much of our karma is based on how we not only treat ourselves and other humans, but also our fur friends and every other living being on this planet.

And in my experience, karma seems to bear an especially heavy weight when it comes to the animals. To my knowledge, those who abuse and mistreat animals will pay a severe price for it in their spiritual growth and soul evolution. In fact, many people return in a next life as the very animal they hurt, and will experience the same, or worse infliction they put upon that animal.

Animals are creatures of God, messengers of Love. They are here to teach us how to co-exist with each other with compassion and unconditional love. They show us how to share space, heal with touch and communicate telepathically. Some cat owners, for example, will tell you how their cats begin to circle around them and purr whenever they are meditating, or engaging in other forms of spiritual practice, which heightens their energy frequency and spiritual awareness.

People, out of ignorance, abuse nature , animals and even human beings. All such people have to repay for their abusive behavior in this life or next life – with animals, humans or even with inanimate gifts of nature ~ Odde Siva Kesavam

A client recently spoke to me recently about how she kept experiencing so much unnecessary pain and suffering in her life, due to her being so consistently accident-prone! Things would fall on her, or she would constantly bump her head, elbows and knees. Just the other day she walked right into a closed glass door in a public place, and everyone around her laughed at her. She was obviously deeply embarrassed. She was beginning to suspect she might be cursed, or something.

So, I went in to the Akashic record and saw that she had been a very cruel boy in a past life, who enjoyed hurting the family cat. Every time he did this, he was creating bad karma for himself in a future life. Coming into this life she has been experiencing the blows this cat had experienced, but only in female human form.

I recommended she take conscious steps to heal this karma, and she got a job in a rescue facility where she now helps cats I  need. After working there for a while, and witnessing so much suffering due to cruelty inflicted on animals by humans, she experienced a an intense emotional breakdown, to the extent of actually sobbing inconsolably in the fetal position.

If we continue this destructive way of being, the spirit of Gaia will have no option left but to cleanse the negativity. Human pain is no different and no special as compared to animals or other conscious beings who also feel emotions ~ Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

She was literally sick for days and couldn’t eat or sleep. She was going over and over in her head what she had done and was getting glimpses of memories from that past life. Once she recovered, it became clear that there had been a deep release of pain, guilt and shame, that had been stored in her cellular memory from that past life.

As a sensitive woman in this life, she was seeing through what she calls ‘the eyes of love’ and couldn’t understand how she could do what she did to animals in a past. She now is completely healed and is planning to open a cat shelter of her own now. Her story is one that needs to be shared and I thank her for allowing me to share it. Karma can be healed and we can learn from our past lives. Most of all, cruelty to animals will come back to haunt whoever is guilty of it…in this life, or the next.