Benefits of Owning Pets

[Jeremy]

Pets are a wonderful aid and a type of go to being when one feels a bit lost due to the unconditional love that's projected by them. With that said and plenum touched on it is that they lack the complexity to be a mirror and project catalysts that are needed to learn ones lessons. To be honest, most of the people that I have known in "real life" that have an extreme form of love towards animals tend to be the most jaded towards humans which to me, signifies a reluctance to face ones catalysts and uses animals as a form of escape.

Though it may appear on a surface level as if they are the most jaded towards humans; I've heard it from friends and family and have said it myself so many times; "people suck, I hate them, nobody understands me better than [fill in animals name]", what they're basically saying is; I've been hurt, I'm in pain and nobody truly hears or sees me. I know because I've been in that place for years. I'm grateful that the people who feel they are in any way, shape or form unable to either deal with their catalyst or seek external help can at least express/receive love and compassion towards animals. As these ingredients are vital for the heartsies.

Right now I've two girlfriends with the same issues, if I'm too critical about their (un)natural inclination towards animals I'm only perpetuating their distrust in humans, they become snappy at me which then gives rise to my trust issues and feelings of unsafety. so it's just not a very beneficial way to go about it. Ahem. Live and learn, right. Acknowledgement, compassion and love is what helps both me and them heal. win-win.

That's your interpretation of your experiences and I accept that as genuine. In my experience though, most people who say only my 2d pet who lacks any type of cognitive ability to intelligently communicate back towards ones lack of confronting their own catalysts seems awfully escapist to me. If an other self gives an honest interpretation of a selfs experience or misgivings and then that self lashes out because of what they see as a lack of acceptance and doesn't coddle this fragile other self, how is that in any way helpful? We can go round and round with this as it's still an issue of honesty versus acceptance and since we still have come to an agreement on a solution, how about we agree to disagree?

If someone is unable to deal with their catalyst, what they're actually saying is that they are unwilling to deal with it which is again, running away and taking refuge with a 2d pet instead of facing said catalyst.

(...)It makes me sad to read so much anger in your post, but I know it doesn't belong to me. If you want to talk about how you truly feel or what's going on in your life, that's ok, just let me know.

Hahaha it's not anger in the slightest. It's simply an interpretation of my own experiences with those who seek refuge in the arms of an animal instead of facing ones catalyst. I'm not saying seeking the affection of an animal is not valued as I definitely agree that such complete acceptance from a 2d creature is quite uplifting in times of need. I'm just saying that running into the arms of a 2d creature while crying about the pains inflicted upon ones self because they had an issue with an other self is a form of escape and not an optimal way of confronting the catalyst given by this other self.

Crying woe is me, people hurt me but only a 2d creature (which has absolutely no advanced cognitive social ability to effectively communicate) understands me is quite indicative of avoidance. If people wanna find consolation with their 2d creature, I'm quite fine with it actually as it's their path not mine. But one can't admit that they are effectively confronting ones catalysts this way. But hey this is my opinion so you're free to disagree and I'm completely ok with you not agreeing because in the grand scheme of things, whether you agree with me or not, is your issue and not mine

Moving on...when Ra spoke of balancing ones energy centers, I'm pretty sure this had to do with actual human interaction and not animals since animals are incapable of communicating in any type of intelligent manner so that one can see ones imbalances mirrored back to them so the justification for energy ray work relative to animals isn't something that seems possible.