Saturday Stories
June 23, 2018
I
"I like them better than people sometimes," I said half-jokingly. "Dogs are loyal, they don't gossip, they are not after your money, and they are good judges of character."
I have always loved animals. My first dog as a young boy was named Hutch. (My cousins, who would sometimes visit during the weekends, had a dog named Starsky.)
I love horses with an equal passion. There is a place here in Cebu called Papa Kit's where I've gone to ride a couple of times. I remember my very first time – at the Boom Na Boom carnival in Manila when I was teenager. I asked the handler for the biggest: a white stallion like in those White Castle whiskey commercials, and for him to let go of the reins and let me ride on my own.
It felt so natural. But it was an odd feeling, like a combination of being excited and being sad at the same time. It's like missing someone but you can't remember who they are anymore. Weird.
II
I was touched by the story of a horse named Samson when I read A Free Spirit: Gives You The Right To Make Choices, by Betty Shine, the famous healer. Samson was dying for no apparent reason. He was deteriorating but the vet couldn't find anything wrong.
She began by communicating with the horse. "Animals do not understand our language, and for communication to improve we must learn to improve our telepathic abilities," she writes. "Telepathy is simply an extension of intuition, that gut feeling which every one has experienced."
What Samson told her all proved to be true. The horse was being mistreated and beaten by the hired hand. The perpetrator confessed and was fired. Samson was transferred to a different stable to be away from the negative energies of that place. And Samson's almost instantaneous recovery amazed them all.
Betty Shine has been born with immense psychic gifts, yet she also made her mark in the "ordinary" physical world. She has gained international renown as a bestselling author and as a newspaper columnist. She was a vitamin and mineral therapist, a licensed hypnotherapist – and a classically trained opera singer.
Yet her greatest gift was her ability to heal and to communicate with the nonphysical and all living things. A lot of people had asked for her help in communicating with their departed loved ones or exorcising negative entities, yet she gravitated towards the healing of animals and of the planet because she has always loved animals and nature since she was a child.
"If you are capable of compassion, then there is no reason why you should not be able to heal," she writes in "Healing is a natural ability, born out of love for every living thing."
III
I've always believed that animals have souls. That's why I cried and laughed and cried when I watched A Dog's Purpose just last week when a friend gave me a BlueRay copy.
It is about a golden retriever named Bailey who died in the sixties. Then he came back as a German Shepherd named Ellie. Then as a Welsh corgi named Tino. Then as a Saint Bernard named Waffles.
But Waffles was dumped by his owner, and he didn't want to go back either. So he walked and walked, anywhere his four feet would take him.
One day, he found himself in a place where all the scents were tantalizingly familiar.
Some things, even across lifetimes, can never be forgotten.
Photo courtesy of SpiritualScienceMuseum.org
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