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My take on California’s Prop 2 election vote

Linda FortuneAuthor of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline

My take on California’s Prop 2 election vote.

Welcome,

Before I continue on with my blog concerning the most touching moment of the animal communication workshop for me, I want to extend my joy and give a hardy salute to the people of California, The Humane Society of the United States, Oprah Winfrey, and all the people who worked on passing Proposition 2. This vote supports treating animals with respect and care by giving them sufficient room to move naturally in their environments as they prepare to offer their bodies for our nourishment. Treating animals with respect is fostered by animal communicators who know so well the feelings and spiritual nature of animals.

Ultimately, this proposition will stop the worst abuses of factory farms in California as a start. It will stop the confinement of farm animals to limited spaces for the duration of their lives. Let me quote directly from Wayne Pacelle’s blog on November 5, 2008:

“Giving farm animals a little extra room to stretch their limbs, to move like animals should, is a small matter for us humans. But it’s a very big thing for a hen who would otherwise be confined with a half-dozen other birds in a cage about as big as a filing cabinet for her whole life. It’s a really big thing for a sow who would otherwise be stuck in a crate so small she can’t turn around. It’s a way big thing for a calf who would spend life chained inside a miserably tiny crate.

Prop 2 will phase out those inexcusable confinement systems and usher in a new era. No state in the U.S. and no Agribusiness titan anywhere in the nation can overlook this mandate: people do not want their farm animals treated with wanton cruelty.”

I, too, feel very deeply about how animals are treated in whatever setting they live. Having become acutely aware of animal feelings, intelligence, and spiritual natures as I was writing Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline, I have come to an increased deep sense of responsibility, that we humans have, in the compassionate care of all our world’s animals. The passage of Prop 2 in California is a major step in the recognition of this responsibility. It is a major step in our own developing consciousness.

I totally concur with Wayne Pacelle when he states “As a result, you’ve brought forth a new, more compassionate age.” I say, let us all continue this work of compassionate care of all animals and learn to see the magnificence of all animals as we learn to live more ‘in the present’ with them. This will not only enrich their lives but our own as well.

Next entry: The most touching moment of the workshop for me.

With blessings, Linda

Messages can come in many forms

Linda Fortune
Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent FelineMessages can come in many forms.
Tip 10: Be open and listen without judgmental thoughts.

Welcome,
Continuing on regarding receiving messages from an animal friend, again it is important to emphasize that they will come when we open ourselves, become still, and really listen. Messages can come in many forms and we need to be open to the variety of ways in which animals will share with us. Again this is why it is so important to get our rational thinking minds out of the way.
As we listen, we need to step out of any preconceived limiting notions that we may have so that we can receive what does come. Messages may come, for example, as images, feelings, thoughts, verbal messages, sounds, energy, or as a simply knowing. In my brief experiences in animal communication thus far, I have learned about what animal’s are experiencing through communication of images, feeling the feelings of the animal, verbal messages, energy, and a simply knowing that comes from deep within.

Again, I want to emphasize that we need to cultivate flexibility. We can do this by discarding preconceived notions that we hold and be open to the surprises and unexpected communications that can occur. It is also important to be open and accept what comes up in the communication rather then discarding something that doesn’t make sense at the moment. We need to turn off our old mental filters. All of this will take a willingness on our part, a disciplined effort, and the humility to remain open to learning and discovery.
Another particularly interesting point is that we can talk with either the personality or higher self of a living animal or, if the animal has passed over, with the higher self of the animal. At present, I have had both experiences and will share the contents of several of my practice sessions with my friend’s pets in the months to come.

Next entry: Tip 11 and the most touching moment of the workshop for me.

With blessings, Linda