This is a message I received in my sleep and as put to paper the next morning. I hope this helps someone. January 9th, 2003.

Animals, fish, all plant food sources are given to assist you in the five sensory existence, to give to and nurture your vehicle as a fuel, (body) while there, thus giving you life and energy through their gifts, some are here to serve you as food others or for inspiration as examples of "unconditional love", Native american indians know of this agreement with the Universe, they take what is needed for their existence, but not before thanking the life source for sacrificing it's existence that they my exist in their place. The ones who contribute love, the giving and receiving of emotions (pets), are a higher, purer level of energy, with their own souls. As they give and we receive we are also required to give the same qualities back to them, this is why they give to the infirm, those weak of will or stamina, giving love and compassion where human beings can't reach. no matter how good there intentions. Animals are here to remind you of the very basics of what you are, what you need to be, Unconditional Love, Compassion, Forgiveness. They are placed before you as a reminder of these things, unfortunately many are so wrapped up in old baggage, old judgements, pains and hurts in a surrealistic impression of what you think life is, that you can't see the forest for the trees, step back and see the entire picture. You've become so clouded by the intensity and barrage of life and it's lessons that the five sensory numbs out leaving you unable to find your sixth sensory. this spells confusion and trouble. You are then left with only one option, to seek out your sixth sense for yourselves. That's why the majority of those seeking their spirituality and self do so out of the ashes of their confused existence. Once you've reconnected to that sixth sense, things begin to fall into place and the process of discovery begins. As i've pointed out for you, certain life energy forms give sustanence while others give judgement free unconditional love and understanding. whichever case, both give energy that is required physically and spiritually for you to exist here and to do what you have to do, to either sustain you physically or encourage you spiritually. this is why nothing short of the utmost ethical treatment you give these beings is a must in care and respect. when you fail to do this it not only reflects how little you feel about them but about yourselves as well. You are here to experience the five sensory with little knowledge of your true home, your true identity. Forgiveness is an integral part of the lesson process and one where enlightenment follows the answer. Without this part of the process you cannot release the negative residue from these lessons which means in turn you unneccesarily carry the wieght of them. You need to fully close one door before another effectively opens which allows you to progress. When you learn these negative lessons, you must also recognize the positive side as well, if you don't, is it any wonder why you can't apply the lesson in some positive way? Everytime you learn something new, it has to be integrated into your very being, all that you compile this way, becomes your personality, your signature in life for others to read. this creates a more postive self .If you only recognize and use the negative then you create your own hell and monsters. Remember your personality reflects a sum total of all your lessons in life, how you choose to accept and utilize them, the results, sets the mold for what your lives will be like. When you take further steps in the wrong direction and by not connecting or not using that which you've learned you then take out that negativity on others, this creates unneeded Karma, you also lose friends, you don't make new friends and isolation results, when this happens you don't interact thus you don't experience thus, you don't learn. If allowed, negativity will reign. Forgiveness is part of the Healing process and acts as a way to thank someone's soul for the lessons applied, this then releases the anger and negativity that has held you back, creating closure. Forgiveness is far simpler than most think. When you accept life's teacher/student theory it becomes clearer for you, don't hate the teacher ten years down the road long after the class is over, no matter how much you disliked it, release and see the benefits and blessings of what is to come and how the lesson once retained can aid you in not repeating it again at some later date. So many of you insist on making it harder than it is, learn and retain. The negativity is the lesson, not the teacher. For one soul to harbour anger, jelousy or hatred towards another soul is self destructive in itself. In life you will receive that which you give. Your purpose here is to experience Love in all shapes and forms in as many ways as possible, this should be the end result of your lessons, all lesson should return to unconditional love, this is the golden ring to strive to achieve, most are far from attaining this so don't feel discouraged by the process, it is the easiest yet most difficult lesson to achieve, when it's time, you will, just keep living it as fully as possible, make the difference to whatever degree you can, with whom and wherever you can but make a difference. It begins within yourself, you cannot give love on the condition that love is returned for love is given freely and to whatever degree, love can have no conditions attached. We cannot make others love us no matter how desperately we try to the intensity we wish, love is a personal thing belonging to each soul and given in the way each relationship is called for in our path's lessons, whether as friends or lovers it is no less, love is love. most lover's love. is more intense yet more fragile often sweeping you off to a lesson, friendships are far longer lasting with few lessons attatched, friends on earth are close connection when home, your true supports in life. most tend to take an all or nothing stance in a lover's love. When we don't receive that you feel rejection when in fact there is none, you create your own monster. You can't control love, whether your's or others by a volume switch based on your impressions. Love is love. You live lives where everything is measured and labeled, size, wieght, distance, time, these are all your five sensory parameters to allow you to function there. Love has no bounds no parameters and no labels. It is a state of being, of feeling, your true existence. If you take the all or nothhing stance here, you will only succeed in driving that love away if you continue to "pull" it towards you it will strain to not be controlled it will fight and rebel, for it's uncontrollable, in the end you and it will collapse in frustration if you try to control something that is not a commodity and is not your's to control. You feel that if you can't have love in your lives full time, or those you wish to love you, then you don't have love, in fact, once love is given to whatever degree or depth you carry the sense of that all of your lives. You always have God's love, you are never loveless. If you love someone in another part of the world, it doesn't mean that this love is less real as long as it's mutual. Sometimes the love you wish for now may be out of time, meaning it may return mutually when both parties have completed neccessary and seperate lessons required. Remeber, if you try to make others love us to the intensity of "what we feel or need" at that time and it's not the same intensity to them, you then risk driving them away. If needed the souls will simply shut down what love they do have to remove themselves from the pressure of what's materializing in the relationship. Hence, the all of nothing syndrome or, Love Hate scenario and the self fulfilling prophecy inflicted upon yourselves. You need to accept the positivity that Love brings and not the negatives, on can never lose in love, if you hurt from the lesson, the positive is that you've felt love. It's important to remember that relationships fail far more often than friendships, especially friendships based on unconditional love and freedoms with no strings attached. There are some things in your paths you can't control, You can hope people accept the love you offer and that thet use it respectfully, Whether as friends or deeper and the fact that it is accepted is a triumph alone. I can't stress this saying enough, "It's the reaching out with love that is important, not the results. You know this saying. Forcing love can only bring dissappointment, fear, anger and eventually judgements and at the worst anger and resentment. All of these negatives are based in ego, rejection which is only evident with how it's perceived and is usually self created. The inability of some to share or give love to others whoever they may be is often a cycle learning problem, they usually weren't given love themselves, this often comes from an inability of those involved to know how to express love, not so much as not having the love to give, this is a lesson to learn. Love cannot be earned, it is freely given. It is fruitless for a child to spend years trying to qualify for the love of a parent or parents when those parents are trying to learn to give the love they seek, if you can't attain that love feel for them, do not pain for yourselves, that is ego. You always have God's unconditional love which far exceedes the reality you are dealing with there. As a child you aren't at that reality of knowing, yet as years go by, as adults we should be. You are your own individual light, not reliant on others to shine, yet others increase the light. When seeking love one needs to go within self to assertain as to why their "need" is so intense, if it stems from a lack of love from a parent they then have to reflect as to why those souls don't appear to love you or why they don't know how to express that love. Either way, it becomes their baggage, as long as you are reaching out or are open to receiving love freely given, you're fulfilling purpose and they aren't, it may not be that they can't give love but in fact, do not know how to receive it, allow that and find some peace in that alone if nothing else, it's a building base. Unfortunately, you can't always expect everyone to achieve the same success as you or to be at the same place as you are in the spiritual developement, they may not have the background to fully aquire this lesson successfully. Souls are all at different levels of development in learning. keeping this in mind, what should become obvious to you, is not so to others. allow them compassion and forgiveness for their shortcomings, yet do not contribute to their being stuck, make them learn no matter how difficult the choices. If souls shut down participating in love and love exchanges to whatever level is agreed upon with these souls, you then deprive them as well as yourselves, for their learning and your teaching. The hardest and most difficult lesson to accept here is how well and to what degree one is being accepted and loved by all those we wish it from. This comes from a deep insecurity within self, not to mention how much we accept our own love for self, then others are blamed when they don't give that which can't be, learn what is love and what is friendship, lessen your pains. why does one "need" to be loved and accepted, first of all "want" is a much better term, not as desperate as "need". When one wants to be loved and it doesn't materialize in the way we envision or feel it shatters your very being, to your very core, even to the extreme that one can't live without that person's love, how foolish that one should feel they are nothing without someone else. The only love really needed to survive here is God's and your own, in fact you cannot ever be without love if you see God. Never discount love received because it's less then you expected or wanted. Love in whatever form is Love and is precious to hold. Always remember before others can love and accept you for you or vice versa love must be your own base, one cannot give sugar to a neighbour if there is non in the cupboard just as you cannot give love if there is none within you, for you . If someon were to ask for a full bowl of sugar but all you can offer is a half bowl, It should not be declined or the offer refused altogether and walk away from, sugar is sugar and you take whatever is offered with the thanks for the sharing, it still makes life sweet. Thank them for the sharing. It's really that simple. Take what you learn and fulfill your purpose. Peace. Geoff.