GAnimals are “Daimones”, guidance spirits. Whether we realize it or not, the animals that are by our side are our “Daimones”, that is, our guidance spirits. And, beyond the hairy friends who are with us every day, any animal that we can meet represents an aspect of the soul of the world; In this sense it is the incarnation of an archetype. He can embody the archetype of mother, father, brother, friend or enemy, warrior or protector and many others.
Since a sincere narration can explain all this much better than many concepts, Now I will tell you about something that happened to me personally And then I will bring you a small but significant story that sees Pythagoras as the protagonist. I would like both these episodes to help you think moren depth of how much the rational mind could do, think with the thought of the heart.
Selene Calloni Williams: “The meeting with my Zoe”
Twelve years have already passed since that day when I made a dream I had since I was a child: having a dog San Bernardo. It was a beautiful puppy, although nobody had wanted him because of the fact that he was long -haired (apparently people prefer the short hair) and were truly giant since he was a puppy. “It will come out of the standard measures, when he is an adult, he can have the dysplasia of the hips,” the breeder told me. I took it to avoid an uncertain future of unwanted dog.
He was a female and I called him Zoe. I spent almost eight wonderful years with her. Since I live in Switzerland, near a wood, I felt just like Heidi. Then, one morning, I found her dead. The day before we had taken a long walk for the woodsI had given her to eat, had eaten with taste. Yet, the following morning he was there, he puts on his side with a stream of blood that came out of his mouth.
“Zoe appeared in my dream”
A sudden death, inexplicable for me, not for the veterinarian who told me that Sanbernardo dogs reach a maximum age ranging from 8 to 10 years, And so my dog was already old, according to the standard. They told me that if I wanted to make the autopsy to ascertain the causes of death I would have had to go to Bern, but Covid was full, it could not be circulated. I made it cremate and buried the remains in the garden, under the Kiwi plant, where she loved to stay.
I was still in the pity, when I dreamed it. He told me it would be reincarnate in a lion dog. During a direct social I said about this dream, admitting that I did not know at all what the expression “Leone dog” could mean. A gentleman who told me to be a Leone dog breeder.
Apparently there is a breed of Tibetan dogs, Lhasa APSO, which are called “lion dogs” because of the hair which, if not tosted, becomes a sort of manedue to their typical posture and the fact that the Tibetan monks traditionally use them as dogs for the surveillance of temples, as they have a highly developed hearing and can warn someone’s arrival.
Selene Calloni Williams: “Zoe has become Aki”
I was happy to learn this news, but nothing more. After a month, the lord of the breeding contacted me again to tell me that a litter was born in which there was A dog with white and hazelnut colored that looked like a miniature San Bernardo and told me that I wanted to give it. On the first I was speechless and then I greeted him. I went to the garden, under the kiwi.
“Is it really you?” I asked Zoe. Then, without thinking, under the push of an unstoppable impulse, I returned to the house and called the breeder to tell him that I accepted the dog and I thanked him a lot.
I know that Akí, my lhasa opso, is Zoe’s reincarnation, I have had several tests, But I didn’t need it; I feel in my heart that Akí and Zoe are a single soul, my animal daimon, a form of my guiding spirit. Akí and I are inseparable. She was with me everywhere: in Mongolia, Siberia, America, Japan, in many other places in the world.
In the winter between 2025 and 2026 we will go to a monastery on the border between the Tibet and the Arunachal Pradesh, I will lead her to visit the places of the origins of her breed.
The reincarnation of animals
In the Buddhist tradition, reincarnation is a central part of the world vision. The idea that our current lives are only one aspect of a continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth (“Samsara”) is closely linked to the understanding of the continuous development of consciousness, understood as the manifestation of a awakened mind, the conquest of the “Bodhi”, or “lighting” and the understanding of the role played by Karma in the process of awakening.
The concept of reincarnation also exists in western thought, orfism and pytagorism. Pythagoras believed in metempsicosis, that is, the immortality of the soul and its reincarnation in another body after death. Since of life in life, of death in death, The human form is not the only one that the soul can take, but it can also embody itself in the forms of an animal, At the center of the Pythagorean lifestyle dominates vegetarianism.
Eating an animal can be equivalent to eating your mother or grandmother, Especially since the same souls always tend to find themselves together, even if not always in the same forms. The most clear example of this is reported to us by Senophanes, according to which Pythagoras, hearing the voice of a beaten dog, recognized the soul of a deceased friend of his and therefore implored the mistreator to give up.
Selene Calloni Williams: “Animals are guided spirits”
In Pythagorean thought we also find the concept of repercussion of the lives which reflects very closely the principle of Buddhist karma. According to this law, the actions we do during a lifetime have consequences in subsequent lives. Also Plato, referring to Orfism and Pythagoreanism, treats, especially in the myth of Er, the reincarnation of the reincarnation. And after Plato, the doctrine of reincarnation will find himself in neoplatonism and in various other schools of thought: gnosticism esotericism, Hermeticism.
We are all that we can imagine we are. See beyond the boundaries of a single life with the gaze of the heart, It means loving every creature because, beyond time, in the great circle of life, if we meet it on our journey, it represents us. We never see anything “at random”: iThe flight of a bird, the wings of the wings of a butterfly, a fish that flicks in a river, none of these images is random.
Every living being we meet is a Daimon for us, a guiding spirit, we must listen to its secret language.
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