Micciah responds to the question, “How do animals serve and heal us in this lifetime?” Then urges the class to celebrate life.

   Micciah: And Julia, your wonderful question about animals.

   Julia: Thank you Micciah. Such a great experience to be with you. I’m curious to know how animals serve and heal us in this lifetime.

   Micciah: In so many, many ways. Those cultures that understand the animals are your teachers, [to Jared]  something your mother understood so well. The animals are your teachers. All these elaborate experiments to understand the intelligence of animals and, “Such a surprise! [class laughs] How could these other creatures who don’t look like us, don’t talk the way we do, have feathers, claws, fur, wings… That is amazing! How do they know that?”
   Animals are part of the angelic realms. They have their own evolution, if you will, into the realms of the devas. So the cultures where they take their teachings from the animals are very wise. Animals are… Assist, both in your living and your dying. The familiar animals that are common house animals, cats and dogs, birds, on farms where there are other animals, or people who are close to other animals. To attune… To allow yourself to attune to the animals wisdom, and caring. We don’t mean to romanticize this. Animals can also be brutal as can you, as animals, as humans. But to invite the teaching of animals, to acknowledge them. To be in the relationship of being told, what is your wisdom? What is your wisdom? My dog friends, my cat friends, my bird friends. They have so much to teach if you open your awareness.
   This whole session, really, has been, in great part about opening awareness. Opening awareness to those in other realms because they have passed. Opening awareness to those whose cognitive abilities are different from yours, to those who are passing.
   So, if you would attune to an animal and ask for their teaching, and open yourself to it, you will receive it. They are so wise with so many more gifts than you imagine. Not just in healing, but in living. If you look at those cultures where animals are teachers. The teaching of the wolf. The teaching of coyote. The teaching of crow, the teaching of raven. And they have different things to teach. Different awarenesses. It take stillness when you are learning from animals. Stillness of the conscious mind. Shh, shh. Open awareness. What might I receive? And it will be extraordinary.
   So, we will leave you with that. Always and in all ways in your life, celebrate life itself, with everything in it. Celebrate yourself, which is the last question which you did not get done. Celebrate yourself. Appreciate your body, the food you eat, the people you love. Open your heart. Open your heart. Open your heart to celebrate and appreciate. That is how the sadness of self-hatred heals. And if you cannot do it yourself yet, you can work with someone who can be celebrating you so you can catch it. If you work in a healing relationship with someone, it is crucial for “the healer.” Both people are being healed. There is no teacher and no taught. No student. The first thing is to celebrate the awareness of the other. Though so many of you in this group have been trained to work with people in a variety of ways. Celebrate your own aliveness and bow to them. Whatever is happening. So you are two souls bowing to each other in the midst of this world.
   So, we thank you. We thank you for sharing your time with us. And we bid you a very good evening.

   Julie: Give me a moment to shift back. [To Jon] Can I move? Is that OK?
   Now, for seeing in this realm I need to put my glasses back on. Thank you all. Those were such wonderful questions. [thank-yous around] And just looking at things from that perspective is always glorious.
   Animals… [nods] Wolf. [laughs]