Medium Danielle MacKinnon and what happens to our deceased pets

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I liked Danielle MacKinnon when she was on Bob Olson's show years ago.

She has a channel now with her own videos. The information she shares comes only through her own mediumistic work through animals that have crossed over, or are about to. It's not related to any "teachings" from others.

I've put these videos in a relevant order.

1 - What is the process when the animal's body dies and the soul "crosses over?


2- Who greets the animal when he/she crosses over? (Answer: Everyone in your soul group, most likely all the major players in your life, human and animals, including you, who are already there in that form. We shouldn't think of the "other side" as something separate from here. Comforting thoughts.)


3- What does the animal do "on the other side?" (Answer: it's completely an individual thing depending on the animal.)


4- Does your pet reincarnate? (Answer: yes, but the animal usually incarnates only once in your lifetime. He/she, as other members of your soul group, are likely to reincarnate with you in your next lifetime.)

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The interview with past-life hypnotherapist Steve Burgess on the Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harold (April 21, 2020) that I posted in an another thread, is followed in the second half by an interview about "animal soul contracts" with Tammy Billups.

It dovetails with some of the videos at the top of the thread.

It starts at 38 minutes.

Listen to or download this before it gets put behind a paid archive:
https://jimharold.com/the-power-of-past-...dcast-635/


New book: Animal Soul Contracts: Sacred Agreements for Shared Evolution

I liked Danielle MacKinnon when she was on Bob Olson's show years ago.

She has a channel now with her own videos. The information she shares comes only through her own mediumistic work through animals that have crossed over, or are about to. It's not related to any "teachings" from others.

I've put these videos in a relevant order.

Intriguing and perhaps a glimpse of the truth. However, I have always wondered what "animal communicators" like MacKinnon would say about the countless millions of farmed animals raised in incredibly inhumane conditions for food, then brutally killed and processed. These animals, such as cattle, pigs and chickens, have no meaningful human contacts and a horrible life experience. But according to MacKinnon they must have immortal souls just as do our pets like dogs and cats and horses. What is the experience of these spirits?

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Good question. Not only their experience, but their "role" in that sense.

Maybe it's possible to contact Danielle through her youtube channel and ask her. If I see there's a way, I'll do it.

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I would imagine that the answer from Danielle's point of view will revolve around humans being here in the service of mankind.

In this latest video (2 days ago), she makes a nuance at the beginning between being "of service" and "serving".



In the meantime, I also noticed this little exchange with a youtube listener and Danielle below one of her videos:

Viewer: I have trouble believing that all animals are here merely to serve us. That seems very anthropocentric to me, as if everything is about us. I think they have their own soul journeys. The vast majority of animals throughout the billions of years on the planet never once encountered a human being, so it doesn't make sense that they are here only for us. I also have a hard time believing that every animal who we encounter, even every insect, has a soul contract with us. That seems to water down the notion of a soul contract to the point where it loses meaning and significance. I love your stuff generally, and I'm very grateful for your work, but, respectfully, I disagree with some of the ideas here.

Danielle MacKinnon: Hi Ed - yes, I've heard this before and I've talked to the animals about it before. They view being in service as the ultimate gift. Maybe people view being in service differently than that - but from what the animals have shared with me, THIS gift is their journey. However, all I ask from my channel is that you take home what resonates with you and leave the rest. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8D_Asu44ec

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I would imagine that the answer from Danielle's point of view will revolve around humans being here in the service of mankind.

Watching now this video, I imagine the answer would not be that simple. It probably depends on the animals and what their context here is.

Here she is connecting to the suffering of elephants in a zoo.

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Nbtruthman, I just found this post by an animal communicator on her blog that seems to directly pertain to your question:

Penelope Smith
How Do Animals Feel About Human Cruelty?

A reader asks: I wonder how animals see suffering and that cruelty and lack of empathy typical to a large part of humankind. It is often unbearable to think of so many animals suffering all around the world.

When I began to connect with animals to answer this question, a large black bull standing in a grassy field came into my awareness and offered himself as a representative for animalkind, delivering this message:

We understand humans are animals who have lost their way. We other animals know we are here to enjoy our physical bodies and the tasks we do to create harmony and support in the web of life for all other beings. We enjoy our lives and are not hampered by mental complications that build walls and cause humans to forget to be happy in being who they are.

We are eternal spirits in the play of form. We appear in a body for a short time to enjoy creation and being creators on this Earth until we return home to the spiritual realm to dwell in the fullness of Spirit, Oneness, or God.

Humans live much of their lives in fear of what may happen. We do not. As I stand in this field, I breathe the smell of grass and earth and feel how beautiful it all is. The sky and field are one space surrounding me with light and life. When I lie down to sleep, I dream of floating in the light of my beautiful life here and all that is beyond.

I am aware that my body is bred to be food for humans. I chose to experience this form and I do not dwell on death, which will come to all in one way or another. When I die, my body goes to nourish others’ lives, as my life was nourished by other bodies, and on it goes. After enjoying the spiritual realm again, I have a choice to return to Earth according to my journey through time, dwelling again in cow form or experiencing other forms in the grand adventure.

Any suffering I experience is a brief moment of holding on to something in the vast drama of life-to-life learning. I learn what I need to evolve as a soul and move on. I am aware of having experienced many types of existence, including human lifetimes. (...)

Nbtruthman, I just found this post by an animal communicator on her blog that seems to directly pertain to your question:

Penelope Smith
How Do Animals Feel About Human Cruelty?

Beautiful expressions of what must be believed by the communicator to be spiritual truth. It's just that I am continually appalled by the brief and miserable animal lives lived in filthy feed lots, pens and farm factories by so many countless millions of food animals, who seem not to have any opportunity at all to savor the goodness of life (unlike life in the wild). The bull speaks of the shortness of physical life and suffering in the eternity of the soul, but suffering can seem to go on forever to the actual sufferer who is trapped in the body. This last unfortunately also applies to human beings. This teaching from the bull in the field may really be the spiritual truth, but it seems more to be the truth of the soul rather than of the embodied animal. It is from the perspective of the soul. It would not be the sentiments of the embodied animal. All the animal knows is that it is suffering, or at least that seems a reasonable inference from what we can see.

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Very possibly. If you watch the video with the elephants, Danielle connects (if you believe it) psychically with the animal as it is on earth (in this case elephants suffering of confinement and isolation), and it definitely is an experience of ongoing suffering.

With respect to a bull, if most of its life is feeding on grass out in the open, probably just that experience of "being" is positive, or neutral, but yes animals experiencing living in horrid human-caused conditions is another thing.

I'll try to tailor my attempt to communicate with her to address the question of the suffering of animals in the cases you describe.

This teaching from the bull in the field may really be the spiritual truth, but it seems more to be the truth of the soul rather than of the embodied animal. It is from the perspective of the soul. It would not be the sentiments of the embodied animal. All the animal knows is that it is suffering, or at least that seems a reasonable inference from what we can see.

I sympathise with your view, but in the example you reference, the statement "All the animal knows is that it is suffering" seems a bit of a cherry-picked concept. One might equally state, "All the animal knows is that it is enjoying its life".

Admittedly in the case of farmed animals, there is a wide range of circumstances, much of it brutal. Nevertheless, an animal grazing in a field, or a sheep roaming over wild moorland, these animals often seem to be at peace rather than suffering. I'm not saying this as a supporter or promoter of farmed animals, but only as an observation. As a child, though not nowadays, I also witnessed cattle-markets where all manner of beasts were traded, as well as seeing animals going to the slaughterhouse and their carcasses minutes later. As a child it seemed inhumane to me, not the actual slaughter, but the way animals were transported and pushed this way and that, forcefully, it was brutal. But in the longer timescale of an entire lifetime of each animal, there are times of tranquility too.

Yes - I'm cherry-picking, but I think we need some balance here.