It's a common widespread belief that the human being is more spiritually evolved than all other animals. I'm not so sure about this. Animals are manifestations of pure spirit, and are connected with eachother regardless of species in a way in which man has noticed but can scarcely understand fully. Perhaps that is because we have fallen from grace and have somehow been disconnected consciously on many levels from mental spiritual consciousnesses the animals still share with one another. Because of our fall from grace, or this greater conscious connection and awareness of the spiritual and spiritual forms of communications, we have had to evolve our speach and awareness of the lower physical means and modes to make up for this loss. In essence, we may be the fallen, the lost, and the lower spiritual creatures. Our greater need for cleverness to survive this loss of greater spiritual connection and understanding may be responsible for our unique evolution, our greater destructive natures, and invention of sciences, religions, and languages. Because we became blind, deaf, and ignorant we have become the poor disfunctional creatures we are today. Just a thought these recent threads have me considering. Thoughts from one who often soul speaks with animals and who has become aware that they aren't quite what we believe them to be, and have a lot more understanding than they let on.