{"id":134,"date":"2009-11-17T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-11-19T12:31:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:31:40","slug":"allegory-of-the-duck-billed-platypus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Allegory of the Duck Billed Platypus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0The idea is that our consciousness is spread across a multitude of dimensions with lower and parts. Parts of it continue in and out of this world until perfected and parts are presently in what we might call &#8220;heaven&#8221;. Not reincarnation in the Hindu sense, but not just us and God above either.<\/p>\n<p>Paradox. Check the side links if you want to know more.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so the lower part of me &#8211; the animal side has wants and desires I guess. I can feel it from time to time when my more primal things become engaged. There are reasons for urges, but the question is how to channel those into a transformational force. I&#8217;m not sure yet.<\/p>\n<p>When my body dies &#8211; the energy associated with that part of me would theoretically\u00c2\u00a0 return to earth and perhaps go out as an animal of some kind. Perhaps advanced souls&#8217; animal natures are those cats capable of games such as fetch; birds capable of delivering messages; dogs capable of all manner of tricks; etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have begun to look at abnormalities within nature to better understand this world and perhaps the world without. There are certainly a number of &#8220;odd&#8221; animals to contemplate.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingdulcinea.com\/news\/environment\/2009\/june\/Gay-Penguins-in-Germany-Rear-Their-Own-Chick.html\">Gay penguins<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 What about the duck billed platypus?<\/p>\n<p>The duck billed platypus has enough venom to kill a dog I recently learned. It is a mammal that lays eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 Confused? Perhaps that is the animal nature of a confused person as it returns to this world. Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>What about the hag fish? I&#8217;m sure the list goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0The idea is that our consciousness is spread across a multitude of dimensions with lower and parts. Parts of it continue in and out of this world until perfected and parts are presently in what we might call &#8220;heaven&#8221;. Not reincarnation in the Hindu sense, but not just us and God above either. Paradox. Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pondering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unscriptural.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}