tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post1061963034912680467..comments2024-03-14T07:29:46.679-07:00Comments on Baha'i Coherence: Animal Companions in Life and DeathBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06536028746119658713noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-25577348818361347972019-08-14T11:36:25.574-07:002019-08-14T11:36:25.574-07:00I think it is in "Abdu'l Bah a in London&...I think it is in "Abdu'l Bah a in London".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12499227098879483379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-6688388813371384302014-08-07T00:07:12.130-07:002014-08-07T00:07:12.130-07:00I've been searching for a long time for a quot...I've been searching for a long time for a quote by Abdu'l-Baha that I read a long time ago and can no longer find. Can any of the Bahai's help me locate a passage in which Abdu'l-Baha talks about our beloved pets being in the next world if we need them. It was in reference to an elderly woman who was devastated by the loss of her dogs and asked Abdu'l-Baha if she would be re-united with them in the next world, to which He replied that she wouldn't need her pets in the next world, but if she did need them, they would be there for her. Patrick and I derive much solace from the Baha'i Writings with regards to our children who died during my various pregnancies and who we know we will meet in the next world. It would also give us much solace if we knew our beloved pets would also be re-united with us in the next world. Thanks for any input you might have on this subject.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01076058604860511603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-14526288692037749002014-02-12T01:26:02.631-08:002014-02-12T01:26:02.631-08:00Thank you for this study Emily, however, I would l...Thank you for this study Emily, however, I would like to comment on your idea: "when a human dies, nothing of the person’s material life goes along with the departing human soul. Not an atom, not a quark, not a gluon." <br />We speak about a soul "departing", but a divine essence, as Baha'u'llah explains in Iqan p 98 "is immensely exalted beyond every human attribute, such as corporeal existence, ascent and descent, egress and regress." To my understanding the soul is immaterial and has no geographical site and neither arrives nor departs. The "appearance" of the soul at conception does not imply that the soul descends or arrives, but it appears, just as an LSA appears when it's members meet and disappears when the members depart to reappear when the LSA meets, makes decisions or acts. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01941288526950265160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-41438269892567401582009-07-19T16:59:21.782-07:002009-07-19T16:59:21.782-07:00Thank you for your contribution, Emily. I wrote a ...Thank you for your contribution, Emily. I wrote a paper and put it on Baha'i-Library a few years ago. A few days ago, I was thinking about revising and contributing it for a topic of discussion for Cognition as well; and I looked - and here you presented this fresh look on the topic so eloquently. You re-articulation Jason is a nice summary of this idea. Here's the first two paragraphs of the 9-page paper I wrote on the subject (Now also posted in full, as "Part II" on this subject):<br /><br />This essay was prompted from questions from a friend interested in the Bahá’í Faith and I did a quick search on Bahá’í-Library online, but I did not find any answers to the question of my satisfaction. There was a thread that began a couple of years ago on this topic with a nice compilation for a reply, but I felt it is due more treatment. This essay is meant as my own personal hermeneutic on the subject, based on what the Bahá’í Writings say on the reality of members of the animal kingdom and its relationship to the purely spiritual realm the Scriptures say that a person enters upon death. With this analysis of the Writings, I encourage Bahá’í friends to take on a much more nuanced approached to this question, rather than the simple, “When your animal dies they are gone forever.”<br /><br />Many Bahá’ís who have taken a look at this question or heard from other Bahá’ís answer this question with a fairly accurate articulation of the Bahá’í view: "NO – animals do not have eternal souls that go to heaven.” However, there are many people who have very strong relationships with their pets and animals in general and just giving this somewhat over generalized answer can lack sensitivity as well as be missing a broad overview look of the Baha'i Writings on such a subject. Furthermore, with an expansive reading of the Writings and their description of spiritual and physical reality, another view might be developed. I am going to suggest that although it is true that the individual personality of an individual animal lasts only the span of its mortal life on earth, this personality or “spirit” that we attracted to is based on the eternal Signs and Attributes of God, which are our companions all the more substantially in the purely spiritual realm of existence that we enter upon death.Daniel_APhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11940324671777642844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-10658337075905014862009-07-19T15:57:49.095-07:002009-07-19T15:57:49.095-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Daniel_APhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11940324671777642844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-44306345616531440612009-07-19T15:54:46.580-07:002009-07-19T15:54:46.580-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Daniel_APhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11940324671777642844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-17643656024666327502009-07-17T16:24:43.786-07:002009-07-17T16:24:43.786-07:00I like the last analogy about the experiences shar...I like the last analogy about the experiences shared between human and animal being imprinted onto the human soul. In the writings it states that all things possess certain names and attributes of God. I grew up with a black labrador retriever, who gave me a lot of memorys and taught me a couple of attributes which now I can take with me in this life and beyondJasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17162527239228375591noreply@blogger.com