Hello Allen,

I understand what you mean about animals having souls. Our border collie has the intelligence of a three to five year old child. She invents games and teaches us how to play them without our realizing what she's doing. Only later do we figure out what she was doing and the game she had invented.

An Amazon parrot had a 1,500 word vocabulary and spoke in sentences. Animals don't have vocal chords, so we underestimate what they know. Animals love, mourn, make tools, and all the other things that humankind had to learn over millennia.

I can only tell you what my sources are. There is a science of the afterlife. We evaluate sources for their validity and reliability. We then look to see whether other valid, reliable sources are saying the same thing. When we have several valid, reliable sources stating the same thing, then we say what they're asserting has a high probability of being true.

My sources are primarily people who spoke in Leslie Flint seances. Flint's seances had a high validity and reliability factor because he was tested so thoroughly and because loved ones sitting in the seances carried on conversations with their deceased relatives, often regularly for weeks and years. My other source is the mediums such as the ones whose records were compiled into Crookall's The Supreme Adventure.

Speakers in Flint seances said that animals we love, such as pets, have lives on the next plane of life because we love them. If we didn't have that love for an animal, such as a squirrel in the forest, its identity would not continue. On the other hand, I don't read or hear a number of valid, reliable sources saying every mammal, reptile, insect, and microbe that ever was on the Earth plane continues its existence on some other plane of life.

As a result, I have to conclude that animals continue as long as we continue to love them. When they become meaningless to us, they lose their meaning; they cease to be in anyone's consciousness.

Love and peace, Craig