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‘Ugly dog’ Sam dies at 14
SANTA BARBARA, California (AP)—Sam, the dog whose ugliness earned him TV appearances, limousine rides and even a meeting with millionaire Donald Trump, has died, the Santa Barbara News-Press reported Tuesday.
The pooch with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head died Friday, just short of his 15th birthday, said his owner, Susie Lockheed.
“I don’t think there’ll ever be another Sam,” she said, adding wryly, “Some people would think that’s a good thing.”
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My dear dog lovers and friends, an explanation for your understanding of the departed doggy Sam.
Existence is larger than life or death. Life and death are both states of existence. An identity exists whether it is in the state of life or in the state of death. Sam dog’s consciousness never was dependent upon its physical form. Instead, the consciousness was itself choosing the experience of dog hood. There was nothing that said: ‘This consciousness must be a dog.’
Sam belonged in another probability, and in a fashion Susie, the owner switched probabilities for him, though without his consent, when she took him as a stray for adoption, otherwise he would have soon been ‘done away with.’ His 14 years with her represented a grace period for him. He did not make this probability his own because of what you may call ‘other commitments’—or rather, other purposes.
There is no such thing as a dog consciousness, basically speaking, or a cat consciousness. In those terms, there are instead simply consciousnesses that choose to take certain focuses.
Towards the end, Susie knew Sam was about to die. So did the plants in your house, and the trees outside your door. The cellular announcement was made that the strong possibility existed, for the birth and death of each cell is known to all cells in the world. Cellular communication is too fast for you to follow. The dog could have changed its mind, of course, but the signals were sent out, and ahead of time.
The quality of identity is far more mysterious than you can understand, for you assign an identity in a blanket fashion, say, to each living thing.
Now the dead dog, Sam exists in the following manner: The units of consciousness that organized to form his identity as you knew it, still form that pattern—but not physically. The dog exists as itself in the greater living memory of its own ‘larger’ selfhood. Its organization—the dog’s—exists inviolately, but as a part of the greater psychic organization from which it came.
That identity of Sam’s remains vital, known to itself whether or not it is reactivated in your terms. This is not necessarily always the case—and there is great variation—but Sam identified with ‘the larger organization’ of the litter [that is, with his brothers and sisters, all of whom are also dead], and the consciousnesses of that litter are now together. They are forming a gestalt, where they will merge to form a new identity.
Comment :: November 23, 2005 @ 11:52 am