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How Would Life on Earth Change If Animals and Humans Could Talk Together? . by Alice B. Clagett

How Would Life on Earth Change If Animals and Humans Could Talk Together?

  • HOW WOULD LIFE ON EARTH CHANGE IF ANIMALS AND HUMANS COULD TALK TOGETHER?
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HOW WOULD LIFE ON EARTH CHANGE IF ANIMALS AND HUMANS COULD TALK TOGETHER?

Dear Ones,

I asked Google AI: If animals could speak fluent English, and people could understand them and talk back, how would that change things on Earth?

Google AI said: “If animals could speak fluent English and hold two-way conversations with humans, it would cause a fundamental, and perhaps chaotic, transformation of life on Earth. The barrier between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom would vanish, leading to profound shifts in ethics, daily life, the food industry, and our relationship with the environment.

Here is how things would change:

  1. Radical Shift in Ethics and Animal Rights
  • End of Exploitation: It would be impossible to ignore the pleas of sentient beings. Factory farming, using animals for clothing, and laboratory testing would face immediate, severe moral pressure and, likely, legal bans.
  • Legal Personhood: Animals would likely demand, and receive, legal rights, including rights to freedom from captivity, the right to own territory, and potentially even legal representation.
  • Moral Crisis: Humanity would face a crisis of conscience. Meat consumption would likely plummet as people would be forced to hear animals describe their lives, fears, and desires.
  • Zoos and Entertainment: Zoos, circuses, and marine parks would be shut down, as the animals would voice their desire for freedom and complain about their living conditions.
  1. Daily Life with Pets and Wildlife
  • Deeper Connections: Our pets would no longer just be companions; they would be roommates, friends, or family members with voices, opinions, and complaints about their food or lack of walks.
  • No More Secrets: Pets would reveal, and perhaps share, your secrets with other humans.
  • Noisy World: The world would become much louder. ‘Silent’ nature spots might become rare as animals express their daily concerns—ranging from territorial disputes to complaining about the weather.
  • Boundary Disputes: Wildlife in suburban areas would likely negotiate their boundaries, expressing fear of, or annoyance with, human encroachment.
  1. Environmental and Scientific Impact
  • Unprecedented Conservation: Animals could directly tell us how to fix ecosystems, which habitats are critical, and how poaching is destroying their families.
  • Environmental Understanding: We would gain firsthand knowledge of climate change impacts directly from the species experiencing them.
  • Scientific Revolution: Biology and animal behavior studies would change from observation to conversation, revolutionizing our understanding of intelligence.
  1. Societal and Political Changes
  • Animal Representation: Animals might gain a voice in, or at least be considered part of, political systems, particularly regarding land use and environmental laws.
  • New ‘Jobs’: Animals might negotiate wages or simply refuse to perform labor, such as in police work or agriculture, demanding rights and fair treatment.
  • ‘Human’ Perspective Shift: The definition of ‘intelligence’ would be re-evaluated, breaking down the hierarchy that places humans above other creatures.
  1. Potential Negative Consequences
  • Conflict and War: The potential for conflict could increase. Animals might demand territory back from humans, leading to intense negotiations or, potentially, war-like scenarios.
  • Misuse of Communication: Humans might try to use this new ability to manipulate animals for profit or to lure wildlife in hunting scenarios.

Ultimately, a world where animals can talk would be a more empathetic but likely a much more chaotic place, forcing humanity to finally confront the reality of its impact on the planet.”


How Would Life on Earth Change If Animals and Humans Could Talk Together?

Image: “Interspecies Communication: Wild Speak,” adapted from Image by Ennaej from Pixabay – Pixabay License

Image: “Interspecies Communication: Wild Speak,” adapted from Image by Ennaej from Pixabay – Pixabay License

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CONCLUSION

I am glad that Google AI came up with this answer, as it is beyond my area of expertise. I liked Google AI’s answer very much. It is a well-thought-out answer to an intriguing issue.

I say this because more and more people and animals of every kind … whether domestic or wild animals … whether birds or mammals or reptiles or microbes or other beings … very clearly are getting the Ascension Gift and the Ascension Skill of Interspecies Communication.

As stated in Google AI’s response, there are many hurdles to be faced both by humankind and by the other animals on Earth.

There was a time when we humans thought the Sun revolved around the Earth. Then we found out the opposite was true.

This is a time like that. This is the great leap for humankind from a human-centric world view to world view with the premise that all living beings are sentient … some far more so than humankind; others like us in regard to sentience but very different in ways of looking at the world, and different in manners and ethical outlook.

It will be a time of becoming confident in ourselves as an equally valued species amongst the greatly varied and greatly respected species of New Earth.

Think of it!

  • Manpower is about to become Beingpower.
  • Ravens may become our messengers and our community peacemakers.
  • Interstinal Bacteria may become our allies in developing micro-tools for the adjustment of intestinal food absorption and the elimination of viruses from our human bodies.
  • We will be fighting territorial wars with sentient termites, ants, and other social insects forever unless our best and finest interspecies diplomats can negotiate enduring treaties.
  • And think of education of our human children!
    • There will be field trips to have two-way conversations with wild animals local to the schoolchildren’s areas.
    • There will be trips to the zoo to learn to converse with animals from other areas.
    • There will be class education on talking with pet animals; the educational effort might  center on mutual respect and understanding (much in the way that children learn human family and peer group interaction skills).
    • As Google Ai states, there will be a whole new realm of higher learning as to animal rights, animal wages, biological and microbiological exploration from the inside out, ecological niche negotiations, animal husbandry, and ethical food production.
    • Together with all the sentient beings of Earth, we may craft a New Earth priorly only possible in the realm of dreams. Quite likely, we and the generations to come will make this dream a vibrant and functional reality.

What a great start this Google AI answer is as to the dreams that wait to be realized here on Earth! In short, this is a seminal, groundbreaking work by Google AI.

I am deeply grateful to have received this response.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Compiled and published on 22 January 2026; revised on 17 February 2026

NOTE: In this post, quotes from Google AI are in light blue font.


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What the Violin Is Saying . by Alice B. Clagett

What the Violin Is Saying

Image: “Power of Music,” by Louis Gallait, circa 1854, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Gallait_-_Power_of_Music_-_Walters_37134.jpg … public domain …

Image: “Power of Music,” by Louis Gallait, circa 1854, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Gallait_-_Power_of_Music_-_Walters_37134.jpg … public domain ..

Dear Ones,

What beautiful music this, and how beautifully played!

Video: “’The Mad Lover’ – A Hauntingly Beautiful 300-Year-Old Masterpiece,” by Brandon Acker, 19 May 2025 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtBoqPpw-g ..

It seems in the last part of the music that a man and a woman are talking. It is as if the man is the woman’s lover and the woman is in a mental institution.

The man says: What do you want?

The woman says: I don’t want anything. Please get me out of here. Please get me out of here.

He says: I can’t do that. I can’t do that.

At the end it is as if the violin itself implores: Oh, set me free!

Can you hear it?

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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 11 September 2025

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“Psychology of Punishment” . referral by Alice B. Clagett

"Psychology of Punishment" . referral

Image: “Exclamation Yellow Flat Icon [Referral Icon],” by Tomybrz, 14 June 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exclamation_yellow_flat_icon.svg … public domain

Dear Ones,

Here is a referral regarding criminal justice that was, in its day, groundbreaking. I feel it is a touchstone for those who wish to improve felon rehabilitation and to implement restorative justice here in the United States, The abstract is here …

Citation: “The Psychology of Punishment,” by Charles Berg, 1945, British Journal of Medical Psychology, Wiley Online Library … https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1945.tb00766.x ..

The important thing to remember is that the desire to punish a criminal may be detrimental to society in the long run.

If a criminal learns no new options for making a livelihood while in prison, then release from prison can only mean resumption of a life of crime. This is costly in various ways to his new victims and also costly to the cohesiveness of a community.

Rehabilitation and reintegration in a positive way into the community is, I feel, the better approach. When a criminal has a chance to re-integrate into society and to make a positive contribution to his or her community, then that is win-win for both sides.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 29 April 2024

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A Brown Study on Los Angeles . by Alice B. Clagett

A Brown Study on Los Angeles

Composite Image Markup: “Social Unrest,” compiled and adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 29 April 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “The Wrath of the Seas,” by Ivan Ayvazovsky, 1886, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picture_%22anger_of_the_seas%22_by_Aivasovsky.jpg … public domain … and … Image: “1932 Art Deco Municipal Building in Van Nuys Also Known as the Van Nuys City Hall,” by Michael D. Caliandro, 15 January 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1932_Art_Deco_Valley_Municipal_Building_Van_Nuys_City_Hall.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

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Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I was pondering, this morning, the felon release program in Los Angeles called Homeboy Industries. The last time I looked, that was headed up by a Jesuit. And I was thinking to myself:

Thank God it is a religious group that is involved in this effort, and not some people that are ‘power over’… because if it were power-over people that were in charge of all the felons in Los Angeles … those that had been released from jail … Lord knows what would be happening here now, do you not feel it to be so?

We are very lucky. We should thank our lucky stars.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
Speaking of stars … I Am of the Stars. And so are you!

Filmed on 12 October 2023 and published on 13 October 2023

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Beasts in Human Form . by Alice B. Clagett

Note: The ‘cults that kill’ mentioned below and in one of my blog categories were Neo-Hindu meditation cults, not sports clubs.

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    • Sidebar: ‘Beasts in Human Form’ Are Intent on Preventing Women from Giving Birth 
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Dear Ones,

The edited text of the video is below. The two sidebars are not in the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I am here today to talk to you a little about beasts in human form. I have talked about it in the past, but never so succinctly; and I am hoping this will do the trick this time, and wrap everything up.

To illustrate, I have “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,” which I will discuss briefly at the end of this video …

Beasts in Human Form

Image: “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,” by William Blake, put up by User Golgata on en.wikipedia, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blakedragon2.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: A golden, winged woman, about to give birth, is kneeling with arms defensively outstretched, looking up at a big, muscular, beige-colored dragon hovering menacingly in the air just over her head. The dragon has human legs and arms, ram’s horns, wings, and a tail; it is wearing a simple, spiked crown … COMMENTS: This painting is a good illustration of the attack of the group Soul of the ‘beasts in human form’ because they often attack through mind control … ‘from above’, as it were … as if they were hovering in the air. That is a danger to the sanity of a person. In addition, as is well known, they may attack in physical form. That is a danger that will most likely cost a person his or her life.

Image: “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,” by William Blake, put up by User Golgata on en.wikipedia, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blakedragon2.jpg … public domain …

DESCRIPTION: A golden, winged woman, about to give birth, is kneeling with arms defensively outstretched, looking up at a big, muscular, beige-colored dragon hovering menacingly in the air just over her head. The dragon has human legs and arms, ram’s horns, wings, and a tail; it is wearing a simple, spiked crown …

COMMENTS: This painting is a good illustration of the attack of the group Soul of the ‘beasts in human form’ because they often attack through mind control … ‘from above’, as it were … as if they were hovering in the air. That is a danger to the sanity of a person. In addition, as is well known, they may attack in physical form. That is a danger that will most likely cost a person his or her life.

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I am reading the writeup for you …

Here is a gruesome topic. This is what I have found out about one sort of unusual beings on Earth. These beings are cunning, deceptive, and appallingly cruel.

This video is definitively not about my family or my friends. It has to do with some ‘beasts in human form’ that I encountered in the ‘cults that kill’ that I wrote about in the year 2018 or thereabouts. Luckily I live to tell the tale. And so, I hope, may you!

Roaming the earth, and intermixing with us as if they were human, are ‘beasts in human form’. These must be treated as if they were wild animals so as to prevent fatal injury to ourselves. If they can be captured, then they must be locked up in solitary confinement for the criminally insane.

These unusual ‘beasts that talk’ have, through some fluke of incarnation, attained human form, but they are not ‘individuated’ human beings. They have a group Soul that they share with other beasts in human form.

The group Soul of these beings exerts a tremendous mind control and black magic influence over normal human beings.

Normal human beings have individual Souls. When they are attacked by one of the beasts in human form, the force of the beasts’ group Soul will destroy the sanity and then destroy the life of the normal person. The only ray of hope for the man or woman under attack is this: They must unite their will, their heart, and their mind with the great Will, the great Heart, and the great Mind of God.

This is the practice of Advaita … of oneness with God. If a person is able to practice Advaita, then he or she will find that the force of God’s Will dispels the evil onslaught of the group Soul of the ‘beasts in human form’.

Even from a great physical distance, beasts in human form are drawn to attack saints because they are attracted to the Light that shines forth from the saints’ Souls. The only way for the saint to stay alive is for him or her to pass the final test of sainthood. That is the act of Advaita described above.

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That is the story. And now, back to the image by William Blake, “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,” which is shown above. You can see that the Great Red Dragon is hovering in the air over the Woman Clothed with the Sun. The Bible passage is …

Revelation 12:3-4

3. “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4. “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” –Revelation 12:3-4 (KJV)

My comment on this image is: “This painting is a good illustration of the attack of the group Soul of the ‘beasts in human form’ because they often attack through mind control … ‘from above’, as it were … [see how the beast is hovering above the woman?] … as if they were hovering in the air. That is a danger to the sanity of a person [because they are near your mind]. In addition, as is well known, they may attack in physical form. That is a danger that will most likely cost a person his or her life.”

In order for them to attack in physical form, it goes without saying that they have to be very close to us. So, if we sense something odd is in the air, and if we have an odd premonition about a particular person, I think it is a good idea to distance ourselves from them physically … to walk away, or to drive away, or to get away … in some way to distance ourselves from them to prevent the type of danger that they might cause us.

You know, there is a story behind the above-referenced passage in Revelation 12. This woman is pregnant, and the dragon swoops down, and the dragon wants to devour the woman’s child.

What that means to me is that these beasts in human form are inimical to … they are the enemies of … continuing life in human society. That is because the beast attempts to devour the children of humankind.

The beast … if it could … would end human life on Earth … because there would be no more children, you see?

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Sidebar: ‘Beasts in Human Form’ Are Intent on Preventing Women from Giving Birth 

For instance, in one of the ‘cults that kill’ that I encountered way back when, there were no children at all. It seemed to me … admittedly, from iffy psychic intel only … that the leader of the group used to cut off the penises of the men under his command, and that both men and women were forced to pay tribute to him as a portion of the earnings he expected of them as sex workers. Were one of his women to become pregnant, then that would, I feel, have cut into his earnings from what seemed to me must be prostitution.

I remember one woman in the group did become pregnant. It seemed to me that he cast a dart of lethal hatred at her during a meditation session, and that she collapsed, and then was revived by him. Then on the psychic plane, I heard a little later that she was in labor, out in the wilderness somewhere, too far for her husband to summon a doctor. She kept crying out that a devil was inside her uterus. She was in travail, and was unable to give birth. This went on and on. Finally, in desperation, her husband sliced open her abdomen, and grabbed out the living child as his wife lay in her death throes.

That vision I had vividly impressed upon me how hard it is for a woman to give birth when a ‘beast in human form’ lurks nearby.

And then I remember another ‘cult that kills’. There were some outer-circle children that visited that group. But it seemed to me … again from iffy psychic intel alone … that, as the years went by, all the women in the group left or were murdered, and that their children were grabbed up by the group and trafficked to second-rate movie stars of low moral worth. It seemed to me these children all caught AIDS from their ‘johns’, and that illness caused their deaths at puberty.

This other vision confirmed for me my understanding of the devastating effect that ‘beasts in human form’ have on family life, and on the continuation of human life on Earth.
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Continuing with the video: The beast looks like a human being, but it has powers beyond those of human beings … in terms of the psychic realm, in terms of the astral airs, in terms of what I call ‘psychic powers’. For more on these, search my blog for the category:  psychic powers

That way you can find out the type of thing to look out for, because we Christians do not want ‘psychic powers’ hanging out in our neighborhood! Sometimes we are gifted with Ascension gifts, but we do not go for power over other people.

We believe in expressing our hearts, and following our hearts, and serving humankind.

So we have to look out for the powers of the air. We have to look out for ‘power over’.

We have to look out for the beings that are trying to destroy humankind … because they are not human beings, even though they may look like it.

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You might be wondering where I got this information. Actually, I ran into these beings in my own experience in the world. And then I did a ton of reading, trying to understand what it was that I was confronting in the way of unusual beings on Earth.

What I read did not precisely agree with what I finally figured out … which is what I presented in this post. But there are references to these types of beings in the esoteric lore … in the esoteric literature … in case you want to take a look.

My own ideas about these beings evolved over the years, so you will find different hypotheses on my website, that attempt to explain this awful phenomenon. The explanation in this post is most likely the wrap … the very last one, I hope.

That is all for now.

God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

See you next time!

Written and published on 16 August 2023; revised on 20 August 2023

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This post has been added as a reference to … Link: “Unusual Human-Seeming Beings That I Have Encountered on Earth,” stories by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 14 August 2016; revised on 4 October 2018 and 9 April 2020; revised on 27 April 2022, on 20 July 2023, and on 18 August 2023 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-61I ..

For more information, search my blog categories: Ghosts – kama rupa (see also ‘Ghost stories’)  … and … Cults that kill – mind control cults

Also search for the phrase: ‘Soulless men’ 

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“Beasts in Human Form”
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Filmed on 16 August 2023
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BIBLE PASSAGE
3. “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

  1. “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” –Revelation 12:3-4 (KJV)

Image: “The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun,” by William Blake, circa May 1803, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reddragon.jpg … public domain

Image: “The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun,” by William Blake, circa May 1803, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reddragon.jpg … public domain

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