Blog #96--Breeding and Cloning Limitations

In my book “It’s a Secret, So Pass It On: a Toolbox For Life,” I include a discussion on genetics and some of the problems people create by trying to produce offspring of various species with specific traits. Many people want to make a living breeding and selling animals, but they lack sufficient background in genetics to guarantee the results they expect. They might produce offspring with external characteristics that match their ideal image, but they might also end up with animals that have health or behavioral imperfections.

For instance, I gave the example of a cat breeder who wanted Siamese cats with elongated faces, what she called a “horse face.” Unfortunately, every time she got a male kitten with this characteristic, it had major emotional problems. No matter how often she tried, she couldn’t guarantee a cat that was her version of “perfect” sufficient to give her a big payday. I also mentioned the many offspring of the great race horse Secretariat. Relatively few of them were competitive race horses, and a number had behavioral extremes that limited their viability as human companions, let alone race horses.

Pure bred animals keep veterinarians in business. The more popular a particular species is, the more physical and emotional problems it is likely to demonstrate due to excessive inbreeding. That is why so many poodles have a wide range of genetic imperfections. That is why many German shepherds have hip dysplasia, and why many boxers develop cancerous tumors with age. Mixed breed dogs have a wider range of genetic variability, often making them healthier and more balanced than pure bred animals.

Of course, this knowledge is lost on those whose self-interests demand further attempts at genetic manipulation. The false notion that animals are on Earth to serve humans is one of several rationalizations we use to experiment on animals without their consent. If we fail, we simply throw out the failures and try again. We rarely consider the effects of our selfishness on the welfare of these animals.

This leads me to a discussion of cloning. Many human egos fear dying so much, they would love to create an exact duplicate of themselves to continue living once their original bodies degenerate and return to dust. Some are so self-centered, they think the world simply can’t exist without their wonderfulness being involved. Whatever their reasons, some scientists are working busily to learn cloning techniques, and they have major funding sources.

While I have no doubt that someday we will be able to produce genetic duplicates, there is also no doubt in my mind they won’t be exactly like us in every way. First of all, we are not just bodies. We are energy. We cannot live without energy...it animates us. Since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it is the only part of us that exists eternally. Thus, assuming we all have what religious leaders call a spirit, it must be our energy to which they are referring.

According to credible reports from those who have special psychic gifts, those who have had near-death experiences and others, our spirits continue to exist past the death of our bodies. Our experiences and life lessons add to our overall vibration as we continue our existence. Thus, each of us is at a somewhat unique level of soul development, with the ultimate goal being one with our creator.

Even if we could guarantee producing an exact clone of our bodies, there is no way we can control what spirit attaches to the cloned body at birth. Most certainly it would not be the spirit that animated our original body. Without the exact same spirit, the cloned body would not be exactly like its predecessor. It might be so inexperienced as a soul, it might have difficulty maintaining the cloned body. Or, it might be an older soul and have a different perspective on how to utilize that body efficiently. Regardless, cloning cannot make an exact replica because we cannot attach it to the same spirit.

Plus, our life experiences depend on who else exists in our environment and what events transpire to provide our life lessons. The cloned body will certainly not be living in the exact same environment, with the same parents, homes, work opportunities, and so on that were a part of the original body. Since we are all a product of our genes plus our experiences, our cloned body would undoubtedly follow a different path than its predecessor. It would have a different perspective by the time it reached complete physical maturity.

There is no doubt in my mind that the phrase “as above, so below” is a truism. Thus, while I don’t believe planets in our solar system control our behavior and attitudes, I have seen plenty of proof that there is a simplicity underlying the complexities of life. Our family and social groups function as miniature versions of our solar system and enlarged versions of the atoms that make up everything in the universe. Each of us behaves in a predictable fashion depending upon the relative similarity of our energy vibrations and those of the planets in our solar system.

Our first body may have lived life as an Aries, with experiences and perspectives similar to the planet Mars. But our clone’s “birth date” might be that of a Virgo or some other sign besides Aries. During our clone’s life, perhaps one or more low cycles occur during times our first body experienced high cycles, making its life lessons vastly different from our predecessor. We might end up relatively opposite of our predecessor in terms of our successes and failures. This is certainly not what people want when considering cloning possibilities.

Of course, most people believe their egos animate their bodies, and they have free will to do as they please. If that were true, perhaps a clone would truly be identical to the original body. But for the above reasons and more, I am completely convinced an exactly duplicate life is extremely unlikely. Like with breeding, I believe cloning is just another of the myriad examples where people think and do the exact opposite of what is in their best interests.

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