Talking to Animals: Encountering The Soul of Nature

Having a communication session with your companion animal is a bit like having a psychic reading or healing, only for your "pet!" Thoughts, feelings, impressions, opinions: all come through the communicator as s/he tunes in to the animal's energy-many finding their way into words, sentences, phrases-conversation, from the animal's point of view.

Communicating with animals is sweet. It is also very rich, deep, and intense, and sometimes melancholy or even heartbreaking. An animal communicator may feel as though they have been given a key to a secret world, one richer than their own, which can be entered and resided in whenever chosen. It's a world of conscious presence, a world of deep feeling, a technicolor world of multi-sensory experience. It's the everyday world of animals' experience.

Everything that is alive has consciousness. Consciousness, because it is shared by all creation, communicates. To communicate with any creature, or any aspect of creation, one need only to learn to listen. It isn't a matter of "doing" anything. It is rather, a learning to allow the natural flow of information - images, thoughts, feelings, perceptions - to enter and reside in our consciousness. This appears difficult because we have created many distractions. In fact, we've become so adapted to creating distractions that we've mostly forgotten how to listen, and how to trust, identify and interpret what we receive.

As healers, human beings have a responsibility to reconnect with the natural world. Reconnection will heal humans, and it will also heal the natural world, particularly the animal kingdom. Animals exist now in a largely forgotten realm of distance from our immediate experience. Despite all of our affection and attention, we rarely truly respect them, or endeavour to truly understand them. Instead we project our own thoughts, feelings and desires onto them, and we expect our companion animals to provide us with comfort, companionship and attention, primarily on our terms.

Animal communication is not, however, a movement which is attempting to change the way people relate to animals. If it is a "movement" at all, its purpose is to give voice to the animals - their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and concerns. Once these are revealed, human behaviour will change as a matter of course.