Communication with All Life – Excerpted Chapter
Excerpted from Chapter Two of Communication with All Life by Joan Ranquet. Published by Hay House, November, 2007.
These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes that animals don’t have feelings.
Becoming Aware
If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected … . Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
— Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe, in a letter to President Franklin Pierce
Sometimes one of the biggest obstructions to understanding what our animals are experiencing and needing is being in an all-consuming state as a result of a painful experience. By being so far from One Mind, we get confused about how to care for our animals’ needs when they start acting differently.
Read the full excerpted chapter online at The Monthly Aspectarian or on Wisdom Magazine’s Web Edition.
