When Animals Speak
Techniques for Bonding With Animal Companions
1Who Animals Really AreIn the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals,
for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain
animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from
them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn.
-- Pawnee chief Letakota-Lesa
THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION
The cornerstone of my work and the positive results I have experienced with animals over the years has been my connection with them as total beings. The acknowledgment of their essential spiritual nature has formed the core of our ability to understand each other. Nonhuman animals are not lower forms of life, living with only automatic reactions or stimulus-response programming.
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