Animal Religion

Animal lovers are extraordinary. Despite awareness that we will probably outlive our beloved pets, we are still drawn, time and time again, to the connection, joy, and unconditional love that come with sharing our lives, homes, and laps with animals. Many of us feel something deeper than just companionship with our animal friends--a heart-to-heart connection felt all the way to the soul level.

At the height of his show career, this beautiful Appaloosa's majestic stature, strength, and willingness to work made him the perfect partner. But when an injury cost Joey his show career, he moved from one owner to the next, ultimately experiencing severe abuse and neglect. A rescue group found Joey nearly dead from starvation - and blind. Then he came to Hope Reins - a ranch dedicated to helping hurting kids who had been abused, emotionally wounded, or unwanted.

Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: Compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire.

Join Rachel Anne Ridge, author of the beloved memoir Flash, in a journey back to the pasture. As she adopts a second rescue donkey as a little brother for Flash - a miniature named Henry - she finds that walking with donkeys has surprising lessons to teach us about prayer, renewing our faith, and connecting to God in fresh ways.

In this guide, Erika Buenaflor explores the animal mythologies, spirit journeying techniques, and shape-shifting practices of ancient shamanic traditions and modern-day curanderismo. She examines how indigenous Mesoamerican peoples used animals in their ceremonial healing and divination rites and explains the innate gifts and powers that different animals embody.

Witches have always been drawn to the power of animal familiars for use in magical ritual as well as for companionship and inspiration. In this easy guide, discover how you can perform magic that invokes animal spirits as well as ritual that includes your pets and local wildlife. This book is suitable for the absolute beginner to witchcraft who has ever felt a connection to mother nature's beasts.

For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence urgently require rethinking.

Have you ever felt a deep connection with a particular animal? Perhaps a majestic eagle soaring overhead or a wise owl perched on a branch. These encounters may hold more meaning than you realize. In Spirit Animals: Harnessing the Power of Spirit Guides and Their Messages, you'll embark on a transformative journey to discover the ancient wisdom of spirit animals.

Have you ever wondered what your animal is thinking and feeling? Or wanted to know what you can do to help them live their best life? Here, celebrated animal communicator and animal behaviorist Michael R. Burke teaches you how. He brings together all of his signature processes, tools, and techniques to help you strengthen your intuitive abilities so that you may do just that: help you and your animals—no matter if you have a dog, a cat, or another creature—feel calmer, more balanced, and fulfilled as you co-create a joyful life together.

Have you ever lost a beloved pet and wondered, "Did they go to heaven, or did they just die and that's it?" This audiobook finally answers the age old question once and for all. Do animals have spirits? Find out God's true relationship with animals, and how He really feels about them.

If you love animals, you’ve probably always wanted to know how to reach out to them: how can you possibly know what your pets are thinking, what they need, what they’d like to say to you? With this informative and accessible guide, professional animal communicator Thea Strom outlines the ins and outs of ethical and accurate animal communication and mediumship.

Shamanism teaches us that the intelligence of nature is all around us, waiting for us to reach out with open hearts and listen to its guidance. When we turn our attention to the incredible community of animal life and the teachings they have to share, we open ourselves to a vibrant, interconnected world full of spiritual truths and transformational insights. In Shamanic Power Animals: Embracing the Teachings of Our Non-Human Friends, Toltec shaman Don José Ruiz takes a deep dive into this rich and vital store of animal wisdom.

Animal communicator Karen Anderson takes you on an emotional and insightful journey into the hearts and minds of the animals we know and love. Anyone who has loved an animal, lost an animal, or had to say good-bye to a dear and devoted friend will find the messages in this book insightful and healing. With Karen as your guide, you will discover how the bonds of love never die and how our deep connection to our animal companions continues on.

Discover your personal animal familiar and open yourself to a new way of working alongside the animal kingdom in your magical practice. More than simple elements to be added to spells, animals are allies who can teach any witch about energy, life force, and different kinds of consciousness.

Are you struggling to connect with your animal spirit guide? Do you desperately want to meet your power animal? This audiobook is an extensive guide to shamanic totems, power animals in shamanism, and animal magic and medicine. The chances are that it contains answers to every question you have about the concept of animism in shamanism. The audiobook includes historical references that illustrate the importance of various animals in shamanic cultures and practical techniques and methods showing you how you can discover your spirit/power animals.

Zodiakos: The Circle of Holy Animals is a mystical exploration of the twelve signs of the zodiac as they were originally conceived—sacred emblems in the celestial scripture of the ancient world. This richly symbolic work reinterprets Aries through Pisces as spiritual archetypes, each one a phase in the soul’s journey around the eternal wheel of life, death, and rebirth.

The Medicine you have been searching for lives within you. Follow the path of the 13 Ojibwe Moons with Animal Spirits and Ancestors as your guides as you unlock your connection to your own unique, inherent healing power. Through storytelling, ceremonies, and Shamanic journeys, learn to apply ancient wisdom to your life in ways that are respectful and conscious of the stolen lands, lives, and traditions of Indigenous peoples.

Discover your hidden animal spirit and embrace its ceaseless power...It might surprise you to learn that an animal spirit guide is an extension of your own spirit: It is a source of great power and inspiration, and it is your unique route to enlightenment. By learning how to find and communicate with your spirit guide, you can combine the power of your heart with their infinite wisdom and knowledge to enrich your life and enhance your health and spiritual well-being. In Animal Spirit Guide, you’ll learn how to explore parts of your spirituality that you didn’t know existed.

Sharing profound experiences from his long career as well as his first years growing up on a remote Seminole reservation in the Everglades, renowned herbalist Matthew Wood interweaves practical herbalism and the spiritual potency of Nature to deeply explore the plant teachers, animal medicines, and foundational principles of shamanism as a spiritual path. Wood describes a universal “language of the shamans,” based on direct, sometimes supernatural experiences as well as case studies from his practice.

Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the Shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels the globe - from the Amazon Basin to the Far East - to probe what traditional healers and pioneering researchers understand about the intelligence present in all forms of life. Intelligence in Nature presents overwhelming illustrative evidence that independent intelligence is not unique to humanity alone.