Animal Voices ~ Book Cover

  Animal Voices ~ "Inbetweens"

  Stories, Thoughts and Insights from the Web of Life

  by Dawn Baumann Brunke

 


While writing this book, I talked to over two dozen animal communicators and over 100 different animals. Some animals contributed short messages; others offered quite a lot of information about their area of expertise.

 

While much of this was incorporated into the chapters of the book, some of the messages stand alone. Some are stories, others thoughts or insights from a particular animal's unique view on the world.  Within the book, many of these messages were used as "inbetweens" or transitions between chapters. 

 

Here are just a few.  Even in this short collection, it is interesting to see the wide variety of outlooks.

 

every  jump, a new outlook...


 

Observe

Peppy (dog) ~ Sam Louie

It’s important for humans not to project what you feel about animals when trying to understand them.  If you simply take the time to observe, you will learn a tremendous amount.  By observing, I mean not having to try to look for anything or trying to understand or communicate, but just observing. It’s not about putting us on a pedestal or glorifying us.  It is about connecting with us and seeing how much we are all the same.  We are no better necessarily.  It just means that we have different aspects of the Great Life to teach, learn and share with you.  

 

    Obviously, we animals have greatly benefited from a lot of human interaction.  Humans have taught many of us many things.  Humans have taken great care of many of us.   There have been many, many humans who have done good work for animals and the environment. Animals have destroyed a lot too.  Were animals equipped with the technology that humans have, I’m not sure that animals would necessarily be better.


Magic

Raphaela Pope and Pluto (horse)

    Pluto is a Lippizon, a wonderful horse.  I told Pluto about this book and asked him what he would like humans to know.  He said, Tell the people that there really is magic.  There really are beings (such as nature spirits) beyond your normal senses, and you will be able to talk to them and receive their information and wisdom as easily as I do.  Assure everybody there really is magic.

 

    The other thing he gives me is a picture of truly gorgeous rolling hills, and he says, Be content.  Eat grass.  It's funny; you get some very elevated perspectives and then some really basic views.  It’s wonderful! 

 

    Pluto adds, We're entering a time when humans and animals will be closer together, will understand each other better.  People will know that animals have an interior life, their own purposes, and sincere and intense relationships.  When people understand and respect this about the animals, they will be more forbearing and respectful of each other. 

  

    Pluto is reminding me of a reading I did for his person and him in which he spontaneously showed me that they had past lives together, that he was a cavalry horse and she was a soldier.  He's now saying, Less war; less conflict.  It's poignant because I think they actually died in this battle.  Maybe it's going on as we speak.  Who knows?  The Universe is mysterious.


The Mystery

Spirit of Cat ~ Nedda Wittels

    Much of the mystery of cats has been assigned to cats by humans.  Cats do not find themselves particularly mysterious.  The key to the mystery seems to be that felines are so very independent and yet still align themselves with humans.  The humans who feel that this is a mystery are those who have forgotten or do not understand that cats are very sentient and were designed by the Creator Source to link with and work with humans.   

 

    All species are equally important to the health and well being of the Earth.  Cats are particularly important in this time of transition to higher frequencies of consciousness because they have chosen that role out of love for humanity.  Do not mistrust their independence.  That independence is their strength and is also a message to humans: Trust your inner knowing, your inner or higher Self, which is the expression of God/Goddess/All That Is within you. 

 

    Many cats are also performing healing for humans and the Earth.  They are great and powerful workers with energy.  They are particularly helpful for healing and transmuting energies.  If you choose to align yourself with feline energy at this time, you will find one or more cats helping you adjust to the new frequencies, and this will assist your personal transition to higher consciousness. 

 

    I send my personal blessings to all who wish to be in touch with me.  Ask for my assistance and I will gladly give it, especially when you ask in the name of one of my felines.  Thank you, Spirit of Cat.


Joy

Marcia Ramsland and Flying Insect  

    A flying insect, a nondescript something, was buzzing around me.  So I asked, “What do you have to say?”  And there was great joy.  This little thing said, There is consciousness in all things.  Believe it!  

 

    It also wanted to say that it wished people didn’t have such a campaign against insects.  But mostly it was there in sheer joy to say that consciousness is everywhere and it doesn’t matter the size of the body. 


Purpose

Morgine Jurdan ~ Spirit of Lions    

    I asked the Lions to share with me, as a group, their purpose in life and what they would like to share with humans at this time.  After the lions spoke to me, I was not sure I would share the message.  It was quite strong and not as gentle as others have been. When I went back to the animals, they reminded me about what I teach.  Every animal is an individual and responds differently to each one of us.  So, here is what I received from the Lions:

 

    You ask us what is our purpose in the grander overall scheme of things and we  find this amusing.  You humans figure each form of life must serve some “purpose,” must have some grand role, something to shape its life and destiny.  We do, however, find it amusing (please forgive us) to use your language and ways of communicating (which are so limiting), to explain this to you.

 

    Nature, including all animals, insects, weather as you call it (wind, rain, sun, storms, etc.), communicates in ways you cannot understand, at levels which are not perceptible to you.  You try to know us better.  Why we wonder?  Because the planet is dying and you would like to learn from us?  We are a bit arrogant.  You come to us because you desire to save yourselves, to save the planet on which you live.  If it were bigger and there were more resources, you might not be making this connection and asking these questions.   

 

    The greatest gift we could give you is to begin to look at yourself as individuals, and begin to recognize how you, not we, play a part in the overall picture. As you each heal yourselves, we are all affected in ways that are not truly even imaginable to you at this moment in time with your linear thinking. 

 

    We lions reside in every heart, as you humans reside in our hearts, in every heart.  People do not suffer alone, no one does.  We all experience starvation, hunger, pain.  We call out to each other for healing.  We call out to each other for help. We cry out in pain, as one species after another disappears from this dimension and yet, most of you do not hear us.  You do not really see us.  You do not really know us.   

 

    We could tell you our purpose and the meaning would be one dimensional, like looking at a tree on a piece of paper, instead of in person, in real life.  We will offer you a warning.   

 

    Many humans feel they are at the apex of evolution, the crowning glory of God’s achievements.  And yet, you strive to isolate yourselves from the very essence that gives you life.  You do not know what it is like to be a “real human being,” feeling and sensitive, living in balance and harmony with the environment in which you are so immersed and inseparable from.   

 

    When humans see lions, they think of power, leadership, pride, kings.  You feel we are at the top of the pecking order, because you see us through your own filters of domination, control and hierarchy.  All the qualities you relegate to us can also be seen in a wren or a shrew.  When you are willing to truly feel your greatest pain, to suffer your greatest sorrow, to grieve your greatest loss, only then will you experience your greatest joy, your greatest happiness, and your greatest love.  For when you truly learn to love, the questions will cease, and the answers will come effortlessly and always.

 

    Life is about being alive in each and every moment, truly feeling and breathing in each and every experience.  We lions do not live in the past, or worry about our future.  We enjoy the present moment fully.

 

    True healing of the world of which you are an important part begins one person at a time.  When you love from your heart, each and every living being on this planet, each and every form of life, is blessed.  The more you love, the more we are blessed.  The rest is up to you. 


The Consciousness Raising Of All Beings

Penelope Smith ~ Manatees and Wolves   

    Here is what the manatees say to me:  

 

    We are a gentle species on the earth.  We cannot defend ourselves.  If our  gentleness goes, this will be a loss to the whole planet.  People are waking up to their own gentleness, so our feeling is that they will take care and help us.  If they do not, then it will be a loss to the selves through the ripple of the web of life. 

 

    The manatees are very trusting.  They hold gentleness and vulnerability for us.  They hold for us the realization that we’re the same way on the earth; we’re very vulnerable and we need to emphasize our gentleness.  The feeling I get is of trust.  The message coming out of the water from them is, “Humans, we give you our gentleness.  We give you our trust.  Do with it what you will.”  There is complete surrender.  

 

    As for wolves, they have an incredible connection with humans, even much more deeply since they’ve been nearly decimated.  Their power is quite enormous.  Here is what I get from them:

  

    We are the symbol of eternity, of persistence, of coming back that all species are capable of and that we have aligned with.  How we came back is that we aligned ourselves.  Instead of resisting humanity’s destructive impulses, we aligned ourselves with humanity and said, “We are your friends.”  All of the species do that; some give up sooner and need to go from this plane because they do not have that persistence and that tenacity. 

 

    We wolves are very tenacious.  We are like people in a lot of ways.  We are survivors and we grab for what we need when we need it.  That’s our predator nature.  When you tuned into the others [the manatees], you saw they are not predators so they don’t have that canniness, that wisdom, that ability to survive even when the going gets tough.      

 

    We align ourselves with humans as predators.  Even so, we could have given up.  We could have been completely wiped out.  But we looked at humans, we looked into their eyes and we mirrored them and they saw us.  So many of them took us on as their brothers.  Only in that alignment – which is our knowledge as predators, how to align with the forces of survival – have we survived. 

  

    When I feel the wolves, I feel their power and strength.  Wolves have come up from real survival.  With the manatees, I feel a different sort of quality.  It is a kind of giving over of trust and surrender, and that’s another aspect of survival also. 

 

    This is about the consciousness raising of all beings.  More and more, the species are being raised up.  And all it means is that people are looking at themselves in the mirror.  They’re recognizing themselves in the web of life.   

 

    So, when you look at a manatee and see yourself, and when you look at a wolf and see yourself, and when you look at a cockroach and see yourself, that’s when we’ll be making it.  And we are making it! 

Harmony in the Web of Life


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