Animals As Healers

Review by Sally Rosenthal

Best Friends Magazine, September/October 2002

 

...Yet another way animals work as healers can be discovered in Animal Voices by Dawn Baumann Brunke. A holistic health practitioner and magazine editor, Brunke moved to Alaska a number of years ago and found new directions as well as a new home there. Through a magazine article assignment, Brunke came into contact with animal communicators. Intrigued, she explored the field and, much to her amazement, began telepathically communicating with domestic and wild animals herself.

 

Drawn to the lessons the animals were teaching her, the author set out to explore the subject in depth in Animal Voices, an innovative and thorough study of animal communication.  Moving beyond memoir and manual, Animal Voices allows a selection of animals to share their wisdom through interviews with over twenty professional communicators.

 

The lessons Brunke and others pass on from the animals range from those of personal spiritual growth to ones of environmentalism and healing on a global level. In addition, Brunke weaves myth, animal rights issues, and other topics not usually covered in animal communication books into Animal Voices, making it a fresh and ground-breaking work.