The Healing Wisdom of Birds

The Healing Wisdom of Birds: An Everyday Guide to Their Spiritual Songs & Symbolism, by Lesley Morrison. As spiritual guides, otherworldly allies, and magical companions, birds have been revered for millennia. From eagles and owls to hummingbirds and wrens, this lovely and lyrical guide to bird spirituality explores the rich beliefs and practices surrounding more than forty different birds—and reveals how these venerated creatures can guide us today.

Drawing on mythology and traditions of worldwide shamanic cultures—from modern times to the Bronze Age—this book examines avian spirituality from all angles, including what birds have symbolized through the ages and why, how to decipher bird messages in your life, bird deities from Aphrodite to the Valkyries, avian presence in ancient cave art, shapeshifting rituals, magic practices, and religion, and how to discover and work with your totem bird

From exploring the five stages of soul alchemy to helping protect our feathered companions, The Healing Wisdom of Birds offers a variety of practical ways to connect with these sacred creatures.

Lesley Morrison (Vancouver, Canada) has studied animals within religious, spiritual, and multicultural frameworks for over fifteen years. She is also an avid bird watcher and wildlife rescuer. Click here for more information or to order.

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Shamanism: The Book of Journeys

Shamanism: The Book of Journeys, by Robert Levy and Eve Bruce. This wonderful book launches the reader onto a comprehensive journey through the many worlds of the shaman. Eve Bruce and Robert Levy are experienced guides who lift the veils and allow us to open ourselves to the wisdom, power, and energy of these most ancient and very contemporary practices. Shamanic journeys are doorways to parallel realities. Within these worlds, the journeyer will find helping spirits capable of guiding us towards the goals or dreams we have for ourselves, personally and collectively. These worlds will offer you information about existing dilemmas and show you new possibilities for living a more fulfilling life. This is also a healing world and can help heal and soothe your mind, body, and your personal spirit or soul. The text will assist those of you who are learning on your own with the help of your spirit guides and provide continued study for those who have begun the path. It is for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. It is for healers who wish to introduce shamanic healing into their practice and it is a self guided tour because the true teachers of shamanism lie within and around you.

Robert Levy has been a Reiki Master and shamanic practitioner in the US for over a decade. He has studied with many western shamans as well as those from Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Eve Bruce has studied with indigenous elders from several continents. She was the first non-indigenous woman to be inducted into the circle of Andean Birdpeople Shamans or Yachaks.

One With the Herd

One With the Herd, by Liz Mitten Ryan. Spiritual truths revealed in lessons rich in emotional depth and intellectual penetration. Author Liz Mitten Ryan connects with the higher consciousness of horse and nature s wisdom in this book of insights on how our planet and we ourselves can achieve peace, freedom and joy. Releasing ego and connecting to higher consciousness is this inter-species message. Dozens of professional paintings and photos by the author. An elegant coffee-table gift book. Liz Mitten Ryan is not only an accomplished writer and horse breeder/trainer, she is also a nationally acclaimed wildlife painter. Much of her recent work appears in the book. A dedicated conservationist, she was British Columbia Wildlife Artist of the Year in 1993 and 1995, Ducks Unlimited Canadian national artist for 95, 96, 97, 98, and Habitat Canada conservation stamp winner in 1998. Recently, Liz has devoted herself to equine communication, spiritual growth, authoring books, and painting horses.

Spirit of Animals

Spirit of Animals, by Sylvia Browne and Chris Dufresne. The New York Times–#1 bestselling author and psychic Sylvia Browne and her son take readers on an insightful journey into the natural, spiritual, and mysterious world of animals and animal spirits. Questions such as Do animals have souls? Are animals psychic? and Do animals have a sixth sense? are discussed with examples drawn from real life experiences. Both pets and animals in the wild are covered. Information is also provided about animal spirit guides, spiritual connection with pets, and explanations for why some animals have the ability to sense things before they happen.

The Emotional Lives of Animals

The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter, by Marc Bekoff with a foreward by Jane Goodall. Based on Marc Bekoff's years of experience studying the social communication patterns of a wide range of animals, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Not only can animal emotions teach us about love, empathy, and compassion, argues Bekoff — they require us to radically rethink our current relationship of domination and abuse of animals. Award-winning scientist Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories and anecdotes of animal grief, joy, embarrassment, anger, and love with the latest scientific research confirming the existence of emotions that commonsense experience has long implied. The author also explores the evolutionary purposes of emotions in a wide range of different species, showing how science is discovering brain structures that produce emotions, how we can track an evolutionary continuum based on shared brain structures among species, and how new information is being revealed by noninvasive neurological research techniques. Filled with Bekoff's light humor and touching stories, The Emotional Lives of Animals is a clarion call for reassessing both how we view animals and how we treat them.

The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times

The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times, by Tristram Stuart. This is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart and John Oswald, who traveled to India in the eighteenth century, converted to the animal-friendly tenets of Hinduism, and returned to Europe to spread the word. Leading figures of the Enlightenment—among them Rousseau, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin—gave intellectual backing to the vegetarians, sowing the seeds for everything from Victorian soup kitchens to contemporary animal rights and environmentalism. Spanning across three centuries with reverberations to our current world, The Bloodless Revolution is a stunning debut from a young historian with enormous talent and promise. 24 pages of color illustrations. Tristram Stuart graduated from Cambridge University in 1999, having won numerous academic prizes. Since then he has been a freelance writer for a number of Indian newspapers. The Bloodless Revolution is his first book. He lives in London.

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Power Animal Oracle Cards

Power Animal Oracle Cards: Practical and Powerful Guidance from Animal Spirit Guides, by Steven Farmer. Power animals are spirit guides in animal form who provide protection, guidance, and healing. This deck of 44 oracle cards by Steven Farmer will connect you with animal spirit guides who will advise you about any aspect of your life. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced reader, the enclosed easy-to-follow guidebook provides instructions to help you immediately give accurate readings to yourself and others. Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D., is a spiritual psychotherapist, ceremonialist, minister, seminar leader, and trauma recovery specialist with over 30 years’ experience as a professional. Steven has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, and now offers lectures and seminars on sacred ceremony, spiritual restoration, trauma recovery, men’s issues, and communication.

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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia, by Piers Vitebsky. Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient ideas about the reindeer's magical ability to carry the human soul on flights to the sun. These images pose one of the great mysteries of prehistory: the "reindeer revolution," in which Siberian native peoples tamed and saddled a species they had previously hunted. Drawing on nearly twenty years of field work among the Eveny in northeast Siberia, Piers Vitebsky shows how Eveny social relations are formed through an intense partnership with these extraordinary animals as they migrate over the swamps, ice sheets, and mountain peaks of what in winter is the coldest inhabited region in the world. He reveals how indigenous ways of knowing involve a symbiotic ecology of mood between humans and reindeer, and he opens up an unprecedented understanding of nomadic movement, place, memory, habit, and innovation.

The Soviets' attempts to settle the nomads in villages undermined their self-reliance and mutual support. In an account both harrowing and funny, Vitebsky shows the Eveny's ambivalence toward productivity plans and medals and their subversion of political meetings designed to control them. The narrative gives a detailed and tender picture of how reindeer can act out or transform a person's destiny and of how prophetic dreaming about reindeer fills a gap left by the failed assurances of the state. Vitebsky explores the Eveny experience of the cruelty of history through the unfolding and intertwining of their personal lives. The interplay of domestic life and power politics is both intimate and epic, as the reader follows the diverging fate of three charismatic but very different herding families through dangerous political and economic reforms. The book's gallery of unforgettable personalities includes shamans, psychics, wolves, bears, dogs, Communist Party bosses, daredevil aviators, fire and river spirits, and buried ancestors. The Reindeer People is a vivid and moving testimony to a Siberian native people's endurance and humor at the ecological limits of human existence.

Piers Vitebsky is Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge. His previous books include Shamanism and Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality Among the Sora of Eastern India.

Straight From the Horse's Mouth

Straight From the Horse's Mouth: How to Talk to Animals and Get Answers, by Amelia Kinkade, from New World Library, ISBN 1577315065. Animal communicator Amelia Kinkade shares the stories of her sessions with animals and offers readers concrete skill-building exercises to develop more loving, fulfilling, intuitive relationships with their animal companions. Not only that, she offers methods for learning to "talk" to your animals—and hear them talk back. Whether you want to tackle a behavior problem, soothe separation anxiety, or simply find out your pet's favourite food, this book's stories and exercises will help.

When Animals Speak: Advanced Interspecies Communication

When Animals Speak: Advanced Interspecies Communication, by Penelope Smith, from Beyond Words, ISBN 1582700095. Animal communicator Penelope Smith reveals the animals as our teachers, healers and guides through deep, life-changing revelations, communicated directly from the animals. Regain the language natively understood by all species, and discover who animals and other forms of life really are; how they feel about humans and life on Earth; how they choose their paths in life and death; and how they can teach, heal, and guide us back to wholeness as physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual beings.