"Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." - Irene Pepperberg - The Alex Foundation
Chris Ellenburg was fishing in Lake Belton in Texas when the most peculiar thing happened to him: he caught a fish that didn’t want to be released.
We don't have to speak the same language. The connection is already there.
What is required is kindness, a gentle nature, a desire to learn and a willingness to modify our actions. In so doing, like my exchange with Hemingway the turtle, extraordinary encounters are possible.
Resources - Animal Communicators -
Alex and Me - Irene Pepperberg
Anna Breytenbach
Rev. Nedda Wittels, M.A., M.S.
Penelope Smith
Marta Williams
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin
All my relations. I honor you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer...
To the Creator, for the ultimate gift of life, I thank you.
To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you.
To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and gives me healing herbs for sickness, I thank you.
To the animal nation that feeds me from your own flesh and offers your loyal companionship in this walk of life, I thank you.
To the human nation that shares my path as a soul upon the sacred wheel of Earthly life, I thank you.
To the Spirit nation that guides me invisibly through the ups and downs of life and for carrying the torch of light through the Ages. I thank you.
To the Four Winds of Change and Growth, I thank you.
You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One, not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery.
Thank you for this Life.
