Teaches teens how to connect with animals and the world at large in a deeper, more meaningful way

• Shows how telepathic communication with animals can enhance all teen relationships with nature, themselves, and others

• Contains exercises, games, and visualizations to enter into communication with all life

• Includes conversations between animals and professional animal communicators

As companions, helpers, and spiritual guides, animals have always held a special relationship with the human community. Awakening to Animal Voices helps teens access their natural ability to communicate with the animal kingdom and open more profoundly to life, other human beings, and the deeper nature within themselves.

Through games, exercises, experiments, and stories, teens will learn to tune into the subtler whispers of nature. They will discover their personal animal guide and learn the spiritual tools of shamanic journeys, dreamwork, visualizations, and shapeshifting. Filled with advice from animal communication professionals and actual conversations with animals, Awakening to Animal Voices is an invitation to explore our inner way of knowing; to communicate more effectively with others; and to express a more consciously alive self in the world.

“Brunke offers human and animal wisdom to guide and encourage the increasing effort to restore balance and respect among all beings.”<br />

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: The Door Is Round and Open

1

(5)

Part One Beginning the Journey

1 Once Upon a Time...

6

(23)

Remembering

10

(4)

An Animal Communication Game: What's Your Story? Part One - Re-creating Once Upon a Time

13

(1)

Animal Mythology: The Myth of the Musk Oxen

14

(4)

An Animal Communication Game: What's Your Story? Part Two - Tapping Mythic Consciousness

17

(1)

Entering Dreamtime: When Nowhere Is Now Here

18

(3)

An Animal Communication Exercise: Dreamtime Meditation

20

(1)

Everything You Can Imagine...The Legend of the Unicorn

21

(4)

Awakening to the Living Myth

25

(4)

Chapter Representative: The Greatest Age - Spirit of All Horse

28

(1)

2 Becoming Doctor Dolittle

29

(30)

Do Little and Be

30

(2)

Different Ways to Sense the World

32

(1)

So How Does It Work?

33

(4)

The Basics

37

(4)

Sharing the Mystery

41

(2)

Tips, Clues, Reminders, Games

43

(16)

An Animal Communication Exercise: See from Your Animal's View

46

(4)

An Animal Communication Project: Create an Animal Communication Journal

50

(8)

Chapter Representative: Swimming for Joy - Gold fish

58

(1)

3 Magical Meetings

59

(27)

The Power of Magical Meetings

60

(1)

In Sync with Synchronicity

61

(5)

An Animal Communication Project: Record Magical Meetings in Your Journal

62

(2)

An Animal Communication Exercise: Invoke a Magical Meeting

64

(2)

Step by Step

66

(2)

An Animal Communication Project: Creatures I Love to Fear and Loathe

67

(1)

A Feeling for Flies

68

(3)

To Know the Living Being

71

(3)

An Animal Communication Project: Observing Animal Qualities

73

(1)

Magical Meetings of the Creative Kind

74

(4)

When the Time Is Right ...

78

(3)

Be Part of the Magic

81

(5)

Chapter Representative; Two Things You Need to Know - Willie (cockatiel)

82

(4)

Part Two Seeking Animal Wisdom

4 Power Animals, Spirit Animals-Ambassadors of Awareness

86

(24)

Nothing but Emu

87

(3)

An Animal Communication Activity: Create an Animal Altar

89

(1)

Totems of Today

90

(3)

An Animal Communication Activity: Tune In to Your Totem - Find Your Fetish

91

(2)

Power Animals

93

(3)

An Animal Communication Exercise: Power Animal Meditation

94

(2)

Learning More: Embrace the Eclectic

96

(3)

Finding Voice

99

(5)

Celebrating Variety

104

(1)

Exceptional Beings

105

(5)

Chapter Representative: To Thine Own Self The Cat Council

108

(2)

5 Animal Guides and Teachers

110

(23)

A Teaching Partnership

111

(1)

The Life of an Animal Teacher

112

(2)

Teaching by Carrier Wave

114

(2)

Animals in the Classroom

116

(4)

Teachings of the Sled Dogs

120

(2)

Spirit of Sled Dogs: the Teacher's Teacher

122

(4)

A Conversation with Christina

126

(4)

Wisdom through the Ages

130

(3)

Chapter Representative: A Longing to Connect Mother Energy

132

(1)

6 Animal Dreams

133

(27)

An Animal Communication Project: Create a Dream journal

135

(1)

Dream Animals

135

(4)

The Dream Does Not Forget

139

(2)

Embracing Our Dreams

141

(3)

What Does It Mean?

144

(3)

A Talk with the Frog People

147

(4)

Dreams that Animals Dream

151

(9)

Chapter Representative: Lessons on Lucid Dreaming...Dream Guides

157

(3)

Part Three Deepening in Relationship

7 Animal Healing

160

(28)

Sensing Past the Symptoms

163

(2)

Finding Center

165

(3)

The Power of Touch

168

(1)

Meeting the Healer Within

169

(1)

Finding Entrance

170

(2)

Building and Expanding Your Healing Repertoire

172

(8)

An Animal Communication Activity: A Hands-On Healing Massage

174

(6)

Other Types of Healing

180

(2)

The Healing Space

182

(6)

An Animal Communication Exercise: The Power of a Purr

185

(1)

Chapter Representative: Healing Is a Simple Moment - Shanti (llama)

186

(2)

8 A Look at Death

188

(25)

Approaching Death: Rooskie

188

(1)

Letting Go

189

(2)

Just Be

191

(2)

Looking into Death: Rooskie, Part II

193

(4)

Dreaming Ourselves Awake

197

(3)

Saying Good-bye

200

(8)

Drinking In the Light: Rooskie, Part III

208

(5)

Chapter Representative: A Journey of Becoming - Barney (dog)

211

(2)

9 The Art of Shape-Shifting

213

(22)

Travels with Shark

215

(2)

Dreaming a New Perspective

217

(3)

An Animal Communication Game: Sensing Synesthesia - Salsa of the Senses

219

(1)

Having New Eyes

220

(5)

An Animal Communication Exercise: Two Approaches to Shape-Shifting

222

(3)

The Nature of Fear

225

(3)

The Teaching

228

(7)

Chapter Representative: The Ancient Art Ravens

233

(2)

10 Center Being

235

(21)

To Accomplish Great Things

236

(3)

Be the Change

239

(3)

Working Partnerships

242

(2)

Ambassadors of Deeper Understanding

244

(4)

Everything You Need

248

(4)

Here and Now

252

(4)

Chapter Representative: Nothing to Say, Nothing to Fear - Gray Whales

255

(1)

Notes

256

(2)

Resources, References, and Recommendations

258

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