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Adventures in kinship with all life

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If you've ever wondered what God put animals on this Earth for, reading this book will give you an immensely practical and satisfying answer. Animals are our teachers, says Boone. Great teachers, too. Intelligent, aware teachers. What have I to learn? you may ask. Reading this book will give you example after example in the form of fascinating true stories written with clarity and humor. A must read for the spiritually open or for anyone who loves animals.

The following review of Adventures in Kinship with All Life was published by The Book Reader, an "Independent Review of New Books:"

These essays by the gentle Boone are about the silent communication that exists, or can exist, between people and animals. Boone was an adept at interspecies communication, at "the science and art of right relations." He plunged right in to universal vibrations and discovered man's unitive experiences with all things living.
"When one's heartbeat is in tune and in time with the universal heartbeat, everything that he meets will want to cooperate with him and be his friend," wrote Boone.
The book includes many stories of folks and animals coming together, discovering each other. Of earth reverberations, of dogs and plants, of a man who lived in the jungle for over forty years. "He had mastered, to a superlative degree, the science and art of right relations."
Here are high level adventures in kinship, life, and love. "Love, then, is the supreme attractive force. Humans who possess this capacity to love their pets and other animals must have within them a sort of love-magnet, a particular magnetic pole of affection."
The publication of these adventures is a good and brave act by a woman who rescued the manuscript from the trash after Boone passed on. She is Bianca Leonardo, editor, and owner of Tree of Life Publications.
"ADVENTURES..." is the sequel to Boone's earlier book, "KINSHIP WITH ALL LIFE" (Harper & Row), which has sold 300,000 copies since it was first published in 1954. The sequel is nicely done. We wish it the same success.

IF you are really into animals this book is for you. Communication - psychic and otherwise. Puts animals on equal, but yet unique footing with humans. Not as much in need of a better editor than Boone's other books. A hard book for an animal lover to put down until the last page has been read. Even then, you'll immediately want to start over again.

Boone's relationship to animals is extraordinary, but only because so few of us take the time or have the focus to learn to relate on such a level. His way with a story makes the book one not quickly, if ever forgotten. His book, Kinship with All Life, changed my perspective and this has expanded on that in a very interesting way. I wish those who carelessly destroy animal habitats could understand who they are doing this to. Perhaps they would take more care.

this along with John Allen Boone's other work are some of my favorite books. From them I learned more about communicating with animals than from any other source.

If you loved Kinship with All Life, then do not hesitate to read this book, in which J. Allen Boone further explores telepathic relationships with beings of all kinds. My favorite chapters recount his experience with a large group of wild monkeys in a distant jungle. Through communication via what Boone calls the "silent language" of the heart, he and the monkeys reached such a level of mutual trust that, undisturbed by his presence, they began swinging from tree to tree with awe-inspiring speed and agility in a master performance of grace and athleticism. Throughout the book, Boone's descriptions and beautifully expressed insights into the nature of the universe are a joy to read.
Peggy Kornegger
author of Living with Spirit, Journey of a Flower Child