Animal Voices: Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life [Paperback]

Dawn Baumann Brunke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2002

Animals ranging from mosquitoes to elephants use their own words to guide humanity to a deeper spiritual awakening.

• Contains interviews with 25 professional animal communicators and over 100 different animals and animal spirits.

• Provides a thrilling glimpse of the possibilities of direct animal-human dialogue.

According to Echo, an Arabian mare, "Humans are beings of love who have forgotten what love is and who they are." Along with a host of other animal communicators, Dawn Baumann Brunke gives animals like Echo a voice--a direct line of communication to the human mind. Through Animal Voices, the animal kingdom delivers a message about deepening our spirituality and reconnecting with the web of life. 

Our earliest ancestors had an ongoing shamanic dialogue with the animal kingdom, but this ability has been lost to most in the modern world. Brunke provides the techniques to reopen these connections, reminding us that when we are open to communication with animals, we are open to deeper layers of ourselves. 

The main contributors to this book are actual animals, who reveal themselves to be sentient beings with their own thoughts, emotions, and spiritual reasons for being on the planet. How Brunke overcame her initial skepticism and learned to hear their voices is a fascinating story. Throughout Animal Voices the author integrates her own reflections with those of the animals she interviews. The result is something that will delight animal lovers and force skeptics to reconsider their ideas about the nature of animal consciousness and the possibility of telepathic human-animal communication. 

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"Dawn answers major questions raised by the mind-stretching implications of animal intelligence and telepathic communion between all beings with both the heart of an excited student who has recovered a long lost dream and the mind of a detective, tentatively and skeptically uncovering and dissecting a great mystery."
(Penelope Smith, author of Animal Talk )

"Powerful! Moving! A compelling journey reminding us that the wisdom of the animal kingdom offers a window to our own inner mysteries. Through personal experience and intimate case histories, Dawn Brunke has masterfully crafted a 'must read' for skeptics, and animal lovers, alike."
(Gregg Braden, Writer, Lecturer, Guide?
Author of Awakening to Zero Point, Walking Between the Worlds, and?
The Isaiah Effect: Decoding Our Future through the Lost Science of Prophecy )

"This is an important and amazing book! With grace and eloquence, Dawn takes the reader on a wondrous journey into the rich potential of the human-animal connection. Packed with profound insights and joyful surprises, Animal Voices is educational, entertaining, and extremely pertinent to the urgent need on our planet for a deeper understanding of all life."
(Steve Johnson, Flower Essence Therapist
Author of The Essence of Healing )

"To those of us who have always belived in and lived within the sacredness of all life, those just awakening to it, and those needing to hear the message, Dawn gives us a profound gift in herself and Animal Voices that can do no less than greatly assist the healing consciousness now finally arriving on this planet.  Thank you, Dawn, from the Heart of All That lives!"
(Rita Reynolds, Founder of Howling Success, Animal Sanctuary
Author of Blessing the Bridge )

"Dawn Brunke takes us through her incredible journey as she learns about animal communication. She teaches the reader that animals are our teachers -- they teach us to trust ourselves, and as a result of that trust we learn who we are. From skeptic to believer, this book will bring the reader a new insight to the world of Animal Communication."
(Carol Gurney, Animal Communicator
Author of The Language of Animals )

"Animal Voices cuts through the shadow of our projections and beliefs about animals with both warmth and wit. These loving and wise messages from our feathered, furred, and exoskeleton-clad kin will move hearts and minds in new directions, inspiring even the most skeptical reader. Provocative, healing, and a must read for anyone who has opened his or her heart to another species."
(Joanne Lauck, author of The Voice of the Infinite in the Small: Re-visioning the Insect-Human Connection )

"We are proud to recommend this book. . . . It is well written, a joy to read, drawing us in fascination through the chapters."
(laJoie, Summer 2002 )

"Her determination to accurately record the information she and other communicators received gives us an unusual glimpse into the lives of many animals." (Sherry Stultz, Alaska Wellness, September/October 2002 )

"I highly recommend Animal Voices to every two-legged who feels ready to learn from our furry, feathered, scaly and winged friends!"
(Cynthia Larson, RealityShifters News )

"Animal Voices offers us yet another unique way of tapping into the web of life."
(Spirit of Change, November/December 2002 )

"It is one of the most important general animal and animal communication books to come along in quite a while."
(Sally Rosenthal, Species Link, Summer 2002 )

"After reading Animal Voices I understood how talking with animals could be possible, even for me."
(Patricia Wade, The Chickaloon News, Winter 2002 )

About the Author

Dawn Baumann Brunke is a writer and editor who specializes in the areas of healing, dreaming, spirituality, animal communication, and deepening our connection with all life. The author of Animal Voices, Animal Guides and Shapeshifting with Our Animal Companions, she lives with her husband, daughter, and animal friends in Alaska.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company (May 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879181916
• ISBN-13: 978-1879181915
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #589,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learning to Listen to Animal Wisdom, September 1, 2002

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Cynthia Sue Larson "www.realityshifters.com" (San Francisco bay area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Animal Voices: Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life (Paperback)

If you ever wondered what your cat or dog was thinking, or wanted to know if you were actually hearing animals talk to you when you heard thoughts inside your mind, ANIMAL VOICES is the book you've been waiting for! Author Dawn Baumann Brunke takes us on a journey to a world in which each and every one of us can learn to talk to the animals... and hear them, too. While this book is primarily a collection of interviews with animals, there are some exercises at the end of the book which can help you get started communicating with the animals in your life.

Brunke began her exploration into animal communication as a detached interviewer, yet soon found herself hearing what the birds just outside her window wanted to tell her. The birds spoke as a group, yet there was a leader who gazed into her house -- and as his flock flew away, he remained behind to finish conveying his message to Brunke. Was she imagining things? Could this just be coincidence -- or was she really hearing what the birds were telling her? As further experiences proved to Brunke that she was indeed hearing what animals were saying, her continuing question and answer sessions with professional animal communicators took on much greater significance.

Brunke shares fascinating information from her own communications with animals, and also some rather startling interviews with horses, cats, dogs, buffalo, fish, dolphin, insects, and more. Many of the animal messages are surprising -- such as the dog who recalls a past life as a bear, the cat from another planet, and the parrot who was once a monk. Brunke's transformation from attempting to be an objective observer to a confident animal communicator is an inspiration to anyone who would like to learn how to listen to the animals, and she conveys the messages from animals with warmth and humor. I highly recommend ANIMAL VOICES to every two-legged who feels ready to learn from our furry, feathered, scaly and winged friends!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing messages and deep thinking!, December 31, 2002

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Delphine117 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Animal Voices: Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life (Paperback)

This book countains deep animal wisdom that will make you think about the relationship between humans and animals, and how so much is to be changed in this area, but first of all inside ourselves. The messages coming from the tiniest as well the the biggest animals on Earth will touch your hearts, and strike you to wake up, to look at life around you in a different way, and to respect every form of life. Whether or not you are on the path of learning 'telepathic animal communication' techniques, this book is for you, because the animals themselves come to you through these pages. Just amazing...

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thank you, Dawn, June 4, 2005

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This review is from: Animal Voices: Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life (Paperback)

Since I read this book, the thoughts expressed in it are always with me. These thoughts come from the authors of the book: non-humans. They are whales, insects, horses, etc.
They speak about themselves, their history, and us (watch out!). They talk about predator and prey, which includes us. They talk about karma, multi-dimensional reality, their role as pets, their 'captivity ' in zoos and on and on. They all seem to acknowledge multiple incarnations as a given. You probably should read this book if you want to expand your horizons considerably. Also, at this point in our evolution, our relations with the "animals" is strained and one might say, destructive to us and them. Their voices are channelled by about two-dozen animal communicators and the whole is brought together by Ms. Brunke, an excellent editor and writer and a very good soul.
I also have been communicating with earthly-non-humans in the past few years. However, they don't seem to speak in the twentieth-century new-agey jargon that I find in this book. I guess it's just how the communication comes out. The animals I communicate with don't use language as we know it or the thoughts behind language as we know it. Their minds are much more silent and not as chatty as some of the creatures herein: they do and they simply do. They help me to do. I think that's what we have to learn form the animals. The constant reflective thinking that we do is not what they do. So where do all of the words in this book come from? I have no doubt they come from the animals as interpreted by the communicators. Just be.
Contact with animals is a valuable tool for understanding our mother, Earth, as many species, such as insects, have been here far longer than we have. If we want to know what living on earth is all about, we must learn it from the ones who evolved and perfected themselves to live on earth millions of years ago. I've been trying to learn from them for a couple of years. My first real teacher was a small geometrid moth, who chose me since I had helped her when she was an inch worm ( I was just helping an inch worm one day, out of love for all of us). She died 5 days later. But guess what: she was still there after death and still helped me. She sent her daughter to me. That I could get help from a moth (what an idea!) was given to me by this book. This is why I recommend it.
Let's say we want to evolve our consciousness. We read many books -- all the right books to do that, but what we have is still only human knowledge. We go beyond and closer to reality when we cross species and we get closer to the pulse of earth-life itself. This brings us closer to the Tao. On earth, the Tao teaches about earth-life. When we listen carefully, it teaches about universal life.