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Animals in Spirit: Our faithful companions' transition to the afterlife

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Penelope Smith's most recent book, "Animals in Spirit", is a beautiful, heartfelt, and sensitive guide to animals' perspectives on the death and dying process, as well their experiences in the spiritual dimension after leaving the physical body. In sharing her communications with her own animal companions, those of her clients, and in the wonderful contributions of experiences from many other animal communicators and their clients, Penelope addresses the experience of death from the animals' viewpoints, and also sensitively discusses the grief process for the animals' human companions. I especially loved the section on reincarnation, and the various ways that animals may choose to return to their people in a different body. This book made me laugh, cry, and rejoice at the variety and depth of animal wisdom concerning death. It opened my heart to deeper places of love and trust that love never dies, and to the knowledge that the energy of the connection with our animal friends is eternal.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has loved and lost an animal. There is a wonderful exercise for helping people to connect with the spirits of their animal friends who have died, as well as a beautiful grief and memorial ritual contributed by animal communicator Barbara Janelle. Throughout, the heartwarming communications from the animals to their human friends assures us that death is most often a natural transition for animals to a different state of being, without the fear and cultural baggage that we humans so often associate with it. In this, the animals are our teachers, as they show us how to accept the death process as a part of the eternal continuum of life.

My favorite passage in the book is at the very end, in a poetic inspiration that came through Penelope, which states, in part: "Flow with spirit, ever-changing in its guises. See the wildflowers bloom and die and give their seeds to the Earth. Nothing ever really dies or fades. Everything dissolves into unity and flows into another sea or shower or puff of air". As I experience the love and connection with my own animal friends, both in form and in spirit, I am so grateful for all that the animals have to teach us about love, life, and death.

This book is helping me cope with the loss of my cat. It explains so well why animals choose their passing, why they are here in our relationships, and best yet that they are still around us after passing.

A book for anyone that has helped an animal or has had a animal transition in their lives this is the book to read. The stories in it helped to heal my heart from the recent experience of helping my soul-mate cat PC (Perfect Cat) transition. Deeply moving and a well written book.

Do you believe any of this is possible?

A chicken deliberately dies so she can come back as a hamster and live in her human's house.

Some people can communicate with animals,both dead and alive, telepathically as fully as one would talk to another human being.

Animal spirits can decide when and where to be reborn. They may be reborn as the same species or inhabit the body of a totally different species. In one anecdote we read about a woman's mother coming back as a horse.

Some animals are hit by cars on purpose so that they can travel to the spiritual realm.

We even learn in this book that animals who want to see what it's like to be human, come back as a human born with a terminal disease so they can try out humanity for a short time.

And then there's the cat who escaped from its yard so it could be killed by a fox, a fox who faked a limp to attract the attention of the cat's owner and then explain to the owner what had happened. After the fox-human conversation, the fox mysteriously loses its limp.

If you find all these goings-on credible, then this book may be for you. As for this Potato Head, all of these other world shenanigans seem too far fetched and incredible. I read this book seeking some reassurance and confirmation that animals have surviving souls.

This book of the "fantastic" wasn't reassuring to me though I do appreciate the author's respect for and love of animals.

Simply a beautiful book, that has more specific information about the purpose for pets being in our lives, how they feel about us and what happens next than any other book I have read. If you have had a incredibly deep connection with your animals - this book will help you realize why that is so and the importance in our own spiritual growth. I am still grieving the loss of two of my dogs from years ago, though the book made me cry numerous times - it was incredibly comforting. This book will validate that you were correct, your dog, cat, bird all have wonderful souls and are here to teach, heal and love us and guides us how to connect to them in their afterlife.

This book has offered comfort in the midst of feeling overwhelmed and distraught over the very recent loss of our beautiful 12-year old Golden Retriever "Max." I was actually searching for another book on the topic of dealing with pet loss when I ran across this one. I knew there was a spirit world for our precious friends, but this book answered many of the questions I had been asking, and showed me how to communicate to my beloved dog. I only wish I would have found the book a little sooner, before he passed vs. afterward.

Very well written, and really opened my eyes about the spirit world. I always believed in the spirit world, but after reading this book, and communicating with our dearly beloved cat who passed on to the spirit world, I now KNOW there IS a spirit world.

Anyone who has had a pet pass on to the spirit world, should read this book.

I will definely buy more books written by Penelope Smith in the future.

I think this book is amazing, tells you everything that you need to know about your animals afterlife. They are not dead , they are just going to the next level of their life.
My dog passed away last month( Mar'09),I'm still grieving but after reading this book, gave me so much comfort. I Love it!!

I purchased this book after the passing of my precious cat in June. It has been a great comfort, offering an insightful look at the spirit life of our cherished friends while here on earth, as well as after passing on. Being reminded that animals are incredibly spiritual beings who come to us (and leave us) for a reason has been very helpful in dealing with my grief.

This is an excellent book if you have an aging animal living with you. Our cat was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was a cherished family member. I took a day off of work to stay with him near the end of his life and sat with him on my lap reading this book. It really helped me through the acceptance of his coming death and through the grieving process. I would highly recommend this for all pet owners.