Animals...Our Return to Wholeness

When Animals Speak is Penelope Smith's strategy for discussing what happens, when humans listen. Penelope stays matter of factly in some instances and in other instances goes intuitvely empathic, while describing the full range of agenda and temperament required for humans to truly hear what animals are saying. She explains many aspects of animals' infinite capacity for unconditional love, including how animals take on our insecurities and health issues to compensate for the human's refusal to self-heal and evolve. Penelope also addresses animals' eternal connection to nature, and she compels that human companions honor this instinctive call to serve the planet in fulfilling their own 'higher-purpose.' When Animals Speak: Techniques for Bonding With Animal Companions

When Animals Speak is an original, groundbreaking work in the field of telepathic animal communication. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in expanding their own telepathic abilities, and also for animal lovers who want to deepen their understanding of the animals in their lives. Ms. Smith's connection with animals as complete, spiritual beings is the foundation of her work as an animal communicator, teacher, and spiritual evolutionary leader, and this awareness and perspective infuses her writing with gentleness, warmth, and a good deal of humor. Ms. Smith's clear examples and honest descriptions of her experiences with her own animal companions, as well as those of her clients, make this book a heartfelt, fascinating read. This book has been my companion and guide for many years. I have found that I return it again and again for its wisdom, warmth, and deep insights about both human and non-human animals. It has been a hugely important resource for me in deepening my own telepathic connection with animals and all life, and I find that I regularly pick it up and gain new insights and clarity. Penelope Smith guides her readers and students to experience the spiritual essence of each being, including ourselves. Reading this book will take you on a path of opening your heart, quieting your mind, and bringing you closer to understanding the truth of your own soul. It takes honesty, suspension of mind chatter and limiting beliefs, and unwavering courage to pursue the journey of relating to animals as fellow beings and travelers on the path, and allowing them to be not only our companions and friends, but our teachers and guides as well. The rewards of opening to this experience are immeasurable: a deeper connection with all of life, and a deeper connection to the beauty and truth of your own being.

What is the size of the 'door' through which our beliefs enter? Is it large or small, open or closed? As I read this book, I felt: here is the truth. These animals have hearts and minds and spirits. Each is an individual being, just as real as you or me. Scientific research often focuses on animals' ability to understand and respond to humans, instead of what they feel and experience in their own lives and with others of their kind. Science is not necessarily off course, just narrow. Intuitive animal communication is less limited because it is not just looking for what we might expect to find. Penelope Smith (PS) discusses how we have habitually invalidated ourselves and each other as we receive and share communication with animals, and how much we all miss by doing this. I believe that we communicate all the time, but we usually don't think it works! This book is a big step in looking beyond all that, in her experience and for others. This book covers all kinds of communication, with animals, plants, nature itself, spirit contacts, and more. I didn't keep up with some of the 'farther out' sections of the book, but they are there for those who want to explore more. The life and death stories were very interesting. Especially in the story of the rabbit family's deaths I had such a feeling of the naturalness of death, not struggle, but 'going from one room to the next'. The story of the life and death of her Afghan friend Pasha is certainly the most moving. PS shows death is to be respected, rather than hated or denied. How hard it is to read her words of anguish, but how present she is to each nuance of caring and respect for Pasha's dying. I too have been present for the lengthy dying time of an animal friend, compounded by the rural lack of access to vet care and bad roads, asking myself, "What is best, what is right? What does my beloved companion want, and how can I help?" It is very challenging to experience that at length, as she describes with Pasha. Yet in the moment, all we really can do is to be present. Sometimes there just is no rescue, and death must be faced, by the one who is dying, and by those who love them. I chose one communication from a song sparrow, to convey the overall feeling of this book: "Life is good. Death is necessary. Renewal is constant. Spirit is ever present. . . . The Spirit in all moves us in different ways to experience infinite creation. Figuring out why is not our way. We know deep in our cores. Life is its own reason. There is no more to understand."

I have dozens and dozens of books in the fields of Spirituality, New Age and Eastern Religion, and this book is one of the most inspiring, deeply moving, and life changing in my collection. I have read things in this book that I have not found anywhere else. Penelope's experiences of animal communication rings true to my heart. Her abilities and experiences have had a profound impact on my world view and have inspired me greatly. Reality is far vaster and far more magical than we have been taught to believe. While others may find this possibility threatening, I find it liberating and a way of connecting with my soul's truth.

I feel this book is very very Englightening. It is arrogant to assume that there are no other life forms out there or that no one else can talk to animals just because we can't. As usual, it is seperating the crazy ones from the geunine ones. It gave me a deep understanding on how the animals co-function on both in spiritual and physical form. Not everything was easy to understand. The language was simple but the concept seem difficult to grasp, but thats because it exists on another realm/ world. Keep your eyes open. It help me to understand why my dog is My dog and where she will branch off too. Read this book, its very worth a shot. but you need an open mind to read this.