By Penelope Smith — 2003
In this age of ecological emergency, more people are seeing the need to recognize their connection with all living beings. Communication between humans and animals has taken on a deeper meaning and urgency.
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Some people believe it is possible for humans and other animals to bridge the gap of spoken language and understand each other.
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As sentient beings, we’re all connected. Animals have a way of knowing if we’re sad, happy, tense, frustrated, or even sick.
A short article and podcast about how specially trained dogs can help veterans with traumatic stress, brain injury and PTSD.
“I absolutely think any regular person with the right information and motivation could teach their dog to talk,” says speech therapist Christina Hunger. “Patience is probably the most important part of this. Dogs are essentially learning a second language.”
Animals play an essential part in the grand plan of life. Yet too often, we think of animals simply as things to serve us when in fact, they have souls and are on an evolutionary path just as we are.
Some animals have been observed performing the same rituals over and over, leading scientists to speculate that they might have a sense of the sacred.
Animals of all kinds, especially the ones sharing our home, can be our spiritual guides and healers if we pay attention.
Anyone who has shared their home and family with a particularly special dog, cat, or other pet is well aware of the value and joy this kind of relationship can bring into your life. Your companion animals express some of the most valuable ways of “being”, simply by being exactly who they are.
Those of us who own pets know they make us happy. But a growing body of scientific research is showing that our pets can also make us healthy, or healthier.
In conjunction with Psychology Today blogger, Steven Kotler, I've been pondering whether nonhuman animals ("animals") have spiritual experiences and are they religious.