Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit Living in a Sentient World
Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit by Judy Grahn, published by Red Hen Press in 2021, presents a collection of true stories that explore the interconnectedness of all beings in our environment. This 208-page book illustrates how the creatures around us, from insects to mammals, engage with us in meaningful ways, suggesting a shared awareness that transcends traditional boundaries. Grahn emphasizes the importance of recognizing these interactions, which can often be overlooked in contemporary culture.
Readers will find a diverse array of narratives featuring animals such as dragonflies, lizards, and squirrels, each demonstrating unique behaviors that highlight their intelligence and empathy. The book delves into themes of precognition, dreams, and even psychic communications, inviting readers to reflect on their own experiences with nonhuman beings. By fostering an understanding of our shared existence in a sentient world, Grahn encourages a deeper connection with the natural and spiritual realms that surround us.
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Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit illustrates with true stories that we live in an interactive, aware world in which the creatures around us in our neighborhoods know us and sometimes reach across to us, empathically and helpfully. Implications are that all beings live in a possible “common mind” from which our mass culture has disconnected, but which is only a heartbeat and some concentrated attention away. This mind encompasses microbial life and insects as well as creatures and extends to nonmaterial intelligence as well–that is to say, spirit.
Creatures as varied as a collaborating dragonfly, ants rescuing each other, a sympathetic lizard, an empathic coyote, gift-giving squirrels, crazed birds, and lots of very mysteriously smart cats inhabit the stories.
Precognition, dreams, paranormal experiences with birds, psychic communications with cats, visitations from ghosts with messages, rolling earth spirits–not supernatural, they seem natural enough but not visible to everyone.
The intention of this book is to help people catch interactions they themselves experience with nonhuman and even disembodied beings, and who could use some support for recalling since these interactions make clear we live in a sentient world.
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