photo by Brennan Caverhill
Calloway M’Cloud tries her best to be an ethical, insightful, honorable and effective animal communicator.
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“Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.” ~Russel Hoban
How do animals communicate?
In my experience, animals communicate telepathically with pictures and emotions, primarily. It is a graphic, evocative, and poetic language. Sometimes when I ask an animal a question, the answer comes as a short “movie” in my head. Sometimes it is a strong wash of emotion. Sometimes my body will hurt in the same place the animal’s does. In essence, I have learned (slowly and clumsily) to use my own body and mind as an antennae of sorts to telepathically communicate with the animals.
Animal communication can be difficult work. It is a daunting responsibility to try to honourably “speak for” another creature-especially one who is, typically, far wiser and emotionally mature than I, one who smells, hears, tastes, sees, and otherwise feels things which my clogged and sputtering human sensory apparatus simply cannot register, and one whose abilities, priorities and life experience are radically different from my own. The opportunities abound for misunderstanding and gross mistranslation on my end. But this work of translating between species is also urgently important in these difficult times. We humans simply must, soon, now, learn to accurately “hear” and respectfully understand the other species who share this planet. For me, the chance to serve as an animal communicator is above all a profound honor, and the wonder of it all, of closing my eyes and meeting yet another remarkable animal in the “virtual reality” of my own mind, and of hearing of good results after another mind-stretching session, is an incredible source of joy, awe, wonder and learning in my life. I love my work. And I only hope to not do it too poorly.
Animal communication can help you understand...
- Why your cat suddenly refuses to use the litterbox--is she stressed out or pissed off or simply sick?
- Why your new dog growls when you touch him--is it pain or fear or a dominance issue?
- Why your horse is afraid of water--did she have a bad experience or is it simply unfamiliar to her, or is there a deeper reason?
- What ever happened to your lost cat? Did she leave on purpose or simply lose her way?
- Is your sick animal suffering and ready to be euthanized, or does he want you to keep treating his condition, or does he want, simply, to be left alone?
- What your “difficult” animal wants and needs... and whether or not you are a “difficult” owner!
Intuitive Healing
photo by Susan J. Sorensen
More and more of my practice now consists of intuitive healing sessions. This is the work that challenges, and excites, and frustrates, and inspires, and baffles, and thrills me the most. Intuitive healing is a far deeper practice than animal communication, and even less explicable. But I can often now be of some good help with both human and animal ailments, physical or emotional in nature. As I grow into this deeper work, my usefulness to us all is much expanded.
For example, if you call me to communicate with your rescued dog who is terrified of being touched, it is likely he will communicate only that he is terrified. Of being touched. Which you already know, too well. If we’re lucky and he is able, in an animal communication session he’d explain in detail a bit of the horror that was his former life, but the terror itself will rarely ease in the telling. I can’t talk him out of being afraid any more than I can rationally talk my five year old out of being afraid of the dark.
An intuitive healing session, however, might be able to ease your dog’s suffering (whereas my 5 year old just needs some time to grow bigger than the darkness). With your permission and his, in a healing session I would sink deeper, sink into the terror itself, and listen, and watch, and let it guide me, and find its heart, its purpose, its anchor in your dog. Sometimes as I listen, and feel, and open to the guts of my own bruised spirit, I can watch the terror loosen its grip in your dog, relax its hold in both of us. And so a space can be opened for healing. For peace. And then as the weeks pass, we can perhaps watch the terror soften to fear, the fear to hope, and the hope to trust. And so, if we are both blessed and skilled, and if your dog is a warrior, he can begin to reclaim a piece of his shattered soul, and the rest of his life can hurt him less. And so his part of this troubled world can begin to heal. Demanding as it is, this deeper strangeness is now my favorite work.
There are many, many, many pages of text on this site. Perhaps too many. I have tried my best to organize it all carefully and write concisely so you will enjoy your time here and not feel overwhelmed or bogged down in my endless verbiage. Please do leave me a note on my blog space (another ghastly term no one consulted me about!) or send me an email if you have any comments, criticisms, questions or suggestions. Any at all! I’m very pleased to meet you.
In gentle service,
Calloway
“To be loved by a horse, or by any animal, should fill us with awe~for we have not deserved it.” ~Marion C. Garretty.
“We can’t do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth.” ~Evan Esar
“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” ~A.J. Muste
My heart is moved
by all I cannot save.
So much has been destroyed.
I have to cast my lot
with those, who, age after age,
perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
~Adrienne Rich
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