The Spiritual Nature of Animals (eBook)

A Country Vet Explores the Wisdom, Compassion, and Souls of Animals

Karlene Stange (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
New World Library (Verlag)
978-1-60868-516-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Riveting All Creatures Great and Small–style stories that illustrate age-old insights into animal spirituality

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Beloved Companions, Kindred Spirits Karlene Stange's spiritual journey began as she drove her pickup loaded with medical supplies to attend to animals throughout southwestern Colorado, where the Animas River carves the landscape. As an ambulatory veterinarian, she has experienced the challenges, sorrows, and joys of working with creatures great and small and feels a powerful kinship with these beautiful beings, a bond that goes beyond flesh and fur and feathers. The Spiritual Nature of Animals chronicles her amazing exploration through the teachings of various religious and cultural traditions, as well as her encounters with the magnificent Rocky Mountain terrain and the quirky characters both animal and human who inhabit it.

Autor

As a child, Karlene Stange, DVM, wanted to be an “animal doctor” before she knew the word “veterinarian.” Today she incorporates acupuncture, traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and nutritional therapy into her Rocky Mountain practice. She often speaks at conferences and lives in Durango, Colorado.

Inhalt

Prologue

Part One: Ambulatory Horse Doctor

Chapter 1: Ambulatory Horse Doctor

Animas

The Buddhist and the Baptist

Judgment and Pain

How to Heal

Fear and Fortitude

Part Two: Stories from the Garden Paradise and the Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Chapter 2: The Beginning: Creation and the Garden Paradise

The Hopi

The Australian Aboriginal

The Ancient Hebrew

African Myths: Barotse, Bantu and Yao

Animal Symbols

Iris in Paradise

Chapter 3: The Paradisal Skills of Shamans

Animals, Spirits, and Shamans

The Oglala Sioux

Central and North Asian Shamanism

Interview with a Shaman

Vision Quest

Ring of Fire

Part Three: Ancient Religious Beliefs about Animals

Chapter 4: Mother Nature: The Great Transformer

Animal Sacrifice

The Fare of the Fair

The Bear Sacrifice

The Sacrificial Fire

Healing Happens

Gaia: The Goddess of Ancient Europe

Ancient Egypt

Ancient China

Fantastic Animals

The Pagan Parade

Neopaganism—New Age Religion

The Cow Goddess

Chapter 5: Hinduism: Escape from Samsara

Karma and Reincarnation

Mantras

Rebirth

Animal Vehicles and Sacred Animals

The Sacred Rat

Halloween Hare Krishna

Evil versus Equanimity

Chapter 6: Buddhism: Finding Peace of Mind

Animals and Reincarnation

Buddhist Cosmology and Karma

How to End Suffering

The First Precept

Chocolate Nirvana versus Tonglen

Types of Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Tantra

Dragons and Demons

The Buddha-nature of a Mare

Salty Bones

Zen Buddhism

Chapter 7: God: The Omnipotent Creator (Islam, Judaism and Christianity)

My Father Which Art in Wisconsin

The Bible

Biblical Interpretation

Animals in the Old Testament

The Great Flood and Noah’s Ark

The Prophets and Balaam’s Ass

Do Animals Have Souls?

Angels and the Devil

Faith Eliminates Prairie Dogs

Animals in the New Testament: the dove, the fish and the lamb

How Do Wounds Heal?

Part Four: Modern Scientific and Spiritual Beliefs about Animals

Chapter 8: Science: Seeking Evidence

The Beginning of Time and the Origin of Life

Spiritual Insights from Science

The Kingdom Animalia

Are Animals Conscious?

Translating Animal Behavior

Chapter 9: Spirituality: Animal Communicators, Mystics, Clairvoyants, and Channels

Psychic Abilities

Acceptance and Animal Communicators

The Pet Store Owner and the Clairsentient

Brain Bliss

Hawkins: Levels of Consciousness

Mysticism

Clairvoyants

Channels

Chapter 10: Conclusion

About the Author

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2017
• Verlagsort: Novato
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: animal consciousness • animal emotions • animal medicine • Buddhism • Cats • Christianity • Dogs • Farm Animals • Hinduism • Horses • Islam • Judaism • Paganism • Pets • Shamanism • Taoism • veterinarian
• ISBN-10: 1-60868-516-0 / 1608685160
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60868-516-5 / 9781608685165