A Yakama woman from Washington State suggests we all have creature helpers.
Franki Storli, in her book, Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World: Communicating with your power animal guides, provides meditative guidance for reaching different animals, plants and trees, insects, reptiles, rocks, fish, and birds.
The pattern of meditation is similar for all with some specifics pertaining to the nature of the particular creature and the element in which it lives.
Teachings from a fish will be connected more to emotion since it lives with water while an elk lives on mountains and has a completely different life.
Just as white, red, black, and yellow people have gifts, the creatures too have gifts to share with those who take the time to connect.
Her suggestion is that at this time in the world with all the turmoil and imbalance, these relations wish to help us to heal the earth and all of us.
Storli has spent over 20 years studying, practicing and teaching people how to connect.
This book reads similarly to a ‘new age’ book with its suggestions but for those who know how to hear intuitively the meditations are concrete guides to acquire the help of those creatures willing to assist us.
Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World: Communicating with your power animal guides -- Franki Storlie (iUniverse, Bloomington, IN; 2011; ISBN 978-1-4620-2069-0 (paperback - 12.95), 978-1-4620-2071-3 (hardcover - $22.95), 978-1-4620-2070-6 (electronic - $9.99), 95 pages)
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