Straight from the Horse's Mouth: How to Talk to Animals and Get Answers » (First Trade Paper Edition)

Amelia Kinkade has been listed in The Top 100 Psychics in America. A full-time animal communicator, she is sought by veterinarians, animal rescue organizations, and animal lovers all over the world. She lives and practices in California.

Drawing on years of experience working with pet owners and rescue services, Amelia Kinkade shares the program she developed to foster interspecies communication. She offers guided meditations and other accessible exercises designed to increase intuition, teaching readers that they really can "talk with the animals," share memories and make plans, negotiate the house rules, diagnose illness, accept one another's differences, and find each other again. The book is peppered with heartwarming and often fascinating stories from her own practice, making it a sure bet for animal lovers of all types interested in enriching the bond with their pet.

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Ten years ago, Kinkade was skeptical about the existence of psychic communication with animals. Yet with the help of a mentor and her cat, Rodney, she became a renowned animal communicator and is now listed in The Top 100 Psychics in America (Pocket, 1996). She believes that everyone has an innate ability to communicate with animals, and in this work part memoir and part guidebook she shares how to "talk to the animals." To begin, one must believe that animals' feelings matter, a process Kinkade calls "clairsentience." Exercises are provided that readers can try with their own pets. The next step, "clairaudience," is to learn how to see pictures in animals' minds and then exchange images with them. This helps solve behavioral problems and also makes for a better relationship with one's pet. After clairaudience comes a sort of X-ray process in which one gets inside the animal's body to determine illnesses or find a pet that may be missing. Kinkade accompanies each of these stages of animal communication with many heart-warming anecdotal stories of her own telepathic experiences. Emphasizing the need for compassion toward animals, she stresses that this guide is not intended to be a substitute for medical care or the expert diagnosis of a veterinarian. Librarians don't have to be believers to purchase for large animal-interest collections. Eva Lautemann, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Clarkston Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.