Nov 21 2017

What is it like to Learn Animal Telepathy?

Short answer: It’s magic.

It may seem like I am being overly dramatic. But think about it. How can it not be?

It is magic because it is all about the aliveness of the present moment.

In my introductory course in Animal Telepathy, you first learn how to quiet the chattering mind and rest in a deeply present space of awareness within yourself.

It sounds challenging, especially with how distractible we humans are these days. But it is easier than you think. Especially with my help at first.

And then, saturated in the juicy aliveness of the now, you learn how to naturally extend your awareness toward another being. At first just quietly and gently telepathically perceiving them. And then inviting them to telepathically communicate with you, sharing their thoughts and feelings, images or sensory perceptions from their experience of life. Whatever they want to say.

In a recent Beginner Program course:

A man who runs an Eco-tourism company in Brazil shared a deep, silent, telepathic connection with a big white horse named Oscar. Oscar showed him detailed images of the landscape where he used to live with his person and things that happened there. And they shared a camaraderie as strong male leader-beings—a silent knowing that was strengthening to them both.
A woman who is a career artist communicated with a lively brown tabby kitty named Koby who gave her many detailed visuals of his home environment and his favorite things to do, and also a powerful message for his person.
Another career artist in this course connected with a misunderstood and very strong-willed mule named Big Mama. She shared a plea to her person to be more present with her, really listen to her, especially now that he has learned animal telepathy.

All of this information was accurate and powerful for their people to receive.

This alone is so healing—to be able to understand and communicate with our animal friends, whose love reaches into the depths of our being, and shines warmth into the darkest corners of our hearts.

But the real magic is the connection. It is the opening up into the larger fabric of love that connects all living things.

This magic will change you, from the inside out.

Nov 15 2017

Jericho Knows That His Species Is Going Extinct

In one of my Beginner Program courses, I take a group of students to a local wildlife park so they can practice their newly reclaimed telepathic ability with the animals there.

Beautiful things happen.

Pilgrim the Giraffe

In a recent class, a giraffe named Pilgrim licked two of my students on the face—big kisses of gratitude for their open-hearted listening and compassion.

We had been standing at the side of his enclosure for about 30 minutes, just being present and listening to him share about his life. His heart was heavy about a variety of things (it’s not easy being a giraffe in captivity, even though this place is top notch).

Then after a while he turned around and walked back into the distance when he felt the conversation was complete. We weren’t sure why, but it felt important to stay there and let him know we were still there if he wanted to share more.

We waited about 5 or 10 minutes, and then he peeked his head over the trees, and said, “You’re still here?!?”

It was as if our sticking around showed him that we really cared. So then he made his way back over to the fence, where he promptly reached down and gave a big wet messy giraffe kiss on the face to two of my students, Dianne and Connie. It was so clear that he was grateful to have some people there who could understand his experience deeply, and who showed him that they care.

Chipa the Hyena

On that same visit, a hyena named Chipa purposefully came out of her nap time to meet us. She knew that we could communicate with animals and she said she had a message she wanted to share.

Have you ever seen a hyena up close? Their jaws are huge and their predatory power and intensity are so palpable. The staff has told us that they are the only animals at the park who actually still bite the handlers there.

Chipa walked up to the fence, and looking straight at us, she sent the thought, “I am misjudged by humans. I have a heart too.”

Then she turned and walked back to her den to continue with her day.

Kibo the Giraffe

Another giraffe, Kibo, is quite out-going. He always comes over to the fence to say hi, right up to the edge so my students and I can touch his nose.

But last time, he did something really astonishing.

We were all standing there being present with him and listening to him share about his life, then he told me that he wanted to talk only to one of my students, Randi, a woman from Canada.

I told her this, and then he promptly turned toward her and looked her straight in the eyes, for about 3 or 4 minutes. Neither of them moved. We could all tell there was a profound connection happening, and something beautiful passed between them in the silence.

Then it got even more amazing.

He turned to another student, and did the same, for about 4 minutes or so.

Then he turned to ME, and I responded to him telepathically, “I am the teacher here, it’s ok, you can help my students instead.” But Kibo disagreed. And so he held eye contact with me, too. For several minutes I felt a warmth build in my heart—literally. It felt healing.

And one by one, he connected with each of my students in this way.

About the time he was with the last student, a bus from the park drove up in the area inside his enclosure. It was full of children, with a park guide on a bull-horn, and they had carrots dangling out of the window.

But Kibo didn’t move. He stayed with us for another couple of minutes, while the park employee was loudly calling him over, and puzzling over why he wasn’t coming.

At last, he said goodbye to our group, and dutifully turned and walked toward the bus with the man with the bull-horn and the children with carrots. We could all feel his fatigue, and his sadness to leave the connection with the people who were so fully present with him.

Jericho the Rhinoceros

Jericho is so lonely.

Every time I take a group to the wildlife park, he shows every student how he longs for a family—a mate, little babies, brothers and sisters, friends of his own species. He shows us a memory of being in the wild with others of his species. Flashes of being a little baby rhinoceros in the wild, and he was all alone, knowing something had happened to his mother. And then being sold into human captivity.

But there are some factual problems with his story.

First of all, Jericho was born into captivity, so he has never known what it is like to live in the wild with his own kind, nor to be captured and sold into captivity.

Second, scientists tell us that rhinoceroses are not herd animals, they are solitary beings, and very territorial, especially the males.

So why would Jericho show my students the same longing for family, and the same story of torture and betrayal by humans, over and over again now, for over 4 years of visiting the wildlife park?

As an animal telepath, I don’t sit around and come up with theories. When I want to know something, I ask an animal. So I asked Jericho.

He said that he knows what is happening with his kind. He knows that his species is going extinct.

How is this possible? Jericho feels the truth of his species’ situation in his cells, in his DNA, from his connection to the rhinoceros collective unconscious, even from his own past life memories, and from his own capacity to telepathically perceive what is happening with other rhinos in other parts of the world (animals do this, it is not uncommon).

And it is making him insane with grief.

The staff at the park confirmed that he came to them from Bush Gardens, in Florida, where he was causing problems because of destructive fits of rage. The owners of his current wildlife park purchased him to try to give him a better life.

Jericho has told us that he likes this home better; the humans try to understand him more. And his environment is calmer, and he likes that.

But he is still deeply lonely for his family, for connection with other rhinos and a normal life in the wild.

The last time I visited Jericho with my group of students, he was sitting out in the open, within view of the fence, waiting for us.

We gathered up to the edge and extended our hearts to him, opening up to feel his experience.

He was so sad.

He shared again his longing, and his knowing that what he wants will never happen for him. We asked if having another rhinoceros here, at the wildlife park, would help. He said maybe.

He then showed us images of rhinoceroses in the wild. And a sense of pride in his species. Their beauty and strength, their devotedness to each other.

Several of us were tearing up at this point, and honestly, I am again as I write this.

Around that time, as if to add insult to injury, a park patron walked by behind us, saying to his son, “Look, that rhinoceros is really lazy. He’s just sitting there, not moving at all.”

At that point, I knew that something needed to shift.

I asked each of my students to speak out loud a message to Jericho. He needed to feel our support. He needed to hear that we understand and that we are concerned for him and for his species.

One student shared, “I am so sorry for the behavior of my species, Jericho. That they don’t see your beauty and their greed has caused this. I am so sorry.”

And another, “Jericho you are beautiful and your strength and love for your family should be seen and honored. I wish you could have the life you want, and I will pray for you and your species.”

And finally, I shared: “I will fight for you Jericho. This is wrong and human beings need to wake up to their own cruelty and find ways to live from their compassion. I love you and you have touched my heart.”

And immediately after the last one of us shared, much to our surprise, Jericho got up.

He looked up at us. He seemed lighter. He walked around. He even took his horn and moved the giant tire-toy in his enclosure, that he had been lying next to.

Feeling a tiny ray of hope again, he walked along into the brush. We followed along the edge of the enclosure for as long as we could see him, still sending him our love and our concern for him. His gratitude was so obvious; he seemed to have a spring in his step now. After a few minutes he disappeared into the foliage.

Kumba the Lioness

Not all of the animals at the park are sad.

Yes, it is hard for them to live an artificial life in captivity, where many of their natural wants and needs must be put aside. Some of them have a harder time of this than others.

But they understand that they are sacrificing a life in the wild to entertain and educate humans.

Some of them have shared that they feel this is an important mission, and their sacrifice can help all animals on the planet.

Kumba is one such being. She is a lioness at the park, and last year in one of my courses, she came up to the edge of her enclosure and sat down to have a really long conversation with me. All the while my students just listened, and held the space as I translated what she shared.

Kumba said she oversees things here at the wildlife park, she is one of the animals who is in charge. She sends out news to all the other animals telepathically, and helps them understand why they are here, what their purpose is here.

Kumba showed me a deep understanding that this life in captivity is not easy for many animals. But they are cared for and have an important mission, and this is what matters.

She said she understands me, and what I am doing. She said she wants to help me understand about how to hold true power, and that I should consider her a lifelong friend. She said my “cubs” (read: my students) hold promise, and that there will be many more of them.

About this time, a child in the distance let out a big shriek.

Kumba sent me the thought, “I really can’t stand human children.” And then the lioness continued on, showing me ways that I can improve myself as a leader-being.

But then the child and her mother, seeing Kumba up so close to the fence, came right over to see her. After about 10 seconds, Kumba turned her head to the child and let out a roar/snarl/bark noise that made us all jump a little. The little girl said something like, “What does that mean, mommy?” And not wasting any time, the mother took her daughter’s hand and said, “This lioness doesn’t want us here,” and moved on.

My students and I were amazed, taking in this whole experience. Not only had this lioness shared some powerful messages for me, but she just then demonstrated for us all the very thing she had communicated telepathically just moments ago.

Since that communication, I always check in now telepathically with Kumba before I take students to the park. I ask her how we can be of most service to the animals there, and which animals can really benefit from our communication with them. And she always gives us a list, and these animals are always expecting us when we arrive. It is so amazing and beautiful.

The Bigger Picture

We share this planet with other nations of beings—not just whales and lions and zebras, but Pitt Bulls and feral cats and factory farm pigs. They are all unique living beings, with their own perspectives, and deserve to be understood.

Animals are going extinct on our planet now at a faster rate than any time in history since the dinosaurs. Now more than ever, communicating with animals is important work. But we humans have forgotten how to speak the universal language of telepathy that unites us all.

We have so much to learn from animals. We need to understand their experience, we need to extend our compassion to them, and we need to allow them to heal us.

And more than anything, we need to help our fellow humans value other animals’ right to exist on this beautiful planet, as much as we value our own right to be here.

Please join me in this movement, and learn how to reawaken your own telepathic ability, so that you can be one of the humans who understands animals’ perspectives and translates for the rest of humanity, just what is at stake.

This work can heal us all, as it will open us up into the larger fabric of love that connects all living things.

Jul 16 2017

The Gift of No-Agenda Listening

Your animal friends want you to understand their experience. To feel the world from their point of view. To know what brings them joy, what makes them sad or fearful, and how grateful they are for you.

They sometimes even have powerful insights for you.

Things they know and feel through the purity of their love and the relative simplicity of their minds.

Every time I start a session, I can feel their enthusiasm and anticipation, especially as they decide among themselves who should share first, and what they want to say to their person.

They want to share so much with you. It is such a gift to animals to listen deeply to them.

Learning How to Be Still, Listen, and Trust

When I was first learning animal telepathy, this deep listening was so easy for me with other people’s animals. There was a beautiful flow that came and it was so tangible. It was like, “Oh, I know this way of being.”

But when connecting with my own animal friends, my inner skeptic got in the way.

It was hard to know what was real and what was my own mental projection, because I felt I already knew so much about them.

Then one evening after a busy day I said to myself, “Forget it, I am just going to quiet my mind and trust what I feel.”

And something beautiful happened.

I went into my office where my dog Sadie was resting on the floor by the sofa. I sat down next to her, with a yellow pad of paper and a pen. I felt my heart connected to hers and asked her to share. And I wrote everything down that came to me.

After writing 3/4 of a page, I looked up. Sadie had the sweetest, most grateful look in her eyes.

This is a photo of her outside in the yard, but it shows her with the same sweet expression!

And THEN, the most amazing thing happened. One by one, my other animals came into the room, a dog and two cats, kind of forming a line, waiting their turn.

I couldn’t believe it.

From other parts of the house where they were hanging out that evening, they felt me opening up my heart to connect with Sadie and receive her feelings. And they wanted their turn too.

Each of them shared, and each of them was shining with appreciation afterward. The power of no-agenda, unconditional listening brought a softening to each of their eyes.

Clients often email me with the same surprising experiences after sessions and courses

My client and friend Carrie Mae shared after a recent communication with her dog Tulip: “After the session, she came into the room and sat right next to me and just stared up at me with the most loving eyes.”

A client named Blair wrote of her horse Alex: “I went to the barn today and he was so affectionate it was beautiful. I feel like our relationship is even better since you communicated with him.”

And a client Rosine shared this about her rescue dog Sparky, and her whole animal family: “Thank you! And you are totally wonderful! Sparky seems relieved today, and the overall energy around here is so sweet. They all seem to be saying, ‘Now you understand.’ So Rick and I have spent extra time today grounding in what came through. Everyone has gotten lots of communication and attention.”

We all long to feel understood, deeply seen, and unconditionally listened to by the beings in our lives we adore.

I hope to share this gift of listening with you and your animal friends very soon.

With love and joy,
Sharon

Jul 13 2017

Communicating with Whales is Different

In my work, I telepathically communicate with all species of animals, even humans.

To telepathically communicate, I become deeply present within myself, and from this place, I can feel a being’s thoughts and feelings on all levels of their consciousness. I feel their day-to-day experience of life, as well as their deeper desires, repressed emotions, and untapped gifts.

This experience is often very healing, for animals and people both. Feeling seen, heard, and understood on all levels brings a being’s consciousness back to its natural state of coherence.

For animals, this brings a feeling of relief, and health or behavior problems often just dissipate.

For people, this opens up new levels of self-understanding and brings alignment, clarity and will.

**Communicating with Wild Animals feels different.**

Then a few years back I started working with a number of clients who have wolf-dog hybrids. One client’s “dogs” were actually 70% wolf.

And their consciousness was different. It was more pristine. I literally felt uplifted and clearer after translating for these wolf-dogs.

I started to get the sense that wild animals have something intact in their consciousness that domesticated animals and humans have lost.

For us humans, and the animals we keep, living in civilization creates a certain fragmentation of consciousness.

Meanwhile for wild animals, the natural state of coherence that I help my human and non-wild animal clients reclaim, was never really lost in the first place. Wild animals, or at least those untouched by human civilization, don’t need the compassion of my animal communication sessions to return to a state of wholeness. They are living in it, ecstatically held in the Web of Love and Life.

**Communicating with Whales feels really different.**

On my quest to learn and experience more about this, I started connecting telepathically with whales in 2013 when I was on Maui for the first time.

Ok, this was life-changing.

First of all, being on Maui during whale season is simply magical. Every year from December through April, the North Pacific Fleet of Humpback Whales swim down to the warm shallow waters around the Hawaiian Islands, especially Maui, to have their babies and mate again. If you have never been, consider going. There is nothing like it. Witnessing these school-bus-sized beings shoot up out of the water in sheer joy will send chills through your system and thrill you on a cellular level. Their celebration of Life is contagious.

In 2016 I took a group of students there to go out on the water and connect with the whales in their own space, on their terms. It was astonishing. On all three outings, whales swam directly under our small private charter boat, just a few feet under the surface so we could see them clearly. And on one of the outings, we had about 12 whales swimming around the boat, peeking their heads up out of the water to see us, “the humans with the golden hearts,” as one baby whale described us in a telepathic image.

And on the last outing, we took the boat out pretty far to rendez-vous with a group of whales. I had made telepathic contact with a grandfather whale, and he gave us directions as to where to go. “We are over here, waiting,” is the thought the grandfather whale sent when I asked him at the start of the outing in what direction we should head.

As we drove further and further out to sea, I could feel the boat captain and my students quietly doubting our course, as there were few whales out that day. But then in the distance, we saw them: four whales splashing around, breaching, showing off. They were having a whale party, and waiting for us to join them.

These whales swam around our boat for about an hour and a half. They breached multiple times. My boat captain, John Fisher (no kidding, that’s his name), has been on Maui 26 years. He was stunned along with the rest of us, and said he has never been so close to a whale that we could actually hear them breathe when they leapt out of the water into the air.

The whole experience was phenomenal.

So why is communicating with Whales so different?

Since then, I have maintained a telepathic friendship with these magnificent beings. I communicate with them about Life, about the relationship between humans and animals on our planet, and about my next trips to visit them in person.

And just like in my practice, I connect with one whale at a time, feeling his or her distinct essence or personality, and getting his or her opinion on things.

After a recent communication, I was reflecting on how I literally feel tingly after communicating with whales telepathically. I remembered how pristine it was communicating with the wolves, but this was somehow different, even more coherent, more pure.

And there was not much sense of whales having repressed, hidden layers of their being. They felt “all there,” totally present.

This relative full presence in themselves has to be why being around whales is so magical, so healing.

I am sure that they are learning and growing while their spirits are in a body, just like all animals. But if they are here, like the rest of us, to learn and grow and shine more of their light in the world, it must be a gentler, more fluid process for them.

Because that is how their consciousness feels—open, fluid, clear, and really big. Not fragmented, incomplete, misaligned.

Then I thought of something that my meditation teacher once said about whales. From an evolutionary perspective, when you look at a whale’s skeleton, their spine doesn’t split where ours does at the legs (to walk on land of course). This continuation in their spine, and their size, allow for a greater integrity in their consciousness, a greater sense of wholeness.

I wondered if what my teacher was saying is that whales can hold all or most of their light, their essence, while the rest of us are still trying to realign with and incarnate more of ourselves.

Like any human who craves experiences of joy, wonder, compassion, and opening, I want to learn to hold all of my light, to be all of who I am. Whales have something to teach us about this.

If this speaks to you, too, consider learning animal telepathy with me and then joining me on a communication adventure with the Humpback Whales in Maui the next time I go. It will be an epic experience!

Apr 27 2017

The Importance of Opening

Growth is a mystery.

The Spring Equinox is a time when the forces of growth stir inside every living thing.

I was feeling into this yesterday, this thing inside us all that makes us push through limits.

Where does it come from? Why do some of us get stuck and give up while others weave our way through obstacles, finding the help and inspiration we need, both from inside and from outside ourselves?

As a teacher, I live with this question in my heart all the time.

The answer came from a special student.

When I was in my early 30’s, I taught high school art in a drop-out prevention school for at-risk teens. I remember wondering who would thrive and who would spend a life in struggle, just getting by, or worse.

Also, I wondered what I could do to help—how could I as a teacher tip the scales toward growth.

There was one student in particular, Carl, whose family at a certain point became homeless, and the assistant principle took a spare bed from his own home over to Carl’s aunt’s house so Carl wouldn’t end up in foster care.

There was something really special about Carl, a shining quality in his smile and a light in his eyes that revealed the beauty of his heart. We all did everything we could to support him.

And Carl received it. Carl’s open way of being inspired help to come, and he always welcomed it.

He is in his early 30’s now, and has a partner, a child, and a meaningful career.

Animals and young people understand opening.

I see the same light in the eyes of so many of the dogs and cats and birds and horses I communicate with. They understand, better than we do, this force inside that trusts life, stays open, receives help, and continues growing, even—and especially—in the difficult moments.

These qualities are essential to learning, and to life, really. Staying open, receiving support, and surrendering to the process of growth. Young children and animals do this very naturally, but it can be so hard for adult humans sometimes.

In my introductory course in Animal Telepathy, I read the following poem to help initiate my students into this mysterious aspect of the adventure of learning telepathy.

“It Felt Love”
By Hafiz

How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart

And give to this world
All its
Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being.

Otherwise,
We all remain

Too

Frightened.

At Equinox, a time when all of life moves toward light, I wish you a year of opening and beauty. So much is possible.