Gerry Starnes, an Austin Texas area shamanic author and teacher, discusses Power or Spirit Animals, including: Totem, Journey Guide, Messenger, and Shadow animals.

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"Spirit is always talking to us, always communicating with us. The difficulty is that we are not always listening. We are too busy. Our minds are always in the past or in the future... We don't often step out of our routine and take time to listen to what Spirit has to say.

"Spirit does not talk to us in English, in fact communication with Spirit is rarely ever linear in the way we think about communication. It is not about words. It's more often about images, pictures, scenarios. Even animated beings carry with it the communication of spirit - the wisdom of Spirit....

"We work with Power Animals because we have been with animals for as long as we have been human. In the beginning, we were part of the food chain. We ate things, and things ate us. Most of those things were animals. So we have known animals for 100 thousand, 200 thousand years... We have a long-term relationship with animals. So it makes sense that when Spirit talks to us, it talks to us within a symbol that we understand genetically. And that would be animals."

See also the best-selling Kindle book: Power Animals: The Role of Spirit Guides in the Shamanic Journey.
http://www.GerryStarnes.com/poweranim...

For more information about Gerry Starnes and his work, please see: http://www.GerryStarnes.com

In the Austin TX area, join the Austin Shamanism Meetup to connect with the community:
http://www.GerryStarnes.com/meetup