Touching creatures, touching spirit living in a sentient world : stories & essays / Judy Grahn.

Author/creator Grahn, Judy, 1940-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoPasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2021]
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Abstract "Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit illustrates with true stories that we live in an interactive, aware world in which the creatures around us in our neighborhoods know us and sometimes reach across to us, empathically and helpfully. Implications are that all beings live in a possible "common mind" from which our mass culture has disconnected, but which is only a heartbeat and some concentrated attention away. This mind encompasses microbial life and insects as well as creatures and extends to nonmaterial intelligence as well-that is to say, spirit. Creatures as varied as a collaborating dragonfly, ants rescuing each other, a sympathetic lizard, an empathic coyote, gift-giving squirrels, crazed birds, and lots of very mysteriously smart cats inhabit the stories. Precognition, dreams, paranormal experiences with birds, psychic communications with cats, visitations from ghosts with messages, rolling earth spirits-not supernatural, they seem natural enough but not visible to everyone. The intention of this book is to help people catch interactions they themselves experience with nonhuman and even disembodied beings, and who could use some support for recalling since these interactions make clear we live in a sentient world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Grahn, Judy, 1940- Touching creatures, touching spirit First edition. Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2021] 9781597091183
Genre/formElectronic books.
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ISBN9781597098816 (epub)
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