I have a favorite tool I use to help people tune in to their inherent ability to communicate with other species telepathically.

On August 28, 2024, Pepito, my loving long-haired Chihuahua (also known as a ChiWowWow), enjoyed the last online class in the 7-week Become An Animal Whisperer series I taught with The Shift Network. He could feel the hundreds of people attending the live course and even the hundreds who would learn from the video recordings.

Living in the Sonoran Desert north of Phoenix, Arizona, wild animals surround me. There are a multitude of lizards and snakes. While I respect and appreciate their meditative, ancient, wise presence, I carefully watch for rattlesnakes.

In 2016, I connected with the animals of Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary, asking who wanted to speak about healing the Earth when the director, Susan Eirich, requested this. A white wolf appeared.

Bluebell is a bison who lives at Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary in Idaho. Years ago, the director, Susan Eirich, requested that I ask her these questions about healing the planet.

Kate Solisti writes: As a young child I heard plants, animals, and minerals speaking to me. I thought everybody could hear them. I quickly learned that this was not the case.

Hearing over and over, "It's just your imagination, dear" made me doubt the truth of my deeper connection. In order to be accepted by family and friends, I shut down my ability to hear.

A magazine article talked about how dragonflies "hunt the insects humans hate—mosquitoes and gnats, deerflies and wasps—and their 95 percent success rate makes them nature’s most lethal predators….They can fly backward and sideways, dip up and down with ease, hover in place, and reach speeds up to 30 miles per hour. With their compound eyes, odonates process 200 images per second—over three times more than humans do—which produces a slow-motion effect that allows them to hyperfocus on prey.”

I decided to find out more from the dragonfly masters themselves.

At a course in Massachusetts, an owl visited our group of animal communication students. She came from “Animals as Intermediaries” whose animal residents could not return to the wild after injury or human habituation. They were willing teachers in human education and therapy programs.

The ability to communicate with animals may begin with creatures you are comfortable with, such as cats and dogs. I have loved to help people stretch their boundaries and become curious about animals outside their comfort zone to gain revelations and experience insightful breakthroughs.

A two-year-old orca, which locals named “Little Brave Hunter” translated from the Ehattesaht First Nation language, became stranded in a lagoon along the northwest reaches of Vancouver Island when traveling with her mother.