Discussion and information about animal totems, spirits, and rituals pertaining to working with animals, familiars, both real and astrally, rituals, spells, mysticism, spirituality, chants, shamanism, paganism, etc.
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Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children?
Hear me, four quarters of the world ... a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is!
...all over the earth, the faces of living things are all alike.

~ John G. Neihardt, 1881-1973 Black Elk Speaks

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
there is a rapture by the lonely shore;
there is society, where none intrudes;
by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
I love not man the less,
but nature more.

~Lord George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824 Don Juan

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Animals are not nephews or cousins; somewhere far back down the line, our hearts and blood moved much the same. Some old racial memory lost in me remembers this. It is hard for me to look and not read the bright signals. I hear that old heartbeat from a million-plus years ago. Their family, my family, our family, are gazing at one another. I cannot refuse the stare that asks great questions that must be answered. I cannot turn away.

~Ray Bradbury Preface to Sealsong by Brian Davies

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