Amelia Kinkade - Whispers from the Wild: Listening to Voices from the Animal Kingdom

Praise for Whispers from the Wild

Whispers from the Wild by Amelia Kinkade is a truly remarkable read on many levels. With pages dripping with nectar from the heart, this book makes abundantly clear Amelias passion and concern for wild animals. Its a passion we should all share, as youll come to learn, if you care about reversing the extensive and perhaps nearly irreparable damage humankind has caused our planet. And you wont have to take her word for it; this comes straight from the horses mouth, so to speak. Various species of animals she communes with in the book have told her so. These interspecies dialogs so amazed me, I had to prop up my jaw from dropping so much. Woven into this amazing narrative are fascinating stories from Amelias past as a professional dancer and actress, performing with some of the great talent of the time. After reading this book I cant look at animals the same way; Im now convinced they know more than we do.

Andrew Bloomfield, author of Call of the Cats,
Learning Practical Tibetan, and How to Practice Vedic Astrology

Amelia Kinkade is a modern Dr. Doolittle, bringing more than twenty years of her teaching and knowledge into this new book. Whispers from the Wild is written with compassion, love, and humor, giving readers the behind-the-scenes of the amazing animal kingdom.

Gary Quinn, bestselling author of
May the Angels Be with You and The Yes Frequency

Amelia and her work and books have opened my mind and beliefs to a world of potential for all living things. She has incredible talents and abilities that we can all learn from. Read about her work in her latest book and become her student. You will be grateful for her and her work and how it changes your life for the better, too.

Bernie Siegel, MD, author of
Love, Animals & Miracles and A Book of Miracles

In Whispers from the Wild, renowned animal communicator Amelia Kinkade provides us with just what we need to deeply and personally reconnect with the fascinating and mysterious world of nonhuman animals to rewild our hearts. Not only do they need us, but we also need them to thrive and to truly experience our own humanity in an increasingly human-dominated world. Whispers from the Wild made me deeply rethink ways in which we could truly honor the presence and essence of nonhuman animal beings, while at the same time saving ourselves from the devastating effects of our alienation from nature and from ourselves.

Marc Bekoff, author of
The Emotional Lives of Animals and Rewilding Our Hearts

Everywhere there is growing awareness that we humans will find harmony with nature or we may not be at all. In Whispers from the Wild, Amelia Kinkade reminds us that an astonishing level of communication with wild creatures is indeed possible. Her enchanting book helps us resacralize the Earth and its creatures seeing all life as sacred and deserving of love, respect, and compassion. The beneficiaries are not just the animals but ourselves as well.

Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our
Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

Amelia Kinkade has amazing abilities to communicate with animals and, perhaps more important, humans who love animals. Her depth of experience and wisdom sparkle on every page. Highly recommended.

Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret

ALSO BY AMELIA KINKADE

Straight from the Horses Mouth:
How to Talk to Animals and Get Answers

The Language of Miracles:
A Celebrated Psychic Teaches You to Talk to Animals

Copyright 2016 by Amelia Kinkade

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

Text design by Megan Colman

Watercolor paintings by Fiona Knox

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

Names: Kinkade, Amelia, author.

Title: Whispers from the wild : hearing voices from the animal kingdom / Amelia Kinkade.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016029886 (print) | LCCN 2016036888 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608683963 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781608683970 (Ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Human-animal communication. | Animal communication. | Extrasensory perception in animals.

Classification: LCC QL776 .K56 2016 (print) | LCC QL776 (ebook) | DDC 591.59dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029886

First printing, October 2016

ISBN 978-1-60868-396-3

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-397-0

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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To Beatrice Lydecker, my teacher,
who taught me the call of the wild is heard in whispers

In the name of the daybreak

and the eyelids of morning

and the wayfaring moon

and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor

my soul with hatred,

but offer myself humbly

as a guardian of nature,

as a healer of misery,

as a messenger of wonder,

as an architect of peace.

In the name of the sun and its mirrors

and the day that embraces it

and the cloud veils drawn over it

and the uttermost night

and the male and the female

and the plants bursting with seed

and the crowning seasons

of the firefly and the apple,

I will honor all life

wherever and in whatever form

it may dwellon Earth my home,

and in the mansions of the stars.

DIANE ACKERMAN, School Prayer from I Praise My Destroyer

Contents

IN 2001, A TEAR-STAINED, tattered diary became a book that got published all over the world and turned my house cats name into a synonym for a forbidden love that no one else would understand. I called Mr. Jones, my Maine coon, the sunlight in my universe and described our relationship as a love that transcends all space and time. Since the publication of Straight from the Horses Mouth, Ive received thousands of emails from all over the globe with readers sending me photos of their Mr. Jones. When I open the attachments, Im surprised to find that the pictures are not always of house cats, but also of horses, dogs, and sometimes even rabbits or birds. But when I read the emails saying, This is my Mr. Jones or, sadly, I just lost my Mr. Jones, you know my tears always come. You all trust me to know what you mean. This new book is a walk on the wild side, but Im trusting you to continue to know what I mean.