How to Talk Animals and Plants

by Brian Dessauer in Spirituality, September 15, 2009

Ever wonder how the horse and dog whispers work? This is the first of several installments on how to establish a relationship with the plant and animal kingdom form a Native American perspective.

Over the years I have learned to communicate with the plant and animal kingdom through a process I wish to share with you. The first treatise will start with the topical lessons Earth Mother and Creator God instructed me with. Then in latter writings I will get to the bulk of how the connections are made to work with the plant and animal kingdoms on a relational level.

Early on as I began to explore my Native American heritage after the God of Heaven introduced himself to me as “Creator God”. He began to present to me opportunity’s to learn from Earth Mother how to establish a relationship with the animal kingdom which dove tails with the plant order as well.

One day I was fishing, I had approached the pond as a sacred place , showing respect for the gathering of water. I ran my hands and arms through the water , raising my dripping arms to the sky with honor, love and respect for the opportunity to bless the land and the fish in the pond. This is a habit Creator God had taught me just a few months before while touring the rivers in my area. The revelation of the sanctity of water had occurred then. I cast my rod and waited. While removing the catfish from the hook to place it in the basket I had a check in my spirit. I stopped and waited to be spoken to by Mother Earth or Creator God. I heard Creator God speak to me and he told me “Bless the life I was taking” That I was taking the life of the fish that I may have life . In a moment my vision capacity opened up and I saw my ancestors holding up a dripping wet fish just pulled from a shallow river. They held the catch toward the sky and said “ I thank you for your life that I may live”. This phrase resounded in my heart and I reenacted everything I had heard and saw in vision.