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Soul Dog
- A Journey into the Spiritual Life of Animals
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
An exploration of animal spirituality and the ability of animals to communicate with humans even in the afterlife.
Looking for companionship after a near-fatal car crash, Elena Mannes, an award-winning television journalist and producer, decided to get her first dog. But what she found with her dog, Brio, shook the foundations of her physical and spiritual worlds, sending her on a quest to discover the nature of his spiritual origins and to contemplate and seek out the possibility of interspecies communication - even after death.
Soon after bringing her puppy home, Mannes realized the master-companion relationship would not be possible with Brio, who quickly showed he had a mind - and a spirit - of his own. Mannes' growing curiosity about the intelligence, emotions, and consciousness of Brio and other dogs led her to contact an animal psychic in California who described, with amazing accuracy, Brio's favorite walks and the author's apartment from the dog's point of view. Mannes' skeptical journalist background compelled her to investigate further. She delved into the world of animal communicators, psychics, and scientists studying animal intelligence, including Rupert Sheldrake, to find answers to her multiplying questions: Do animals have thoughts and feelings? Consciousness? Souls? Is interspecies communication possible? Can animals reincarnate?
Spanning the entire life and afterlife of Brio, including his last days and his messages to the author after he passed on, this audiobook also explores Mannes' investigations into the spiritual life of animals, offering a new understanding of the unbreakable bond between humans and animals. Mannes invites listeners to move beyond the owner-pet relationship and shows us how to see animals as thinking, feeling, spiritual beings whose connections with us extend far beyond life and death.
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- Julie Baxter
- 23-10-21
Wonderful Listening!
This is one, if not *the*, best audiobook I've ever listened to. Well, written/read account of a very sincere experience.
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- kathryn
- 19-12-21
fantastic heartwarming book
fantastic book for anyone who has ever had any animal that they have loved so dearly, it gives us hope that we will be reunited with our passed over pets.
animal communication is a wonderful experience and we all have the ability to communicate with ours and other peoples animals.
read beautifully
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- David M Kellas
- 06-11-22
Surprisingly Enjoyable
Beautifully and tenderly written, but I would have preferred a different reader without the harsh accent.
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- Jerry Kelleher
- 11-07-22
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This is an amazing book. A must read if you are a dog lover. It will open you eyes to our best friends
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- Miss S. V. Jessup
- 31-01-22
fabulous story
I loved this! It brought back memories of my beloved soul cat, I miss him all the time but this gives me hope that he is okay.
The narration to me seemed a little robotic in the beginning but got better as time went on.
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- Deea WL
- 13-09-22
A must for animal lovers!
An awareness lecture. A book that brings animal-human communication to a more profound level.With interesting studies and a personal story that can be any of us.
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- jan
- 21-11-22
very emotive
not quite what I expected but very interesting. for those who have an open mind. maybe not for those whose dog has recently passed away as could be quite triggering
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- Anonymous User
- 11-02-22
it is just too unscientific
I think there is one sentence in the book that summarises it for me: faith makes life so much more colourful. It is full of stories of coincidences, individual cases and some collection of animal tricks from the 80s that try to bring the point that animals have telepathic abilities. I think if she would be more interested in the cognitive abilities of animals or in this case dogs, half of the things will be explained by the great ability of dogs to learn to communicate with humans and adopt to our environment. For me personally the book was tiring and annoying.
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- Denise King
- 21-10-22
Irritating
The author has no concept of how animals are treated. I should have stopped when I discovered she had paid a breeder for her dog (who manipulated her into taking the dog she wanted to get rid of - nothing to do with the universe) but I persevered. When she began referring to horse racing and the Kentucky Derby and how a horse communicated that he wanted to win for his owner, I abandoned ship. The author clearly has no idea how the life of a horse used for racing is miserable, painful and potentially fatal. I also found the narrator frustrating.
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- Anna
- 13-05-24
Disappointing in Parts but still a Good Read
I am a sceptic who wants to learn more about spirituality. However, I need science or rather proof, so when I heard there was a book out there written by a fellow sceptic I snapped it up. And hense my disappointment. While the author claims to have been a sceptic very little of that deductive reasons is explained in this book.
The main argument for it being true is that a lot of people believe it so it must be true. Needless to say their are several gaps in that argument. I mean just because we believe something doesn't meaning its true. For example for a long time in human history we believed the earth was the centre of the universe, that light came out of our eyes and illuminated the world and the earth was flat. Belief doesn't equal fact.
The author spent an extraordinary amount of time exploring the intelligence of dogs and other animals and if they are conscious. While these are interesting topics they are not the subject of the book. I'm not sure what the author was trying to say here but the impression I was left with was that intelligence equals soul. This comes across as incredibly narrow minded and abilist. Is she saying that developmentally challenged people don't have souls? Where does she draw the line on this? What qualifies as intelligence? Does emotional Intelligence count? And so on.
Reading this your probably wondering why I've given it three stars. Here's the thing while it was (in my opinion) mismarketed on the spirituality side. It is a fantastic book about grieving, exploring the relationship humans have with animals. As well as the nature of consciousness and belief. There are some interesting animal intelligence studies mentioned. So I would still recommend checking it out.
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