Animal Consciousness

Unlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the human mind's greatest power: introspection. “Are you sure?” Whether in a court room, a doctor’s office, a gameshow’s hot seat, or a student’s desk, we are always trying to answer that question...

alk to the Animals by Gary M. Douglas & Dr. Dain Heer gives you pragmatic tools and techniques to actually talk to the animals and contribute to the earth! What if peace was a natural state for animals? When you create or tap into a place of peace for your horse, dog or cat, then everything becomes calm, cool and collected...you're in the zone. Did you know that every animal, plant and structure on this planet has consciousness and desires to gift to you? If you are unwilling to receive, then you miss out on what they wish to give you. You also limit your ability to receive in every area of life...the money you can have, what you can experience and what is possible for you! Did you know animals can talk? It's interesting to observe animals misbehaving when we don't listen to them.

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher...

A guide to discovering the spiritual agreements between our souls and those of our animal companions 2021 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award Explains how animals have physical or behavioral issues to evolve their souls as well as help our soul’s evolution and release past-life...

Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom — the Metazoa— they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.

Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly inaccessible realm of animal experience. The book carries profound implications for debates about animal cognition, animal ethics, and animal rights, challenging us to regard animals as beings who matter.

Compelling and straight-shooting wisdom for coping with whatever challenges life throws at us from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself. In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop taught millions of readers how to silence the negative, self-sabotaging voice in their head to thrive...

If a salmon could speak, you still wouldn't understand me. You would hear vowels and miss the cold tug of current, the taste of gravel between my gills, the humming magnet under my skin that points me home. I don't tell stories; I register chemistry, pressure, and direction. I leave the ocean because my body remembers a river the way a clock remembers midnight. This book takes you inside that body. Sparse, sensory chapters—birth in gravel, the slow remapping to salt, the rumble of magnetism, the naming of home by smell—trace a life driven by appetite, physics, and place, not meaning. ...

If a vulture could speak, it would tell you it keeps you alive. I circle thermals and read chemical clouds; I taste death and render it harmless. Bald head, acid stomach, and a willingness to do the work you refuse—this is not drama, it is service. I speak in wind and carrion and the small, exact mechanics of sanitation that stop anthrax, rabies, botulism from walking a road you use. Listen close: what you call ugliness, I call efficiency. This book is a close, sensory monologue that strips away superstition and shows how scavengers think, move, and cooperate—how a bird’s biology ...

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." That warning holds double for me. I live in twilight and vibration, not your sentences: body pressed into grass, ears narrowing to a mouse's heartbeat, whiskers reading the gap before my paws. I am not a metaphor. I am a predator with a grammar of light, air, and scent—practical, urgent, and all of it felt. If a cat could teach you anything, it wouldn't teach kindness. It would teach attention. This book moves through the instruments of that attention—twilight sight, ears of silk, whiskers as touch-lidar, layered scent-maps, purrs and...

How can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise? Bernard Rollin offers welcome insight into questions like this in his ground-breaking account of the difficult and controversial issues surrounding the use of animals. He demonstrates that the denial of animal consciousness and animal suffering is not an essential feature of a scientific approach, but rather a contingent, historical aberration that can and must be changed if science is to be both coherent and morally responsible.

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us...

Training methods for tracking and wilderness observation woven into extraordinary real-life stories of intuitive animal-reading skills Explains technical tracking methods and observational skills such as shadowing and envisioning through the innermost thoughts of an accomplished native...

I drop walnuts on roads to crack them open. Wheels are tools when you are too small; timing is a muscle; memory smells like your hand. If I could speak, I would not recite facts. I would hand you a broken shell and watch whether you understood why. This book is that hand—close, blunt, and exact. It follows the small acts that add up to a mind: the walnut, the wait, the face remembered across seasons, the dusk meeting where a thousand silent signals sort friend from threat. Read me if you want a map of cognition that never learned words. You will find tool-use stripped of wonder and recast...

You will receive many blessings from the Animal Kingdoms from reading this book. Some awesome blessings include: Blessings of Multidimensional Awareness, Blessings for Joy and Humor, Blessings for Gentleness, Blessings of Holographic Knowledge and Inner Knowing, Blessings for Becoming the Dreamer and the Dream, and Blessings for Entering Tao Based Time and Cycles. Blessings for Multidimensional Awareness: Eagle holds links to one’s multidimensional awareness. For Earth, we provide the necessary keys for Earth to link up and clear karma that is related to other dimensions of experience. ...

If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? Addressing these questions compels you to confront not just your dog's life but yours as well—to think about what fulfillment, and meaning, in life really is. In The Word of Dog, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores these questions and suggests that in dogs we can see hints—faint, shrouded, but discernible—of what a better way of living might look like.

"If a lion could speak, we would not understand him." I take that not as a wry thought but as a task: to live in a throat, to map life by scent, muscle, and the bookkeeping of hunger. I speak from the geometry of the hunt — the rasp of grass, the grunt of a falling hoof, the way blood rewrites the night — and I refuse your moral vocabulary. This book is not elegy or sermon. It is a field report written inside a body that measures everything by appetite, endurance, and the slow calculus of survival. Nine lean chapters move from the roar outward and back again: presence, hunger, pride, ...

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.” Imagine that, sharpened, and no larger than your thumb. I do not chase. I wait—head turning twice, sight folding the world into distances you don't see, forelegs cocked not as limbs but as death's trigger. Heat and shadow choose when I move; hunger is a ledger, not a grief. If I could speak, I'd hand you a different grammar of being: precise, impatient, economical. This is my translation. A first‑person mantis narrates vision, strike, thermals, hunger, and the grim bookkeeping that makes cannibalism a practical choice. Natural ...

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." So listen instead to what does speak: the ant under your shoe, writing life in scent. I lay a trail that reads like a sentence, press my antennae to a sister for grammar, taste sugar and grit as punctuation. I do not speak; I broadcast maps, alarms, and care with chemicals and touch. In plain, unsentimental scenes I narrate how a single path becomes a mind — how food, brood, and danger are solved by bodies obeying small rules until they look like decisions. This is natural history pried open at the seam where science meets sensation. ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Margaret Floy Washburn A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in psychology and one of the most influential voices in early comparative psychology. In a field that often tried to silence her, she spoke with precision and persistence, opening doors for women in science and reshaping how we understand animal and human minds alike. This concise yet powerful volume distils her life’s story into an engaging journey — from her rejection at Columbia to her triumph at Cornell, from ...