“Using subjective inquiry in conversation with current research, Williams provides a ground-breaking work on the study of consciousness and the interconnection of all sentient beings. Drawing on indigenous wisdom and western sciences, Ruth Williams creates a compelling interdisciplinary argument for the holistic impact interspecies connection could have upon the current climate emergency. Deeply sensitive and profoundly intuitive, William’s research grounds an ethical imperative for the cultivation of the human-animal connection for the sake of our planet’s future. A must-read for anyone interested in the work of consciousness.”- Tiffany Houck, M.Div., Ph.D., L.P., Jungian Analyst, supervising and training analyst with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, in private practice in New York City, USA.“This timely and intriguing book is packed with fascinating stories pertinent for our challenging times. Read it with an open mind and you will be amazed by how possible it is to communicate with our animal companions. This is relevant not only for the work of psychotherapy but also for anyone interested in deepening their relationships with our animal kin.”- Mary-Jayne Rust, Ecopsychotherapist, author of Towards an Ecopsychotherapy (Confer Books, 2020) and co-editor of Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis (Karnac Books, 2019).“She made me think! The first in-depth depth account from a Jungian perspective of telepathic communication with animals. Williams ranges from spirituality to environmental politics to veganism - and the survey of how clinicians use animals in their practice makes for riveting reading. Her burgeoning reputation is boosted by this innovative and heart-warming contribution."- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology at University of Essex, UK.“Once upon a time, every first-generation Jungian analyst had a dog. Marie-Louise von Franz, for example, had one so sensitive to her patients that it often seemed the animal, more than the analyst herself, could grasp the subtleties of the analytic work. And when she was too brusque with a patient, the dog would often approach and curl up at their feet. It is therefore no coincidence that Ruth Williams opens this book by speaking of Homer. Animals, after all, have a great deal to do with analytical psychology: they embody our deepest instincts and appear in dreams as precious symbols. This is a book to be read and reread, allowing oneself to be guided by Ruth Williams’s unique voice and to discover how profoundly animals can illuminate our understanding of the psyche.”- Stefano Carpani, Author, Training analyst and Lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich and Curator of Jungianeum.“Ruth Williams continues the work of C. G. Jung in showing that dividing human nature from animal nature is a choice of a fatally stuck modern culture rather than who we really are. If we can reach the quantum continuum that braids psyche into cosmological mind, then telepathic mutual communication with animals is part of becoming whole. With compassion, humour, daring and delight, this transdisciplinary work offers grounds for hope. For without learning from animals, we cannot know ourselves, or, how to repair our exploitative relationships with the planet. This book shatters human exceptionalism. Williams provides pathways into the sciences of the heart in ways that invite new ethical relationships that generate life. It is a beautiful book.”- Susan Rowland, Ph.D, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, Co-author of Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (Routledge, 2020) and the Mary Wandwalker Mysteries.“Reading Ruth Williams I am reminded of the words of psychoanalyst Hanna Segal - in a quote used for the World Trade Centre NY 9/11 Memorial Mural project -“It is when the world within us is destroyed, when it is dead and loveless, when our loved ones are in fragments, and we ourselves in helpless despair - it is then that we must recreate our world anew, reassemble the pieces, infuse life into dead fragments, recreate life.” (See: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/hanna-segal). William’s book is written from a similar position, tenderly encouraging mutual participation between human and creature - in sickness and in health. Infusing life. I witness devastating ‘dead and loveless’ fragmentations rampant in my own country, Australia. This is psychic pain. These are attacks on linking. It is a relief to find a psychotherapist who so carefully honours the link between ourselves and the natural animate world.”- Craig San Roque, Psychologist.
