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Books
· We Meet in Dreams, A New Interpretation of Dreams

· Visits With Angels

· Realms of Light: Clairvoyant Experiences of Life After Death


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· Finishing the Musical Score of 'Unsung Songs: Songs of the Earth'

· Working on the Musical Score: A Composer's Journal

· Filling in the Music: A Composer's Journal August 9-28, 2012

· Creating Classical Music: A Composer's Journal

· Writing Music,The Unsung Songs: A Composer's Journal, August 1, 2012

· Still Writing the Unsung Song Cycle: A Composer's Journal

· Slipping and Sliding on the Spiritual Path: A Mystic's Journal

· Working on the 12 tone Cycle 'Unsung Songs': A Composer's Journal

· Sketching Out the Music: A Composer's Journal

· Unsung Songs, Haiku: A Composer's Journal


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· The Medjugorje Hymn to Our Lady

· Writing the Musical Score: A Composer's Journal

· Our Lady's Newest Message from Medjugorje: A Mystic's Journal

· Copying Out the Music: A Composer's Journal

· Still Writing the 'Unsung Songs' Cycle: A Composer's Journal

· An Interview on Creativity and Mystical States: A Mystic’s Journal

· The Living Rosary : A Mystic’s Journal Entry: November 28, 2010

· Our First and Last Mistake: A Mystic's Journal

· Letting Go of the Past: An Exercise in True Being: A Mystic’s Journal

· The Madonna's Latest Message from Medjugorje: “Be My River of Love”


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· Spring Song

· The Message

· Poems For the Dying

· Unsung Song: The Visit

· Two Songs: 'Sailboats' & 'A Feather'

· Poem: Words to the Song, 'The Storm'

· Poem: The Golden Arrow

· By The Lake

· Words to Four Early Songs

· Early Poems: On the Ego

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Spirituality: The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants
by Laurie M Conrad   


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· We Meet in Dreams, A New Interpretation of Dreams
· Visits With Angels
· Realms of Light: Clairvoyant Experiences of Life After Death


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Spirituality

Publisher:  1stbooks ISBN-10:  0759658722 Type:  Non-Fiction
Pages: 

101

Copyright:  2002


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The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants

Image: The author at Windgarth House on Lake Cayuga.

A delightful and magical book, written by a musician, clairvoyant and divine healer. The book contains true stories of clairvoyance, miracles and Divine Healing. These wonderful true stories convey the simple charms of a down-to-earth mystic whose wonderment reveals unexpected miracles. Lovers of animals and plants have often suspected what this book at last confirms in print: that animals and plants, trees, birds, bees and even bugs are all spiritual beings. The book was designed and illustrated by Diana Souza, whose whimsical, elegant style graces the book with the enchanted air of a modern fairytale-come-true.


Sample story from the book "The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants": 

The Dog on Staten Island

Several times a year I would stay with friends on Staten Island, sometimes for weeks at a stretch. They lived in St. George, which is near the ferry. And on the way from the ferry to their house I passed a grocery store guarded by a large tan brutish dog on a chain – whose aura, by the way, was terrible. The dog was chained outside the store in all weather, and the owner mentioned that at night the dog was locked in the basement. Not a great life for a dog, or any other being for that matter.

The dog growled if you came anywhere near him, and was in general otherwise non-responsive and churlish.

In time, as I learned about the spiritual yearnings and the spiritual development of animals, I decided that this dog needed spiritual training – for the sake of his own soul, but also for the souls of those around him, including his master.

Following a low, short growl from my student-to-be, I stood before him and inwardly told him of Jesus and Mary and the saints. I told him that if he were a good doggie, one day he would go to a beautiful realm filled with love, where there were gardens and beautiful, kind, people and saints and dog biscuits and everything else he could ever want – and I sent him a mental image of such a place, bathed in Sunshine and Peace.

He pretended that he was annoyed and not listening, but I could see that he was listening, and that he was even thinking. I mentally asked St. Francis to come and speak with the dog, and to watch over him in general. I told the dog to pray everyday: i.e. to tell Christ and Mary that he loved them and that he wanted to be a good doggie.

Since the grocery store was only a block away, and on the main street, I saw him many times that visit. I repeated my lecture every time I saw him, and his aura did seem somewhat improved by the time I left Staten Island. 

I returned to Staten Island a few months after. I had actually forgotten about the unhappy guard dog, but as I turned the corner to the main street – the dog was waiting for me, his head turned in my direction, as though he knew I was coming. Even though he was chained in front of the grocery store halfway down the block, I saw him instantly. I saw him instantly because his aura was so filled with Light that he shone. Out of all the people and strollers and stores and buses and cars and a plethora of other perceptions – my attention was riveted on the dog's Light. The dog began to pray as I walked towards him, and I say this because of his posture and also because his aura brightened further.

To see such a change in a being, in such a short time, was remarkable, and I told him so. He acted a bit shy with me – although he still maintained his guard dog persona, which was appropriate. In short, he was a changed dog. I saw him almost every day of my visit, and encouraged him to continue his practices when I left Staten Island.

A few months later, back in Ithaca, late one night (and I'm embarrassed to say that I was watching Star Trek on television), suddenly, as sometimes happens, a little movie started playing in my head. I closed my eyes to better see, and there were dogs, hundreds of dogs, all sizes and shapes, colors and breeds, sitting in a single line, one behind the other, it seemed for miles – as far as one could see to the horizon. They were all well behaved, and seemed happy and expectant, a little excited, yet sitting quietly in that long, very long, orderly row. Then, as though the camera taping the show zoomed in for a close-up, suddenly I was standing over the tan dog from Staten Island. There was no mistake about it, it was him. Wonderingly, I turned in the other direction, to see where all these dogs were facing, where the line began.

There were only a few dogs ahead of the dog from Staten Island – and at the head of the line stood Christ. Other dogs were playing and running in a beautiful countryside nearby. Then the inner movie dissolved.

I didn't know what the clairvoyant movie meant.

Six months or so later I returned to my friends on Staten Island. As I came to the corner, I expected the Staten Island dog to turn his head my way, and greet me with his prayers as he had done on my last visit. He did not, in fact he wasn't there.

I went inside the cluttered grocery and found the owner. "Where's your doggie?" I asked. Of course, no one in the world, I'm sure, had ever called his guard dog a doggie before. He looked a little puzzled and then offhandedly said "Oh, the dog – he died about six months ago," and then he turned and talked loudly with a customer.

About six months ago was when I had watched the clairvoyant vision. And even as I write this, so many years later, I am filled with such love for the dog on Staten Island who accomplished so much so quickly – a poor guard dog who freed himself from his difficult life and gained a beautiful realm where Christ Himself would come.      
    




Excerpt

From the story "Dominique and the Tree":

My dream is that one day, perhaps while I am walking on this planet we call earth, all the animals and flowers and trees and minerals, insects and reptiles, all the creatures of earth will pray, pray in the way humans were meant to pray. From the Heart, from Love, and continually. This is my dream, that they will pray from their Love of the Divine, and that they will pray for themselves and each other and then the people of the earth and then all the beings and creatures in other realms. Clairvoyantly I can even see this, what such a thing would look like. I see it as many little Hearts of Love and Light joining into one Big Heart or expanse of Light, and within that Greater Heart is contained all the beings and creatures of Earth and all other realms, transparent and bright. This is my vision. May it happen, and may it happen now.

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Professional Reviews
Carol Kline, Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul
"What a unique collection of stories! 'The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants' gave me a whole new perspective on the animal (and even insect) beings who so closely share the earth with us. If you'd like to expand your 'circle of compassion', read this book."

Katy Payne, Author, Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants
"These are touching stories, written by an extraordinary person".

New Age Journal
"Have you ever had such a close relationship with a pet that you felt you could read their thoughts and know their feelings? Does a certain plant bring special feelings to your day? Well, in the book The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants, Laurie Conrad shares her enlightening stories and tales of the animals and plants in her life and the communications she has shared with them. An uplifting collection of stories, sure to bring a smile to your heart."


Reader Reviews for "Spirituality: The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants"


Reviewed by pat mitchell (Reader) 4/5/2004
This is a beautiful book. After reading it once from cover to cover, I had to read it again - and again, many times. Each story is a jewel. I have to admit that I am a realist rather than a very spiritual person, but this author has captured my heart - her writing, as she describes it herself in her intro, is truly musical ... and mesmerizing.

Hard to say which story is my favorite, but it has to be Guinevere meeting Christ - that one brought tears to my eyes; others left me feeling "chills". down my spine. All of them are uplifting and all of them will leave you wanting more. I can't wait till her next book comes out!!

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