For nearly two decades, I have been working on wiser and more mystical ways of communicating with animals, including visualizations that have  been remarkably successful for me, with my dogs, donkeys, barn cats and this week, with the sheep. I believe that animals communicate much as some autists, they talk and think in images, not words. People arrogantly project human words and narratives onto animals, but they are alien creatures, they do not think the way we do, or the way we would like them to.

Visual is not like training or issuing commands, it is a process of speaking to animals in a way they can understand. I did it with Frieda, with Red, with Rose, with Simon, and with astonishing and wonderful results. Yesterday afternoon, I sat in the Pole Barn for three hours and I did it with Ma. I concentrated in quiet, I cleared my mind, I watched her and listened to her, I projected movement, health, I projected the process of birth and life.

Ma settled, she lay down a few feet from me. Visualization is something Maria does almost intuitively, but I believe it is a seminal part of talking to animals, that is why I am excited to be doing a book on “Talking To Animals.” I don’t want to write about it too much on the blog, I want to save it for my book, I hope this will be my great and lasting work.

But I am using this today to communicate with the lambs inside of Ma, to imagine them deciding  to come out, to open up the birthing canal and begin their journey into the world. I have been doing this all morning and will do it this afternoon, I will write about it as it unfolds. I believe it was critical in helping Ma come back to life, along with the veterinary care she received. The vet and I both saw it happen.