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Dean’s Animal Whispers If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please send an email to subscribe@billiedean.com. If you enjoy this newsletter, donations are very welcome. All donations support the animals of Ballyoncree Animal Sanctuary. You can also support the sanctuary just by paying your phone bill. In this issue: WelcomeHello everybody, We are so very excited to bring you this issue of Animal Whispers. At last. Andrew, Tamsin and I plus our readers and friends, have found some wonderful things to bring both laughter and tears. There’s all the news from Ballyoncree and Laughing Owl Productions, some global happenings for Mother Earth – and just some funny stuff to lift your vibration with a smile. I hope you enjoy this issue of Animal Whispers and I invite you to contribute to the next issue. Please send poems, stories, links, feedback and photos to animalwhispers@billiedean.com. May you always be blessed on your journey.
With much love, light and laughter in honour of All Our Relations, Billie's NewsI wake up buried under animals. The puppies, Tusuque and Daisy, are under the blankets on either side of me. The cats, Red and Kobi drape across my chest. They don’t want me to leave. It’s the hardest thing about my studies and work at the moment – leaving Andrew, Tamsin and all my animal family. It makes the experience bittersweet, as I miss them more than I can say. I have taken to travelling with Thunder, an empowered stuffed toy puppy, who has a voice of his own and who all the other students treat with incredible respect. He is my link to home, my proxy for healing, and does things like complain if I want to leave him in my room. He is as alive as the stone people who make up my medicine bag, and adds another dimension to the world of magic and non ordinary reality. Tomorrow I fly to Ireland for another module of my studies, where I will learn brand new information about the Munay Ki – how to ground the rites in every day life. As a shamanic healer, I call on the lineage daily. As a Munay-Ki mentor, I see how my protégés notice their perceptions of life and their own healing shift and change for the better. But this new work will take our work together deeper and expand or hasten their ability to become Earthkeepers for Mother Earth. As with my first Munay-Ki course, I’m not sure exactly what my experience will be, I just know that it calls to my Spirit like a siren song, as hard and loud as the Munay-Ki did. What awaits me I’m sure will be no less than extraordinary and I look forward to bringing it home to share with others. Straight after my study I fly to England to start preliminary shooting on a new film which takes the Inkan message of hope to the world and has the blessing of the elders. It has my heart leaping like a salmon and Andrew and I look forward to bringing you the completed project in 2008. Watch this space! My computer got the sulks because I didn’t take her to Utah and for the first time ever I had a computer meltdown. So if anyone sent me email between July 8 and July 20, please , please, please, resend, especially if you did not get a response from me! Thank you! We have water!!! A running creek and water to wash with! Wow. After so long we feel like royalty! At last. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!Sooo much is happening. I guess you can all feel the quickening. Are you walking in love or fear? The polarity is growing wider with each passing year and fence sitters now have to make a choice. The erratic energies of the first part of the year, fast forward us into our hopes and dreams in the second half. The solstice was a powerful time to dream in the new and I know, for me personally, I am now walking into Destiny. So incredibly exciting!! Since I accepted the nine rites of the Munay Ki in February, I feel my progress has accelerated. My film career was always one way I felt I could be of service and I am thrilled that Andrew and I are working again on a new project to uplift and enlighten.Speaking of Andrew, I want to publicly thank both him and Tamsin for holding space at home so sweetly and so efficiently. I returned from my shamanic studies in Utah to find Jaffah’s coat still hung on the fence where it has been since our wedding anniversary in June – the night Jaffah, one of the Sanctuary's special needs horses, had her last colic, and died. Andrew was pleased I had been home. I was too. I’m the only healer we have, and after giving Jaffah a healing, I heard a voice tell me she would be all right. And she was. Jaffah died peacefully after a long night in the rain, with Andrew and I nursing her, keeping her company. I had been equivocating about returning to the USA for more shamanic healing study. That night I made the commitment to finish my two-year course as soon as I could, so I could be the best I could be for the animals. We booked my flight the next morning. And Jaffah's empty coat still hangs on the fence. Neither of us can find the heart to put it away. It’s a hard job to look after a Sanctuary on your own when one of us is away, while still doing your paid work. And I know all too well what it’s like when you have all the animals to serve and clean up after, with editors pushing deadlines and getting tetchy. I know what it’s like at dinner time when one badly timed phone call in the office has you cleaning up stables by torchlight and coming in tired from all the horse feeds, only to find Willow barking at you hungrily, two goats vying for their bottle, and jumping on the furniture to get your attention, and four cats staring you down, making their feelings about the lateness of their meal known and known loudly. And let’s not forget the other dogs, including the few who counter surf, making it difficult to turn your back – even for a second. It’s no easy feat, especially as it comes after a normal work day. And then there’s the care of Tamsin, who we homeschool, and the running of the household, including the usual parental taxiing to Scouts, flute lessons, jazz ballet and any other activities eleven year olds like to do.
So hats off to my super human husband who is really an angel and the most perfect life partner I could ever have manifested. Completely supportive of my passion for animals and animal welfare, he is kind, considerate, funny , computer literate, compassionate, deeply spiritual and highly intelligent. When I’m away he always has time for my many daily calls to him, absorbing my study and my various ups and downs, always there with sage counsel and much love. We hate being apart. He is my rock and my inspiration and I’m humbled every day that this amazing and unique human being is still deeply in love with me, and still willing to make the financial sacrifices we do for the animals in our life.And gratitude also for my wonderful daughter who also helps keep the Sanctuary going while I’m away, despite missing her mum. She makes up the horse feeds and takes care of the geese, the alpacas and the budgies and the goats. She feeds the puppies breakfast and gives little Samantha her herbs. She’s only eleven, and sometimes I forget how young that really is. I’m incredibly proud of her and the work she is already doing in the world.
So much
gratitude to my family for everything. This really is a time to mind our thinking and our thoughts. Keep them high. Keep dancing. This is also the message from the animals. So many of our furry beloveds are asking their people to turn off the news, to ritually cleanse the house of negative energies, and keep their vibration high! It’s a time for spiritual house cleaning and to really dig out the shadow self, dust it off and hang it out to dry. This is what we do in my new school Rainbow Fianna with my courses, because it is vital that people aren’t projecting their stuff onto their animal friends. They are not only our mirrors, they absorb our negativity like a vacuum cleaner. And when they act out because they are mirroring us, too many of us don’t understand. These special beings wind up in the pounds, sad and confused, often not passing stringent assessment tests, and ending up on death row. So let’s spread the message like pebbles sending ripples in a pond. And let’s forward the For Life movement and eradicate death row! Travelling this year for Andrew’s brother’s beautiful Buddhist wedding and my shamanic healing studies has brought me much joy as well as much grief. Andrew and I went to a designer dog shop in Miami, USA where I was confronted with two puppies in the arms of a mother and her grown up daughter. “Are we going to have a good life?” one of the pups asked me. The air was filled with foreboding. “Surely,” I said back. Aloud I chatted to the mum about the importance of exercise and a raw food diet. “Exercise?” she said blankly. My distress level rose. “Puppies like to be active and they chew. Exercise is vital for health and harmony in the home.” The woman behind the counter looked at me pityingly and put in her two bits. “You must give them some water,” she told the mother, speaking slowly and forcefully. The mother and daughter scuttled out with nothing but fancy leads. I sighed, my senses attuned to the pups' fear. “They’ll be dead in a couple of weeks,” said the woman behind the counter. “I’ve seen it over and over. They don’t want a dog, they want a hand bag. They know nothing and they don’t want to.” Inside I felt a rage building – a rage of compassion and frustration. I buried myself into Andrew’s waiting arms and cried. Silently I sent the luminous beings of my lineage to watch over the pups and make their stay on Earth as best as it could be. And I swore to change things. For a start, these dogs were from a puppy mill and bought at a pet store. All this has to change. During my shamanic healing studies, someone complained their life had gone to hell and even the cats were peeing everywhere, so of course she "had to get rid of them". I was appalled, and fortunately, the teacher, an excellent shaman, told the woman and the room, not once, but twice, that it was not the cats – but her. Her shadow. Her stuff. The cats were merely reflecting her. I was so grateful to her for saying this, and echoing my exact sentiments and what I know to be truth from 20 years experience. Look what these amazing teacher cats got for their efforts – disposed of. Truly, until we enlighten people and recognise the truth of these animal beings, society will continue to be in collective pain. We are all one. What we do to the animals, we do to ourselves. To make change in this arena is my personal passion. This is why I offer the Munay Ki, Rainbow Fianna, the For Life Campaign and my upcoming books and films. I invite you to join me in changing the world for animals and Mother Earth. Sadly we lose Anne and her husband Andrew from the proposed Canberra Animal Haven. They are expecting a baby and have decided to leave Canberra to create a new home in a more friendly environment. Who can blame them after what Anne went through with the RSPCA sacking her for posting a call for help email in Animal Whispers for Mack and Bussa. It was a bit of a shock after she had been successful in her goal to find a very suitable foster carer for the dogs, someone the dogs responded to. Thank-you to all those people who wrote to the RSPCA, having felt saddened by the loss of Mack and Bussa. I’m sure you all received the same letter as I did, defending the decision to kill those two frightened dogs. I forwarded
my letter to Anne who did not agree, claiming the dogs were fine
when they were out of the RSPCA enclosure and with her. They also
responded to the foster carer. I noticed the RSPCA letter made no
explanation of why they fired Anne. The death row policy of any pound or shelter hurts not only animals, but people. Another student of mine went through a similar thing in Townsville recently, falling in love with 29129G, a dog she called Blossom, because she knew the dog could and would blossom. She even offered to pay for a private behavioural assessment and was knocked back. The dog was considered unadoptable and therefore no amount of trying by outside caring folk was going to save her from her sad fate. Needless to say my student was heart broken and extremely and deeply distressed. Also, another student of mine, a thirteen-year-old homeschooler asked some difficult questions about the behavioural assessments while at a home school tour of the Canberra RSPCA recently, and was also highly distressed by the answers and non-answers. It affected her profoundly. This paradigm of killing will change as more and more people state their objections to the death row policy and demand change. It is a paradigm which will die out as more and more people lead by good example. Best Friends Animal Society in Utah, USA has been my shining light for the last 15 years. They have a No More Homeless Pets campaign, encouraging compassion and goodwill in people. Best Friends is the largest no kill animal sanctuary, possibly in the world, fuelled entirely by people donations and sending out tendrils of good will and service to animal rescue communities across America. They have their unadoptables, which are funded by Guardian Angel sponsorship and who live their lives out in happiness and safety. At any one time Best Friends provides a home for around 1500 animals across all species. They don’t say "no" to any animal in need. The San Francisco SPCA is also a no kill shelter in the heart of a very big city. They rely a lot on foster carers. If they can do it, we can too. And there are many more. For our For Life web pages, please send in your stories of no kill shelters you have come across so we can give the kill shelters some positive ideas and infrastructure for change. Send an email with For Life as the subject matter. On a good note, many animals have found good homes – the laboratory border collies (poor things) I emailed about all apparently and thankfully found new lives in homes with people who think they are more than something to poke at. Baxter and Roweena are in new forever homes and Kalia also found a good forever home. And that’s just a very few of the animals who have found second chances with good hearted people. Hooray. Thank you, thank you! Billie’s Teaching ScheduleWe live in exciting times, and the time to help the planet is growing short. I feel compelled to help empower people to become Earthkeepers of the highest integrity, walking in constant communion with our planet, and accelerating their own light body. I have a busy August teaching the Munay-Ki, both Completion and Foundation Courses, and also Path of the Wild Pure Heart, my animal communication plus shamanism course. I am teaching these in Braidwood, not because I don’t want to travel but because I am needed here. I know there are people in every state who have asked if I will travel this year and it is hard to say "no", but harder still to say "yes". I am so incredibly grateful that my students make the effort to come to me. My animal communication students will have the added bonus of getting to work with the Ballyoncree animals and fairies and Grandfather Pine. So please come and catch me while you can. I can’t offer these courses as much as I would like. I welcome you to join me for a wonderful, wonderful week of higher learning and personal transformation in the gorgeous State heritage listed town of Braidwood NSW. Take the leap. Do it now! Please have a look at my course schedule. Scott Alexander King did persuade me, a long time ago, to attend and speak at his three-day certification animal dreaming course at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney on August 31. I’m looking forward to hearing Scott’s teachings and having an opportunity to speak to all those attending. For more information go here. The June Munay-Ki class was SOLD OUT! We had a brilliant weekend and I honour each and every one of the people who attended because they simply heard the call to their spirit. That’s how the Munay-Ki took me, calling me to the USA to receive the rites, so I could bring them home to Australia. I now feel a huge responsibility to teach and gift the rites here. People came from every Australian state but two. We had Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, rural Victoria and NSW, and the ACT. This was a very, very special weekend which many found deeply moving and transforming. Personally I did too. Being in animal rescue has understandably damaged my love of humanity, my empathy and compassion lying with the animals who suffer at the hands of man. However the Munay-Ki rites have enabled me to walk in the fifth dimension, experiencing an opening of my heart so I feel a blissful love for people and a feeling of hope that humanity can come good and together we can save this wonderful planet of ours. In the words of Dr Who – I believe we can go out and “be magnificent!” The next Munay Ki Foundation Class will be held on August 23 and 24. Again, it will be in Braidwood and will tie in with my Path of the Wild Pure Heart class on August 20, 21, 22 for people who are travelling long distances to get the most out of their travel. I encourage you to take the week and join us for both courses – and change your life. Path of the Wild Pure Heart is an animal communication plus shamanic studies course which accelerates you to be the best possible human you can become, for yourself and your animal friends and for Mother Earth. We are changing as a species now and the Munay-Ki informs our energy fields so we can leapfrog our evolution. We can rise up to the fifth dimension to Walk in Beauty. However the rites need to be in fertile soil and this is what I am doing in my animal communication classes now. We cover telepathy in depth, speaking with animals, stones, trees, fairies and Mother Earth herself. We learn to change our language and to become aware of our shadow. The fire ceremonies are always transformative. This is what students had to say about my Three Day Intensive.
One of my colleagues and former students, Pam Adams of Soul Companions, said she felt my new school Rainbow Fianna was important because she heard spirit say “This is the future for the natural world. Join together. Be united.” Pam also says about the Munay-Ki:
For more information, please see Munay-Ki and Path of the Wild Pure Heart. I hope to see you in August!! The Perth Three Day Animal Communication Intensive was lots of fun with plenty of people sharing major breakthroughs in their command of the silent language and their own personal transformation. This was the first, introductory course of my new Rainbow Fianna, the school where we will create healed light warriors and healers for animals, supporting people to be the best animal carers they can be. The Perth students were awesome and so were our hosts Sylvana and Alyssa Miller at Brellim Grange which is a fantastic and beautiful horse facility. Sunday Night Visualisation and Prayers for a New World The Perth students are “meeting” at 6 pm Perth time every Sunday evening for a short period of visualisation to dream in a new world for animals and their people. (Remember Perth Students!) This is a world where animals are recognised as sentient, respected, revered and deeply loved, and For Life shelters are safe sanctuaries established all around the world. This is a green world of peace, with gentle weather and humans who are in touch with Mother Nature and living in harmony with her and each other and all other species. This is the world we can bring in together with the power of our minds and our intent. Please join us – for the Australian Eastern States, that’s at about 8 pm every Sunday night. Speaking
of meditation for the planet. My computer problem meant that I wasn’t
able to send you the July 17 Fire the Grid meditation. But word
has it that it was a major success in harnessing and anchoring more
Light into the planet. Shelley Yates has an amazing story and mission.
Check out the Fire the Grid
web site. Wild Wisdom from BallyoncreeGrandfather Pine tells me to tell you all that “life has never been better.” He says, “There has never been a better time in the history of known evolution to create a beautiful planet.” He says, “For the sake of all trees, remember we are sentient. Be respectful. Be gentle. And walk softly on the Earth, our collective mother.” My big man crystal, a rock I found on the side of the road at Mudgee, NSW, called “Rock”, says that “the time is coming when we all need to shield our energies and to take the great risk to walk on the moon and beyond the gravitational pull. Know that you are molecules and these can change as you let go the control in your mind. Be at peace,” he adds. Finn the brumby says, "Human ignorance has the capacity to destroy both them and especially us. It is a time when sensitive humans are hungry for knowledge and all of Nature is eager to be their teacher." Home EducationI learned quite a few things when I attended the National Home Education Conference in Queanbeyan recently. Andrew and I interviewed and filmed John Taylor Gatto, an award winning teacher who told many stories about education and how schooling wasn’t necessarily educating. He used some animal examples – one was how fleas lost their spirit and motivation to survive when they were locked in a jar and kept hitting their heads on the inside of the lid. After a while they accepted the status quo. I don’t like animal experiments of any kind and this chilled my heart, for both the fleas and our children. Gatto held up a fistful of newspaper clippings where the press complained about the education system and quoted people like Winston Churchill saying that school was a massive ‘social experiment”. It made me glad to be a homeschool mum. Lots more, but you will have to see our film. I use the same approach in my animal education as I do my natural learning at home with my daughter. Building trust and partnership is paramount and keeping the will and spirit in tact is vital. Animals are given lots of love and taught English just by us talking with them. And reading out aloud. To be sure. our puppies might seem wild and crazy to some outsiders, but they know how to come and to listen. From this simple foundation we build a well educated dog, not a trained dog. And we do it through play, reward and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, the four puppies remain black bullets racing around the property, and Heyoka has developed a very mature herding facility. Go Heyoka! We use the same approach with the horses, building trust first. This proved itself one hundredfold, when I had to move Finn the wild stallion and his mates at 2:00 am on a dark and stormy night. What might have been a disaster went as smooth as silk. It was the same thing when I moved the girl brumbies to a new paddock – they followed me in single file. There was no pushing or shoving or yelling. I was simply their leader and they followed. These are horses who are still completely untrained and barely handled.
Andrew was playing with Finn while I was away with the Inka elders last February and Finn asked me to ask him to stop. “He’s very good,” said this wise little horse, “But you and I have work to do.” When I came home having received the Rites, Finn came up and ate out of my hand, something he had never done with either of us. To work with a wild horse this way – not trying to train them with human ideas, but allowing them to recognise your inner peace and bliss, is nothing short of magic and for me, an indication of where I am in my own transformation process. This was always my work with Finn, who was once so scared he attacked people. I saw this inspirational film recently about William Wilberforce, one of the people who founded the RSPCA, a true humanitarian and a tireless advocate for the abolition of slavery. In the film, Wilberforce’s estate always features a range of dogs running around, obviously taken in and given a home, and inside is a wonderful hare who enjoys luxury in the living room. The song Amazing Grace was originally written about the slave trade. The words also could easily pertain to animal welfare and Death Row:
The Mastery ClubI wanted to share with you a wonderful book called "The Mastery Club" by Liliane Grace, an Australian from Melbourne. This is "The Secret" for teens, and Andrew and I and Tamsin take it in turns to read it out loud during family time. It’s a fabulous read and please note that Andrew and I are both reading it at the same time, which says a lot. We love it and it is truly inspirational. You can buy it directly from Liliane’s web site or enquire for it at any bookstore.Filmettes and PhotosI thought you might enjoy these short videos.This is a heart-warming and inspiring address by youth to United Nations:
Elder folk fight back with music from The Who – uplifting:
Fun music and mime – to lift your spirits:
And now some photos
Animals Needing HomesIf you know someone who can help find a home for these beloveds, please contact the appropriate people. This first one is from Western Australia.
This next one comes from Animal Lib ACT.
Until Next Time Thanks for reading. I look forward to bringing you more news soon.
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin
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