Kinship with All Life

I read this book after hearing Alan Watts mention it in one of his lectures. I feel that the experiences themselves are highly personal as and such, hard to comprehend as anyone who has not had a similar encounter. However, I do see value in this book, as it promotes a fairer, more respectful mentality towards animals in general, no matter their size or their characteristics, which is always a good thing.

I can't decide whether I liked this book or not. I guess that's why I gave it two and a half stars. I love the concept of communing with all animal life forms and enjoying the enlightenment that accrues from that. I can even believe that it happens. The problem I had with the book was in the writing style I guess. I wanted to keep reading to see where Mr. Boone was going with his postulation and he had a habit of leaving me a bit high and dry at the end of each chapter so that I needed to get into the next one fairly quickly to find out where he actually was going. I found that a bit "novelistic", if I can get away with using a word like that.
I want more so I will read more of his writing to see what else I might learn.
I wonder if he show more ever heard a tree scream when it was cut into. show less

Fascinating little book about the author's adventures in communicating with and receiving wisdom from a number of critters, including a housefly. Most memorably and eloquently, though, he tells of his time as student of the great movie dog Strongheart, whose seeming presence and intelligence turns out not to be a result of Hollywood trickery.

As a person who has learned to communicate with the various dogs who have shared their lives with me, I was able to be open to the premise of this book. I was willing to accept the communication with the housefly, but that is probably the most unusual case of animal communication that I have ever read about. If one can accept the idea that each animal group is organized by a greater group Soul or Deva, then it is likely that there could be communication from one's own Soul level to the Soul entity embodying that group.

His accounts of Freddie the Fly reaffirm my life stance.