Calico Shaman Talks to the Animals
If you think animals have no feelings, don’t tell Carla Persons. The Phoenix-born resident knows them better than just about anyone and she’ll tell you they sure do have feelings. In fact, she talks to them!
As a youngster, Carla found she could talk to her spirit teachers and friends. She also had a cat that was what she calls “a higher being” with whom she connected closely to. Then in high school, she began studying mysticism.
It wasn’t until 1987, however, that a Shamanic healer told her that she was particularly oriented toward animals and should learn how to communicate with them. She immediately contacted the Foundation For Shamanic Studies and completed her formal training in 1998.
Today, the 39-year-old is a Shamanic healer and Animal Communicator. She operates a successful business helping people to better understand their animals, whether it is a fluffy little kitten or a horse in your stable. And it doesn’t matter if your beloved pet is dead or alive. Either way, she can tell you what their thinking, what is bothering them and how to correct the problem. But how she does it is fascinating. First she goes into a Shamanic trance.
“I use a drum and rattle, and I sing sacred songs,” said Carla.
She does not hear the animals speaking in our reality, but rather during the time she’s in the trance-like state.
“Only once in a while does spirit manifest so strongly that I can perceive them in three dimensions with ordinary reality senses, incarnate and temporal. It has happened, but it is rare. I hear the loud and clear in non-ordinary reality.”
Most people today are aware of Shamanic healing. It is the oldest for