Contemplative Practices for Connecting to Animals (and Ourselves)
Animals and Religion 2024
In this chapter, I will offer a series of contemplative practices that I use myself and teach in my classes to help students utilize mindfulness of animals as a tool to deepen their understandings of themselves, of animals as fellow living beings in the world (both as species and as individuals), and of the relationships between humans and other animals. After defining some key terms, I will...