The Druid Animal Oracle Author:Phillip and Stepahnie Carr-Gomm Our Judeo-Christian culture has taught us to be afraid of animals--our animal nature and the animals of the wild. In teaching us to subdue the Earth, it also taught us to subdue our own instinctual selves. In this creation of a division between spirit and matter, mind and body, our inner animals were caged, frightened and forgotton. But parad... more »oxically, as long as we reject the animals within us, we can never be truly human. To regain our humanity we must empbrace them. Working with the sacred animals can help us to do this--at the same time introducing us to a treasure-house of traditional wisdom which we can now reclaim and use for our own benefit and for the benefit of all living things.« less