Pastor Julie Webb: Animal Communication and Healing

17/07/2025

Since my return from vacation, we have made a total of six trips to the vet (four 1-hour round-trips, and two 2-hour round-trips). Each one is exhausting for everyone! Something about the stress and suffering of my furry companions just sucks the energy right out of me. Do you ever feel that way?

Before we go, I make sure to describe to the cats who is going where and for how long; and what I expect will happen. I picture the happy homecoming, if applicable. And then, I picture a bubble of love around the traveler, with a protective shield over the bubble. (The fun and fascinating part is that, when we work with each other's cats on days like these, Indrani Das and I have repeatedly been able to pick up on the presence of these protective shields, even when we weren't aware that the other had put one in place!).

My two cats like to be warned when a curve in the road is coming, and when it's ending. This makes driving even less relaxing! But I hear way more complaints when I don't provide this information as we go. 😄

All is stable for the moment. We are awaiting some test results for Bella, who is feeling pretty good. Maxine is recovering from dental extractions, and joined me today for my recovery nap. Look at that smile.

27/06/2025

Got fireworks in your area? In the United States, in neighborhoods like my dad's, the Independence Day celebrations sound like warfare.

I can't enjoy the noisy ones like I used to, because now I am aware of the suffering they cause to other animals (and some humans). Happily, silent fireworks are also an option, and are being used in more places, so we can encourage those where we are.

If fireworks are a challenge for your animal companions, try tapping this year! Joan Ranquet has a video you can follow.

To download the audio or have the transcript in front of you, copy and paste this link into your browser: https://bit.ly/FireworksTappingEFT is a healing met...

19/05/2025

I am accompanying my father on a bucket-list trip to Europe, and sneaking in a couple of days beforehand to visit a site of pilgrimage: Montserrat, a thousand-year-old monastery in Spain.

Behold this excellent Benedictine-colored hospitality cat, who came right up to the door of my hotel! What was I supposed to do? Apparently, I was supposed to miss my first choice of train, because that is what I did.

This cat's family doesn't have a history in Montserrat, so someone may have brought them there. The cat showed me images of going back in the evening to visit someone who lives in an apartment nearby, and has a chair for laps.

This was a very grounding cat. 🧡

24/04/2025

Maxine taught her first animal communication class yesterday. 🧡

21/04/2025

I am grateful for the faithfulness of Pope Francis. Here are some important thoughts from him, shared with me by colleague Lorrin Maughan .

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=979958801016561&id=100070073501459&mibextid=CDWPTG

His passionate voice for animals, and against and all "tyrannical anthropocentrism" was a blessing.

21/04/2025

Bella, in the kitchen window. We are working through the integration of kitten Maxine into the household. Currently, it's taking a lot of management:they like to take turns having the run of the house while the other one hides.

10/04/2025

I awoke today, thinking of Farlow, not realizing it was the first anniversary of his death.

Our friend Indrani Das of loved Farlow about as much as I did, and had a bond with him, through animal communication and energy work, that transcended time and space. She was holding us in Reiki meditation when the vet came for his euthanasia visit, and she wept with me after he died.

One of the poems/songs of Rabindranath Tagore, beloved poet and author of India, came to her after his death. She has interpreted it here for us, and given permission for me to share it. Her version so perfectly describes the essence of Farlow that we both experienced and still carry within.

Maxine, the new kitten, has a tabby-on-white coat pattern that reminds me a little of Farlow's, and took shelter for her first weeks in Farlow's old Security Closet hiding place. I have been asking him (now part of my cloud of witnesses) for help with her.

Poem text:

There is death,
And sorrow too.

And there is peace,
And joy too.
The eternal stirs, awake, alive—
And truths with promises revive.

Life flows on, a ceaseless stream,
The sun still warms, the stars still gleam.
Spring returns with her radiant song,
Reminding us we all belong.

The waves may fall, yet rise anew,
Leaves drift to earth, and buds break through.

Nothing is lost, nothing will fade,
In timeless grace, all things are made.
It is this stillness, vast and deep,
Where I will rest, and memory keep.

05/04/2025

Happy

05/04/2025

Adopting someone---whether human or another species---is usually an exhausting process, from what I've observed. Often delightful, often challenging, and you don't get your usual amount of sleep.

Young Maxine, here, has been reminding me that everyone has to adjust at their own pace, and it doesn't pay to try to rush that. I need to wait until she is ready ... to come out of the closet (literally), to try out a new room, to get down from the new perch she's discovered. In these conditions, trust grows when trust is offered.

She made it through her spay surgery a week and a half ago, tore off her cone within an hour of getting home, and has been trying to chew her way out of onesies since. Three days of onesie-wearing to go!

Turns out she's quite nocturnal, too. 😄

I spend a lot of time with a new household member, noticing their reactions, their interests, their preferences. I make mistakes, and then I have to apologize and give space.

It's so vitally important, I think, for whoever has more power (of any kind; take parents, for example) to apologize when they make a mistake! That moment becomes an opportunity for a deepened bond. It doesn't matter if the one you're apologizing to doesn't speak your language: companion animals pick up on our feelings and intentions far better than other humans usually do, as you're already aware!

It's also nice to have energy work (like Scalar Wave, Reiki, and EFT/Tapping) to help ease the adjustment for the new kitty. We're especially grateful around here for the work of Indrani Das, who pitches in to help me when I am busy.

Here's Maxine, resting after a tiring day. The wet marks and holes on her onesie are from chewing!

16/03/2025

Last week, on the third anniversary of my mom's death, I went to pick up Maxine, here, from the veterinary hospital. She had been fished out of the lake a month ago by a guy named Max, so the hospital staff named her after him. No one claimed her and no rescue could take her, so this 9-month-old has come home with Bella and me, to see if we can make a home for her.

Maxine has Opinions, and is going to be a handful. She is also a purr monster! This is one Lenten practice I did not expect. 🧡

08/03/2025

What a week it's been! I got home from the Bishop's Convocation on Ash Wednesday, and hit the ground running.

While I was away, the "Ministry Mondays with Meg" podcast interview I did with Meg Biddle went live. I hope you'll listen and share it! I talk about my ministry of intuitive interspecies communication/ animal communication.

My Internet connection was just starting to go bad when we did this interview; it's gotten even worse since, but at the time, there was at least a 3-second delay between Meg and me. Still, you can hear almost everything. ❤ Of course, I mention The Telepathy Tapes , although one of the connection delays cuts that off.

Meet Pet pastor Julie Webb.

04/03/2025

With my California-Nevada Lutheran colleagues this week, as we explore leading in a shattered world. ❤️