Avantika Mathur, PhD Student
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Avantika is a PhD student at the University of Liège in Belgium, where she is part of the ANICOM Project - Animal Communicators: Intuitive interspecies communication as a key to dialogic multispecies methods. She is passionate about understanding the implications of intuitive communication with animals on transforming the human-nature divide and bringing animal perspectives to the table. Avantika coordinated the International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium in 2022 and 2023 and completed a fellowship with Dr. M.J. Barrett, Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan's School of Environment and Sustainability, focusing on the lived experience of intuitive interspecies communication. She's also a co-editor of a Special Issue in the Journal of Organizational Ethnography called Intuitive Interspecies Communication and Multispecies Ethnography: Re-searching Dialogue and Knowledge beyond the Human. Avantika completed her BSc. in Health Studies (University of Waterloo) and MSc. in Global Health (McMaster University). She is curious about the spiritual relationships between all living beings on the planet, and is fascinated by conversations about collective consciousness, reincarnation, dharma (soul purpose), and soul contracts across species divides.
Get in touch with Avantika directly at avantika.mathur@student.uliege.be.
Dr. Barbara Shor, DVM
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Barbara has loved and worked with animals all of her adult life. With this love for animals, and her background in ethology, or animal behavior, and professional dog training, she began veterinary school at Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine and graduated in 1983. After working for some time in private practice, and then completing a prestigious residency program in non-domestic animal medicine, Barbara fulfilled her lifelong dream of living and working in East Africa for a full year. Upon her return, and after working in private practice for a couple years, she realized that there is more to animals than simply their physical presence. They are sentient, conscious, wise, loving beings. To honor this calling, she became an animal communicator and has worked since with private clients and their companion animals. She also has had a thriving speaking and teaching career, and in 2010 published her book Soul of the Wild: Intimate Messages from the Hearts and Souls of Elephants and Whales. She is currently writing an updated version of this book. It will now be a series of books, beginning with Elephants. Barbara is passionate about sharing with others what she has discovered over her many years of experience - that animals have much to share with us and that we are all truly connected.
Get in touch with Barbara directly at barbara@barbarashor.com.
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