Darlene Stout can help you gain a better understanding of the animal spirits that she feels are an important part of all our lives. – Photo by Harry Kane

By Harry Kane

Author and self-proclaimed animal spiritualist Darlene Stout published her book in August, as a step-by-step guide to understanding the true animal within all of us. Uncovering Your Personal Animal Totem is a transformational guide into the enchanting world of animal magic.

“Every animal has a particular meaning behind it,” she said. And these animals come to you. “Once you open up to that realm, it’s filled with synchronicities or coincidences.”

Totem is the symbol of the individual. The animal totem consists of seven animals, all corresponding to a chakra. These chakras, she says, “are portals that connect us to anchor to the earth, but also help us to anchor to the universe as a whole.”

All of her students have gone through 9 months of spiritual animal totem classes to find their inner animals spirits. We have animals that come to us that represent who we are, Stout explained.

The book is sectioned like the class would be taught; each of the chakras correspond to a session, plus the introduction and a final seminar. “You learn about each one of these energy centers,” she said, “and an animal will come to you within that month that represents that particular [energy] center that you are working with.”

The foot chakra is the first. An animal during that first month will come as a representative of your anchoring to mother earth, she says. The animal opens the person to opportunities and brings awareness. This awareness of animals makes the journeymen conscious of the messages from the universe. To find out what the animal represents, simply search online for the animal you saw; for instance: Eagle animal totem.

Stout’s new career began after her mother passed away. She had been in the biotech industry, but that part of her life ended when she began seeing visions of her mother. It was then that Stout became involved in communicating with the spirit world. “At first I thought I was having a nervous breakdown because it was just so bizarre,” she said.

“I was just sitting at my kitchen table and I looked, and there was my mother at the window, kind of waving.” The wind blew the door off the hinges and Stout was spooked. She went to a spiritualist to stop the deceased spirit of her mother from speaking to her, and it was through that spiritualist that she became enamored with animal totem magic.

A lot of people who have taken the class over the last four years are from a spirituality church, she says. They are open to connections with the spirit world and enjoy learning about paranormal activities. But she has plenty of people taking her course that are simply curious and interested in getting in touch with their animal spirits.

It’s difficult for our society to adhere to a change in universal consciousness that they don’t fully understand, Stout said. But she says people are moving in that direction after new multi-dimensional energy has entered our universe.

When the students complete the course they receive a copy of their totem. Stout makes the totems on her computer with digital photographs and prints them out for each individual.

During the first class she has skeptics, but as the sessions move on the students have an inner awakening, she said.  And sometimes, what she calls Level 2 people, who have already uncovered their totems, come back to get a deeper understanding.

The class is $200 for nine sessions and the book is $20. Stout’s website is www.darlenestout.com.