Ted Andrews

Date of Birth: 07/15/1952 | Date of Passing: 10/24/2009 | Date of Funeral: 01/30/2010

Ted is a worldwide acclaimed speaker and teacher. This award winning and best selling author has been involved in the serious study of the esoteric and occult for more than 40 years, and he brings to the field an extensive formal and informal education.  Ted is trained in music, playing the piano since the age of 12. He has composed, performed and produced the music for ten spoken audio recordings. He can even scratch out a tune or two on the violin/fiddle. He is a long time student of sacred dance, ballet and kung fu. Ted is also schooled in a variety of related holistic healing modalities, including music therapy, herbology, hypnotherapy, acupressure and other alternative  techniques. A clairvoyant since childhood, he has also been a certified spiritualist medium for  nearly 30 years.  Probably best known for his work with animals, Ted holds state and federal permits to work with birds of prey. He performs wildlife rescue and he works with wildlife rehabilitation and education. He conducts animal education and storytelling programs with his animals in school classrooms throughout the  year, giving freely of his own time and  expense to help young people discover the wonder of animals and nature. In his spare time, he enjoys hanging out with his menagerie of animals, training and playing with his horses and ballroom dancing.

Early life

Andrews was born in Dayton, Ohio; he had six siblings all of whom were given names beginning with the letter ‘T’. He spent most of his childhood at the east of Dayton in the city called Beavercreek. He claimed to experience clairvoyance, by seeing things that adults could not. He spent a lot of time walking through the woods with his grandfather, learning about nature. Andrews worked at Brukner Nature Center north of Dayton in Troy as a trail guide and animal keeper.

Andrews also read voraciously from the public library. A book of short stories sparked Andrews’ interest in Jewish mysticism and in practical Kabbalah—the fictional story featured a group of Jewish mystics who used the Kabbalah to create a golem of mud to fight the Nazis. In 1970, Andrews graduated from Carroll High School in Dayton, a private Catholic school.

Career

Andrews worked for 10 years with the Cincinnati Public Schools as a teacher and counselor, including 7 years helping children with special needs. When he and the other teachers at his junior high school were each required to form a club for the students, he started an “ESP Club”.

Andrews read about the occult, mysticism and metaphysics. In 1987 through Llewellyn Publications, he produced his first book, Simplified Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to the New Age Qabala, a guide to practical Kabbalah which was later reprinted as Simplified Qabala Magic. In 1991, he wrote How to See and Read the Aura, in which he says that “the aura is the energy field that surrounds all matter. Anything that has an atomic structure will have an aura…” Andrews wrote that the aura is a proven scientific phenomenon which can not only be viewed by humans but also manipulated using metaphysical practices such as the Jewish Kabbalah and the Indian pranayama.

In September 1993, Andrews published what would be his most successful book: Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small. This book claimed to help the reader recognize which animal was their personal totem or spirit guide. It has been cited by researchers studying human attitudes toward animals, including professor Marian Scholtmeijer of the University of Northern British Columbia, professor David Starr-Glass of Empire State College, and doctoral candidate Venetia Laura Delano Robertson. Robertson wrote that Andrews was a typical example of “white shamanism” in that he followed French sociologist Émile Durkheim’s assertion that totemism lets the practitioner “participate in the nature of the totem animal” to connect with the sacred core of human-as-animal. Andrews wrote, “when we learn to speak with the animals, to listen with animal ears and to see through animal eyes, we experience the phenomena, the power, and the potential of human essence.” Animal Speak sold almost 500,000 copies from 1992 to 2009. 

Books he has written:

Treasures of the Unicorn
More Simplified Magic
Music Therapy for Non-Musicians
PsychicProtection
Animal-Wise
Animal-Wise Tarot
Nature-Speak
The Nature-Speak Oracle
The Animal-Speak Workbook
Ted Andrews’ Animal-Speak Calendar
The Animal-Speak Pocket Guide
Feathered Omens
Art of Shapeshifting
Animal Inspiration Cards I
Animal Inspiration Cards II
Ted Andrews’ Animal-Speak Runes
Magic of Believing
Psychic Power
Spirits, Ghosts & Guardians
Faerie Charms
Secret Doors of the Qabala
The Occult Christ
The Intercession of Spirits

Books he has written through Llewellyn Publications:

Simplified Qabla Magic
Imagick
Dream Alchemy
Sacred Power in Your Name
The Magickal Name
How to See & Read the Aura
How to Heal with Color
How to Meet & Work with Spirit Guides
How to Uncover Past Lives
How to Perform Psychic Readings through Touch
Enchantment of the Faerie realm
The Healer’s Manual
Magickal Dance
Crystal Balls and Crystal Bowls
Animal-Speak
Sacred sounds
The Occult Christ

Other Ted Andrews Products

Dreamsong of the Eagle   (Published by Hampton Roads) www.hamptonroadspub.com

Animal-Speak – An Audio Workshop 
(Produced by Sounds True) www.soundstrue.com

Steward of the Earth Medallion, Animal-Speak Charms, 
School of Magic Charms and  more (Deva Designs) www.devadesigns.net

Ted Andrews’ Animal-Speak Jewelry Collection 
(by Peter Stone Jewelers) www .peterstone.com.