Many horsepeople hear the voice of Nature through the horse and find its power highly meaningful in their lives. But they don't know what to do with that information. They know that within the dominant cultural worldview, such experiences are often thought to result from projection, delusion, or even insanity. Indigenous cultures worldwide, however, have seen such experiences as not only meaningful but natural for millenia. And a small but important body of scientific, theological, and philosophical work also regards such experiences as extremely important in their own right.

The Voice of the Horse Project is re-examining our understanding of the horse by gathering reports of horse behaviors and actions from "people in the field" who spend the most time with them -- professional equestrians, artists, clinicians, authors, filmmakers, and people with a horse in their back yard. We are putting the stories of their experiences together in one place alongside historical and cultural understandings of the horse that span the ages, to see what new meaning emerges -- about the horse, about humans, and about Nature itself.

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