Background
Andrews was born in Dayton, Ohio. He had six siblings all of whom were given names beginning with the letter "T".
Andrews was born in Dayton, Ohio. He had six siblings all of whom were given names beginning with the letter "T".
In 1970, Andrews graduated from Carroll High School in Dayton, a private Catholic school.
His book on animals as spirit guides and symbols, Animal Speak, sold almost 500,000 copies from 1993 to 2009. The influential Llewellyn-published book is widely cited by others He spent most of his childhood east of Dayton in the city of Beavercreek.
He claimed to experience clairvoyance, seeing things that adults could not.
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.
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 "Education Support Professionals Club".
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.
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. lieutenant 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.
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.
Andrews volunteered for some years at the Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm, working especially with raptors. He died there of cancer on October 24, 2009.
A memorial service was held in Beavercreek on January 30, 2010.