21
Jun

ANIMAL TELEPATHY?

by Heather the Jane

Here's a book I'd definitely recommend for your summer reading list:

DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME AND OTHER UNEXPLAINED POWERS OF ANIMALS by Rupert Sheldrake.

From the back cover:

How do cats know when it's time to go to the vet, even before the cat carrier even comes out?  How do dogs know when their owners are coming home at unexpected times? .... With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals – and ourselves.

 

 

I've always been convinced of animals' ability to sense and know things. My dad used to tell me dogs could sense fear, and though I was never scared of dogs, I never doubted that this was true. But too I always believed the sensing – the knowledge –  had to go beyond that one emotion. I was right :-)

This book is full of wonderful examples of animals possessing a knowledge beyond what the five 'basic' senses (as we label them) could possibly provide. Some dramatic, some cute and all fascinating. If you do add this book to your reading list, check out Appendix B. It contains the experiments and subsequent data involving Jaytee, one of the remarkable dogs featured in this book. There is indisputable evidence this dog was very 'tuned in' to the owner he loved. Jaytee most often knew precisely when his owner was on her way home to him, despite the varying times and distance away she was from Jaytee.

But this isn't just a book of amazing animal stories. Sheldrake gives a very (in my opinion) viable explanation as to why this animal telepathy may occur with his hypothesis of morphic fields. In a nutshell:

“Bonds between animals exist within a social field. Like the known fields of physics, social fields connect things at a distance, but they differ from the known fields in physics in that they evolve and contain a kind of memory. I have suggested in my book The Presence of the Past that social fields are an example of a class of fields called morphic fields. Morphic fields hold together the coordinate parts of a system in space and time and contain a memory from previous similar systems.” [Sheldrake, 25]

I find this a fascinating concept and one so easy to grasp/envision: that there is a 'linking' within social groups through this morphic field, and that, telepathically, communication is possible between members within an individual field. The concept isn't just extended to cats and dogs and other pets of course. And Sheldrake provides us too with examples of person to person telepathy within groups.

Okay, think of all the times you've 'known' something from your own group. I've walked into the grocery store and known I was going to see someone there to whom I was close – either a family member or close friend. When my autistic son, Conor, was younger, many times when he woke up at nights, I knew it before he even walked down the hall to find me.

So interested in telepathy? Love animals? Want to read more on morphic fields? Or just want an entertaining summer read?

I recommend this book. :-)

 

 

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