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275.1 | Yep | INK::KALLIS | Support Hallowe'en | Mon Jan 05 1987 18:48 | 12 |
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Cats seem to be quite sensitive to ... entities. Elsewhere, I
recounted a story about the cat of a woman I know who sensed something
neither the woman nor her boyfriend could see. Whatever it was
seemed invisible, but (outside of frightening the cat) seemed harmless.
Dogs traditionally are supposed to be able to predict death,
particularly dogs that howl in the night. Sort of substitute banshees,
one supposes.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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275.2 | Kinship With All Life | TWEED::REINKE | | Mon Jan 05 1987 19:10 | 13 |
| There is a book published about 25 years ago entitled
Kinship with All Life
It's probably out of print, but it recounted one man's experiences
with a dog named Strongheart. (Yes, the one on the Strongheart
Dog Food.)
The book was primarily on telepathy, not sensing earthquakes or
entities.
Donald Reinke
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275.3 | Animals and Earthquakes | PBSVAX::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Tue Jan 06 1987 16:19 | 23 |
| Animals do seem to be able to *sometimes* sense impending earthquakes.
In China there is a network of farmers etc. who are supposed to
report signs of nervousness among their animals up a chain to
earthquake researchers who use this information as part of a system
for the short term prediction of earthquakes. Last I heard they
had promissing (but still not definitely positive) results from
the system as a whole, including that factor.
I understand that there is now an official program in the USSR to
study this phenomena. There is individual, fairly respectable,
research in this country also.
This is probably not "psychic", however, but a sensitivity to
electrical activity, subsonics, supersonics, magnetic field changes,
odors, some other physical phenomena or some combination of the
above. Earthquakes "start" way before anything shakes, and I would
want to eliminate an awful lot of possible physical effects before
I attributed anything to psi in this case.
People sometimes report some uneasyness also, but blame it on other
factors, and ignore it. "Man is a rationalizing animal."
Topher
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275.4 | | NATASH::BUTCHART | | Tue Jan 06 1987 16:25 | 12 |
| I had a dog who was quite sensitive to potentially dangerous natural
phenomena, even if they were very distant. In the tiny town I grew
up in someone's house was destroyed by fire--they lived 4 miles
or so from us. The thing that woke us up was our dog running from
window to window and whining. It was the dead of winter, so the
windows were shut tight--no smoke smell drifting through. There
was a faint orange glow from far off, but how he connected that
with a dangerous event I don't know (do dogs have color vision?).
The town had no fire trucks with sirens either, so that couldn't
have disturbed him. As a kid of 8, I was impressed.
Marcia
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275.5 | Dogs and color vision. | PBSVAX::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Tue Jan 06 1987 16:48 | 13 |
| RE: .4
He might of heard distant shouting which was inaudible to you.
Although many other orders of animals have color vision, in general
mammals have poor or none. This would seem to be because mammals
evolved from a nocturnal animal which had lost the ability, and
it took a long time for evolution to "rediscover" it. The major
exception is the "higher primates". Some other mammals have some
weak color perception, but for most purposes you can ignore it as
insignificant.
Topher
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275.6 | Sniff, sniff | INK::KALLIS | Support Hallowe'en | Tue Jan 06 1987 16:48 | 20 |
| Re .4:
Dogs probably do not have color vision, though the jury's still
out on that: it was less than a decade ago that it was _proven_
that cats do have color vision (though skewed towards orange-red).
Canine vision is not very sharp, but they have incredible olfactory
sensitivity. Dogs used to detect smuggled drugs have had supposedly
"sealed" packages, sometimes double- or triple-sealed, from which
by residual odor alone they've detected contraband. So that you
couldn't smell the smoke doesn't mean the dog can't (ask any owner
of a lady dog in heat: the owner can't smell a thing, but dogs from
as far as several miles away will "come courting"). Also, though
less likely, a dog's hearing is incredibly sharp and perhaps he
could have heard the fire, four miles away or not.
I favor the "smell" theory.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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275.7 | Shaggy dog story, contd . . . | NATASH::BUTCHART | | Wed Jan 07 1987 12:00 | 24 |
| Re: .5 & .6
Thanks for the input. Whatever senses he used, we learned never
to ignore it when he started to act up.
Getting back to a previous comment made in another reply to the
base note about sensitivity of animals to impending earthquakes
and the like: it was mentioned that animals' sensitivity to stimuli
that are undetectable to humans (subsonics, atmospheric pressure,
etc.) was not a manifestation of psychic ability. I was interested
in that because up until recently most of the establishment thought
I absorbed said that nothing could be sensitive to those stimuli,
and that anyone who pretended they were was fooling him/herself.
(The same way no-one believed in the physiological changes that
could be brought about by meditation practices which, when proven
to exist, led to the development of bio-feedback.) Back in those
days, animal's ability to "predict" earthquakes, major storms and
the like would have been called a "psychic" ability.
So when the term "sensitive to psychic phenomena" is used now, does
it only mean sensitivity to non-physical entities, and exclude natural
phenomena?
Marcia
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275.8 | Thoughtforms or entities? | BRAT::WALLIS | | Thu Jan 08 1987 16:07 | 20 |
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re .0 As a point of interest I have seen animals focus on areas
in a house, become facinated with apparently nothing - and
when i've taken a look there has definately been an energy
pattern/block there - ego... in my experience animals (dogs
n cats anyway) are sensitive to non physical entities/energies.
Domestic animals also have 'feelings'/emotions in my opinion.
THere's a book about a women clairvoyant who used to be quite
active with Vets in California. She would communicate with
the animals dogs/cats/horses etc and pass the info onto
owners/vets regarding their pains/feelings and
apparently had a very high accuracy ratio....of course I
didn't bother to validate the info either.
Cheers
Lora
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275.9 | HORSE-TALK | GRECO::MISTOVICH | | Thu Jan 08 1987 18:58 | 9 |
275.10 | RE 275.9 | EDEN::KLAES | Alchemists get the lead out. | Thu Jan 08 1987 20:07 | 5 |
| No, it was on IN SEARCH OF - a show which one must take a LARGE
grain of salt to believe the information it gives out.
Larry
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275.11 | re .8, Morgan stares also | CSC32::C_BESSANT | | Fri Jan 09 1987 13:16 | 18 |
| Debra has a standard poodle that has been prone to stare in the
room at what appears to be nothing. If you call her to get her
attention, she will look at you and then return back to her
stare. My dog has done similar things but usually looking outside
at what also appears to be nothing at all. In Mogul's case (my dog),
he may have seen a cat or some furry creature and is awaiting its
return. I haven't notice him stare like Morgan does in the room,
where there are no physical entites for her to focus on.
Debra and I have concluded the dog is either brain damaged (hardly,
she is way to cleaver and foxy to have a dented brain), on some
kind of hallucinogenic or actually sees/senses a presence. Since
she doesn't roam the streets, I doubt she is on drugs. Not knowing
a great deal about animal psychiatry, I can only assume she feels
a presence that Debra and I are not in touch with.
Chuck
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275.12 | spacey horses | GRECO::MISTOVICH | | Fri Jan 09 1987 15:24 | 15 |
275.13 | Telepathic Horse | BRAT::WALLIS | | Fri Jan 09 1987 16:31 | 55 |
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re .12
I have a big thoroughbred who came down with a very
rare autoimmune reaction 8 or so years ago. It is quite
fatal 2% or so recovery. It became a 4 month intense
period whereby he almost died more than a couple of time.
There were some very weird other world things & experiences
surrounding those 4 months.
I'm convinced the reason he's alive today is because
the intense, close bond which took place between us,
especially during the last month and a half.
Interestingly enough it was a profound period in my life
whereby I expanded the dimentions of mind dramatically.
These experiences later impacted my life in an extreme
positive positive way - in the physical world as well
as the world of the subtle energies.
After his recovery I was standing in his stall one day
brushing his rump; I was standing close to one of the
stall walls when I noticed he had been gently trying
to get close to me and I became sandwiched inbetween
the wall and him ( he often does this when he feels
the need for closeness). Mentally I said to myself,
emphatically 'will you PLEASE move your rump so I can
have some room!'. He responded immediately. It was
so dramatic that I stepped outside his stall and pictured
as well as well thought the words, 'make a large circle in
the stall going to your left'; he looked to his left
and then turned and walked in the circle returning to
his original place and just stood there. I continued
to test it; while he was on the training line (about
6' long whereby the horse is taught commands and can
be exercised thru verbal command in a larger circle
around the trainer) I gave him his walk, trot, canter
ho commands telepathically ... yes I mixed them to
insure some sort of integrity... he followed each command
as he was used to doing during verbal exercising.
I can now call and or get his attention mentally while
he's in his paddock (about 8 acreas) no matter what the
distance and often give him mental commands as well
as converse with him telepatically while riding.
Others witnessed this.....
No one can convince me that animals aren't sensitive
to 'other energies'.
Lora
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275.14 | horse sense | DYO780::AXTELL | Dragon Lady | Fri Jan 09 1987 17:16 | 14 |
| I live on a very old farm that Castenada would have loved. The
house has a permanent resident (affectionately refered to as the
thing in the closet) who plays with and discusses the state of the
universe with my burmese cat. The other cat could care less.
Some of the horses (we have 8) have a telepathic bond with their
person. My two are a half arab paint and a evil-wicked-mean-and
-nasty Morgan mare. I can ride either of them without tack, call
them from the field without words, etc. They are also excellent
character references and quite protective. The funny part about
these two, is that they are quite dangerous for other people to
deal with when not in my presence (for example they treed a
couple of tresspassers). They too stare off into space frequently.
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275.15 | To seer or not to seer. | PBSVAX::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Fri Jan 09 1987 19:12 | 65 |
| RE: .13
I don't really wish to question that animals can be psychic. I
see no reason why people should be psychic but animals not. This
note is simply meant to be some interesting (to me anyway) nit-picking.
The first problem relates to determining "who is psychic". Telepathy
is generally treated as a form of ESP -- the important partner is
assumed to be the receiver. This convention is followed by
parapsychologists as well as occultists and lay people. Logically,
however, either the receiver ("percipient" in technical jargon)
or sender ("agent") or both may be displaying the relevant talent.
The import of all this is that the ability for a human to send orders
to a horse may depend only on the psychic functioning of the human,
not the horse. Differences between different horses' ability to
respond to the commands might represent differences in the human's
feelings or expectations about the horse.
The parapsychologist Helmutt Schmidt did a series of experiments
a few years ago which tested the abilities of various animals to
influence via PK a random number generator based on radioactive decay.
(He was not the first by any means to study psi in animals, or "anpsi"
as it is sometimes called). Dr. Schmidt tested a number of different
species, with great success, providing rewards appropriate to the
species when they got a "hit" (when the RNG produced the "right"
number).
He then decided to test whether aversion could be used (i.e., punishing
the subject animal when it got a "miss"). He selected as the subject
species cockroaches. He set it up so that a shock would be delivered
whenever the RNG generated the wrong number. The results: many
*more* misses than could be explained by chance were generated.
A rough paraphrase of Dr. Schmidt's conclusion: "Either cockroaches
have strong PK abilities and use it to get shocked or the PK was
provided by me all along and I don't like cockroaches (which I don't)"
The other problem concerns the "Clever Hans Phenomena". Clever
Hans was a horse in the late 19'th century (I think) whose owner
believed could talk. He had taught Hans an elaborate code, something
like Morse code except it used taps of the left and right front
feet rather than dots and dashes. Many savants had come to study
Clever Hans and came away amazed. Hans seemed capable of conversing
via his special code. He could do this even when his owner was
not present, so signalling by his owner could be categorically ruled
out.
Clever Hans was considered proof that at least some (one) horses
could actually talk -- until it was discovered that Hans became
deaf and dumb when blindfolded or when all visitors were otherwise
screened from his view. What had happened was that Clever Hans
had learned a truly amazing trick -- but not to talk. He had learned
to notice slight postural and other cues to tell if people were
getting what they expected, and then using this information to
determine how and for how long to tap. In effect, he was acting
as a non-psychic Ouija board for those present. Magicians call
this talent "muscle reading" and many have consciously developed
its use to a reliable level.
It would be foolish for me to claim, without any real evidence,
that Lora's horse was showing the Clever Hans phenomena. But, at
least on the basis of what she has reported here, I can't really
completely exclude the possibility.
Topher
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275.16 | What's kitty trying to say? | MASTER::EPETERSON | | Mon Feb 23 1987 18:12 | 17 |
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I have a cat that has a strange reaction to part of my house. She
is normally a very mellow kitty - a fixed female. Any time I go
to the basement to do my laundry, she will charge for the basement
door to go down with me. Once we get there, she climbs up on an
old work bench that was put up by the former owner. She begins
to pace and trill and cry with great excitement. Then she will
jump down, run over to me, look up at me and DEMAND that I pick
her up. Once I do, she jumps down and runs to the workbench and
the scene is repeated. This is the fastest I ever see this kitty
move in her life. For a while her reaction frightened me, but recently
I have convinced myself that if _she_ doesn't seem to be frightened
then I shouldn't be. I will tell you, though, that the other night
I was going to wash some towels. As I started down the stairs,
I noticed the hall light was burned out. I decided that I could
use the towel in the guest bath until I could replace the bulb in
the day time. Any reaction?
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275.17 | | ERASER::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Mon Feb 23 1987 18:32 | 21 |
| Re .16:
A few points --
1) The actions might not be paranormal. There may be, oh, a smell
or equivalent on the bench she likes.
2) The actions apparently aren't the result of fright, so there
appears to be little or no danger involved, whatever the exsplanation
for kitty's actions.
3) However, if you feel uneasy about it, there's no reason to go
into the basement at night. [Even without paranormality, there's
always the possibility of tripping or stumbling in the dark.]
4) Some things that prowl at night can lurk in dark cellars in the
daytime, too. :-)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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275.18 | Probably Mice? | VAXWRK::DUDLEY | | Wed Apr 01 1987 16:57 | 6 |
| My cats make a beeline for the basement whenever they hear
the door open too. They love it down there. I think they
smell/hear mice. It's likey you have/had mice in your
basement and that is what kitty is all excited about.
Donna
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275.19 | | IJSAPL::ANDERSON | Dinna fash yersell | Mon Sep 09 1996 05:21 | 97
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