Animal sirens

 

Here are a few examples:

• they have a telepathic sense of time when the master begins his his journey home;

• they have a certain ability to be connected with people, sometimes thousands of kilometers away and to feel how they are;

• they have an incredible sense of direction and can find their way back home over great distances. They can always find their spawning or nesting places. Some animals have been known to find their masters far from home and save them from an emergency situation;

• there are animals that have proven an incredible accuracy in diagnosing certain diseases, such as dogs with certain types of cancer;

• they can sense in advance before a person faints or has an epileptic seizure and have protected the concerned person from a serious accident or even death;

• and probably the most extraordinary ability animals have is to know in advance before serious accidents occur or devastating natural catastrophes take place, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and so on, and could save thousands of lives.

 

 

These striking abilities of animals have always attracted the attention of several people, so that accounts have been passed down the ages, especially when animals have saved people from an emergency or prevented serious incidents. Yet, in relation to the significance and fascination of these phenomena there are astonishingly few serious and systematic studies.

 

The English biologist Rupert Sheldrake has collected and systemati- cally evaluated the most extensive case studies over several years of work in a database (see GrailWorld interview in issue 16). The following case descriptions come from his highly recommended book Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. His detailed portrayal demonstrates why the most astonishing events cannot be explained by our usual perceptions through the five senses!

Sheldrake may be considered one of the few scientists who do not simply ignore or deny the astounding phenomena, such as telepathy, but tried to approach and explain them. Thus he coined the term ‘morphic fields’ in order to prove the connection between living creatures that cannot be explained with even the most acute sense but may imply a kind of invisible ‘elastic band’. These ‘morphic fields’ would be a kind of formative, energy field that holds together, for example, animal groups in a mysterious manner, extensible to any length and therefore making it possible for individual animals to find the way back to the group over great distances.

 

This is also how the connection would take place between an animal and a human being, with one element crucial for the degree of attraction. This involves the strength of sympathy, or in other words, the love that an animal feels for its owner. Also a strong dislike for a person or loveless mistreatment can be the key reason for a corresponding rejection or flight reaction, which can already set in several minutes before this person arrives.

 

Sheldrake’s supposition that non- measurable and unverifiable morphic, hence formative fields exist, is quite daring in today’s scientific enterprise, as he treads on ground that is open to attack. Consequently he still exposes himself to more or less strong hostility from fellow scientists, who are not willing to look for solutions to observable phenomena that are beyond measurement, and therefore deny them.

 

But even with regard to this bold approach, the question arises whether from an integral viewpoint, incorporating finer, invisible material planes and realities, simpler explanations could perhaps be found for the stunning observations.

So now after so much theory, let us proceed to the fascinating and often truly refreshing practical situations and examine some case studies!

 

Animals as harbingers of their master’s arrival

The first cases to be discussed are pets, mostly dogs and cats, but also parrots, parakeets, monkeys, and so on, that in an inexplicable manner seem to know when the mistress or the master of the home is returning. A case featured in a number of TV documentaries in the 1990s is the story of Englishwoman Pam Smart and her terrier called Jaytee, now deceased.

 

Ms Smart worked as a secretary and lived with her parents. From the very beginning, it struck them that Jaytee would almost daily leave his place at 4:30 pm and wait by the patio door for 45 to 60 minutes before her arrival at home. It was therefore logical to assume that the dog had a very accurate sense of time.

 

Events became quite strange when Pam Smart lost her job in 1993 and started returning home at irregular times. Regardless of where Pam went and what time she decided to return home, Jaytee always returned expectantly to the patio door at the exact time that Pam Smart made decided to come home. It did not matter whether she walked, took a taxi, rode in her car, Jaytee just knew she was on her way.

 

In one of the documentaries, a camera was installed to watch Jaytee, while another camera simultaneously accompanied Pam Smart. Without knowing beforehand, she would be beeped on a pager to return home. On a split screen, viewers could observe Jaytee as he reacted to Pam Smart’s intention, without any regular means of communication!

 

It was only seldom that Jaytee did not react; mostly when he was sick or was distracted by a female dog in heat from the neighborhood.

 

There is an equally amusing and amazing case concerning a spaniel dog that belonged to the mother-in- law of a veterinarian. This is the story as recounted by the veterinarian:

 

‘The dog always knew if I came for a friendly visit or in my capacity as veterinarian. She would jump up on me and break into a joyous howl when I paid a friendly visit. But when I came as a veterinarian, she would hide behind the boiler. I could never understand what she saw that triggered her knowing that I was coming as her veterinarian. At any rate, she would always hide before I even entered the house. And each time she was right. I actually came quite often to visit, stopped by briefly or did all sorts of things, but I appeared only seldom as a veterinarian. And I made my vet visits not only because the dog was sick – sometimes it was over some routine matters. But the dog always knew when I was on duty or just visiting for pleasure.’

 

There are also interesting cases where dog owners change their plans and do not come directly home as usual but stop to go shopping, for example. Once again the animals react with a certain irritation at times, or they go back to their regular place until their master is finished shopping and makes the decision to drive home.

 

There are numerous and touching portrayals in which time and distance play no role. Whether it is the first mentioned beloved horse ‘Pampero’, which days beforehand perceives and reciprocates Herminia’s anticipation, or the secretary’s dog Jaytee with his uncanny ability to know about her time changes, the reactions are always there!

 

But how can we explain these happenings when references to physi- cal functions such as extremely height- ened senses, do not seem to be a satis- factory explanation? Does this then not point towards the clear and logical evidence of a finer material world?

 

In my opinion the key to answer these questions can be found in the work In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message where the author writes about intuition and thought forms. It is explained quite simply that whatever human beings think and perceive, we produce corresponding forms that are highly effective energetically. These forms are also not bound by distances. If therefore a ‘pull’ exists between people or between man and animal – and what bond could be more inten- sive that that of love – then the thought and intuitive forms immediately form a bridge. And apparently animals gener- ally react more strongly to these influ- ences than human beings. However, Rupert Sheldrake has also registered similar cases among people, especially between mothers and their children.