An open-minded inquiry into animals' precognitive capabilities from
Sheldrake (Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, 1995),
attentive to the evidence and thoroughly investigative, conducted
in the belief that science can he fun and rigorous, inquisitive as
well as skeptical. Do animals possess telepathy? What lies behind
their uncanny sense of direction? What is it chickens know that the
scientists studying earthquakes do not? Sheldrake, a British
biochemnist, has gathered a vast number of case histories
documenting animals, from dogs and cats to horses and parakeets,
that can tell when their owners are coming home, animals that
anticipate epileptic seizures and air raids, cats that can tell who
is on the phone, animals that find their human families after being
separated by huge distances, not to mention the whole fabulous act
known as migration. By way of explanation, Sheldrake proposes the
possibility of what he calls morphic fields, self-organizing
regions of influence, invisible blueprints as it were, with both
spatial and temporal aspects, that interconnect and organize a
system. Within the elasticity of the morphic field, "channels of
telepathic communication" operate over the vastness of space - the
type of connectedness witnessed in quantum entanglement theory -
and the fields, large and small, specific and nonlocal, possess a
collective memory, an instinct for habitual patterns shaped through
experience. Sheldrake situates all this within ideas currently
entertained by physicists and cosmologists and migration theorists
and others, so that the word "preposterous" never seems applicable.
What would be preposterous is trying to explain away the incidence
of animal prescience and precognition as irrelevant and the product
of wishful thinking, or to dismiss the potential that animals may
have to forewarn events from medical crises to seismic upheavals,
examples of which abound in these pages and not infrequently
flabbergast. Sheldrake is a pleasure not just because he roams way
beyond the mechanistic theory of nature, but because he appreciates
worthy new questions as well as answers, one such being the
time-honored "Why?" (Kirkus Reviews)
Dr Rupert Sheldrake is the world's leading expert in research into the phenomenon of the psychic abilities of domestic animals. In September 1996 he presented the latest results of his studies to a conference a t Cambridge University. This triggered an explosion of media interest across the world. Dr Sheldrake has been beseiged by TV companies, news papers and magazines clamouring to know more. Long series of experiments have proved that dogs have a telepathic o r psychic link, or a 'sixth sense', with their owners. Dr Sheldrake's surveys reveal that the majority of dog owners believ e their pet is sometimes telepathic with them and 46% say that the dog knows when a member of the family is coming home. The book also cover s experiments showing psychic powers of cats, ponies, monkeys, pigeons and parrots and gives guidelines for readers to do their own research with their pets. Dr Sheldrake examines the unexplained powers of wild animals and loo ks at human psychic phenomena suggesting that we can stop seeing these powers as 'paranormal' and see them as normal, part of our biological heritage which have been lost because of language, civilization and r ationalism
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