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Animal PSI
Also known as AnPSI. The apparent ability of
animals to experience clairvoyance, precognition, ESP,
telepathy and psychokinesis.
Currently there is no scientific
acceptance for this phenomenon and most evidence relating to animal PSI is
anecdotal, but scientific evidence suggests that if PSI
exists, it probably does so in both humans and animals, and if
animal PSI exists, it probably occurs in all species.
According to recent research there are
five types of basic animal PSI: the ability to sense impending danger; the
ability to sense, at a distance, the death of, or harm being caused to, a
beloved human; the ability to sense the impending arrival of an owner; the
ability to find the way home through unfamiliar territory; and the ability of an
animal that is separated from its owner to find its way over long distances to
be reunited.
Believers and 'experts' in PSI say that, for
it to function, the existence of a soul, aura, or spirit is
required.
Do animals have souls?
Susan J. Armstrong, professor of philosophy and women's studies at
Humboldt
State University, remarks in her provocative essay "Souls in Process: A
Theoretical Inquiry Into Animal PSI" that the late Pope John Paul II had
recently reaffirmed
the early Christian doctrine that animals have souls, which presumably implies
they are fit subjects for prayer. She notes, "In a homily at the Vatican in 1989
the Pope quoted Ps. 104, in which animals are said to have the breath of life
from God, and called for 'solidarity with our smaller brethren.'"
Attorney M. Jean Holmes, while doing extensive research and study of the Bible
for her book "Do
Dogs Go to Heaven? Eternal Answers for Animal Lovers," became
convinced that the distinction between humans and animals alleged to be found in
Scripture is the result of an old translators philosophical construction. In
her opinion, an examination of the original Hebrew texts for such concepts as
soul and spirit clearly tells that the authors of the various books of the
Bible believed that animals have souls and spirits, just as humans do.
As we know, a large percentage of the population of all cultures believe that
the ghosts of the dearly departed might appear to them.
As well, many individuals believe that they have witnessed the spirit of a
beloved pet return to a person or a place after physical death. That would imply
that, to believers, animals have souls. So, if you believe in ghosts and PSI,
what's wrong with animal PSI?
Probably the most celebrated report of animal PSI of recent years is the one of
Missie, an allegedly clairvoyant Boston terrier which reportedly gave the
correct number of barks to make many predictions including the result of
presidential elections, the number of delays in the launching of the Gemini 12
space mission, the end of a New York city subway strike, and the winner of the
1966 World Series and to solve mathematical problems.
See
Aura,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1) Dossey, Larry,
Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind,
Shambhala; (2) Guiley, Rosemary,
Encyclopedia of the Strange, Mystical, and Unexplained,
Gramercy; (3) Steiger, Brad and Sherry
H.,
The Gale Encyclopedia of
the Unusual and Unexplained,
Thomson Gale.
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