By Kathy Lay
Oct 06 2007
Do cats have ESP?
With only a few weeks before the spookiest day of the year, Halloween, I thought this month?s column should reflect some of the mysterious and fascinating abilities of our feline friends.
Anyone who has spent some time with a cat, or several cats, can attest to their tendency towards extrasensory perceptive ability. Cats seem to have an uncanny ability to know when certain things are about to happen ? like being taken to the vet or to a kitty hotel, without their caretaker having made any move towards the carrier.
Cats also seem to be able to pick up the energy around humans and identify who is a ?cat person? and who isn?t. Granted, many cat lovers tend to be able to tune into cat energy also, and ?know? how much and what type of attention to give to the present cat.
Psychic and astrologer, Jeane Dixon, examines various feline phenomena in her aply-titled book, Do Cats Have ESP? She examines how cats can often identify illness or emotional distress in their caretakers.
A news story from a few months ago highlighted a cat named Oscar who lives in a nursing home. He has the ability to know when a resident is about to leave this life and sits with that person, keeping company until the transition has happened.
There are several anecdotal reports of both cats and dogs pawing at or obsessively sniffing a particular area on their caretakers? bodies. Only later is it discovered that that area contained cancer cells.
Dixon also investigates the study of ?PSI? cats. PSI cats have demonstrated the ability to return home or to their true caretakers even though such a journey involves tremendous distance.
Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, head of the Parapsychology Lab (now the Rhine Institute) at Duke University, spent years studying several types of psychic phenomena in both cats and humans. He discovered numerous examples of ?homing? ability in cats.
The Rhine Institute also studied the possibility of mental telepathy between cats and humans. Dr. Rhine concluded in his article, The Present Outlook on the Question of Psi in Animals, published in the Journal of Parapsychology, that ?there is clearly a lot to explain in animal behaviour that could be due to ESP and is not yet otherwise accounted for.?
Have you ever been holding your cat and she suddenly starts staring at something just past your shoulder or over in the corner? But when you turn to look, you can?t see anything there?
Psychic Sylvia Browne says our pets are among the most psychic creatures on Earth and they readily see the angels and spirits that surround each of us.
Whether truly psychic, highly intuitive or just good guessers, cats continue to amaze us with their mysterious and uncanny abilities.
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