Being an animal

Category: Events

Type

Voluntary

Introduction and description

Animals have different senses to us and there are a number of observations on the site that appear to indicate they are born with the ability to perceive – via smell, sight or simply a sixth sense – what we would classify as ‘ghosts’.

The spirit realm, as we have indicated, is interleaved with our realm anyway, but it may simply be the case that our 5 senses are not geared to detect spirits, whereas the senses given to animals are.

Both cats and dogs know when ghosts/spirits are about.  In some cases they actively confront them. 

The inter-communication capabilities of animals is also much better developed than ours.  Cats and dogs , for example, have little need for language as they can read thoughts at a level which is far more ‘honest’ than language.  If anything we should be regarding animals as more advanced than ourselves as they have little need for the complex sensory and language apparatus we have developed.

Louis Agassiz -  L'Espèce

When animals fight, when they team up for a common purpose, when they warn each other of the danger; when they come to each other's aid; when they show sadness and joy, they manifest emotions of the same nature as those that are categorized among man's moral attributes. The gradation of moral faculties in higher animals and in man is so imperceptible that, in order to deny animals a certain sense of responsibility and conscience, it is necessary to overstate the difference between them and man

So – the emotions they display – love, fear, compassion, empathy, loyalty, jealousy, greed, and so on, are identical to any human.  Animals undoubtedly have a soul, and some might argue – given the kindness and gentleness they display even in times of great suffering, it is a superior soul to that of a human.  They simply lack language and well developed hands, and maybe that is a deliberate Design action.

So, there is every reason to believe that animals have a destiny too.  Many civilisations believe the final step of man is to reincarnate as a bird.  Plotinus in contrast believed we reincarnated according to our capabilities:

Thus we might think of animals more in terms of a different type of human being – one incapable of talking.

Kardec, again indicated that reincarnation [or transmigration if you prefer], between species offered a wealth of quite exciting opportunities for experience, adventure and development of our abilities.

According to the BBC, we have less than 300 years before humanity are all wiped out along with a growing number of species in what has become known as the Holocene extinction [http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121101-a-looming-mass-extinction], and  clearly things are speeding up – the earth wants rid of us as soon as possible – sooner rather than later.

So for the vast majority of people [if not all]  at least, the choice will be one of a dwindling number of  animals – laboratory rats, for example, or cockroaches maybe, not a very pleasant prospect one has to say. 

Related observations

Healing observations

• A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF 017434
• Professor Alexander Erskine - A Hypnotist’s Case Book – Power over birds and removing warts 029226

Hallucination

• A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF 017434
• Aksakof, Alexandre - Proceedings of the S.P.R - The repeated apparitions of a young girl named Palladia 028586
• Aksakof, Alexandre - The dog Beppo and his fury at the apparition 028554
• Andrew Lang - Light, 1912 – The collie dog terrified by the hotel ghosts 028634
• Andrew Lang – Mrs. Emma-L. Darton and the dog Dan see a ghost 028551
• Andrew Lang's niece and her dog Turk together see a ghost 028544
• Appearance of a little dog during an experimental séance 028143
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 06 Misses Lubow and Wera Krijanowski’s dog Bonika 028534
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 07 The death of the dog Judy 028535
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 08 Mr. G. Graeser, from Lausanne tells how his parents had his beloved dog shot 028536
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 09 The Irish terrier called Paddy 028537
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 11 The angora cat and its doppelganger 028539
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 14 Dr Marie de Thyle, of Saint-Julien, Switzerland and her cat see a ghost 028543
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 15 The horse that saw a ghost 028545
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 16 The dog "Moustache and seven other people see a ghost 028548
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB 028549
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 18 Dr. Woetzel and his dog see his wife’s ghost 028552
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 19 Two children and a dog see the ghost the others could not see 028587
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 20 A ghost seen by a bull terrier and an 18 year old 028588
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 21 Violet and Sidney Montgomery, Caffrey’s son and a horse see the apparition of a ghostly woman 028589
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 22 The cat terrified by the ghost of a small, ugly, wrinkled, old shrew figure in her mother's chair 028590
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 23 M.-G. Llewellyn and his terrified cat Fluff see a ghost 028592
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 24 Mrs Cowpland-Trelaor, 'howling dogs' prophecy 4 deaths 028596
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 30 The haunted house , the ghost of a woman in black and the terror of her small terrier dog 028605
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 31 Miss Denton and her dog see a ghost 028632
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 32 The horse who saw Verplanck's ghost 028633
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 33 Mr. G. de Steigner, a dog, a cat and a canary hear a ghost 028635
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 36 Terrified by the ghost of a small white dog, of the Pomeranian breed, which appeared to her at the bedside 028638
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 37 Fourteen reports of the ghost of a small white dog 028639
• Ghost of a dog seen by a cat 028125
• Ghosts collectively perceived by humans and animals 028126
• Jean Sheppard and family - The terror of Miss Alison Westwood’s cat 022901
• Lethbridge, T C - Ghost and Ghoul - The ghost of Hole Mill 021794
• Madame d Esperance - Letter to Light 1904 – The haunted wood which frightened dogs and horses 028640
• Madame d’Esperance - Letter to Light 1904 - The return of Monna the dog 028134
• Megatherium, the dog, sounds the alarm he is dying 028122
• Ochorowicz, Dr Julian - Annals of Psychic Sciences - Experiments with the medium Miss Stanislawa Tomczyk 028591
• Oliver Sacks - The grey cat 001520
• Return of the cat 010091
• Return of the kitten 010090
• Rochas, Albert de - Annals of Psychic Sciences - Noula the doppelganger seen by a horse 028593
• Savage, Dr Minot Judson - Psychics : facts and theories – 08 The skye terrier terrified by the three ghosts seen by his mistress 028559
• Sees her cat knocking over a lamp when he is actually fast asleep at the foot of her bed 014408
• The apparition of Jim, the laughing collie dog, took place one hundred and six miles from the city where it was killed 028139
• The ghost of Palladia manifests itself to two people and is also visible to a dog 028131
• The haunted road - The horse had suddenly stopped and was so frightened that we no longer had any control over it 028132
• The pussy panicked by an aberrant ghost 028130
• Wallace, Alfred Russel - Study of Apparitions – Six cases where dogs and horses could perceive with humans the manifestations of haunting 028603

Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss

• Elberfeld's horses and Hans, the Russian stallion - The horses-calculators 028128

Out of time

Near death, Out of time, Out of body, Rebirth

• A Delightful Sense Of Freedom from an OBE 016520
• A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF 017434
• Danny Penman's cat, Buffy, has an NDE 021554
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 36 Terrified by the ghost of a small white dog, of the Pomeranian breed, which appeared to her at the bedside 028638

In time

Synaesthesia, Pure or enhanced perception, Inter composer communication, Vision, Dream, Perception recall, Exploring group perception

• A Day in the life of Oscar the Cat 016239
• A dog, a cat, a rat and a rattle-snake detect murder 011407
• A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF 017434
• Aksakof, Alexandre - Proceedings of the S.P.R - The repeated apparitions of a young girl named Palladia 028586
• Aksakof, Alexandre - The dog Beppo and his fury at the apparition 028554
• An old wheelchair moved, hit the floor two or three times and came back in a straight line to its corner 028124
• Anderson, Hans Christian – The white poodle, called Love, and the death of Olaf Linden 028123
• Andrew Lang's niece and her dog Turk together see a ghost 028544
• AwoFa'lokun Fatunmbi - Dogs are the messengers of the wind 011335
• Blithe spirit - A warning from the birds 004416
• Croiset, Gerard - Finding the missing cow of the farmer from Wierdon 022921
• Danny Penman's cat, Buffy, has an NDE 021554
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 01 The death of Mr Phibbs‘s dog Fox 028527
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 02 The death of Mrs. R. Lacassagne’s dog Lione 028528
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 03 She was overwhelmed by the idea that her pussy needed her 028531
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 04 Fido 028532
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 05 Dr. Emile Magnin’s dog Creole 028533
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 06 Misses Lubow and Wera Krijanowski’s dog Bonika 028534
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 07 The death of the dog Judy 028535
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 08 Mr. G. Graeser, from Lausanne tells how his parents had his beloved dog shot 028536
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 09 The Irish terrier called Paddy 028537
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 10 Mrs Joy Snell’s dog Prince and the lost girl 028538
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 11 The angora cat and its doppelganger 028539
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 12 The loved hunting dog who sensed his master’s death 028540
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 13 The dog Kacuy realises his master is a ghost 028542
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 14 Dr Marie de Thyle, of Saint-Julien, Switzerland and her cat see a ghost 028543
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 16 The dog "Moustache and seven other people see a ghost 028548
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB 028549
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 18 Dr. Woetzel and his dog see his wife’s ghost 028552
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 26 Dr. Gustave Geley from De l'Inconscient au Conscient The death howl of a dog 028599
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 27 Presentiment of death manifested by the dog 028600
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 The dog died at 8:30 in the evening. Its old master followed it into the afterlife at 10:00 a. m 028602
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 Three cases of the presentiment of death by dogs 028601
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 29 The phantasmal case of the castle of T., in Normandy and the watchdogs who fled, their tails low 028604
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 30 The haunted house , the ghost of a woman in black and the terror of her small terrier dog 028605
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 36 Terrified by the ghost of a small white dog, of the Pomeranian breed, which appeared to her at the bedside 028638
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 37 Fourteen reports of the ghost of a small white dog 028639
• Farrelly, Frances - Mexican figurines frighten mice 004211
• Frido, the dog's, telepathic calls of distress, save his life 028121
• Ghost of a dog seen by a cat 028125
• Ghosts collectively perceived by humans and animals 028126
• Haggard, Rider – Dog telepathy – Haggard dreamed that Bob, their eldest daughter's old pointer dog, was going to die 028120
• Her husband came back as a bird 010722
• Lethbridge, T C - ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The cat that could ‘see’ through walls 021672
• Lethbridge, T C - Ghost and Ghoul - Communicating with a cat 021879
• Lethbridge, T C - The Power of the Pendulum – The Siamese cat 021951
• Lethbridge, T C – ESP Beyond Time and Distance – They knew by the sixth sense 021768
• Lola the dog - The dog who was sensitive to the transmission of thought - telepathic 028129
• Lord Carberry of Freke Castle – and the mare called Kitty 028530
• Madame d Esperance - Letter to Light 1904 – The haunted wood which frightened dogs and horses 028640
• Madame d’Esperance - Letter to Light 1904 - The return of Monna the dog 028134
• Megatherium, the dog, sounds the alarm he is dying 028122
• Mr Everard Calthorp - The Horse as Comrade and Friend - The death of the horse ‘Windermere’ 028529
• Ochorowicz, Dr Julian - Annals of Psychic Sciences - Experiments with the medium Miss Stanislawa Tomczyk 028591
• Professor Alexander Erskine - A Hypnotist’s Case Book – Power over birds and removing warts 029226
• Return of the cat 010091
• Return of the kitten 010090
• Rochas, Albert de - Annals of Psychic Sciences - Noula the doppelganger seen by a horse 028593
• Rolf, the dog, was able to count, do sums and communicate 028127
• Several animals that have been influenced by this haunted place have died as a result of the horror they have felt 028133
• Tesla, Nikola – Empathetic communication with pigeons 025428
• The dog began howling like a wolf. It was spine chilling 021553
• The ghost of Palladia manifests itself to two people and is also visible to a dog 028131
• The jackdaw looked at my mum, squawked and then left 021557
• The pussy panicked by an aberrant ghost 028130
• The three crows 021556
• Wallace, Alfred Russel - Study of Apparitions – Six cases where dogs and horses could perceive with humans the manifestations of haunting 028603
• Watson, Lyall - Chimpanzees 011387
• Watson, Lyall - Desert Locusts 015178
• Watson, Lyall - Pigeon 167 homes in to his owner 018567
• Watson, Lyall - The inter communication of harvester ants 011367
• Watson, Lyall - The Persian cat called Sugar 018568
• Watson, Lyall - Vultures 011388
• William Terriss’s dog Davie’s vision of his master’s murder 028541

Prophecy

• Blithe spirit - A warning from the birds 004416
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 24 Mrs Cowpland-Trelaor, 'howling dogs' prophecy 4 deaths 028596

Dying

• Anderson, Hans Christian – The white poodle, called Love, and the death of Olaf Linden 028123
• Danny Penman's cat, Buffy, has an NDE 021554
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 01 The death of Mr Phibbs‘s dog Fox 028527
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 02 The death of Mrs. R. Lacassagne’s dog Lione 028528
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 04 Fido 028532
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 05 Dr. Emile Magnin’s dog Creole 028533
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 06 Misses Lubow and Wera Krijanowski’s dog Bonika 028534
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 07 The death of the dog Judy 028535
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 08 Mr. G. Graeser, from Lausanne tells how his parents had his beloved dog shot 028536
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 11 The angora cat and its doppelganger 028539
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 12 The loved hunting dog who sensed his master’s death 028540
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 14 Dr Marie de Thyle, of Saint-Julien, Switzerland and her cat see a ghost 028543
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB 028549
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 26 Dr. Gustave Geley from De l'Inconscient au Conscient The death howl of a dog 028599
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 27 Presentiment of death manifested by the dog 028600
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 The dog died at 8:30 in the evening. Its old master followed it into the afterlife at 10:00 a. m 028602
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 Three cases of the presentiment of death by dogs 028601
• Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 43 The death of a spider results in its spirit being seen, flying away, by a medium 028646
• Megatherium, the dog, sounds the alarm he is dying 028122
• Mr Everard Calthorp - The Horse as Comrade and Friend - The death of the horse ‘Windermere’ 028529
• Return of the cat 010091
• Tesla, Nikola – Empathetic communication with pigeons 025428
• The apparition of Jim, the laughing collie dog, took place one hundred and six miles from the city where it was killed 028139
• The dog began howling like a wolf. It was spine chilling 021553
• The jackdaw looked at my mum, squawked and then left 021557
• The three crows 021556

Environmental Influence

• An old wheelchair moved, hit the floor two or three times and came back in a straight line to its corner 028124
• Andrew Lang - Light, 1912 – The collie dog terrified by the hotel ghosts 028634
• Appearance of a little dog during an experimental séance 028143
• Blithe spirit - OMENS!! 010179
• Ochorowicz, Dr Julian - Annals of Psychic Sciences - Experiments with the medium Miss Stanislawa Tomczyk 028591

Other observations

• Watson, Lyall - Millions of little spiders 015181
• Watson, Lyall - Pigeon 167 homes in to his owner 018567