Penelope Smith - Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication

I n gratitude to all the many species of animal friends who have enriched my life with wonder, joy, laughter, love, and compassion.

My deepest thanks to the people whose treasured experiences with telepathic animal communication enlivened this book:

Jim Dietz

Maureen Hall

Dawn Hayman

Helene Jaillet

Roy Poucher

Jeri Ryan

Kate Solisti

Nancy Sondel

T he word animal comes from the Latin, anima , which means life principle, breath, air, soul, living being.

Human and nonhuman animals have in common that they are a combination of body and spiritbiological forms animated by spiritual beings or essences. Many people have a hard time accepting the spiritual aspect of animals because they carry established notions that animals are objects or less than humanrobotic creatures with blind instincts and no thoughts or feelings, or power of choice. They may use these attitudes to justify or excuse cruel or insensitive treatment of other animals.

For many humans, the issue is clouded in that they regard themselves as merely bodies, or genetic products, without awareness of their basic spiritual essence. This can foster disrespect and inhumane actions toward other people as well. It becomes difficult or even impossible for people with this viewpoint to recognize the spiritual nature of other forms of life.

The proof of the spiritual nature of human and nonhuman creatures alike is that when you address them accordingly, with respect and helpfulness, you can improve the condition of the whole being. In my work, a key element is recognizing the individual animal as a spiritual being who is inhabiting or enlivening a particular form. By using this perspective in communication and counseling, upsets and behavior problems are resolved, illnesses and injuries are more readily healed, and the individual becomes more alive, aware, and happy. This would not be possible if I took a completely behaviorist stance, regarding the animal as a complex of automatic or instinctual behaviors with little or no intelligence. Dealing with all aspects of their beingphysical, emotional, mental, and spiritualyields fuller understanding and helpfulness toward all creatures.

As an animal communication specialist, I devote my attention to the subject of living beings, particularly the ones that have four legs and fur or two legs with feathers or other physical features distinct from those of Homo sapiens. Thousands of private consultations with animals and their human companions, in person and at a distance, have helped to handle upsets and behavior problems, aid recovery from illness and injury (with the help of needed veterinary care), improve communication and understanding, and set guidelines for nutritional counseling and body energy balancing. My lectures and courses focus on helping people to regain their own ability to communicate with animals.

THE INBORN ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE

People often want to know when I started communicating with animals and how I gained, or learned, I had the ability to understand what animals are thinking and feeling.

As a child, I loved animals, as most children do. I loved touching them and watching them and being close to them. I was able to feel what they felt and understand what their needs were on a very intuitive basis; I could be them. Later on, I would talk to them aloud or by thought, and experience answers from them mentally. It was very natural. I knew that they loved me, as I did them, and that they could talk to me and think for themselves.

All beings have the inborn ability to communicate with and understand each other. All or most young children can experience mental or telepathic communication with others of any species. Its the main way, along with physical gesture, that they communicate before they learn language.

However, when children learn to speak, they tend to inhibit their ability to communicate directly through thought and feeling since the speaking ability is most validated and encouraged by adults, and gets the most attention. So the telepathic ability begins to fade as any function can when it is not used. In addition, parents and other adults often invalidate a child for any statement like the dog told me she has a tummy ache. This is made light of as imaginationor punished as lying or exaggeration. Although this practice is gradually changing as many people throughout the world learn how to recover their telepathic perception, most children still learn quickly that the ability to listen to and to receive thoughts and feelings from animals is not desirable and in fact does not exist. They soon suppress the ability, or it disappears, as you cannot retain an ability that you dont believe exists or is impossible.

Children may then cease to regard their fellow animals as thinking and feeling beings. Compounding this is adult failure to teach children how to handle animals gently and learn their physical needs. If children mistreat animals, they further separate themselves from wanting to know or understand their spiritual connection with animals. Even when they are very young, children may start making fun of anyone who might mention a mental or spiritual experience beyond what is rigidly accepted as normal. They emulate what they learn from adults as acceptable beliefs and behavior.

Later in life, some fortunate individuals will open up to the fact that mental and spiritual qualities or dimensions beyond the ordinary do indeed exist. They can begin again to experience these qualities by following the successful methods practiced by others throughout the ages in order to recognize and regain innate mental, intuitive, or telepathic communication abilities.

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

I never lost the ability to communicate with animals. When adults or other children invalidated my experiences of telepathically receiving messages from animals, I decided that it was best to keep these things to myself. Some of my mothers favorite expressions about me were that I had an active imagination and that I was stubborn as a mule. Perhaps both these qualities helped me to retain my telepathic communication capacity!

I did not want to lose the trust, warmth, and understanding I had with my animal friends, or to betray our mutual awareness of their intelligence and shared communication. This was too precious to me to let it be spoiled by others unawareness. So I continued to curl up with Fritzi, my cat, knowing that we understood each other; or I enjoyed Winkie, my parakeet, sitting on my glasses, delicately preening my eyebrows as I did my homework. I spent hours in the park quietly talking to birds and butterflies to get them to land on my hand. I let them know that I wouldnt hurt them, and I was thrilled when they responded by getting close to me.

When I grew up and left home, I had no animal companions of my own for years because I was moving around or at college. So I didnt pay much attention to my ability to communicate with animals. It stayed tucked under the surface, much as the knowledge of a foreign language might until you meet a person who speaks that language.

I studied the social sciences, hoping to learn more about understanding and helping to improve the condition of human beings, which has always been a basic purpose of mine. In 1971, I was again in the position to have animal companions. I had also acquired much desired knowledge and practical methodology to help the human mind and spirit by training and working as a counselor.

My ability to communicate with animals took on a new dimension. Besides being able to talk and listen to animals, I had acquired tools to help them. I found that the same techniques for helping people release past traumas, relieve emotional upsets, and handle problems and mental blocks helped animals also.