If you’ve ever found yourself curious about animal communication but found yourself not doing anything about it because you might be wondering, “but is it actually real?”, then I’d invite you to read on.
I want to talk about scepticism. Some colleagues think I’m a little odd for enjoying talk about it but that’s because I was a sceptic once too.
But then I had ‘THAT’ dog that changed my mind. Bridget.
Bridget had started peeing indoors as what seemed like ‘random’ moments, guarding food and our relationship just felt really strained.
I was studying dog behaviour with Sheila Harper at the time while also running a dog home boarding business, called Doggytopia, so you could say I was pretty clued up about canine behaviour. But there is always room for learning more, especially when it comes to a different species!
A friend suggested I pay for an animal communication session with a well known animal communicator and I thought, “what the heck, let’s do this”. I just figured, what’s the worst that can happen? I might not resonate with what she shares and I’m good with that. So I booked her in.
The session was online and I received a written report. The main message that hit me hard was “Bridget feels like life is passing her by”. Oof that hurt.
You might think she could have softened that but I now recognise that it’s not the communicator’s place to edit information. Quite the opposite! As that’s like putting a gag on the animal or shoving our fingers in our ears as the communication comes in.
But it hit me hard because I knew it was a truth. And I needed to hear it from Bridget. That one message changed my whole relationship with Bridget. We started to do different things together, I listened to her better and we went from a pretty disconnected relationship to deeply connected one.
So let’s explore this properly because the question deserves a real answer.
Scepticism is healthy. Rigidity is something else.
There’s a difference between healthy scepticism and a closed mind.
Healthy scepticism says, “show me, I’m open, I’m questioning”.
A closed mind says, “I’ve already decided”.
And if we’ve already decided, we’re not actually being sceptical at all, we’re just being certain. You only have to look at the Guiness Book of records to see that things we once accepted as ‘impossible’ are indeed possible. A whole book dedicated to challenging skepticism and a closed mind.
Here are some more examples in our human history.
Galileo was placed under house arrest for suggesting the Earth moves around the sun.
The medical establishment ridiculed Ignaz Semmelweis for proposing that doctors should wash their hands before surgery while patients died of infections caused by the very people meant to heal them.
Alfred Wegener was laughed out of scientific circles for suggesting the continents were once connected and had drifted apart. We now call it plate tectonics.
Germ theory, the idea that invisible organisms caused disease was considered absurd.
Every single one of these ideas was once called crazy.
Every single one is now considered ‘a fact’.
As the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer observed, all truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is considered as self-evident.
So by all means, be sceptical. Question everything, including your own assumptions.
But I’d encourage you to stay open because life is about exploring and learning, adapting and evolving. The sticky bit can be that we humans love to be right, even when being right means missing something extraordinary.
Telepathy isn’t new fad, it’s ancient and intelligent
Animal communication, telepathic, energetic, interspecies, isn’t a modern invention or a New Age trend. It is one of the oldest forms of communication on earth.
The Lakota Sioux hold deep traditions around shared consciousness, a collective awareness that moves between beings without words.
Aboriginal Australians have practised connection with all living things across vast distances through Dreamtime for tens of thousands of years.
The Khoi-San of southern Africa, Peruvian Andean tribes, and countless other indigenous cultures around the world have never stopped communicating with the natural world in this way.
In the 1960s and 70s, Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer was held captive by the uncontacted Mayoruna tribe in the Amazon for two months. Unable to speak their language, he communicated with their chief entirely telepathically. He described it as the most profound experience of his life.
We have simply stopped practicing.
The Telepathy Tapes
If you want a modern, rigorously explored body of evidence for telepathic communication, I’d point you to The Telepathy Tapes. It’s a podcast that documents the experiences of hundreds of non-verbal autistic people and those close to them, revealing consistent, verifiable evidence of non-physical communication. A nuclear engineer and writer named Becca Cramer set out to debunk it. After reviewing hundreds of peer-reviewed papers and speaking to experts, she concluded that standard explanations were not sufficient to account for the evidence. She couldn’t debunk it. Instead, her own worldview expanded.
That’s what an open mind does. It expands.
The story of Piper
Piper is a cat I communicated with in Australia and her session is one I might come back to when someone asks me whether any of this is real.
Her mum came to me because she wanted to understand her cat more deeply as Piper had been experiencing recurring urinary tract infections, five since February, and there were things about their dynamic she wanted to explore.
Before any call, I spend time in quiet connecting with the animal, in this case, Piper.
I closed my eyes, brought all my focus into my body and then invited in the energy of Piper and then I watched and witnessed her.
Piper came in straight away and I sensed this graceful, quiet feminine energy. She told me she was a homebody and showed me her weaving around mum when she arrives home. She said she disliked false people, cross words, and needy energy.
Mum confirmed every single characteristic.
Piper then showed me her physical body. I felt tightness, nausea, heat in her abdomen and she drew my attention to her legs being stretched uncomfortably. Mum confirmed Piper had just had an ultrasound where her legs had been stretched on the table, and that she always ran very hot in her stomach during UTIs.
She showed me a vet, older, calm, deeply competent, with VERY hairy hands. I shared this detail not knowing if it would mean anything. Mum confirmed that one of Piper’s specialists, a gentle, experienced man, did indeed have notably hairy hands.
When we explored herbs and botanicals, Piper brought through rose and sandalwood. As words first, and then the scent of sandalwood arrived in my body as I tuned in. Mum paused. Those were her only two perfumes. A Tom Ford rose scent. And Noir 29, base note sandalwood. The only two she wore.
Piper showed me she didn’t like the smell of cleaning products. I then learnt on the call that Mum owns a cleaning business and keeps the products inside the apartment.
And then the moment that made even my logical brain pause.
We were moving through Piper’s chakras, exploring colour and emotion. When we reached the solar plexus, I felt nauseous, and then a word arrived that made absolutely no sense to me: toothpick.
My human brain wanted to dismiss it. What on earth does that mean???? But I don’t edit what comes through. That’s not my role, so I shared it.
Mum went quiet and smiled then shared… “When I worry, I pick my teeth”.
Ahhhh. Now it made sense. Piper wasn’t being mean or critical of her mum, she was just saying, “I see you and I feel you. I know when you’re worried, even when you think you’re hiding it.”
The session ended with Piper describing herself, saying if she were human she’d be blonde and living in Byron Bay. This was so poignant for Mum as she admitted she’d been wanting to live in Byron Bay for an age. Piper, it seemed, already knew and gave her the confirmation she needed to take the next step.
What this tells us
Our animals are never not communicating with us. They feel everything, not the words per se, but the energy of the words and the energy of our emotions. That is the language we all speak, underneath the language we think we’re speaking.
When that conversation is finally made visible, when someone sits with their animal and truly listens, what comes back is never less than extraordinary.
You don’t have to believe any of this. But I’d gently invite you to stay curious. Because as Piper herself might say, soft doesn’t mean weak, and open doesn’t mean naive.
It just means you’re still learning.
And isn’t that the whole point?
Sessions are held remotely – wherever you are in the world. Your animal doesn’t need to be present. All you need to bring is an open heart and your questions.
