Do Animals Have Psychic Powers?

Animals with psychic powers would have a greater chance of survival than those without them. Telepathy would be useful to give warnings to the herd about predators, clairvoyance would help an animal find its way or locate the whereabouts of water and precognition would help an animal anticipate an attack. A sensitivity to vibration would help animals to 'smell death' in places that are dangerous or know when a place is safe. And some animals stroke their fellow creatures when they're ill- indicating perhaps a desire to heal.

But there's a higher function of psychic powers that only humans have. Just as Sai Baba has the power to materialise objects, appear in two places at once and perform the impossible so too these powers are within the reach of every human being. Once we awaken the higher spiritual forces reality itself changes and we can perform acts that the materialist would consider impossible. It is only in the human form that we can attain this state of being.

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ANIMALS REINCARNATE TOO

I suspect that you will get some 'flack' because you say in your column that animals not only survive death but will reincarnate again on Earth and, in time, take human form. Many older Spiritualists and mediums find it impossible to grasp the concept of reincarnation never mind the reincarnation of animals. I agree that animals spiritually progress. I was delighted last week when my mother called to tell me that she had seen the spirit of her dog 'Queenie' standing next to her chair. Mum said "I have never seen such happiness in her face even when she was in the physical body"

Valerie L-

Since my visit to India I am more convinced than ever that animals' spirits not only survive death but also later reincarnate. My spiritual teacher, Sai Baba, who I went to see late last year, tells us that some animals will take a human birth. He has a pet elephant who trumpets and cries tears whenever he has to go away from home. "In his next life he'll be human" says the smiling Swami..