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There may be some scammers out there among the AC world. If someone runs into a scammer, it does not mean all ACs are scammers.
I was at a talk for work this week where the speaker was emphasizing how modern medical science ignored and even deliberately discounted mind/body connection until recent decades. Now modern science is making medicine all about the mind/body connection. So just because science says NO to something existing does not make it so, or does not mean science itself will not reverse that view.
When I was a kid, I had an experience that make it very difficult to discount the possibility of AC communication— and after all-- horses, dogs, etc, do communicate with each other SOMEHOW–and it is not entirely body language. Anyway, I was home with a house filled with visitors and family during the Christmas period. My dog had followed my mother who had walked to the grocery store-- and was hit by a car and died. I became hysterical, screaming and crying that my dog was dead-- but this was before anyone came to tell me,before my mom and the dog’s body were driven to the house by a strange car. This happened in a house filled with people, so there were plenty of witnesses to what I was saying and the timing of events. I don’t know how I knew, but I knew.
Let me tell you, it was scary and upsetting to have that knowledge of the event in that way. The whole house cleared out after my mom and the dog arrived, many people looking at me oddly.
That is not the only incident I have had like that, but it is one where there were witnesses to it-- which is not always the case, I bring that one up here because of the people who were there to see. Because of incidents like those, it is impossible for me to discount that there are some ACs who are legitimate and that horses might be able to communicate with them in images. These incidents are not ones I seek out, as said, it is something I find at times uncomfortable. I don’t talk about it much, I surely would not hold myself out as an AC.
But is it possible to get communication distantly, a sort of telepathy,from people and animals? In my life experience, yes, oh yes.
Not something I seek out or actively want to experience. But yes. In my own experience, even as a perhaps reluctant recepient, oh yes, that sort of communication can and does occur.[/QUOTE]
I do think that there are unexplained things that happen in situations where people, or people and animals, have strong, long-term emotional bonds. I also think these experiences are going to be stronger for people who have lower emotional barriers between themselves and the world; children definitely have lower emotional barriers than adults. And some adults are more “porous,” more affected by the emotional states of others, than those of us who have worked to wall ourselves off from the chaos and anxiety that is other people :).
I’ve had moments where I’ve realized I am somehow “sharing” the feelings of my horse, which is different from just recognizing how the horse is feeling.
I also lived in a haunted house once, but that’s a digression . . . .
But I don’t trust anyone who thinks they can do this at a distance, over the telephone, from a photo, or who imports human thought processes to describe what an animal is thinking or feeling or saying. It’s possible that the people that try this do have an ability to absorb feelings in person, with their own animals, etc., and have convinced themselves they can do it at a distance. But that doesn’t mean they really can.
One of the pre-requisites for this kind of empathy is having lowered barriers to the world. Lowered barriers to the point that you don’t have a lot of defense against feeling other people’s (or animals’) anger, anxiety, sadness, or of course enthusiasms. But the problem is that having lowered barriers like this is going to make you much less “stable” in the terms we currently hold for functional adults. You are always going to be blown hither and yon by reacting to other people. And you may not always be totally clear, even to yourself, about your own motivations and feelings and abilities.
So, no, I do not believe in professional animal communicators. I would rather get in the vet, the chiro, the saddle-fitter, who can tell me what’s hurting. And spend time on the ground getting into rapport with my horse, so I know what she’s feeling.
That doesn’t mean I discount all reports of odd emotional/communicative experiences. But I don’t think you can have those experiences on demand, or in regard to people and animals that you don’t already have a bond with.
