Speaking of cats, I noticed something about our Fluffy. When our children were in school, I would find her sitting on the boot shelf by the back door (or what passes for a back door at our house), sometime in mid or late afternoon. The timing would vary somewhat, with one exception - it would always appear to coincide with the time that our kids were getting off the city bus - a couple of blocks away.
I would see the cat hop onto the top of the boot shelf, about an inch from the door, and in about 2 minutes or less, someone would appear in the doorway.
I read that Rupert Sheldrake was gathering data on the apparent psychic ability of animals, so I fired off an e-mail. I received a quick response, but of course he wanted real data - such as a log of incidents, times, specifics. Sadly, I couldn't provide those, because most days I was at the office, and not available to log the behaviour. On those days when I was home, it certainly seemed to be a regular behaviour.
Animals have retained some abilities, I think, that we have lost. I think it is because they live more of the time unconsciously, whereas we are thoroughly trained to spend more time in the conscious awareness state. These psychic impression simply do not make it past our conscious thought process, perhaps due to the amount of ego-chatter that we keep between our ears.
Humans appear to have better access to their psychic impressions during sleep, and being able to remember, interpret, and even control our dream state is a way to get 'messages' that we normally would miss.
In the Bible, there are many examples of great revelations that came during the dream state. These stories show us that we do have the capability that animals have retained; and perhaps we can teach ourselves to decode these inner impressions that our culture has trained out of us.
