Animal telepathy

What is the lizard feeling?

What is the dog feeling?

1. How is each animal feeling?

2. One is a mammal and the other is a reptile: what’s the difference mentally and emotionally between these?

3. Can a reptile feel sad, happy, interested, curious?

4. Love, gratitude, curiosity, loneliness, friendship, fear, anger, envy, sadness, joy

Which of these emotions can a crocodile feel?

What's the difference, mentally, between a mammal and a reptile? 

Are there any highly intelligent reptiles? Can reptiles feel love?

Chito and his pet Croc

1. How did Chito find the crocodile?

2.  How did he make friends with it?

3.  What happened when Chito released the crocodile?

Dolphins singing

1. What is the world of an elephant like? What makes it different from the world of a human?

2. What is the would of a goldfish like? What kind of awareness does it have?

3. What is the world of a 500-year-old shark like? (yes, they do actually exist) Is it aware of its age?

4. What is the world of a dragonfly like? What is it able to experience?

5. Do we as humans all live in roughly the same world?

6. Here's an interesting conundrum:

Do humans have multiple points of view of a shared reality, or does society impose a shared view of different multiple realities? 

Discuss the ancient Chinese parable of Zhuangzi's Dream

"Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, happy and doing as he pleased, unaware that he was Zhuangzi. When he woke up, he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi."

There are many situations that only humans can understand - but are there any emotions that only humans can feel?

Think about these creatures

elephants     mice     dogs     cats    snakes      butterflies       tigers       eagles

What emotions can they feel?

guilt

anger

pride

love

fear

joy

boredom

despair

hope

shame

jealousy

humour

gratitude

insignificance

curiousity

Think about the same emotions again, this time compare how adults and children might experience these emotions differently.

1. What's special about parrots?

2. What are the armchair explanations given for this kind of animal behaviour?

3. What actually are the findings of these experiments?

4. Have you personally experienced a pet anticipating someone's arrival home?

5. Does the speaker seem credible to you?

6. If not telepathy, what is the explanation?

Animal Telepathy


More about the speaker and his ideas:

Undermines

Paranormal

Parapsychology

Conjecture

interconnections

pseudoscience

inconsistency

Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of ____________, who developed the concept of "morphic resonance".

Sheldrake's morphic resonance _________ posits that "memory is inherent in nature" and that "natural systems, such as termite colonies, or pigeons, or orchid plants, or insulin molecules, inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind". Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type ___________ between organisms". His advocacy of the idea encompasses _________ subjects such as precognition, telepathy and the psychic staring effect as well as unconventional explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory.

Morphic resonance is not accepted by the scientific community as a measurable phenomenon and Sheldrake's proposals relating to it have been characterised as __________. Critics cite a lack of evidence for morphic resonance and an __________ between the idea and data from genetics and embryology. They also express concern that popular attention paid to Sheldrake's books and public appearances _________ the public's understanding of science.

Does reading this make you more (or less) skeptical of the ideas in the video? Or do you think there might be something to the idea of morphic resonance?