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UncaRay · 11-05-2008, 01:13 PM

"People will think I am insane."

Yes they will, which is why they can't hear when plants and animals speak to them.
The truth is that the natural world speaks to us constantly if we only shut up for a while and listen. It doesn't speak in words, so we automatically shut out all this communication and knowledge that is available to us when we define "communication" as only involving words. Your dog, who has a sense of smell and hearing thousands of times more acute than yours, and who doesn't think with words, but in smells, sounds, and emotions, is always talking to you. Try raising a puppy, and listen to it. Watch what it does and when it does it. I have a Chow mix named Cinnamon. Her sensitivity to intruders is far beyond any electronic alarm I could buy. By listening to her barks I can tell not only when some creature is approaching, but wether it is a person she knows, or a stranger, or if it is a varmint, or another dog, and enemy, or a friend. By observing where she is looking and how excited she is I can pinpoint the intruder's exact location and how fast it is approaching, or what direction it is moving through the woods, even at midnight in a howling storm. ALL creatures communicate with us constantly, it is we who are deaf and blind.

11-05-2008, 01:13 PM	#49
UncaRay Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cosby, Tennessee, USA Posts: 20	Re: Can you talk to animals? "People will think I am insane." Yes they will, which is why they can't hear when plants and animals speak to them. The truth is that the natural world speaks to us constantly if we only shut up for a while and listen. It doesn't speak in words, so we automatically shut out all this communication and knowledge that is available to us when we define "communication" as only involving words. Your dog, who has a sense of smell and hearing thousands of times more acute than yours, and who doesn't think with words, but in smells, sounds, and emotions, is always talking to you. Try raising a puppy, and listen to it. Watch what it does and when it does it. I have a Chow mix named Cinnamon. Her sensitivity to intruders is far beyond any electronic alarm I could buy. By listening to her barks I can tell not only when some creature is approaching, but wether it is a person she knows, or a stranger, or if it is a varmint, or another dog, and enemy, or a friend. By observing where she is looking and how excited she is I can pinpoint the intruder's exact location and how fast it is approaching, or what direction it is moving through the woods, even at midnight in a howling storm. ALL creatures communicate with us constantly, it is we who are deaf and blind.