Are Animals More Intuitive than People?
October 15th 2007 22:15
Miggins - photo by Q. Rosenberg
One time I was with a male friend when I had to quickly return a newspaper to my neighbour before we went out. I quickly knocked on her door and returned the newspaper. The cats, Higgins and Miggins, sat still in the room and seemed to freeze up.
“There’s a man in the hallway, isn’t there?” she asked.
“How do you know?” I asked, puzzled.
“The cats are acting funny.”
She looked over my shoulder then and saw my friend who was indeed waiting in the hallway.
Intuition expert, Gavin de Becker says in his book The Gift of Fear that people are far more intuitive than animals. However, he says humans have one thing animals don’t – judgement – which gets in the way of their perception and intuitiveness. Judgement causes one to disregard their intuition unless one’s hunches can be explained logically.
Animals don’t brush away their hunches so de Becker believes people will look to their dogs for signs of whether or not they can trust a stranger and ironically, the dogs may simply be reflecting the signs of intuition that are coming from their owners.
“Our reliance on the intuition of dogs is often a way to find permission to have an opinion we might otherwise be forced to call…unsubstantiated,” he writes.
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they say that that animals and children know who to trust and who not to... I'm with them. As a working psychic I use my intuition extensively and apart from naturally being cautious, I'd say that the biggest hurdle for humans is to trust it. It isn't easy and language may be to blame for that? In the days of telepathy, I think trusting our intuition came easier too.
An interesting read.
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