S1E18: Telepathy Between Species | Talk Tracks

This week on The Talk Tracks, Ky sits down with Anna Breytenbach, an inter-species communicator who bridges the language divide between humans, animals, insects and plants. From tracking wild creatures across remote landscapes to helping captive lions return to the wild, Anna has been a help to organizations, vets and conservationists around the globe. Anna’s profound insights grow not only from the questions she asks other species—but from truly listening to the questions they ask us. From elephants to insects, Anna reveals how deeply attuned animals are to the human condition—and how many express concern that we’ve lost our way. This conversation explores what it means to truly listen across species lines, and what we might remember—about ourselves, and the Earth—if we did. _______ Join The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass https://thetelepathytapes.supercast.com/ to get ad-free episodes, never-before-heard interviews, behind-the-scenes documentary footage, and access to our private Discord community. This is your invitation to come closer. To help shape what’s next. To be more than a listener… to be a co-creator of this paradigm shift. So if you’ve felt moved, if you’ve felt seen, if you’ve felt the call, subscribe today and join us: thetelepathytapes.com. https://thetelepathytapes.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 1:44Ky Dickens?

  Hi, everyone. I'm Kai Dickens, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to the Talk Tracks. In this series, we dive deeper into the revelations, challenges, and unexpected truths from the Telepathy Tapes. The goal is to explore all the threads that weave together our understanding of reality, science, spirituality, and yes, even unexplained things like psi abilities. If you haven't yet listened to season one of the Telepathy Tapes, I encourage you to start there. It lays the foundation for everything we'll be exploring in this journey. We'll feature conversations with groundbreaking researchers, thinkers, non-speakers, and experiencers who illuminate the extraordinary connections that may defy explanation today, but won't for long.

• 2:27Ky Dickens?

  This week on The Talk Tracks, we have someone extremely special. Anna Breytenbach, an interspecies communicator who claims to have conversations with animals through a form of deep telepathic connection. Her work has taken her into the wild with apex predators, across oceans with whales, and into the hearts of skeptics and believers alike. Is it possible that animals of all sorts, even insects, have been speaking to us all along, and we just haven't been listening? What if communication didn't begin with words, but with presence? What if beneath all of our language and noise, there was a quiet channel, one that connected us not just to each other, but to every living being? This episode will invite you to soften your edges and tune into a different frequency,

• 3:12Ky Dickens?

  one where language isn't just spoken, it's felt. So Anna, why don't you first start by telling me just who you are, what you do, how, or what you're known for?

• 3:21Speaker 01

  Well, hi, everybody. This is Anna Breytenbach, and I'm delighted to be here to share a little bit today about the field of intuitive interspecies communication, which might sound like a mouthful, like most words do, perhaps more commonly known in the world as telepathic animal communication, although it does actually literally apply to all species, not just the more-than-human animals. But we humans come to the party mostly by connecting with other animals and relearning and remembering these skills that are actually our intuition. It's actually part of the blueprint of our brain and how we are designed.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  Nonetheless, when I hatched upon this about 25 years ago, it was a complete surprise to my logical left brain. I was living and working in Silicon Valley at the time, fully into the mental IT world, and... And I was finding ways to satisfy my love for nature and animals through volunteering in conservation education programs. And that was all still quite worldly and orientated activism and education and volunteering at wildlife shelters and becoming a big cat handler and the like. But when I started doing my tracking training with the Wilderness Awareness School, based out of Washington State, I started to have experiences I couldn't explain.

• 4:47Speaker 01

  Because I grew up in my native South Africa and I didn't have a clue what the North American animals were, much less what their feet or their footprints would look like. So the perfect track and drive mode was still completely mysterious to me. And luckily, through the mentoring model that they employed, they weren't there just to tell us how to learn to identify certain tracks, but rather to help us, you know, see through native eyes or become deeply, deeply connected and to feel what was going on. And I began getting spontaneous information that would later prove to be true in ways that my mind had no involvement with. It was not a rational or thoughtful process or anything at all. So I thought one of two things is happening, either I'm just going completely crazy and

• 5:30Speaker 01

  hallucinating, or there's something to this I need to investigate. And I did the latter, I came across the work of Rupert Sheldrake and the entire field of, you know, quantum physics and new physics. And in the US, there are hundreds of teachers of animal communication. I carefully chose to embark on studies through the Assisi International Animal Institute because of their three-pronged approach, which was looking very deeply into the physics of it, but also engendering and living from that place of the more Buddhist principles of compassion and reverence for all life. And the third angle in our research was all around the original peoples and how natural

• 6:14Speaker 01

  this was for them and the ways they used to live and move with their more than human kin, you know, on the earth. So over the next couple of years, in between my day job, I used my grand total of 10 vacation days a year to do various courses to advancing levels and did a whole bunch of case studies to... Get coaching around that and to pursue certification. In two thousand and two, I moved back to South Africa and began offering workshops and consultations. For the first ten years or so, I did pet consultations, animals with behavioural issues, or helping vets diagnose something that was difficult to find out, you know, emotional

• 6:57Speaker 01

  issues, assisting with training and things like this. For the last ten years, I haven't done pet consultations at all, and I still do not. There's just not enough time in the day, and there's so many wildlife causes that I care about, that I assist with rehabilitation, rewilding, rescue, your conservation, and the whole, as a list of wonderful ways and opportunities to meet beautiful brothers and sisters of different species.

• 7:32Ky Dickens?

  Okay, I want to take a minute to help the audience catch up, because you've mentioned so many amazing things here, but, you know, it's all new to many of us. So, first of all, I want to ask how you personally define telepathy, and what is your understanding of how it has evolved over time? Or has it even evolved? Because one of the things I keep coming back to is maybe it's always been a part of us, and we've just moved away from our ability to engage with it.

• 8:00Speaker 01

  Telepathy as a concept has been around and been researched since the eighteen eighties. In the US and the UK, in the eighteen eighties, universities began studying and testing for telepathy, between humans, obviously. And, of course, the famed work of the scientist Rupert Sheldrake, with whom I've had many a lively discussion about this, proved the connection and the telepathy, the direct thought transference, let's say, between humans and their pets, particularly those with whom there's already an emotional bond and a longstanding relationship. So, one way to understand telepathy would be to call it just that, a thought transference, where we have the idea of a sender and a receiver, and perhaps a question and answer based process.

• 8:46Speaker 01

  But truth be told, that's a bit mechanical. Because what's really happening, even though our minds might need that sort of model to step into it and to bring our minds to the party, what's really happening is just a direct knowing in a much more than verbal way, even internally, or much more than a mental imagery way. So like old telepathy experiments and telepathy tests were to, you know, with playing cards face down to tell, you know, what kind of card it was, and remote viewing and all of these things, of course, they are real. But when we're dealing with another real live being, when it's that animal, that horse with a sore leg

• 9:28Speaker 01

  that we're connecting with, we're not just some impartial observer who is discerning what is. There's a real heart-based and care-based connection with that being, and they know that you are open to them and in a kind of a silent dialogue with them. So, over the years, I've come to understand this less as a sender and a receiver, and a process of, you know, sort of information getting, and more of just a simple merging with and becoming one with the truth of that other being. And then our mind has to interrogate aspects of that truth, like their physical health, for example.

• 10:10Speaker 01

  So if I'm silently in my mind asking, "A horse, you're where on your body? Are you experiencing discomfort?" I will know that on my body as a mapping of the horse's body. So if the horse was a sore front left leg, my left arm will become sore in the sort of corresponding place and to a lesser degree. So there's many ways that I perceive the information, but it's not because the horse has decided to send a mental image or a physical sensation or the words, which is why this is all totally beyond and before and outside of words or language. Early in your journey, were you doubted what you were experiencing, or were you always certain?

• 10:52Speaker 01

  I remember that early in my journey, I'd often doubt what was coming through, and the process for that matter. I was raised in a very ordinary suburban upbringing, nothing special, no wild camping trips or anything fantastic like that. And with my left brain, logical side, I was always questioning what I was receiving. I'm so grateful that the protocol of the institute was to do case studies, that were double-blind case studies. We had to communicate with animals we didn't know who lived with people we'd never met before, and had to ask a series of questions and write up and transcribe both sides of the conversation, so to speak. And then the animals person and the institute would vet all of that for accuracy or not, you know, and how we were doing.

• 11:36Speaker 01

  And I must say, the doubting mind has amazing ways to try to explain away information that didn't originate from my own mind, you know, it just really does. And I would make myself believe that if I was seeing, you know, a green tennis ball, it might be because, you know, my favourite colour's green, or I'd forgotten to make that tennis appointment, you know, instead it just really is, you know, the dog's favourite toy. But there was one moment that just really made me finally intend to drop that scepticism. I was communicating with a dog who I'd never met, who lived far, far away, outside Sacramento. And one of the standard questions we asked all these cats and dogs was, you know, is

• 12:20Speaker 01

  there anything missing from your life? Obviously trying to be helpful and give them whatever they might want. Usual answers were, you know, more walks or different kind of food. So that's the other problem in this matter of scepticism, is we have some possible imagined answers already there, and we have to, on, you know, on the sort of internal level within myself, I have to listen more deeply to the more subtle, soft voice that intuition is bringing, instead of the loud data of possible answers that my mind already has. Anyway, I asked this dog, is there anything missing from your life? Immediately, I got a very brief mental flash of a bald eagle flying through the sky and then the upper part of a man's arm.

• 13:03Speaker 01

  And I sort of shook my head, rubbed my eyes and asked again. Nothing, just deafening silence. So embarrassed, I wrote it down. I didn't want to write it down and get a prorating from my mentors for such rubbish, but I wrote it down and gave feedback to the lady who burst into tears. Apparently, her young husband had died a year before in a car crash and he had had a tattoo of a bald eagle's head on his bicep. And that was the dog showing me that, of course, who he was missing was the other man in his life, by those unique identifiers. And after that, I thought, goodness me, okay, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna trust. And I don't always get it right, it's a matter of fine tuning and practice. And if I don't understand it, that doesn't matter.

• 13:46Speaker 01

  It's, a lot of this work, quite frankly, is work on self and continuing to get my ego out of the way, my desire to know, my attachment to the outcome, my hoped for answers, which is why it's often the most difficult to connect with our own animals, because we have such a vested interest emotionally in what their answers are. No matter what your home language is as a human, you can connect with any being, no matter how large or small, and have a fully conscious exchange. Sometimes I find it very refreshing when the animals ask me some questions also, or give retorts to things that I'm saying, and that's when I know it really isn't a live communication, there are two parties in it. Perhaps one could just say essence to essence, and in that moment, you are deeply related

• 14:31Speaker 01

  and you are knowing each other. This is not just doing a psychic reading or remote viewing.

• 14:36Ky Dickens?

  This is so powerfully emotional, just thinking of how beings can merge and connect across species. And I wonder, when you've had animals ask you questions, what are the type of things they inquire about?

• 14:58Speaker 01

  Well, there's kind of the good, bad, or the ugly on the emotional continuum, let's say. So sometimes I get asked questions that are quite humorous and sometimes, a lot of the time, given the nature of my work, I'm asked questions to which there is no positive answer. Like, you know, can you help us? Can you open up the enclosure and let us run free? Can you stop my children being hunted and slaughtered for sports? Because they know that I can deeply hear them with empathy and they want to know from, can things change in whatever their setup is?

• 15:37Speaker 01

  Will the ecotourism business where the animals are, will they prioritize the animals' welfare in their management decisions? Will the zoos actually take care to give that tiger who's pacing, will they take care to give him something to do, some mental stimulation? So they're often asking for things, for some help, for some help, for some situation or input or healthier food or medical treatment even, that just is not going to come. And I've got to then go back to them and say, I'm sorry, this is not going to happen. Another more uplifting example would be with the animals being non-human.

• 16:22Speaker 01

  They have no reason to understand how we humans think and behave like we do. And sometimes the questions I get from animals make me laugh out loud because they point to some of our strange human habits that we take for granted or think are just fine. And to them, it's completely mystifying. I can think of one example right now where I was consulting to a guest establishment out in the countryside who grew their own vegetables, fully caged in a vegetable garden that was safe, you know, apparently impervious to other animals who would want some of the veggies, but very strong baboons, which is like a big, you know, sort of hairy primate species. They would, they would come and love to play on the fence like a trampoline and sometimes

• 17:06Speaker 01

  after rainy weather, maybe they could pry their fence open and get into the vegetables. And they would take what they wanted and then leave. So clearly I was asked to address this behaviour of the baboons and ask them to stop. And I explained that the humans needed that food for themselves, for the staff, and for when guests came. And the message back from the lead baboon was like, nope,

• 17:31Speaker 01

  that's not true. And I was like, well, it is true. He says, nope, no, you don't need it. So I asked him, why, why do you feel humans don't need the food? And he said, I watch. He says, we watch you guys. Humans come in when they're not hungry. They walk through the vegetable gardens, picking the best, the most ripe and ready fruit. And then they don't even eat it. They take it away. And then they do something odd with it. They either like leave it sitting around inside the walls of a building until it becomes beyond ripe and becomes rotten and no good for any creature to eat hu- human or otherwise. Or they do very strange things, like change the food,

• 18:13Speaker 01

  put it in other weird things and then actually change it and kill it. Like, why do you do that? Why do you do that? And I realized that he was talking about cooking, the cooking process.

• 18:25Ky Dickens?

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• 19:08Ky Dickens?

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• 20:34Ky Dickens?

  That's funny. I mean, I would never think about explaining to an animal why we rearrange and like cut up the food we eat. Huh, it's cool. I want to talk about being open to this sort of communication. You know, I hear often from communication regulation partners who work with non-speakers that if you want to hear them back, or the times they have received telepathy back from them, they were completely empty. They didn't have an agenda. They weren't attaching their own words, or ideas, or thoughts to it. And they, they really had to be totally tuned in to them, yet empty. And I'm just wondering if you can comment on that from your point of view with your work?

• 21:15Speaker 01

  It's so, so important to be as, as empty as possible, which is another, another reflection of the fact that this is not a superpower or some mystical skill that one goes to a mystery school to attain and achieve. And I've been facilitating workshops in that now for over 20 years. And it really is just a remembering journey. And we need to be still and just get out of the way. And when spontaneous communications happen on the incoming, it's often when we are in that state. We may be wandering around a bit of an alpha state, alpha brainwave state. We're a bit more calm and open. And then we perceive things that are always there, but just we perceive them. And when we want to be the one to initiate the conversation,

• 22:00Speaker 01

  we need to intentionally get ourselves into that, into that state of mind, which is not a disembodied, you know, high spiritual state where you're about to vibrate off the planet. It really is about sitting still and quiet, including having an awareness of the sounds around you. I like to close my eyes so that I minimize mental distraction from what I'm seeing around me. And watching my natural breathing rhythm is a lovely way to become anchored and present. And I'm reminded now of a conversation I had with Lawrence Anthony, the elephant whisperer, who I know you've spoken about with your dad, actually, and, and in the telepathy tapes. Oh, what a, what a dear man and what a dear woman Francois's his wife. They invited me to his game reserve, Tutula Tulum,

• 22:45Speaker 01

  in October of a particular year when I was in the area. So I went there for a couple of days and over dinner one night, he was asking me more about how this works. And I spoke about having had to address an issue with some animals the previous day. And he said, wait a minute, what do you mean? Did you go and start the conversation? And I was like, well, yeah, yeah, that's what I was there to do. He said, no way. He says, I've had all these, you know, telepathic conversations where the animal has initiated, the elephants have had something they want me to know. I finally sort of come to the party or I can sense them and I care about them and I notice the subtle signs. He says, do you mean that I could actually start a conversation? I said, yes.

• 23:28Speaker 01

  He was so gleeful that with that idea. And they had recently acquired from the chief of neighboring land, they'd acquired access to a huge tract of additional land bordering on their reserve. The fences had come down. He had rehabilitated an old, old reservoir to become a beautiful water hole. And this was in a time of drought where water was scarce. And with the elephants' well-being and potential joy in mind, he'd rehabilitated this area and for the preceding two months, the elephants had not gone near there. They hadn't stepped even a little toe onto the land at all. And he was completely mystified by that. So the next day he dashed off to go tell the elephants, you know, this is, this is for you.

• 24:11Speaker 01

  And their response was, we're really, really scared. We're scared of being hunted there. And it turns out that land was where a lot of illegal hunting and poaching had been happening. So together we gave the elephants the reassurance that this was now an extension of the reserve in which they were safe and guarded and well taken care of. And that he was their protector and he would make sure that wouldn't happen to them there. He encouraged them to go, sent them mental images and within a few days, they were all splashing and bathing in that beautiful waterhole that he'd been able to guide them to telepathically.

• 24:45Ky Dickens?

  Oh, that's such a beautiful story. I love that. So when you're asked to consult with wildlife, what type of organizations typically reach out to you for help?

• 24:56Speaker 01

  When I'm asked to do wildlife consultations, it's only sometimes through an organization or in an official capacity. Most of the time, it's from employees or staff members or volunteers there who are working on the ground. And this is something interesting because in our world, this is still not considered ordinary or necessarily something that somebody would spend money on. It's something that's way out there on the edge of possibility. And I'm often called in when all other methods have been exhausted. They've tried everything. They've tried vets and behaviorists and trainers and, and, and, you know, curators and wildlife specialists. And eventually somebody might say, oh, gosh, well, okay, we've exhausted all possibility. Let's try animal communication.

• 25:42Speaker 01

  And sometimes the people who approach me, even if it is the wildlife vet or the game ranger or the, you know, the land manager, they do so kind of in secret. And when I give them the feedback from the animal, they find another way to present it to the team who's making, who's making decisions. And I understand all of that. I've got compassion for that. In my early days, I was also very shy of it. But it is such a shame that often the animal's truth gets diluted or even not conveyed because, you know, the human through whose mouth it has to go to other humans is afraid of looking stupid or admitting that they might believe in these more, you know, seem to be esoteric topics.

• 26:25Ky Dickens?

  I would imagine, though, that the reason that you keep getting sought out is because what you're coming back with bears out in some way to be true. Can you talk about that? Is what you're saying meaningful enough to them that they are believing in the animal telepathy?

• 26:42Speaker 01

  Many times the people I work with in the wildlife space do come back and ask me to help with other animals in the future because they have seen it borne out in practice. They've seen a change in the animal's behaviour. Or a classic example of what often happens is an injured animal, an injured wild animal, an injured seal who's, you know, out on the rocks and the tide is coming in and too freaked out to be captured. And when understanding, and if that seal does want medical assistance, it relaxes and allows people with the cage to come close enough and then will walk into the cage. So when people see back in situ, they see things playing out and animals' behaviour change, then they think, wait a minute, there's, you know, a lot going on here.

• 27:25Speaker 01

  One of the big obstacles for people, even the so-called believers, one of the big obstacles to them using this more regularly is that when they see an animal changing behaviour per the suggestions in the telepathic consultation, they have to confront the fact that that means the elephant is a fully self-aware sentient being, capable of choices, capable of curtailing their behaviour or their patterns, capable of cooperating with the people, you know. And that's a big thing for people to swallow. Even wildlife scientists and biologists who care a lot about the animals are still maybe not quite willing to say that these are fully sentient beings with cognitive and other skills.

• 28:09Speaker 01

  But yes, many organisations do come and ask again and again, particularly for the more challenging cases where they, they can't find an animal under their care, they don't know if it's been hunted or killed or stuck in a snare somewhere and still alive and could be rescued, or if it's fallen down a hole. There's many, many people who do come back again and again, and it's amazing to me how compassionate the animals are because often I'm working with animals in the wild who have experienced extraordinary hardship at the hands of humans. If not where they were, then certainly before, or in the transport process, or wherever they came from. The persecution, the hunting, the lack of food, or whatever is going on.

• 28:50Speaker 01

  So the fact that they are willing to try to make it work in their new location, and to understand the people mean well, and they're willing to try to adjust their behaviour, or to stop charging safari vehicles, based on a previous trauma, stop charging safari vehicles, because they understand now the game reserve where they are is willing to give them space and just wants to appreciate them wild. And it's amazing to me how the animals can shift their behaviour. One last thing to say about this, though, is that what the animal says and what they need, it does, back in the practical world, often require the humans to have to do something and to honour that. And a lot of humans will say, yes, fine, we'll give them more food, or we'll, you know,

• 29:35Speaker 01

  we'll do whatever they're asking, and then it slips and slides, or they forget, or other priorities, or, you know, lack of money come in, and then there isn't follow through. And then, of course, the animal's not going to only keep up their end of the bargain. So it's all quite a mix, like any negotiation, where all parties would have to genuinely follow through on the actions of whatever agreements are reached.

• 29:58Ky Dickens?

  Yeah, it's so, it's so interesting, because, especially that you're saying that they have a little bit of grace for us, because when you think about what humans have done to animals and their natural habitats, and zoos, and, I mean, hunting, it feels as though as a human, as a human race, we've almost enslaved and tortured all other beings on earth. And so, is there any, you don't, I mean, is there a mass, have you, I mean, I don't know if, I don't know how to even ask this question, but is there a mass anger, or even like hatred of us, or do you find there to be a compassion or forgiveness that we don't maybe even deserve?

• 30:42Speaker 01

  It does continue to amaze me and actually significantly humble me at how compassionate the animals are towards us. They're not only forgiving in particular cases where they've been, tortured and had their family members butchered for their ivory and so on, and they're still, you know, willing to trust. Not only that, but beyond the forgiveness, they really have compassion because as I've mentioned, this form of connecting and being in that sort of communication space with an animal is a two-way thing. They are sensing us as well and they're always reading a person's energy field. They know. They know the difference between different people on a safari vehicle. They know the difference in the mood on any given day of the handlers at the animal sanctuary.

• 31:25Speaker 01

  They understand energy in its pure raw form. And they have such compassion for how we humans collectively have have lost our way. And it's often at their expense, of course, and great tragedies on the micro scale and the macro scale and the burning down of the forests and the homelessness. And yet they they feel for us because it's all because we've lost our way and the separation sickness we're suffering from. And I do a lot of work with whales and try to support the Cove Guardians in Tai Chi in Japan, you know, Sea Shepherd and the Dolphin Project. And a lot of work with animals that really are persecuted. And I saw a cartoon once, just a one frame cartoon of some

• 32:09Speaker 01

  beautiful big whale tails, you know, sticking up above the surface of the ocean. And the whale tails are holding up a placard, a sign that says, save the humans.

• 32:20Speaker 01

  And that's how it feels. They are just continually witnessing and being available to us and available for loving connection regardless of the bigger context of the tragedy of the lives they live on our watch.

• 32:38Ky Dickens?

  Wow.

• 32:41Ky Dickens?

  It's hard even to follow up with that answer and question, you know. I guess on a more micro level now. Have you noticed different languages or communication styles depending on the species or even the individual animal?

• 32:57Speaker 01

  Different species have different perhaps collective personalities, let's say, and different strengths and talents, right? You know, they'll have certain focuses in their lives depending even on their anatomies. You know, are they all about speed or stealth or stalking as a big cat species? Are they more still like a sloth? But in any individual communication with an animal, I'm literally connected with that individual soul, that individual essence. And so it's a common trick that we need to not let the mind play on ourselves, the human, is to imagine that all sloths are slow and love sleeping. You know, or that all dogs of a certain breed would feel a certain way. You are always dealing with an individual.

• 33:42Speaker 01

  So I have found that any communication with any member of any species, there's no limit on the complexity and the intelligence and the expression of just their delightful selves that comes through. I wouldn't even say there's a particular species personality because I'm dealing with that individual. And yet, here's the amazing thing. Every individual of the non-human animal species, they're also very aware of the collective consciousness to which they belong. So if I'm communicating with an individual bee, as I was just two days ago, who'd got stuck indoors overnight and I discovered her the next morning. She was quite weak. So I gave her a little bit of water with local honey. It has to be local honey, otherwise it might kill her.

• 34:26Speaker 01

  And once she was revived, I took her outside just on my hand and asked her, I wanted to be able to walk her a little closer to where her home might be. And I got a sense of which direction to move, just an impulse in my body. But she also conveyed to me that none of her hive mates were out and about yet. And so it was apparently still too cold. They weren't out and about. And she was quite happy to just be placed anywhere in the sun and she would wait for them to get active to sort of rejoin them. Because she could sense it was going to be really soon. It was almost time that they would come out.

• 35:08Speaker 01

  So she was tuned into that bee collective consciousness and awareness of the temperature that's needed. And she was tuned in to them, where they were and what they were doing, even though, you know, she was out there and stuck on the fleshy finger of some woman she probably would have preferred not to meet.

• 35:23Ky Dickens?

  It's so, it's so neat because, you know, I think often when people think about communication, they only think of the animals that we think of, right, that are, are, I don't know, we've identified as being sentient in some way, elephants or horses and just the idea of talking with a bee who gets stuck inside the house. I mean, it's just, it really is a reflection of this idea that we're all connected. And that we're all conscious, all beings. I guess with that in mind, do you think it stops with mammals and insects or, or do you find that plants might have consciousness or other things that we don't realise?

• 36:03Speaker 01

  The idea of consciousness that we humans have is also a bit of a construct. In my experience, everything, and I deliberately say thing, everything is infused with this life force, whether animate or seemingly inanimate. You know, it's all, it's all energy, it's all energy and the the density with which those energy sort of units are packed together are what makes something appear to be solid or, or liquid or serial or just, you know, apparently invisible. So our human idea of consciousness is more like the lens of our inquiry, as we're sort of looking in at one facet of the diamond of, of life. But everything is, is part of that oneism, just pulsing with that.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  Telepathic communication therefore doesn't stop with animals or insects or with single-celled organisms. That's why I do refer to it as interspecies communication. I've had many a conversation with plants and trees, you know, both wild-growing and in orchards, with rivers, with lakes, with ecosystems, even the microecosystem of a vegetable garden that somebody is planting. A permaculture friend asked me once to come help, so I just walked into the space and asked a general blanket question into the collective consciousness of the many species that were there, including the minerals and the elements in the soil. And I asked, you know, what is needed is what is wished for, for the most abundant, well,

• 37:32Speaker 01

  life here. And I got a myriad of answers from different sort of layers in that ecosystem. I've communicated with a cornfield where the stems of corn that were at the edges of the rows were experiencing extreme hardship because of the unnatural formation and they were taking the full brunt of the oncoming wind or weather because their brothers and sisters were standing in a line behind them. Instead of a more natural, organic shape that would have emerged, but they would share the load and distribute, you know, weather or other issues that come in. And so, everything is consciousness in a non-unit kind of a way.

• 38:15Speaker 01

  And we humans seem to have forgotten that as well. I think a large part of my spiritual journey has been informed by and catalyzed by communicating with the more-than-human world and just sensing, sensing their is-ness, their natural divine spirit that's flowing through without impediment. And there's absolutely no difference in the self-awareness or intelligence levels of any being. The only issue is how we humans measure intelligence and then we turn around and project that onto making meaning of how intelligent something is or isn't. But it doesn't take a mirror self-recognition test by a gorilla or an elephant to prove self-awareness.

• 38:56Speaker 01

  The smallest aphid on the smallest flower is very self-aware, has a life that is meaningful to them and matters to them.

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• 42:49Ky Dickens?

  Zenni.com slash podcast code PODCAST15. Yeah, absolutely. You know, and I'm guessing, you know, when you heard the telepathy tapes, it probably wasn't a shock to you, right? If someone doesn't have a voice that they're going to find a way. Do you think that, you know, humans who do this, like we just did an episode on Alzheimer's patients who are connecting telepathically or non speakers who, you know, all over the world, their parents and teachers are saying are connecting telepathically. And do you think they're just tapping into the same intuitive channel that you access with animals?

• 43:25Speaker 01

  Many people do connect with other humans in this way. I've had friends come on my workshops who have been volunteers in coma care with, you know, hospital patients in comas from which they're not expected to emerge. And they've been able to direct even medical treatment and change the patient's environment in their ward based on their wishes. And that then proves to make them a lot calmer with all, you know, the monitoring that's going on that can prove that in terms of their physiological and biofeedback metrics. Um, yes, absolutely. I, I consider myself lucky that I appear to be more wired to connecting with animals because I find humans quite complicated by comparison. And in the sense of this essence to essence connection, I have that spontaneity flowing

• 44:10Speaker 01

  with, you know, the very, very closest sort of soul friends or people I'm really bonded to, it flows automatically and naturally. But otherwise, I find it, um, a lot to get through, to wade through all the masks that all of us humans have and the this and the that and the mind stuff to get to the real person inside. Somehow I seem more tuned to the animals who don't have those masks, they just are themselves and that's very readily available. But yes, I feel it is the same thing. And whether it's even being to being or whether it's, um, coming from the field that we share and that we're tuning into and what's in the field, who knows? And I, I used to be very interested in all of that and read all the books on new physics and so on. And without wanting to regret anything, I do kind of wish I hadn't spent so many years

• 44:55Speaker 01

  reading that all because that was at the expense of just experiencing it and being out there, even on your own, when there's no one around to laugh at you or to have to tell or, you know, under the risk of looking foolish in front of whatever that means. Just being out there and having these little hellos with the bird in the garden or the worm that I'm trying to turn upright who's upside down and asking him to help me because, you know, I've got my coffee cup in the other hand and I'd rather do it one-handed. And these little moment by moment seeming miracles are just the fabric of, of living a connected life in relationship. And this experience is, I think, what it is to be fully alive where we are. Where we are, even if it's in a room in an apartment.

• 45:39Speaker 01

  You can bet there's a little spider or a bug somewhere. The plant you have standing in the corner, or the herbs that you're growing on your windowsill. Talk to them, love them, feel them. We are in relationship with everything around us and that amazing reciprocity that is available on the sweet, everyday, magic moment, that's a life worth living.

• 46:03Ky Dickens?

  What a beautiful, beautiful sentiment. Yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, you talked about reading books and trying to maybe understand or explain this. I mean, where have you landed on that, you know? And, and do you, how do you respond to skeptics who see telepathy as unscientific or something impossible to prove?

• 46:24Speaker 01

  When it comes to skeptics and all the hate mail I receive, I have no desire or need to persuade anybody. And I don't need fans. You know, some things are true whether we believe it or not. And I can say that of myself early on with the case studies and so on. Some things are true whether I believed it or not. And I just had to, you know, get on with following what authentically feels, you know, feels right or appropriate for me. Even the word right is a bit loaded because it implies, you know, the polarity of there being, you know, a wrong. So where I'm now at with some matter of all the reading and the science is I find it sort of vaguely interesting out there on the periphery, but I no longer get excited about it at all.

• 47:08Speaker 01

  Um, I find that all just food for the mind and thankfully my mind has just settled into a quieter space now. And I feel that I move more with the, the spirit that's alive in everything. And through this, these wonderful doorways that nature, connection and communication opened up for me, um, I hopped upon what's become my personal spiritual path, which doesn't really feel separate to life, and I would loosely define that as nonduality. And really exploring this, this matter of oneness. Not as some, you know, meditation retreat only inquiry once a year if I'd take a break from my daily life, but really my internal reactions to things.

• 47:52Speaker 01

  Uh, you know, being in oneness, being, being connected to that essence at, you know, at the heart of, the foundation of every expression of life. And in this nonduality path, um, it really is about not walking from a place of, of separation. So in this, in this non-separate world, you know, I too am not separate from, from the critics or the inner critic. Uh, I was a big skeptic myself. I've got compassion for that and I'm not, I'm not on any personal mission. I'm really not on a personal mission. It's not about numbers or quantity. And it's not about quantity either for the animals, by the way. They are interested in quality of life and quality of connection.

• 48:36Speaker 01

  So outcomes and projections and near-term extinction scenarios or, um, you know, healing statistics and the numbers game just doesn't really speak to me anymore. Uh, all we ever truly have is the present moment. And I don't mean that as a fortune cookie or a high spiritual statement, but just truly, you know, nobody knows what's going to happen in the next minute. I think really what's being asked of me certainly is to just be quiet enough that I can see what's being asked of me in the next minute.

• 49:06Ky Dickens?

  I love that. Um, and we'll move off the skeptic thing. But have there been a moment in your work that was so precise, so impossible to explain away, that it maybe gave a skeptical person pause that you were talking to, or someone that you were working in service of pause?

• 49:21Speaker 01

  In the area where I lived, there was a vet clinic quite far away. And where I took my cats. And both the vets who were co-owners of the practice were not at all interested in me arriving and saying, "My cat feels this and that." They were just rolling their eyes and you could see their thought bubble. Didn't need to be telepathic to see their thought bubble. It was just, "Oh, shut up. You're not the expert," you know? Nonetheless, it would play out to be true and the cat, they'd have this or that or the other lump in the belly or whatever. And of course, it was just, you know, put down to guesswork. But one of those vets, who was the biggest skeptic, um, very, um, fundamental, fundamentally religious, and there was no place in her worldview for this, which she acknowledged,

• 50:04Speaker 01

  and she set me up, uh, and let me know it was a setup. She said, come on to my house and talk to my dogs, and then we'll see about this, you know? So I did. I wasn't, I wasn't chuffed at the vibe of the whole thing, but I did go around and interviewed her golden shepherd and her beautiful retriever, and they said whatever they said about, you know, their lives that I knew nothing about. But, you know, being dogs who had a caring vet as their person, there wasn't much needing or lacking in their life. So therefore, things they were saying, you know, could have been, you know, obvious or worked out, they were fairly sort of ordinary and they just were just too happy to have anything material to say. Then she said, oh, by the way, there's a cat locked in my laundry room, uh, was surrendered

• 50:49Speaker 01

  to my practice and the people just never, you know, never ever came back and I wasn't able to find her a home. So she's just locked up there now, basically. And, and would you talk with her as well? I'm like, okay. I said, what's her name? No, it hasn't got a name. For now, I'm just saying meow, but I'm not gonna give her a name, you know? And so we went through to the laundry and she locked me in the laundry with the cat, who was traumatised, uh, clearly feeling unwanted, um, in distress at having dogs nearby, didn't know what was going on. And there was no, there was no plan for her as such.

• 51:26Speaker 01

  Um, but she did say she would like, um, she would like a name that would help her feel like she belonged.

• 51:35Speaker 01

  So I said, well, do you have, have any ideas what name you'd like? Knowing full well that animals often don't identify with names, but she'd asked for one. I said, "Well, any idea what names you like?" She said, "Yes, I'd like to be called Minkey or Leah." So I wrote those down and shrugged and went back and gave feedback to her vet person who almost fainted. Because apparently this vet's best friend from childhood's name was Minkey and she had a daughter named Leah. So somehow this cat had known that those were the people that mattered the most to the vet and she was asking for the same name because she wanted to be that close to her. So my vet friend, she became a friend. She dropped her skepticism and became a friend. She kept the cat.

• 52:20Speaker 01

  And from time to time, she'd refer very difficult cases to me and she would tell their people, "Look, I'm going to call in an animal communicator. I'm just letting you know. I don't say I believe in how it works. I don't know how it works. I don't want to know, but it works." And so I really laud her courage for following the proof and following the heart of the matter, even though her mind could maybe really resolve how it works.

• 52:43Ky Dickens?

  And then just a few more questions. One thing that when I've been talking to parents and spelling communication partners with the non-speakers and teachers, they'll say, "One of the biggest elements in the telepathic bond or communication is trust." Not just trusting them, that they're competent and they're in there. Often, I think so many non-speaking individuals deal with the same discrimination as animals do, right? People might not think you're in there and that you're cognizant of your surroundings. So trusting that they are in there, but also trusting yourself. And I'm just wondering if you would say the same, like how important is trust to this ability to connect telepathically or energetically with another being?

• 53:30Speaker 01

  Trust is super important in, you know, in both directions. Well, in the sense of for us to communicate effectively and get over the inner skeptic, we do need to trust ourselves and, you know, give ourselves a break. Just say we're trying our best, but to trust ourselves, to try our best and to trust that there is, you know, a sentience on the other side of it. And I must say, the animals have to trust us as well. They really do. They have to trust us in the moment, and that means our energetic integrity as well, and our emotional state if we are in the same environment as them and not, you know, working remotely. We need to be managing our energy state and just basically being clean energetically. If we have an ulterior motive, for example, that's not gonna work.

• 54:16Speaker 01

  Let's say someone's coming in to talk with, you know, have a communication connection with a non-speaking person or with an animal, because they're gonna record it and then be all like, "Look at me" on social media, the animal's gonna pick that up and not trust them and not open up. We need to be absolutely clean energetically. I've had a personal experience where I fell out of trust and the animal's behaviour changed immediately right in front of me. I had been working in the wilds of Botswana and I'd fallen feverish and very ill in a way that couldn't be understood and was dangerous. So I was waiting to be medically evacuated by a small bush plane that was going to be sent a couple of hours later. So I was sitting on a chair by the cold fire pit of the morning.

• 54:59Speaker 01

  Everyone else had gone off on their activities and just the camp cook and assistant were in the background. And a large bull elephant who was sauntering by, feeding, you know, a good sort of two hundred feet away, he saw me sitting there, picked up and hard ejected I was feeling, and sort of backtracked and came towards me. And elephants can display what's called displacement behaviour, where they'll pretend to be casually doing something ordinary, but they're just trying to get close to you to give you a slap or to push you out of what they might consider to be their territory or they might see you as a threat. I didn't feel like I could come across as a threat because I was so weak and so sick and just in awe of this elephant, you know. Nonetheless, who knows what trauma they had.

• 55:44Speaker 01

  They are refugees from neighbouring countries where they've been persecuted and hunted and just horrible crimes against them. So he was sort of slowly coming towards me, not too directly, feeding the trees along the way, and when he came close enough for it to be a possible concern, my training kicked in and I was like, "Well, you know, this could be displacement behaviour, so best I get up and move." So I got up, left the chair there and I moved back to stand behind a dead snag that was twice my height, which would have taken the elephant up to about his eye.

• 56:19Speaker 01

  And I just stood behind there, just to create a bit of a safe barrier, but still stay, you know, on the scene. And he gently came closer, a lot more gently than he had been browsing, just gently, just sort of leaning in a little and it felt to me like he was really concerned. I'd been sitting there crying at my distress at having to leave and that really felt this compassion and this care for me. And from the other side of this dead tree trunk, he slowly lifted his trunk to reach out towards me to have a bit of a sniff. And, and I, I caved in. My mind said, this could go south really quickly. If he's up to something else, or even just move suddenly,

• 56:59Speaker 01

  then it could be, um, you know, injurious or fatal to me, which I don't really mind, but that's going to get, you know, the staff into trouble and the operator will lose their license and, and, and, and this whole sort of house of cards, you know, this whole dominoes of consequences happened in my mind. And so I stepped even further back, just four paces, so that I was then under the shelter of my tent. He got so upset with me. For the first time, he got so upset with me, stared at me because I'd stepped back, I'd broken the connection. And I had rejected his care based on a fear-based thought process and I'd stepped away. And he huffed and he puffed, he didn't come any closer, but he tossed his head and kicked up dust and

• 57:42Speaker 01

  just so, just so upset, so upset at me not receiving what he'd been offering. Didn't mean he wanted to touch me, but I did not receive the energy he was offering. Ah, and he stalked off and I was even more cheesed off with myself, you know, but that was a strong lesson for me. Strong lesson. And where are the boundaries? You know, anything can change in a moment as well. He might have got frightened by a pot being dropped from the back of camp while he was close to me. So anything could have happened and I probably still made the right choice with my mind, but in my heart, I just feel sad that I didn't at least maybe just acknowledge what he was offering and explain why I was being a silly human and going to step back. At least then he might have understood.

• 58:28Ky Dickens?

  Yeah, yeah. Um, I guess to end with, you know, do you think that humanity is beginning to wake up to these more subtle ways of knowing? And if so, what signs are you seeing that point to that?

• 58:45Speaker 01

  More humans do seem to be becoming aware of these more subtle ways of knowing. And for that, we have a few things to thank. Like the more modern sciences that are investigating this. Like what you're doing and bringing forward everything to do with non-speaking people and the ways in which we have a more ordinary consensus realities. You know, humans have our standards around what is or isn't, you know, okay. And social media as well does help. And the ways in which even we relate to our pets. I think during those lockdown years also, people were at home more with their pets and maybe felt a bit more with them and appreciated what pets are in our lives.

• 59:30Speaker 01

  A lot of pets are really properly chronically depressed because people are not with them. People come home and they go straight on to, you know, watching a movie, a documentary, being on their devices. So it's like this hollow ghost, the human body is there, but their presence, their awareness is not with the animal. It's been waiting the whole day just for some of your time and attention. But with things like social media and the kinds of documentaries that, you know, win awards these days, there are lovely ways in which inspiration is accessible to people. And yes, the more, the more light is shed upon the more subtle ways of knowing, the better. And then there's no substitute for experience.

• 1:00:15Speaker 01

  I've come to feel that experience is the only teacher. And so I encourage anyone to just get out there and practise with it. Whether it's a cool, you know, sort of, you can, you can treat it as a guessing game even if it isn't. You know, the sort of telepathy test with yourself or your friends. And better yet, just a heartfelt connection with your own animal, just, just saying silently inside your own mind, what do you want to show me? And then trying to say as still and as calm on the inside as possible to sense and answer. Play with it yourselves if everyone just tries it out in the spirit of fun and playfulness, no pressure. That's when we start to rebuild this muscle that we were born with. It is in our human design. We just don't give it the time and attention that it deserves and that the world needs

• 1:00:59Speaker 01

  right now for reconnection and for walking a way forward together with the other species.

• 1:01:06Ky Dickens?

  Yeah, and so, so it sounds like you're saying we all can do this, but if someone really wanted to do what you do for a living, where would they start? I mean, is there anyone that can help teach this or guide someone to really hone these abilities?

• 1:01:21Speaker 01

  The workshops that I have run over the years are less about teaching and more about helping remember that folks can practice with this. And like I've alluded to, most of the work is actually getting out of our own way. And the only online course I do have available I did with a colleague is called For the Love of Animals. And it's six modules, self-paced. One module is the telepathic connection technique, but the other are all around the necessary work for clarity and precision and effectiveness, which is getting out of our own way, including our emotional responses and the meaning we make and so on. And for those who are considering becoming practitioners or who wanted to attend weekend workshops, I can highly recommend

• 1:02:03Speaker 01

  the website of Penelope Smith, who is regarded as the grandmother of interspecies communication. Her website is animaltalk.net. And she has there on her website a very large database of professional animal communicators who have subscribed to a code of ethics she devised in 1990. A very beautiful code of ethics that gives the sovereignty and the intelligence, you know, credit to the animals as well. So folks who are on her database have subscribed to that code of ethics. And there you could find a consultant and/or an animal communication teacher, you know, around the world. There's a lot of US resources there as well. And yeah,

• 1:02:45Speaker 01

  just again, I encourage people to play with this possibility. It just makes for such beautiful encounters with all the beings who share the space with us.

• 1:02:54Ky Dickens?

  Yeah. And then the final wrap-up question, you know, when you think about maybe the deepest truths you've uncovered by being silent and still and communicating by all the different, you know?

• 1:03:07Ky Dickens?

  Conscious beings and entities in this world, what are those truths, those singular truths?

• 1:03:14Speaker 01

  It seems to me that the non-humans have kind of got it nailed when it comes down to the enduring truths, not because they sit there and meditate in the Lotus position on a high concept, but because they are living lives of presence. I think presence with a capital P is what any animal is. They're fully where they are, inhabiting their bodies and available to the moment. Another great truth is actually truth, or shall we say authenticity. To be authentic is, it's not an issue for them. They're not lying and pretending or trying to figure out who they are. They're just authentic. And that comes with the ultimate

• 1:03:59Speaker 01

  judgment of where any being is on their path or on their development. There are actually no goals. There's just being. And can we be real? Can we be real to where and who we are now? So these qualities of authenticity and presence. Another truth that's often uncomfortable for people, that I have learned myself from the animals as well, is that your physical death is not an end to everything. It's not a big disaster. It's simply a transition in a state of being. This deep understanding of oneself as energy and the inherent recycling in that for all of us as we disperse in whatever bodily form and go back to the soil

• 1:04:43Speaker 01

  or evaporate. It's all just absolutely natural, natural, natural, natural.

• 1:04:50Ky Dickens?

  Wonderful. That was beautiful. And I'm so thankful for you, your presence on the earth, the reassurance you're giving to all these animals and insects and beings. And I'm just so glad that you are the ambassador for us humans who can be so sloppy and arrogant. So, thank you.

• 1:05:09Speaker 01

  Thank you. Thanks so much. It's been lovely to explore this with you.

• 1:05:13Ky Dickens?

  That's it for this episode of The Talk Tracks, but new episodes will now be released every other Sunday, so stay tuned as we work to unravel all the threads, even the veiled ones that knit together our reality. Please remember to stay kind, stay curious, and that being a true skeptic requires an open mind. Thank you to my amazing collaborators. Original music was created by Elizabeth P.W., original logo and cover art by Ben Kandora Design, the audio mix and finishing by Ben Campafrida, our amazing podcast coordinator Jill Pachaznik, my amazing assistant Catherine Ellis, and I'm Kai Dickens, your writer, creator, and host. Thank you again for joining us.