As long as humans have roamed the earth, we’ve harnessed an innate ability to connect with animals, whether for survival in the wild or companionship at home.
Although I’ve spent years perfecting this ability and helping others unlock theirs, intuitive interspecies communication hasn’t always been taken seriously by the academic world. But now, research finally confirms what animal lovers have always known: there’s a scientific explanation for interspecies communication.
Whether you’re an animal communication expert or are brand-new to the practice, I’m excited to share these findings with you. Keep reading for a closer look at the science and history behind the ability, how it works, and why it matters now more than ever.
The Fascinating Science of Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC)
What is Intuitive Interspecies Communication?
Often referred to as IIC, intuitive interspecies communication is a non-verbal, non-physical exchange of feelings, emotions, thoughts, and mental impressions between humans and non-human animals.
IIC can be as straightforward as eye contact between you and your cat, but it also includes emotional communication across great distances. For example, IIC can include an exchange with a wild animal on the other side of the world during a focused communication session.
To embrace IIC, you must let go of human-centric definitions of communication. The practice isn’t about commanding a dog to sit – it’s about tapping into the universal language of the natural world to understand animals as they wish to be heard.
The (Surprisingly Long) History of Intuitive Animal Communication
IIC dates back as far as human culture itself. Many Indigenous cultures integrated IIC into their entire worldview, with spiritual practices that treated them as active participants with valuable perspectives.
The activism of Vine Deloria Jr, a Standing Rock Sioux (Lakota?) philosopher, indigenous scholar, writer, and activist, highlights this ancient connection. His work in the 20th century often reflected Indigenous perspectives on interspecies relations, spirituality, and the natural world.
What Science Reveals About Intuitive Interspecies Communication
Although IIC is guided by intuition, meditation, breathing, and spirituality, the practice can also be explained scientifically.
The Science of Empathy
Humans are able to simulate and understand others’ intentions, actions, and emotions, thanks to mirror neurons. These specialised brain cells fire when we perform an action and when we observe someone else performing that action.
Turns out, animals have similar mirror neuron systems, too! In other words, there’s a biological basis for empathy and shared emotional experiences across species.
Biofield Science
Biofields, such as the electromagnetic field produced by the heart and brain, can synchronise with those of other people or animals. Research suggests that when humans and animals synchronise their biofields, this connection could create an energetic communication where humans feel or sense an animal’s state. Think of this as the nonverbal exchange of energetic information!
Heart-Brain Coherence
Heart-brain coherence is a state we humans can reach where our heart and brain’s rhythms align, making us better at interpreting nonverbal signals. IIC practitioners can enter this state during a session, improving the likelihood of receiving or intuiting information the animal might be communicating.
Quantum nonlocality
Ready for a true brain teaser? Quantum theory, particularly the concept of nonlocality, may offer an explanation for long-distance IIC!
The theory proposes that particles can become “entangled” from long distances. And, once entangled, they can influence each other and share information without direct contact.
Though we can’t prove it yet, this idea would explain why humans can intuitively pick up on information from other species through interconnected consciousness. Just like entangled particles!
How Intuitive Interspecies Communication Supports Both Human and Animal Welfare
Even if you’re sceptical about the science, many people agree that socially constructed differences between animals and humans have separated us from the natural world. As a result, human exceptionalism has amplified injustices against animals while dampening our ability to respond to crises such as climate change and habitat destruction.
These reasons and more have brought IIC into the spotlight! From anthropologists to veterinarians to environmentalists, better relationships with animals are leading to better research outcomes.
Are you ready to help make the world a better place? Intuitive interspecies communication can be your contribution to a happier future for all.
Intuitive Interspecies Communication Research – University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan is running a research project directed by M.J. Barrett (PhD ) studying Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC). Partially funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, this project examines ways in which IIC can help bridge the human-nature divide, and furthermore support more respectful interactions with domestic and wild animals.
The researchers working definition of Intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) is as follows:
“IIC presents as a detailed, non-verbal and non-physical form of communication between humans and other animals. Drawing on a diversity of intuitive capacities, IIC includes the mutual exchange of visceral feelings, emotions, mental impressions and thoughts, embodied sensations of touch, smell, taste, sound, as well as visuals in the mind’s eye. While these exchanges can occur while in direct physical proximity to the animal, they can also occur over great distances and without the need for visual, auditory, olfactory, voice or other cues that humans normally associate with direct interactive communication.”
Watch this 9-minute video to gain some background into the project:
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