Can your pet read your mind?

Here is a simple way to test your pet for telepathic powers. This test is virtually identical to tests used by Rhine and his colleagues when they were looking for people with telepathic powers.

• First, shuffle your deck of Pet ESP Cards.
• Next, pick any card from the deck. Stare at it intently, so that the mental image may be broadcasted to your pet. Dangle a tasselled card in front of your pet, making certain that she can see the symbol on the card. This is very important: if your pet cannot see the symbol, it is not a fair test of her telepathic power.
• Dangle different cards (ideally, tasselled cards) in front of your pet until she bats or sniffs at one of them.
• Look at the tasselled card that she indicated. If it was the card that you picked out of the deck, give your pet a reward, and score that as one correct answer.

If she gets a score of more than five correct out of twenty five, congratulations! Your pet is showing evidence of telepathy!

It’s tremendously important to give your pet a reward — a tasty treat or a cuddle — after each correct answer. Not only will this keep your pet interested in the test, but it will reinforce her use of psychic powers.

Brad and Sherry Hansen Steiger report that visualization of the glowing streams of energy from you to your pet can help in the process of developing human/pet mind reading powers. These streams are supposed to represent the transport of psychic energies. We know of no experiments to verify their claim; as discussed in the Parapsychology Science section of this booklet, there’s no reason to believe that psychic powers are glowing streams of anything, any more than our senses of sight or sound are.

Can you read your pet’s mind?

It is very simple to find out.

Allow your pet to choose one of the (ideally, tasselled) cards. Make certain you don’t look at the card! You want your pet to know what her choice was, but now it’s up to you to guess. After you guess, look at the card your pet chose.

If you guess correctly, you score one point. If, after twenty-five guesses, you have more than five points, there is reason to believe that you are reading your pet’s mind.

What if these tests fail? It might mean that either you or your animal companion are incapable of psychic powers. It might mean that you have the abilities, but that the psychic link between you is not strong. Such cases are described in the earlier chapter on telepathic communication between animals. It also might mean that one or both of you were confused by other psychic signals. Were there other people or animals in the area? Wait until they leave and repeat the experiment.

Remember that you and your companions can train your psychic abilities. If at first you don’t succeed, (use positive reinforcement and) try, try again.

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