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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 4, 2007: Communicating with Animals - Amelia Kinkade

Mar 4, 2007
2h 37m
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Art Bell welcomes animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horse's Mouth and The Language of Miracles, for a fascinating exploration of interspecies telepathy. Kinkade describes her first encounter with animal psychic Beatrice Lidecker, who accurately described details about her cat Rodney's life that no outsider could have known, including the view from his favorite perch and his interactions with a neighbor's dog.

Kinkade explains that animal communication is a learned skill rooted in neurophysiology, not a supernatural gift. Drawing on quantum holography concepts championed by Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, she describes how all living beings exist within one indivisible field of energy. By quieting the mind and entering a meditative state, a person can merge consciousness with an animal, perceiving the world through its senses and accessing its memories and emotions.

The first hour features open lines where callers share UFO sightings, including a massive plasma ring observed in 1978 and a vivid abduction-style dream. Art also reflects on his decision years ago at KDWN in Las Vegas to abandon political talk radio and embrace the paranormal, a pivotal moment that shaped everything that followed.

Key Moments

  1. Rodney the cat: Beatrice Lidecker's first reading: Kinkade describes how psychic Beatrice Lidecker met her cantankerous orange tabby Rodney and accurately described his favorite peach armchair, the bay window view, and the white terrier across the street he provoked into barking.

  2. Entering a dog's body and history: Kinkade recounts merging consciousness with a dog and experiencing its memories firsthand: skimming two feet off the ground, smelling a pine cone, seeing a black lab love through chain link, and hearing 'mother took me away in the divorce.'

  3. Edgar Mitchell, quantum holography, and the zero-point field: Kinkade explains that Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell mentored her latest book and told her animal telepathy is enabled by quantum holography and navigation through the zero-point energy field, which Mitchell calls 'our new name for God.'

  4. Joseph the cheetah: squash, baby bottles, and the lost mate: At a South African sanctuary on national news, Kinkade asks cheetah Joseph what's wrong and gets a lost mate named Charlie, two cubs sent up north for breeding, plus odd verifiable details: he loves squash and baby bottles tied to a carousel.

  5. Cats see spirits: the golden retriever at the stairs: Kinkade tells of an old cat that screamed up an empty staircase every night. The cat showed her the spirit of the family's deceased golden retriever, who the women had asked in prayer to come collect the cat when her time came. She died soon after.