Today was my appointment with Asia Voight, the animal communicator. Before the appointment, I was skeptical, and after the appointment, Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m still skeptical, but my experience was interesting and has certainly left me wondering, and perhaps my doubts shifted part way from the communicator to my own skepticism. I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t have any doubts that some people have unusual abilities to communicate with animals -- sense what theyâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]re feeling, understand what they want. And it stands to reason that animals would also be able to understand the communications of such a person as well. So as far as someone being able to “talk with†animals, I can buy that.
But Asia does her work over the telephone. A client sends her pictures of the animals they want to communicate with. As I understand it, Asia studies the pictures of the animals and then “calls†their spirit in a kind of telepathy (I guess) and when that animal responds to her calling, she can communicate. She does so in a kind of simple way, mostly by way of mental pictures; the words are for the benefit of the human client.
While I canâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t understand how she can communicate with an animal a hundred miles away with only a picture, and never having ever met that animal, there were things that were said that Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m at a loss to explain. I purposely didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t give her any information about either the cats or myself, either in my emails or over the telephone. Yet, she had my cats telling me things that only they would know, because that information isnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t out there for Asia herself to discover and put in the mouths of my cats.
For example, when she started, Twinkie was the first cat to come forward and the first thing he said was that we didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t have many visitors here and he wondered why because he wanted to have some visitors. Now, Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m a notable loner, with no close friends and my family living out-of-state, so I seldom have people over, even counting the occasional HVAC service techs or whatever. And thereâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s no way she could have known that from any information that I gave her, or any information that she could have come up with a casual research on the internet.
Another thing is that the way the cats talked, and what they talked about, pinpointed their personalities to a tee. How could she know what my cats are like? I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t even have them figured out and Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ve lived with them for several years. So I have two working hypotheses: the first is that she is who she claims to be and does what she claims to do, which certainly raises some intriguing questions about how we view animals. The second is that sheâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s a very, very clever, talented, experienced and perceptive fraud who is very good at sensing what things the client will find believable. After having done this for ten years I suppose you learn people fit certain patterns whereby it doesnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t take much information to figure out what to say. Frankly, I think the second hypothesis is as much of a stretch as the first.
The interesting thing is that through the conversation with the cats, she got in some very, very good feline behavioral advice, and I think that even if the client doesnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t believe she talked to his animals, he still comes away with something positive from the experience, something that will be useful for the animals if the advice is carried through.
As far as what I wanted to communicate to Twinkie and Rocket, well, time will tell whether or not they heard me, through Asia. And in the meantime, Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ll try to honor my catsâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] requests: Rocket wants a tree in the house (I hope heâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ll settle for a new cat tree) and Twinkie wants to go outside more often. It was good to find they both want to keep living here, and now letâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s see if they understand what they need to do, or not to do, so they can do that.
But Asia does her work over the telephone. A client sends her pictures of the animals they want to communicate with. As I understand it, Asia studies the pictures of the animals and then “calls†their spirit in a kind of telepathy (I guess) and when that animal responds to her calling, she can communicate. She does so in a kind of simple way, mostly by way of mental pictures; the words are for the benefit of the human client.
While I canâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t understand how she can communicate with an animal a hundred miles away with only a picture, and never having ever met that animal, there were things that were said that Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m at a loss to explain. I purposely didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t give her any information about either the cats or myself, either in my emails or over the telephone. Yet, she had my cats telling me things that only they would know, because that information isnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t out there for Asia herself to discover and put in the mouths of my cats.
For example, when she started, Twinkie was the first cat to come forward and the first thing he said was that we didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t have many visitors here and he wondered why because he wanted to have some visitors. Now, Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m a notable loner, with no close friends and my family living out-of-state, so I seldom have people over, even counting the occasional HVAC service techs or whatever. And thereâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s no way she could have known that from any information that I gave her, or any information that she could have come up with a casual research on the internet.
Another thing is that the way the cats talked, and what they talked about, pinpointed their personalities to a tee. How could she know what my cats are like? I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t even have them figured out and Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ve lived with them for several years. So I have two working hypotheses: the first is that she is who she claims to be and does what she claims to do, which certainly raises some intriguing questions about how we view animals. The second is that sheâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s a very, very clever, talented, experienced and perceptive fraud who is very good at sensing what things the client will find believable. After having done this for ten years I suppose you learn people fit certain patterns whereby it doesnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t take much information to figure out what to say. Frankly, I think the second hypothesis is as much of a stretch as the first.
The interesting thing is that through the conversation with the cats, she got in some very, very good feline behavioral advice, and I think that even if the client doesnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t believe she talked to his animals, he still comes away with something positive from the experience, something that will be useful for the animals if the advice is carried through.
As far as what I wanted to communicate to Twinkie and Rocket, well, time will tell whether or not they heard me, through Asia. And in the meantime, Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ll try to honor my catsâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] requests: Rocket wants a tree in the house (I hope heâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ll settle for a new cat tree) and Twinkie wants to go outside more often. It was good to find they both want to keep living here, and now letâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s see if they understand what they need to do, or not to do, so they can do that.