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Do Cats Have Esp?
The last work completed by America's legendary psychic, Jeane Dixon, before her death, "Do Cats Have ESP?" explores stories of amazing felines with mystical power. This fascinating book features investigations, cat horoscopes, and incredible accounts of cats who saved people's lives.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1998
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July 5, 2018
This is a real book.
A lot of it is stories about cats performing feats of astonishing sensory - not extrasensory - perception. None of the stories have citations - I get the feeling they come from extensive visits to a card catalog back in the day.
Then there is the bit on actual studies of Cat ESP. There's a lot of effort here to validate this work as "science." The Rhine Center, the actually not fictional parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, conducted in the late 20th century, a series of mean cat experiments. The most notable here are driving them around in cars to try to get them disoriented, then abandoning them and seeing if they can make their way home. How is this science? Of course any cat can out-MacGyver any grad student stupid enough to perpetuate animal cruelty because their adviser said so. The cats that didn't go back home after that probably weren't bad at "ESP" - more likely they just didn't want to tolerate more stupid humans anymore and took the feral route instead.
I hope that whatever MK-ULTRA might have done to cats, those days are done. We're just lucky the cats like our species as much as they do :)
The last part of this book is some pretty accurate cat horoscopes. My Aries cats are totally as described. Also, turns out that the Scorpio cat horoscope captures my personality better than the human Scorpio descriptions. Very curious. Hypothesis A: I'm possessed by my cats.
A lot of it is stories about cats performing feats of astonishing sensory - not extrasensory - perception. None of the stories have citations - I get the feeling they come from extensive visits to a card catalog back in the day.
Then there is the bit on actual studies of Cat ESP. There's a lot of effort here to validate this work as "science." The Rhine Center, the actually not fictional parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, conducted in the late 20th century, a series of mean cat experiments. The most notable here are driving them around in cars to try to get them disoriented, then abandoning them and seeing if they can make their way home. How is this science? Of course any cat can out-MacGyver any grad student stupid enough to perpetuate animal cruelty because their adviser said so. The cats that didn't go back home after that probably weren't bad at "ESP" - more likely they just didn't want to tolerate more stupid humans anymore and took the feral route instead.
I hope that whatever MK-ULTRA might have done to cats, those days are done. We're just lucky the cats like our species as much as they do :)
The last part of this book is some pretty accurate cat horoscopes. My Aries cats are totally as described. Also, turns out that the Scorpio cat horoscope captures my personality better than the human Scorpio descriptions. Very curious. Hypothesis A: I'm possessed by my cats.
July 13, 2025
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January 5, 2015Yes, YES, they do!! And the cat horoscopes are spot on.
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January 26, 2016I loved it . Had good Stories
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