Do Cats Have ESP?

by Jeane Dixon

Mathematical Connections in Art,Music and Science The International annual conference Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science was created in 1998 and is conducted annually. It has provided a remarkable model of how seemingly unrelated and even antipodal disciplines, such as mathematics and art, can be crossed. During the conference, practicing mathematicians,scientists, artists, educators,musicians, writers, computer scientists,sculptures, dancers, weavers, and model builders have come together in a lively and highly charged atmosphere of mutual exchange and encouragement.A lasting record of each Bridges Conference is its Proceedings - a beautiful resource book of the papers and the visual presentations of the meeting which are now published by Tarquin.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Lilies Remain · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun, quick read!

[Eszter]

Yes, YES, they do!! And the cat horoscopes are spot on.

[Terri Hays]

I loved it . Had good Stories