If We Could Talk to the Animals
The Language of Energy
What is the communication style you use with your dog? Do you
implore him to come to you, while he refuses, continuing to run down the street
after a neighborhood squirrel? When your dog steals your favorite slipper, do
you talk baby talk to him to try to get it back? Do you scream at the top of
your lungs for your dog to get off the furniture, while he just sits there,
staring at you as if you’re crazy? If any of these sounds like you, I know
you’re aware that the techniques you’re using aren’t working. You understand
that you can’t “reason” with a dog, but you simply don’t know any other way to
communicate with him. I’m here to tell you that there’s a much better way.
Remember the story of Dr. Dolittle, the man who was able to
speak and understand the language of any animal he happened to meet? From the
Hugh Lofting books to the 1928 silent film, to the thirties radio series, to the
1967 movie musical and seventies cartoons, to the blockbuster Eddie Murphy
comedies, this wonderful tale and its main character have appealed to children
and adults generation after generation. Just think of the countless worlds that
would be unlocked if we saw things as animals see them. Imagine looking down at
the earth through the eyes of a soaring bird, moving through life in three
dimensions like a whale, or “seeing” the world through sound waves, the way bats
do. Who hasn’t dreamed of such thrilling possibilities?
The attraction of the Dr. Dolittle story is that it brings
animals to life, in big-screen living color.
What would you say if I told you that Doctor Dolittle’s secret
was more than just creative fiction?
Perhaps you’re imagining this secret from a human perspective.
You’re wondering if I’m telling you that there’s a verbal way to talk to your dog, perhaps with the use of a
phrase book that translates your language into his. What would his language look
like, sound like, you wonder? Would it include the words sit,
stay, come, and heel? Would you have to shout the
translations, or could you whisper them? Would you have to learn how to whimper
and bark?
Sniff your pet’s behind? And how would your dog answer you
back? How would you translate what he was saying? As you can see, creating a
dog-to-human phrase book—the way, say, an English-to-Spanish phrase book is
created—would be a very complicated effort indeed.
Wouldn’t it be simpler if there was a universal language that every
species could understand?
“Impossible,” you say. “Even human beings don’t all speak the
same language!” True, but that hasn’t kept people from trying to find a common language for centuries. In the
ancient world, all the higher-class, educated people learned Greek. That way,
they could all read and understand the most important documents. In the
Christian era, anybody who was anybody knew how to read and write Latin. Today,
English is at the top of the language food chain. I learned this the hard way
when I first arrived in America fourteen years ago. Believe me, if you’re not
born speaking it, English is a monster of a language to learn from scratch—yet
everyone from the Chinese to the Russians now accept it as the international
language of business. Humans have sought other ways to breach the language
barrier. No matter what language you speak, if you’re blind, you can use
Braille. If you’re deaf, you can understand any other deaf person using
International Sign Language. Mathematics and computer languages cross many
linguistic borders and allow humans of different tongues to converse easily with
one another, thanks to the power of technology.
If humans can succeed in designing these collective languages,
can’t we create a way to converse with the other species on the planet? Isn’t
there a language we can learn that means the same thing to every creature?
Good news! I’m happy to report that the universal language of
Doctor Dolittle already exists.
And humans didn’t invent it. It’s a language all animals speak
without even knowing it, including the human animal. What’s more, all animals
are actually born knowing this language instinctually.
Even human beings are born fluent in this universal tongue, but we tend to
forget it because we are trained from childhood to believe that words are the only way to communicate.
The irony is, even though we don’t think we know the language
anymore, we are actually speaking it all the time. Unknowingly, we are
broadcasting in this tongue 24-7! Other species of animals can still understand
us, even though we may not have a clue how to understand
them.
They read us loud and clear, even when we’re unaware that
we’re communicating!
This truly universal, interspecies language is called energy.
So You’re Saying Your Mother Was A Bitch.”