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VOL. 27 No.2
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JULY 1999
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. The View From Here
PAM O'CONNELL
" .. . Ifyou could read my mind, love, what a
tale my heart could tell ... "
Gordon Lightfoot, from Paperback Novel
What would it mean to you to know the
mind of your horse? What secrets would be
shared, what new depths of knowledge and
wisdom would be added to you, and how
close would this help you to draw to your
equine companion?
What if you COULD read his mind, what
would your horse want you to know? Is it
possible, with our human understanding, to
achieve this "miracle" that humans have long
dreamed of?
Animal communicator, Asia Voight, would
answer all those questions cheerfully, posi-
tively, confidently. Yes, we can "talk" to our
horses.Yes, they will share their secrets. Yes,
we can achieve a genuine breakthrough in
cross-species communication.
The skeptic in me had to try it. On June 3,
barely off the plane from a photographic jour-
ney to Texas, and with high hopes, I arranged
to meet with Asia at Twilight Farms, where
my Quarter Horse, Ima Silent Teddy, is
boarded, to have a talk with the animal.
. A little background on Asia Voight. As a
child, Asia assumed t hat eyeryone had the
ability to communicate telepat hically with an-
imals.
Animals talked to Asia, and she talked to
them as naturally as the res(of us learned to .
ride bikes and skip rope. It was amazing to
her to learn that this was a special skill.
But gradually, as all unused talents do, the
skill dried up and disappeared. Asia went on
to teenage interests. It was not until she suf-
fered a horrific automobile accident, and sur-
vived a near-death experience, in 1987, that
the animal communication skills resurfaced.
Like many of us who have dipped a toe
into the Dark Pool, Asia come back from the
experience fundamentally, deeply changed.
Spiritual vision reawakened in Asi a, and
one day, out of the proverbial blue, her dog,
Makeba, clearly asked Asia for a refill of the
water bowl. It was a.s .. simpJe and yet, as com-
plex, as that. -
Human-to-human communication, as we
know, is complex. We say things we do not
mean, we mean things we do notsay, and we
further mask our true feelings in layer upon
layer of disguise and subterfuge. An example,
taken from the book of a well-known and un-
mentionable politician, would be this dis-
course from a press conference
Reporter: Will you say what we expect you
to tell us?
PolitiCian: No, not exactly in the manner in
which you expect, but I will tell you some-
thing. The nature of this "something" I am .
not, at this time, prepared to divulge.
Reporter: Since you won't be telling us ex-
actlywhafwe want you to say, will you tell
us the same thing but in a slightly different
way?
Politician: If you mean this to be in a way
that would have the same meaning as the way
you would want me to say it, I would have to
say no, not at this time. If there should occur a
future situation where I would be able to say
part of what you want me to say, then yes,
perhaps at that time, I may be able to say
what you want me to say.
Reporter: Might one of us be able to trick
you into telling us something?
Politician: Only if I am momentarily slow-
witted or if I am not being careful with my
words. Then, yes, at thar time, I could possi-
bly answer you(question,
And so it goes. Yes, we humans do have
the gift of verbal language, but one wonders if
we have retained, or sadly, lost the art of
communication. But what about horses? Back
to our story!
. Delighted as she was to regain her 'gift of
human-animal speech, Asia_spent the next 11
years quietly, yet determined honing her
skills.
She worked with dogs, cats, frogs, turtles,
any species would "work" with her, but some
were more expressive than others. Mice, she
told me, were simply too silly, too continu-
ously distracted, for meaningful discourse.
As is often the case, when the pupil is
reads, the teacher will appear. Asia learned of
the work of Penelope Smith, whose .ground-
breaking first book, "Animal Talk" (ISBN 0-
93 6552-03-4) opened the door of animal per-
cep.tion to many people.
She attended one of Penelope's workshop!
classes, where her skills were tested at the ba-
sic level.
Encouraged to continue, she traveled to
New York, where she attended two more ad-
vanced classes. According to Asia, there were
11 people in the second class, and of the
group, orily three were encouraged to pursue
their telepathic abilities professionally. Asia
was one of those selected.
So, what did Teddy tell us? To begin with,
after preliminary how-are-yous were out of
the way, Teddy was brought out of his pad-
dock and taken to one of his favorite grazing
areas where he could relax. He had a longe
line on, but I soon dropped it in favor of let-
ting him freely graze. We had done this many
times before, and there was little risk of a
loose horse.
Asia and 1 sat on a hay wagon and talked
quietly about what we were hoping to accom-
plish in our session. Eventually. she sought to
establish communication with Teddy.
From my viewpoint, she merely relaxed,
breathed deeply, and said, aloud, something
like, "OK; Teddy, if you like, let's just talk for
a while." She smiled and said, "Oh yes, Ted- .
dy does want to talk. Do you have any ques-
tions you would like 'to ask nim?"
My first questions were softballs, gently
lobbed. Was he happy? Oh Yes. He was hap-
py. (I knew that!) Was he bored. Yes. He
would like to have more to do. He would like
to get out of the grassless paddock and into a
nice, deep hayfield, ,where he could run and
snort and buck and eat. (I knew that, too!)
So 1 delved deeper. Asls: him what his
childhood was like. Asia closed her eyes,
breathed, and asked, "Teddy, what was your
growing-up like? What do you remember?"
"Oh my," she smiled. "He's giving me this
picture. 1 see him as a - what do you call a
baby horse - oh yes, a foal , all legs, you
know, and he is with his mother and there is
lots of mud where they are. Lots of mud. And
he is being silly and he wants to play and run
and whoops! He falls and slides in the mud.
And now his mother is telling him 'look, see
what you've done. I have told you many
times, do not run in mud!' "
1 was a little taken aback by this one. Ted-
dy is known as the Horse Police in his Pild-
dock. If any of his paddock-mates decide to
get a little too silly with their late afternoon
play, Teddy will pin his ears and separate the
naughty boys, putting each in a corner. His
mama didn't raise no fool!
1 upped the ante. Ask him to describe, ifhe
can, an "incident" that occurred, not this past
February, but the February before, when I
went away for a while and then came back .
again. Vague enough, I sIl).ugly thought. -
Asia asked the question. Suddenly her face
clouded over. She bent her body forward, her
arms crossed over her chest. She tpld me that
she was having trouble understanding this,
but Teddy was telling her. I came back as a
"Ghost" and that he could almost see through
me.
He wanted to love me and play like we did,
but he was afraid to hurt me. There was pain.
There was a kind of hap-
pening. She could not describe it fJllly in
words. But there was a strong event.
Now I was genuinely stunned. First of all, I
threw a by using the word "Feb-
ruary" to begin with - how could a horse un-
derstand'this word at all?
But the "event" that was so touchingly de-
scribed from Teddy's point of view was the
very real fact that I had left to have major li fe-
threatening surgery at that time, and when I
returned to the bam, some nearly three weeks
hence, I was indeed "ghostlike" and frail and
had that see-through quality of the gravely ill.
At the time, from my perception, Teddy
took a too-keen interest in my abdomen, and
kept trying, determinedly, to touch the area of
my surgical scar with his nose. In fact, it got
so bad, and so strong was his desire to inspect
the damages, that 1 had to ask Sue to put him
back in his stall.
Clearly, Teddy was aware that something
serious had happened. At the time, I had been
so struck by his response to my return that I
had mentioned it to my surgeon. I also men-
tioned it on the Internet and did get a response
from another horseman who reported a simi-
lar experience. .
My next q!lery was equally weighted.
WISCONSIN HORSEMEN'S NEWS, PAGE 30
Wouid Asia please ask T ~ d d y to explain an
incident that occurred with his trainer, Dan
Grunewald, some months previously, involv-
ing a "silly thing."
Again, Asia relaxed into her state and
asked the question aloud. "Oh! He's answer-
ing again before I finish asking! He is so
quick. He wants you t() know that he was only
being silly, that he was playing, having fun,
not meaning to hurt anyone. He was just a bit
carried away and playful, and meant no harm
at all.
Now he's showing me a picture of himself
like this (Asia bent her arms down in a bull-
dog position, an inverted U) and he's dodging
back and forth.
Indeed, what happened was amazing. Dan
had come out to the barn to do some John
Lyons round-pen work with several horses.
When it came to be Teddy's turn, Teddy
stopped being Quiet Horse and went directly
to Cow Horse.
Instead of trotting down the line and stop-
ping on cue to face Dan, Teddy took off at a
gallop and blew right past Dan.
When Dan stepped in front, Teddy
wheeled, feigned left and right, and blew past
him again .. With his eyes locked onto Dan's,
TeddY' dodged back and forth, rolled back,
galloping, throwing sand in a spray.
We were simply nonplused. Teddy had
never done anything like this before in his
life, and here he was throwing in a high, mis-
sed-by-a-mile kick out at Dan just for good
measure.
For a minute, I was concerned that if Dan
took a false step he would end up with Quar-
ter Horse hoofprints on his jacket, but the
whole thing had an air of playfulness in spite
of all the ruckus.
Eventually, Teddy tired of the game and
went back to Quiet Horse, but we had all seen
a side of him we had never seen before.
There was no way Asia could have known
of this event, but Teddy had nailed it for her,
Deep in concentration, asks
dy to tell us about his growing up.
(Photos by Pam O'Connell)
right on the money.
In general, I learned from his own mind
that Teddy is a horse who enjoys being
something of a clown. He likes making peo-
ple laugh and he likes games. Asia asked if he
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than,ks t9! that Teddy wants
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what tn:gathenng nature
tT?e, On meet-
virtually
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full flehmen' posture, at that
a laugh: '
: ShementHmed hls' snortmg habit" which
was' one cjf the first things 1
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jDotely intereSting, " , :_ , '
: ' So in' essence; It . worthwhile? Most
dflniteJ)', Do 1 "beIjeve" in .this; ability to
communicate with animals?
\VeU;.fWANT to believe, 8Jld 1 THINK 1 be-
Ue:v,e, an-&IJ:!ave absolutely no other explana-
tion fDr the .things 1 did hear and observe. Yet
my 'cnHcal mind still holds . out some tiny
comer of reserve.
1 would like to know how it works, what
the "mechanism" for transmittal of informa-
tion between animal species might !>e, know-
ing that these missing pieces of information
would teU my skeptical self that it is "OK" to
believe this.
"1 have heard testimony of many others in
the barn that their readings, too, were very ac-
curate and did coincide with information that
Asia could not have possibly guessed at.
One man, asking hi's horse why he spooked
and what he could do to help the horse to stop
spooking, was archly told by the horse that
perhaps, ahem, HE could learn to be a better
rider and thus not worry so much about it!
' Another was told that her Thoroughbred
mare would like to go 'onto higher levels of
... vUlvc .... VIl i:UIU leu lUill l1el UllUeli1l:11H;;VlUg
(in her vieW) owner should do a little better to
manage her career. . ',' , .
. ' One reading . was riot happy. One owner
was told by her horse, who has suffered from
a mysterious illness. that the vets have so far
failed to ciiagnose, that the horse would like to
have,his life's journey ended, that he is dis-
couraged and would. like' to have this over
with. And that seems' odd to me. Standing
there, last evening, -with this horse in the
cross-ties, being gently groomed and lovingly
tended by his owner, he was both shiny of
coat and bright of eye. But what a sad secret
he told us! . '
If you would seek answers from your
horse, 1 would suggest-you try this path!
Broken , Wheel
Riding Club
GLENDA KNORR
Memorial Day weekend was just great.
We don't seem to get as many members at
that ride as we do at the fall one, but the ones
who are. there really try to make up for it.
Sheri Novotny and Diane Hietpas were good
enough to set it up again this year.
1 counted 14 rigs, but forgot to count horses
and people, some of whom you can't forget
anyway! We rode once on Friday evening,
twice on Saturday, twice on Sunday, but
Monday it started to rain before we finished
our "anything-you-have-Ieft - bring" break-
fast.
Some of us were smart enough to pack up ,