By Karen Stuth with Sue Hopple
Have you ever wondered what your animal companions are thinking? What messages are they trying to send you when they just sit and stare at you? Can they actually read your own thoughts and send telepathic communication to you as well? These are just a few of the questions that gifted animal communicator and intuitive Sue Hopple can answer for you.
Born in southern California, Hopple has been able to understand and communicate with animals from a very early age. She recalls talking with the family cat at age four, and assumed that everyone else could also hear and talk with animals. At age 12, Sue would often ask the horses from the neighboring property to come to the fence, where she would accept their invitation to climb bareback upon them and go for a ride. At age 15 she often participated in horse shows up and down the California coast, where, because of her animal communication skills, she could enlist the partnership of her horses to help her win shows, even when competing against horses with superior blood lines. Recognizing her special abilities, Sue’s mother gave her a book by J. Allen Boone, Kinship With All Life, which became one of her earliest sources of information about the art of animal communication.
“As a young mother, a canine companion named Goober became my protector and constant companion, even helping to watch over my young son, J.J.,” recalls Hopple. “But when my beloved dog Betsy became lost, falling unseen into an underground and abandoned sewer line, I realized, through my experience of locating and rescuing Betsy, that I had found my path as an animal communicator.”
She eventually undertook formal training in animal communication with renowned author and animal communicator Penelope Smith, and eventually became certified to teach coursework in animal communication based on Smith’s book, Animal Talk.
“Although people who live alongside animal companions such as dogs, cats, birds, ferrets and other animal species can ‘read’ the physical signs that they give, these physical signs are only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of what they are really trying to get across,” noted Hopple.
“Animals communicate with other animals and with humans by thought exchange; in other words, they communicate telepathically. Telepathy is derived from the Greek terms tele (“distant”) and pathe (“occurrence” or “feeling”). This form of communication has been going on for as long as animals and humans have been here on Earth. It is a form of your own intuition, which as children we relied on almost all the time until we learned language, went to school and were asked, as a part of our ‘educational process,’ to understand and evaluate everything we believe and do by physical evidence. Animals, on the other hand, are always in a natural state of ‘staying in tune,’ as it is what they also rely on for survival.”
Hopple has often observed in the courses she teaches about animal communication that people often get blocked by the concept of animals being able to talk with us, because they assume that all avenues of communication must come from the mouth and be delivered through the use of words. In fact, she often tells her students that the meaning of the word talk is just that, to say words, to speak with language. But that’s not what the animals do; instead, they communicate. “To communicate means to ‘transmit an exchange of information,’ and that gets done by connecting with the recipient of the communication. Animals connect with others by trying to join with them or to link up with them telepathically, not by exchanging ideas through words,” Hopple said.
In teaching animal communication to others, Hopple must help each of her students to become open and receptive, setting aside or quieting the mind that wants to judge, evaluate, categorize or stick a label on everything it encounters. She observed, “You must create space where all the activity was occurring, moving instead into your heart space, and creating an emptiness to allow in the telepathic information your animal companion is sending you. It is like emptying your voice mailbox so that you can receive new voice mail. Your animals’ messages can’t get through to you if you don’t have room for these thoughts to get in. For the animal, they would only receive a “try back later” message.”
“The thoughts that we all have come in different forms. Most humans are consumed with everything in their world and are accordingly having thousands of thoughts and opinions about everything. Animals, in comparison, live in the moment. What you might find in their head are only the facts about what they are doing in that moment or what they may need. As you receive the information, you might actually feel, see or visualize what you are receiving, or you might hear their thoughts in your mind. Although this is a non-verbal way of communicating, you can still verbalize your question to your animal companion and it will be received by them.”
Hopple teaches that telepathic communication is analogous to a two-way radio — there can only be one sender and one receiver at a time. When someone needs to speak to the person on the other radio, the recipient must lift up on their button in order to receive, while the sender is pressing down on their button in order to transmit. You can’t both be holding down on the communication button at the same time or the information being sent will go out into the cyberspace, not hitting its intended mark.
Hopple believes everyone should learn to communicate with the animal kingdom as a way to enhance their lives, the lives of their animal companions and their connection to the world around them. “Over the years so many miracles have occurred by receiving information telepathically. I have located my own lost animals as well as others, and prevented accidents that might have occurred if I had not been listening,” Hopple recalled. “In one instance, I was away from home, having lunch with a friend, when I suddenly felt an alarming sense that I had to get home right away. I had planned on running errands after lunch, but headed home instead because I kept getting a frantic ‘call’ from several of my dogs.
“As I pulled into the driveway, there was one of my Huskies, Bonnie, with her right foot stuck in between two limbs of a tree. This was leaving her somewhat suspended off the ground. Her brother, Bear, was frantically trying to help her by clawing at the tree and circling her. I immediately got out of the car and was able to lift her body up so that it released her foot and leg. Bonnie collapsed on the ground from exhaustion. I thought she was going to have a heart attack from this event. I took her immediately to the vet, who told me it was a good thing she had not spent more time caught like that in the tree, as the blood had been stopped up and she already had lost a lot of tissue around her leg.”
Hopple is quick to point out that anyone can learn to communicate telepathically with animals, given time, training, practice, patience and a personal belief in their ability to do so. The key to learning this new telepathic language is by practicing and being patient. “Your animals will be so happy that you are opening up to hearing them in this manner and will help you. Try not to get discouraged or too emotional, as that acts as a block to telepathic communication. It’s about having fun and learning more about your animal in a whole new way!” she added.
And her clients agree. Many of them have provided testimonials about Hopple’s exceptional work at www.satiama.com, an online site for spirituality and conscious living through which she teaches teleclasses. In addition, she writes a monthly column at Satiama, called Ask Sue, where anyone can post a question to her about an animal companion, or about animal communication generally. Sue can also be contacted for an animal reading by visiting her site at www.suehopple.com.
As a Huron proverb states, “Listen to the voice of nature, for it holds treasures for you.” This is something that Sue Hopple lives every day, benefitting others and the world around her.
Karen Stuth is co-owner and co-founder of Satiama, LLC. Founded in 2008, Satiama offers more than a thousand tools, teachers, authors and artists to initiate possibility, help integrate your inner life with your outer world, and provide what you need to illuminate your true self and your connection to something greater. www.satiama.com
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