Chennai: Author Tim Murari lost his dog recently. Tim and his wife Maureen walked the length and breadth of their Kilpauk neighbourhood calling out his name but Prince was nowhere to be found. This went on for days and Tim even had thousands of fliers inside newspapers, with the photograph of the handsome mongrel, pleading for information. And then a friend, Devika, a lover of dogs and cats herself, told them about a German psychic who could communicate with Prince and restore him to the family.
“We are rationalists but still we decided to give it a shot. We were that desperate because days had gone by and there was no trace of Prince. We contacted Barbel, who lives in a Bavarian village in south Germany, through a friend-interpreter because she knows only German. We were told she had found several lost animals over the last ten years or so”, said Maureen, recalling the incredible story of Prince’s rescue.
Barbel took a good look at Prince’s photograph and began the process of trying to reach the lost canine. “She would concentrate in a quiet atmosphere and come back to us with some description of places where he had strayed to. She spoke of a construction site and we found there were seven in our area. She came back with more information—he is confused, scared and hungry, and someone hit him with a stone. He was near a house with the staircase built outside and in a lane with an arch at the entry. She said she told Prince to stay put there because Tim and Maureen would come and fetch him”.
A friend told the couple there was such an arch and off they went searching. They found a lane that had a house with staircase outside, but no Prince. Some more walking and there was the arch and the lane that took them to another staircase-house.
“We called out his name, many times and loud. Then I saw him, wagging his tail like a car windscreen wiper. He had lost weight”, said Maureen and recalled how they celebrated Prince’s return home “well in time for Diwali”.
“Ah, I forgot to mention. We found there was stone injury on his head just as Barbel had mentioned”.
Bavarian psychic has healed animals across globe
Tim Murari’s three-year-old mongrel was not the only lost canine that the Bavarian psychic Barbel was able to locate through her supernatural powers. In fact, after she helped Tim and Maureen, their friend in Kodaikanal was able to get back her lost cat through Barbel’s ‘inter-species telepathic communication’.
And Barbel is not the only one with such supernatural power; there’s Penelope Smith of Arizona who has been famous as animal communicator and healer with books and CDs to her credit.
Maureen’s friend Devika has been associated with Paraspara Trust based at Batlagundu near Kodaikanal where stray dogs and cats were sheltered. One such mongrel, a cute one they called Jenny, suddenly went missing. “Jenny was sweet, very obedient. We were very upset. Then we got in touch with Barbel”, Devika recalled.
Barbel charges for her services; could be around 50 euros depending on how serious the problem is. In one case, Devika wanted to know if a cat that was suspected to have rabies should be put to sleep. Barbel replied ‘negative’ assuring her that it was just a minor ailment and the cat would be healed. And it was.
Now, back to Jenny’s story. “Barbel looks at the photographs of the animals and talks to them through word images, thought images. She told us Jenny was in distress, her heart beating fast.
There was a hut, people walking around barefooted. She could smell smoke, hear hammering of metal against stone. She was being fed very little food”, Devika recalled. Her Paraspara staff at once said there was a village nearby where the locals used trained dogs during rabbit-hunting. They kept the dogs hungry so they would go after the rabbits in the forest.
The staff went to that village and announced Rs 2000 reward for Jenny. Two youths landed at the doors the next morning and identified the house where Jenny was being kept prisoner.
In another case, a cat called Arjun that ran away was led back to the food plate left on Paraspara’s roof.
“Barbel located Arjun being fed by a fat woman in a house and asked him to return. Since he was unable to locate our place, she told him to reach the house with flickering red light in the night and find the food on the roof. We made our watchman flash a red light in the night and Arjun came”, said Devika.
Barbel, she said, has become so popular among Chennai’s animal lovers that she has agreed to visit the city early next year and hold classes on communicating with animals.
