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including plants and animals). This appears to be a common thread in every indigenous culture worldwide, and is not a new concept in human history. It is documented in numerous books and documentaries such as The Animal Communicator and Aluna. It is practiced in small-scale and subsistence farming systems, as well as in food growing systems in ecovillages around the world. Rudolf Steiner even mentions intuitive communication with nature in his Biodynamic Agriculture lectures, although it is often overlooked by biodynamic farming practitioners. Although there is almost a century of scientific evidence supporting human-to-human telepathy, many scientists continue to dismiss it as pseudoscience. However, quantum physics has provided more widely accepted evidence to explain how our universe operates at a sub-atomic, or energetic, level, so this concept is receiving renewed attention from the scientific community. But aside from a few published studies that indicate uni-directional telepathy from humans to animals is possible, little is known or understood in science about telepathic interspecies communication, let alone in an agricultural context. An objective of this project is to interview farmers who already practice telepathic interspecies communication, to better understand the effects this practice has on their farming systems and their produce. Some interviews have already been conducted, both overseas and locally. So far, the farmers I have interviewed have reported the same effects as the farmers interviewed in the international surveys by Henk Kieft (Fig. 2). However, more interviews are required before this information can be analysed and published. Anybody who raises animals or produces food, for more than their own needs, and practices interspecies telepathic communication is invited to contact me, if they are interested in participating in the study. The identity of participants remains strictly confidential unless participants give written permission for their names to be used in presenting results of the study, for educational purposes. I have received funding to host Henk Kieft, who is now a collaborator on this project, for a research visit in Stellenbosch. He will be presenting a condensed version of his workshop on electromagnetic and intuitive agriculture twice during his visit, on 31 October - 1 November and on 14-15 November 2015. Those people interested in the weekend workshop, or seeking resources about intuitive farming, are welcome to contact me at Stellenbosch University; [email protected].