Plants and animals provide a rich field of study proving that reality extends beyond the material.
 
Beyond Five Senses
 
For example, new animal senses are being discovered that are poorly understood and for which no sense organs have even been identified. Examples include the electrical fields generated by eels to sense their environment, the ability of sharks and rays to sense the electrical fields generated by prey, the thermographic heat-sensing ability of some snakes, and the magnetic compass in migratory birds, turtles, and fish. Termites in a colony separated by plates will build tunnels that meet precisely on each side of the plate.
 
Thought and Bacteria
 
Thought can impact the growth of bacteria and fungi in laboratory cultures. For example, the bacterium, E. coli, can metabolize lactose sugar. This can be influenced by human thought resulting not only in altered growth but altered genetic structure. In one experiment, bacteria were subjected to paralyzing phenol. All in the control group were paralyzed, except for 7% of those that were willed by experimenters not to be paralyzed.
 
Animal Psychics
 
Some people can telepathically communicate with both living and dead animals.
 
Animals as Psychics
 
The biologist, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, has accumulated hundreds of case studies and performed extensive controlled research on both humans and animals:
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• Dogs secluded and observed by video in a building away from the owner will form a semicircle around the door and wag their tails when the owner thinks about coming to let them out.
• Horses anticipate the desires of riders.
• People call pets and pets call people telepathically.
• Animals and people sense distant accidents and deaths.
• Pets knowing who is telephoning.
• Prey will sense being stared at by hungry predators but not by those predators that are not in the hunting mode.
• Animals show premonition of earthquakes, avalanches. and air raids days before the events. The Chinese have used animals in this way to save tens of thousands of lives. Animals in Indonesia alerted people and broke restraining chains to escape the impending tsunami disaster of 2005.
• Animals warn of people's seizures and comas.

​Sheldrake has carefully analyzed 585 reports of dogs knowing when their owners are coming home. For example, whenever Peter Edwards returns to his farm in Essex, England, his Irish Setters are at the gate to greet him. He works irregular hours and usually doesn't even let his wife know when he is returning. But the dogs know.
 
Jackson, the family dog, always anticipated the return of the kids on the bus. He also got excited, wanted out, and went to the end of the sidewalk to wait for the father who, it just so happens, had just arrived in port some 20 miles away. His schedule was not at all regular. The mother, observing the dependability of Jackson, even prepared a meal and primped timed with his behavior.
 
Similar accounts come from other dog owners who have irregular schedules, such as lawyers, taxi drivers, military personnel, midwives, and airline workers. Distance is not a factor, nor is sound, wind direction, time spent away, nor schedule.
 
In carefully tracking the simultaneous actions of the animal and those of the owner, the trigger was found to be when the person decided to come home. It was the thought-action that the bonded animal perceived and responded to. If an owner changes his/her mind, the pet settles back into its pre-alerted demeanor.
 
Gould, another researcher, found that when he decided to move the food source of a hive of honeybees, they would be found circling the new location before he ever got there. The bees did this possessing only 1/10,000 of an ounce brain. When asked if he could explain how they did it, Gould replied, "I can't. I wish they'd never done it!"
 
In Providence, Rhode Island, a nursing home is also home to a cat named Oscar. He is revered for his compassionate care. Again and again, he can predict who in the home is about to die. About four hours before a person's death, he will curl up and nuzzle next to them, purring until they pass. Staff trusts his anticipation so much that they call family members when he takes up his post.

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Incredible Parrots
 
African Grey Parrots have shown remarkable speech and telepathic abilities. Over the course of twenty years, a parrot named Alex acquired a vocabulary of 200 words. This little birdbrain rivaled the abilities of primates and was capable of abstractions, recognizing colors, articulating concepts about present and absent, and communicating far beyond parroting.
 
In 1997, inspired by seeing Alex on television, the owner of an African Grey parrot named N'kisi began teaching him to speak as if he were a child. In a little over 5 years, he developed a vocabulary of almost 1000 words (about 100 words are necessary for half of all writing in English), over 7,000 original sentences (which have been recorded), and he invents his own words for things his repertoire does not cover, like "flied" for flew. He also uses words in context, knows past, present, and future tenses, is inventive, and has an excellent memory.
 
After seeing a picture of Dr. Jane Goodall with apes, N'kisi remarked when he met her for the first time, "Got a chimp?" He also has quite a sense of humor. When he saw another parrot hang upside down from a perch he said, "You got to put this bird on the camera."

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N'kisi also has remarkable telepathic abilities. Over 600 instances were recorded in just his first five years. For example, when the owner decided to call Rob, N'kisi said, "Hi Rob," as the owner was scrolling through the Rolodex looking for the number. In another instance, N'kisi was behind the television while a movie was playing in which Jackie Chan was precariously lying on his back high on a girder. N'kisi said, "Don't fall down." When the movie cut to a car commercial N'kisi said, "There's my car" even though all that was audible was the music soundtrack.
 
In a controlled experiment, N'kisi was put in one room while the owner viewed cards in the other. N'kisi identified what the owner was looking at with odds three times greater than chance.
 
Morphic Resonance
 
Reminiscent of the underlying holographic nature of reality previously discussed, Sheldrake describes morphic resonance as an interconnection between all living things in the collective consciousness.  There have been over 500 case histories and more than 20,000 people participating in experimental tests.
 
For example:
 
In 1984 the BBC cooperated with Dr. Sheldrake in an experiment in which 80 million people were shown solutions to puzzle pictures. After the airing, 6,500 people who did not see the airing were tested to see how fast they could solve the puzzle. The time for them to solve the puzzle was less than the time for those who tried to solve the puzzle before the program was aired.
 
New ideas, inventions, ideologies, awakenings, fads, skills, infirmities, and premonitions can seem to inexplicably sweep through a community or the entire world.
 
Rats taught to run a maze kept reducing the time to get to the target with each generation. The 22nd generation of rats was completing it ten times faster than the first generation. This improvement in maze time occurred en masse among the entire generation.
 
The length of time to train pigeons to peck at lighted "Skinner boxes" keeps decreasing with each generation.
 
Such phenomena certainly take conventional materialistic science outside of its explanatory capabilities. Evidence either has to be dismissed or the mind opened to accommodate an extradimensional biology.