Privately, Sheldrake enjoyed partaking in a chemical trip or two himself, so he was sympathetic to McKenna's ravings. In the mid-1990s, Sheldrake began to distance himself from the California scene and just studied the pooches. He's collected irrefutable evidence that Lassie almost always knows when her master is returning home. Spot can sense forthcoming epileptic attacks. Rover sniffs out cancer.
Canines even forecast earthquakes.
But when I ran this by the American insurance industry, they said, 'You know, you could maybe save lives with earthquake-sensing dogs, but we're a general insurance company. After all, the Almighty seems to be where the larger implications of morphic resonance head. Perhaps destiny is more than just some literary conceit. Maybe karma is not only instant, but real as well. Perhaps we can even actually influence God herself as easily as chicks can stop random-movement robots.