The voice of Unheard Miracles: In conversation with animal communicator Fatema Zahra

After discovering her ability to communicate with animals, Fatema Zahra made it her purpose to use this unique gift to help and give animals a much-needed voice. With hours of practice and continuous efforts over the years Fatema with her rare skill has become one of the most renowned animal communicators in the world today.

Tune in as we get a glimpse into her life and discover what important messages and life lessons our animal friends have to teach us.

Transcript

Go-Beyond Podcast – Fatema Zahra Transcript

Speakers:

Akshay Kapur

Fatema Zahra

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Akshay Kapur

Welcome to the Sony Pictures Networks Go Beyond Podcast, where we Go Beyond the surface and uncover the Extraordinary. 

I’m your Host, Akshay Kapur.

Communication is perhaps one of the greatest tools of man. From Cave Paintings to Google Translate, our ability to communicate with others of our kind has enabled us to work together, share stories, build kingdoms, document history and even help each other in times of need. Indeed the world around us is shaped by us because we can communicate with each other.But what if we could communicate not just with our species? What if we could communicate with the butterflies and the bees? the birds in the sky and the fish in the seas? What would our world look like if we could communicate with all types of living creatures living on planet earth?  

To give us a glimpse into this alternate reality, we have with us a guest with a unique gift. She’s an Animal Communicator, an Animal Reiki Master & a Crystal Healer with a Graduate degree in Biotechnology, who gives a voice to our furry and feline friends around the world.  It is a distinct pleasure to welcome the voice of Unheard Miracles, Fatema Zahra Hussein!

Fatema welcome to the Go Beyond Podcast! We’re excited to have you on the show!

Fatema Zahra

Thank you so much, that was a lovely introduction!

Akshay Kapur

Um, so Fatema I think let's just dive right into the heart of it when did you first discover that you could speak with animals and is this something you were able to do even as a child?

Fatema Zahra

So, this was definitely not something I could do since I was a child this was something I only dreamed about. I never actually thought this was possible but I have always known that I've had a very different connection with animals. But I thought everyone had that you know. Um, but my journey started in this manner one day I was working in equine therapy and I was in charge of an 18-year old boy who was severely autistic and we went out into the desert for a hack and suddenly he was absolutely desperate to get off his horse and seeing how he couldn't communicate and let me know what he wanted he proceeded to hit the horse multiple times in order to get him to halt and I was so worried for the boy's safety in the event that his horse would you know rear up and throw him off to the ground, and my mind and heart kept wishing the horse would remain calm and I was repeating in my head telling the horse please be calm, please be calm and somehow that sent out a telepathic note to the horse letting him know how I felt and That's when I heard the horse replying back saying “don't worry I won't rear up I know this child's energy is unstable” and so I whipped my head around in disbelief wondering if I actually heard this and if anyone else had heard it as well and I realized no one seemed to be looking at anything different. No one seemed to be thinking about anything and everyone else were acting normal and so I childishly asked the horse “do you promise?” and he said “I promise I won't move a muscle” and I'd heard him again and he didn't twitch even once the entire time until we returned back to the stable safe and that is the moment that changed my life forever. The boy was brought down by his trainer and the horse was taken back to the stable and I watched him leave and a few steps later the horse turned his head to look back at me and said “you see I kept my word.” I started laughing I was so happy that this actually happened and that's how my journey into communication started. 

I knew right there and then that this is what I wanted to do my entire life. This was my purpose and this was my goal and I could use this to then help animals and give them a much needed voice and my stable manager wasn't very pleased with me because now instead of helping I kept chatting away to all the animals trying to develop this skill and I always missed my classes. This is how my journey started.

Akshay Kapur

(Laughs) Ah, that's fascinating I think It's a lovely story I got to ask you, since you mentioned energy. Is energy closely linked to how the communication with animals takes place? 

Fatema Zahra

So in in terms of how the communication takes place everyone communicates differently. Every individual receives information differently which means if you and I were to communicate with an animal you would receive different information to me. Um animals in general are Masters of telepathic communication. It is us humans that who still need to learn and we learn from our teachers and our masters which are the animals and they teach us about what animal communication is and how to proceed. And animals are already very practiced in catching our thoughts images and intentions and domesticated animals do this every day because they're living with you. So you can receive information in various ways one, one may detect emotions images thoughts intentions, feelings energies you can get messages, but you receive information differently which means many people are able to receive feelings or emotions and get a sense of what's going on. Some people are more visual and so they receive mental images so sort of like a movie clip in their minds. Others hear messages, sounds, voices, words you know so they receive auditory impressions and some will pick up an animal's thoughts so sometimes whilst you're communicating with an animal and they're speaking to you, you can just see what's going on in their head and suddenly you'll hear mango or ice cream or watermelon. And you'll know that that's what they want whilst they're speaking to you, so it's insane whilst you're having a heated conversation with them that's very profound and insightful. Suddenly you'll see a watermelon popping in or an ice cream and they're like okay this is what I want so they're thinking about that whilst talking to you.

Akshay Kapur

Right

Fatema Zahra 

So you could receive information through words and also what they're thinking about you through tastes smells, tastes aren't very fun! but smells you can get which really help like for example, when animal is lost and they tell you this place smells dusty and you find out later that the animal was in a very dusty garage locked up. Sometimes you get the smell of pine trees and you know that they're in the middle of a forest and it really helps the guardian know where the animal is based on what they're smelling what they're seeing around them in order to help them It's just that you need to be more practiced in understanding. What? what they're sending you 

Akshay Kapur

Right That's fascinating and for you which is your most dominant one?

Fatema Zahra

Ah, yeah, so for me, it started out with being clair sentient which means because I'm an empath I could feel all the emotions the animals were sending me so I felt emotions I've never have never felt in my waking life which means I've felt heartbreak, I felt poison, I've felt extreme jealousy and hatred and things like that. I've experienced love which is the most purest unconditional love and you can ever experience. It's the feeling of your heart expanding into a million pieces and it's just so profound and beautiful. 

I've felt how it feels to be present with everything and not separate from anything so you're you're sort of dissolving into the air into the world and that's how they feel 

Akshay Kapur

Wow!

Fatema Zahra

You get these feelings once you actually speak to them because they send that to you. They allow you to experience that. I've seen colours through their eyes and it's not just simple colours like how we're seeing it. They're a lot more hues and shades and it's so beautiful to actually look at, and watch.

Akshay Kapur

Wow! That sounds fascinating! Could you elaborate on the entire gamut of creatures that you can communicate with, is it every single animal under the sun?

Fatema Zahra

So yes, all animals possess the ability to communicate with you telepathically like I said they're all masters at communication and it is us who are on a learning curve. So, they all communicate I've spoken with cows, sheeps, Goats, Donkeys, Flies, Cockroaches, Sharks, Horses, Cats, Dogs Snakes, lionesses. 

Akshay Kapur

Um, wow.

Fatema Zahra

So It's pretty much everything every animal can communicate exactly the same way.

Akshay Kapur

could you maybe give us some examples of the kind of communications or energy interactions that you had that you actually felt um you know what the animal was going through.

Fatema Zahra

So because I predominantly receive information through feelings. when I receive information I can feel exactly what they're feeling which means for example, there was one communication I did with a cat and the cat told me that my back left tooth is hurting. Now when I receive information I can see that so the only reason I could tell her back left tooth was hurting its because I felt my back left tooth throbbing. So I knew that it was a back left tooth. Sometimes when an animal is facing anxiety or depression I feel those feelings. And I feel those feelings in order to help release those emotions for them so that they feel better. So yes I feel everything I felt seizures from a dog and that caused me to be in bed for a week because I couldn't handle the effect of the seizure but I had to experience it in order to explain to his guardian how he felt or was happening to him you know I feel their pinky toes hurting, I feel their back aches, I feel their spine, I feel their energy I feel everything so it can be unnerving and when you're actually experiencing all of this and it is emotionally taxing as well. Imagine being able to feel all the emotions of your animal Apart from your own.

Akshay Kapur

Yeah I can imagine that that can be quite a lot to deal with and speaking of quite a lot to deal with. You must have also had to face a lot of skeptics right? How did you handle the challenges or the skepticism from people around you even if it was from friends and family?

Fatema Zahra

Oh so, skeptics. Yes, that is something I've dealt with a lot and I'm still dealing with, in the beginning, it was very difficult. Um, but then I realized that depending on your worldview. You will either embrace animal communication and the prospects it has to offer or you'll be skeptical about it.  So, after I realized that everything just seemed a lot easier and it didn't bother me so much.

Akshay Kapur

Right. Any any interesting anecdotes?

Fatema Zahra

Oh yes, so I went to a stable once and the owner was there with his wife and they wanted me to communicate with the oldest horse. And so I did that, and the owner, he never believed and anything I said and he started he proceeded to start testing me. At the end the most hilarious thing happened was when we were outside and there was this huge tree with I think forty crows on it and they were making a lot of noise and so he told me can you ask these crows to keep quiet because they really bother me and they affect my work and I really don't want them here. Can you ask them to leave. I looked at the crows and I relayed his message and they told me that he needs to learn that this is our home too and that he needs to share. And if he doesn't learn this we're not leaving this is our home if he wants he can leave but we're not leaving and I started laughing and I told him I told him they're not gonna leave This is their home too so yeah. (laughs)

Akshay Kapur

(Laughs)

Fatema Zahra

Sometimes animals can be very smart. Actually all the time in with the answers they say

Akshay Kapur

(Laughs) Ah I love that and I love the way it ends with the sceptic getting told off by the animals he is sceptic about. 

Fatema Zahra

Oh yeah, oh yeah I Adored that I was so happy.

Akshay Kapur

You know speaking of hilarity lost in translation and errors in communication are all too common even between humans. So have there been any lost in translation moments that you've had to relay ah between pet and owner or with animals that you've spoken with.

Fatema Zahra

Oh yeah, so there are sometimes where an animal tells me something and I don't really want to say it because it may sound rude or very forthcoming or very direct. But the animal would then tell me relay it just the same way as I have mentioned it. So I say okay. so one time, there was this guy in the states who contacted me, and told me I want a communication for my sweet little dog and I said okay he had a female dog and he was married as well and one of the questions he asked was is it okay, if I get another dog in the house. And when I asked this question to the dog. The dog was like ask him would his wife be okay if he brought another wife into the house. 

Akshay Kapur

(Laughs)

Fatema Zahra

And I was like what you really want me to ask that she's like yes I'm the only princess I'm the only one who's allowed to be in this house I rule here, I do not want any other dog coming in and he burst out laughing but yeah, that was one of the times that I still remember is the most memorable because of how she actually answered back.

Akshay Kapur

But you know this brings me to a very ah, very interesting question which has been something that personally also I've been really curious to ask you - As humans we love to assign certain attributes to animals Lions are a symbol of courage, Horses of power, Cheetahs of speed, elephants of strength and the list goes on. You know, but in your experience. Is this generalization accurate or do you find that animal personalities can vary as much as human personalities where two animals of the same species could have drastically different personalities?

Fatema Zahra

Oh yes, of course I remember I spoke to two lionesses in Africa they were bred in captivity and one of them had a very dominant nature. And so I remember she said that you know there was this caretaker who was with her and he was out in a walk with her and suddenly there was another lioness that passed and the lioness being very possessive about him was like he turned his head to look at the other lioness and I got offended. He is supposed to have his entire attention on me, but that's not what happened and when I relayed this to him he was like oh my God how did you know this? This was as if you were right there.

You know the other lioness who was with them in the same facility. she was more poetic. She would talk about his place in the world. You know his challenges that he went through and how she could help him how he needed to stand up for himself how he needed to believe in himself and stand tall and that they would always be there. 

The third lioness talked about how she always wanted to be a mother. And how Her Cub was stolen from her only 3 days after he was born and how she yearned for that feeling of motherhood and to take care of her child and to impart those lessons and love to him in order to help him grow up. They all have different emotions. They have different lessons to teach us and they have different personalities. Some can be hilarious. Some can be philosophers. Some can be very shy. They're not all the same. No. Definitely not. So it's not just that a lion can be very courageous. But they can also be very timid. They can be very loving. They can be possessive. You know they have so many emotions that we label human I mean complex emotions that we label as human but they experience all of that as well.

Akshay Kapur

Um, right. speaking of things that they would experience akin to the things we experience as human beings are dreams also common between animals and humans?

Fatema Zahra

So there was something that that was very fascinating, that just comes up as you're talking about it I had had spoken to a horse. So a mare who was pregnant and she was telling me about her stallion. Her mate and they were both talking to each other and they were both communicating and discussing on what to name their child. 

Akshay Kapur

Interesting.

Fatema Zahra

This was one of the most fascinating conversations and I've never had a conversation like this before When I spoke about this conversation to their guardian. The Guardian said this is insane because the mare is with me but the stallion is on the opposite side of the country and so they were communicating telepathically between each other and discussing about the foal was still to be born and they wanted to name the foal Bubbles So it it was amazing, I had never experienced a communication session where they were communicating across country.

Akshay Kapur

That is fascinating ..

Akshay Kapur

You know Fatema in your experience. pest control probably takes on a whole new avatar when you're an animal communicator right? Especially since you can talk to insects as well. So how do you handle unwanted visitors in your home?

Fatema Zahra

Oh that's a very interesting question. So, in the beginning I was getting very annoyed with household animals for example, flies and I would swat them away because I would get really annoyed with them. But I would never kill them I could never bring myself to do that because I was the kind of person. Still am, where even if I'd be walking I'd be looking constantly be looking at my feet to see if ants are there and then walking around them and verbally telling them that don't worry I won't step over you.

I used to do that even before communicating with them so I would never hurt them in any way but now I send them the emotions and feelings of how it feels to be hurt or swatted away and I ask them please come onto my hand and I will lead you outside to the balcony or come land on a book or just wait for me by the balcony and I will be there. Some flies will willingly do that. Some are very stubborn. They just be like this is my life I will do what I want.

Akshay

(Laughs)

Fatema Zahra

Animals have free will too.But then when they get scared they'll go next to the balcony and I'll open it for them and they can fly away cockroaches same thing same concept. So your pest control especially in my house I get very annoyed and very angry and I make sure no one does that in the house I just politely tell them to you know, go away or to disperse.  Otherwise, they would be hurt and I don't want that for them.

Akshay Kapur

Right. I love the way you're able to empathize with them and I think that means you are an empath by disposition correct? So with that in mind Fatema. Do you believe that animal communication is a gift that one has to be born with or is it an ability that one can train and develop over time?

Fatema Zahra

So, this is very interesting and I'm really glad you asked this question because I get asked this a lot. However, what we must understand is that we all possess incredible, unique powers that we have to learn how to use and inside us is a spirit and a soul that many of us refuse to unleashand we live by a set of rules that are conditioned into us since birth and it's like these rules have been fire-hosed into our psyches from childhood. But what we must realize is. This Isn't true, when we bring an awakened mind to the surface magic happens. it is this heightened state of awareness and it may sound mystical or spiritual but it is very real and all human beings can access it. 

You know animals communicate with each other all the time even cross species and they use nonverbal communication skills or telepathic communication. So why can't we do it? I mean all we have to do is tune in and connect heart to heart, mind to mind and then we just tap into that universal innate language of false species and as children many of us innately already knew our animal companions could understand what we were saying and we communicated with them freely. But as we became older, and our minds were trained to work in different ways most of us forgot how to communicate telepathically. So, It's just a process of remembering it once again.

Akshay Kapur

So um, so is there anything that ordinary humans who don't have the gift of animal communication may not even be inclined to developing that ability, is there anything that such human beings can do to communicate better with animals?

Fatema Zahra

Yes, So the thing I do tell everyone who wants to communicate with their animals, just for a moment is just to be quiet to centre yourself so to meditate so that you're a lot calmer and that's how you can open the lines of communication and access your animal friends’ thoughts and images that they wish to send you and feelings and just ask a question. So for example, are you hungry and you would start salivating or you would hear an answer in your head saying yes or no, it's that simple.

You ask a question and whatever answer comes in your head. The first answer is what you go with You don't doubt it! You don't interpret it. You just go with it. So, for example, I remember there was a person that came up to me and And told me that my cat wants something and I just asked him. What do you want and I heard the word cotton bud and it turned out there was a cotton bud stuck behind the cupboard. That's what he wanted. So sometimes you just have to slow down and just connect to the animal. So you just sort of imagine a cord that's connecting between your heart center and the animal's ceart Center and then it's sort of as if information is passing through that cord, I think that's the best way I can explain it and then just ask a question and whatever comes first is what you go with.

Akshay Kapur

Understood. Fatema, I think I already know the answer to this question but I'm going to ask it in this manner. Anyways has anyone ever approached you to communicate with their pet in the afterlife and if so what was that experience like was it in any way different from communicating with living animals.

Fatema Zahra

Yes, so I do communicate with animals in the afterlife all the time and the humans that come up to me in order to speak to their animal friend are already feeling very guilty and upset because the animal has passed away. They always want to know if they If they could have done something more if their animal friend is now happy if they're free of pain and suffering. You know they want to hear them one more time in order to absolve themselves of that guilt in order to get closure and when you speak to an animal that has already passed away or who is in spirit, that communication process is exactly the same. The difference is you don't feel the animal as much. So for example, if an animal was present in this life. You would feel their energy. You could ask them show me what the ground feels like and you'd feel what the ground feels like you could see through their eyes you can feel the sensations in their body how they're feeling where they're hurting what their problems are. But when you're speaking to an animal who has already passed away. You don't feel their energy as much you connect to their unique energy frequency. but you don't feel them as living you somehow just know. That they're no longer present. It just feels different and they talk to you about the afterlife and they have a lot of reassurances to give their human companions and they tell them about some of them have jobs in the afterlife as well.

Akshay Kapur

Wow!

Fatema Zahra

I had a horse who told his mom don't worry I'm completely fine. My job is to now welcome new animals that have just passed away and make sure they're not scared and make sure they come into the afterlife and ascend peacefully. 

Fatema Zahra

And you know they show you what it looks like so there was one time and an animal showed me a procession of animals entering in and it was the most beautiful animal procession you've ever seen. There were peacocks there, elephants and lions and tigers and any animal you could ever think of but in the most beautiful sense. It still gives me goosebumps and they talk about how death was for them. They feel humans make way too much drama out of death. They tell you. It's just a transition. That's it. it's just a way of crossing from one world to the next and in that world. It's more permanent. Everything's a lot more lifelike everything's more free. Everything's more transparent you know you're not limited by anything your mind is suddenly expanded by volumes and waves that you could have never possibly imagined. 

Akshay Kapur

Right

Fatema Zahra

So it is absolutely beautiful and once humans hear that their animals are doing well and they hear the advice that they have for them you know they have things that they want to tell them they're personal to them. They start getting that closure and they start beginning to heal and can go on with life and remember them positively. They teach you to remember their memories the good times the happy times you guys shared and not just the sad times.

Akshay Kapur

I Think that's a lovely sense of closure you've given to that answer as well. 

Fatema Zahra

Oh Thank you.

Akshay Kapur

With that in mind Fatema how has speaking with animals changed both the way you interact with humans and all the way you view the world we live in.

Fatema Zahra

So that actually comes into the benefit for us in animal communication. What has happened is that there is so much to be gained from reigniting the natural ability to communicate with animals that we all can do and what it does is that it has contributed to a deeper sense of appreciation for other animals and a deeper understanding that we can be in the kinship with all of life and through animal communication what happens is you start to remember your place as part of nature and you begin to develop a respect for the natural resources that support that life. 

Akshay Kapur

That's lovely I think that's something that we could all maybe use a little bit of in our lives as well.

 Fatema, you know as an animal communicator and as someone who can communicate with almost every living creature under the sun maybe barring humans just joking. But as an animal communicator. Do you have any pets yourself?

Fatema Zahra

No, unfortunately I don't It's extremely ironic as an animal commu/nicator but I'm highly allergic to cat furr and that prevents me from having a pet of any sort and so, just now I just live vicariously through my clients pets which kind of works but I kind of really wish I had a cat myself?

Akshay Kapur

Ah, right? So you are a cat a cat person though. 

Fatema Zahra

Oh I am an all animal person.

Akshay Kapur

Ah, just ah, just just pulling your leg!

Akshay Kapur

Ah, Fatema as we're coming to the closure of our conversation today. I know that you have a Go-Beyond takeaway for us, which is essentially  a lesson you learned as an animal communicator, correct?

Fatema Zahra

Right! So The lessons I've learned through animal communication and I love this question is because it still amazes me every single day is that animals think, feel and reason they can make decisions and they have personal preferences and they also act on their decisions as they choose and You know, many people believe that they're just unintelligent and ignorant beings. But that's so not true! They have free will you know, just like us and animals like I've said before are emotionally complex. They fall in Love, they have best friends they dislike some individuals, and they also have cross-species relationships and animals have all the emotions So, they have the ability to feel happiness, love, frustration, anger, rage, insecurity confusion and the wonderful thing I've learned about a lot of species is their capacity for forgiveness. This is so important this is one of the lessons that animals teach us humans. We excel at guilt. We can get locked and caged in it but animals they do not feel guilt as strongly as we do. Perhaps they know that it has no benefit to them long-term but then it begs the question. Why do we excel at guilt? Won't it be more helpful to excel at Forgiveness instead? And until we have learned to face our demons and we can make new decisions about our own worth our own value and our ability to be loved, It can be very hard to find a safe and non-threatening place. You know to really feel that love and let that in to help heal our hearts. But fortunately for us our animal angels teach us about how it feels to be loved unconditionally and they demonstrate that day after day you know what it means to care about someone without fear of rejection to be in a relationship with others without judgment and how it really feels to be embraced and loved with a whole heart and they offer us the experience of being welcomed exactly as we are.

Akshay Kapur

Right.

Fatema Zahra

And that is the gift animals give us every day if we let them and if we take the time to connect with our hearts and feel the gratitude and appreciation that they are in our lives then we rediscover our own connection with the planet and our own divine nature when we reconnect with other beings and by doing that, that just makes us better humans.

Akshay Kapur

Um, wow I think that's a fantastic note to end this conversation on. Fatema thank you so much for taking the time to join us on the Go-Beyond podcast and hopefully we'll get a chance to pick up where we left off at some point in the future and learn more about, your journey as an animal communicator.

Fatema Zahra

Ah, that would be lovely. Thank You!