the human animal
I am so often amazed by the blazing, natural intelligence exhibited by the animals that I encounter, as well as by their social, communicative and empathic abilities.
My family and I live behind a towering crest of open space covered with sage scrub, pacific madrones, manzanitas and legacy oaks, so we have many visitors.
Most electrifying, inches away outside our bedroom window, we heard the hot heaving growl of a California Mountain Lion, down from the ridge in cover of darkness to prowl for water these hot dry months.
Also... grinning night foxes, flower-top eating deers in their cabled graces, segacious and meticulous raccoons, and tree-leaping squirrels a-frolic....
A family of wild turkeys, who protect and shepherd their young, as do I; golden eagles, brown falcons, black and red-tail hawks, and owls, who spot my eyes as I arch back in marvel at their flight; immaculate blue herons croaking in the treetops at night; and a white egret, silent goddess of the evening creek bed....
And infinite spiders, no more magnificent than the deadly blood-jeweled black widow, a silent arachnid lioness who tenders her many young in strong-as-steel egg-sacs spun from an impossibly ancient belly.
We know of so many wonders... that cormorants can count to eight, that elephants tap messages over miles felt in their feet and trunks, that whales ferry their vast souls through the impossible depths in a matrix of continuous song, and that primates share so many of our traits, from the capacity for premeditated violence to love.
Still more miraculous are the languages and navigational senses of birds, bats, bees, so closely aligned with the Schumann Resonance—the beating pulse between the Earth's ionosphere and magnetized crust—energy that surrounds and flows through us all.
Must not whales, dolphins, elephants, and other mammals with craniums on par or far larger than our own, perceive light, energy and life-forces for which we have no means of cognition? More fantastic still, can you imagine lifeforms that are telepathic, retain memories of past lives, or have awareness of alternating dimensional realities?
the human animal
I am so often amazed by the blazing, natural intelligence exhibited by the animals that I encounter, as well as by their social, communicative and empathic abilities.
My family and I live behind a towering crest of open space covered with sage scrub, pacific madrones, manzanitas and legacy oaks, so we have many visitors.
Most electrifying, inches away outside our bedroom window, we heard the hot heaving growl of a California Mountain Lion, down from the ridge in cover of darkness to prowl for water these hot dry months.
Also... grinning night foxes, flower-top eating deers in their cabled graces, segacious and meticulous raccoons, and tree-leaping squirrels a-frolic....
A family of wild turkeys, who protect and shepherd their young, as do I; golden eagles, brown falcons, black and red-tail hawks, and owls, who spot my eyes as I arch back in marvel at their flight; immaculate blue herons croaking in the treetops at night; and a white egret, silent goddess of the evening creek bed....
And infinite spiders, no more magnificent than the deadly blood-jeweled black widow, a silent arachnid lioness who tenders her many young in strong-as-steel egg-sacs spun from an impossibly ancient belly.
We know of so many wonders... that cormorants can count to eight, that elephants tap messages over miles felt in their feet and trunks, that whales ferry their vast souls through the impossible depths in a matrix of continuous song, and that primates share so many of our traits, from the capacity for premeditated violence to love.
Still more miraculous are the languages and navigational senses of birds, bats, bees, so closely aligned with the Schumann Resonance—the beating pulse between the Earth's ionosphere and magnetized crust—energy that surrounds and flows through us all.
Must not whales, dolphins, elephants, and other mammals with craniums on par or far larger than our own, perceive light, energy and life-forces for which we have no means of cognition? More fantastic still, can you imagine lifeforms that are telepathic, retain memories of past lives, or have awareness of alternating dimensional realities?