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Animal Consciousness
"Whether you search the wood or the city or the universe, the only interesting thing you will ever find anywhere is the thrill and mystery of awakening life."
Date: 8/28/2006 1:14:57 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 3442 times In a recent issue of Well Being Journal is a delightful article:
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Power of Animal Consciousness
A tribe living near Lake Mweru, in Africa, uses the word chumfo to refer to the supersensory capabilities of animals. "By way of approach to our subject." writes William J. Long in his excellent book How Animals Talk (Bear & Co., 2005, http://www.innertraditions.com ). "Let it be understood that chumfo refers in a general way to the animal's extraordinary powers of sense perception....Every wild creature is finely 'sensible' in the true meaning of the word, his sensitiveness being due to the fact that there is nothing dead or even asleep in nature; the natural animal or the natural man is from head to foot wholly alive and awake. And this is because every atom of him, or every cell, as a biologist might insist, is of itself sentient, and has the faculty of perception. Not till you understand that first principle of chumfo will your natural history be more than a dry husk, a thing of books or museums or stuffed skins or Latin names, from which all living interest has departed."
"Whether you search the wood or the city or the universe, the only interesting thing you will ever find anywhere is the thrill and mystery of awakening life. That the animal is alive, and alive in a way you ought to be but are not, is the last and most fascinating discovery you are likely to make in nature's kingdom....Ican hardly meet a wil bird or beast even now without renewed wonder at his aliveness, his instant response to every delicate impression, as if each moment brought a new message from earth or heaven and he must not miss it or the consequent enjoyment of his own sensations. The very sleep of an animal, when he seems ever on the thin edge of waking, when he is still so in touch with his changing world that the slightest strange sound or smell or vibration brings him to his feet with every sense alert and every muscle ready--all this is an occasion of marvel to dull men, who must be called twice to breakfast..."
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