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Everything else knows the how-to of life
Topic Started: May 8 2016, 08:15 AM (100 Views)
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All around everything functions. The grass, the trees, the wind, the water, the birds. Everything goes on, on its own. How does it happen?

How can the insect know what to do? A strand of grass? No one would say that a grass commit any mistakes yet humans commit tons of mistakes.

All around the world does itself. Humans are the only exception. Only humans become thinkers. Manipulators.

Today I was out in the sun and I watched the world and I noticed this. I remembered how crow said that a crow is able to do what very few people can, with ease. It must be something like this.

Not-doing, like everything and everybody else. It's funny to realize this. Then you know how stupid the human is, how stupid you are, and how everything else already knows how-to.
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That's a priceless moment you had. A crow-by-the-pond moment. Astonishing, isn't it? To realize how adeptly every living thing lives, while humans can only act-out the completely natural activity of living.
This is the immense value of adopting an animal totem. To re-learn what humans have forgotten. Simply how To Be.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Don't you think that reptiles are good animal totems? I know that most don't like reptiles but no animal is as prehistoric looking and slow and clueless as most reptiles. Its even called a reptile brain, the instinctive brain. crows and birds are reptiles too..
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Birds may once have been reptiles, as far as we know, but somewhere along the way, they decided it was a better idea to become warm-blooded, rather than being dependent on sunshine and a hot rock, to supply their body heat.

In a way, you are right though: my crow did seem to have a certain reptilian quality, sometimes. Something that in spite of being alien, didn't get in the way of conducting a superior relationship with a human.

As far as totems go, any living thing that (Aha!) you find yourself having admiration for would be useful.
And when you've fully experienced that, maybe non-living things could also qualify.
Edited by crow, May 8 2016, 10:14 AM.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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