Sensing Life

Animal Tales, Blog | May 28, 2010

Four feet above my head in my writing cabin, on the top sill of the window, a thrush has built her nest in an impossibly tiny shelf. I know she is there.  I see her flying up to complete another artistic piece in the nest; I see her flying up after getting herself a bite to eat before  she sits again on her precious new life forming inside her eggs. Her mate is always around on one tree or another guarding, chasing away the egg- stealing magpies, aggressive and twice his size.  But it is interesting – unless I physically see her she is out of my mind, even as she sits, life growing, 4 feet from me. It is a human and cultural phenomena  that things are only “real” and “in existence’ (for us, not for animals) when they are in front of our eyes.   There is a burgeoning new field of subtle energies, those not immediately detected by our five senses. A field developing as society slowly digests  the implications of Einstein’s work and the continuing new discoveries in physics about how we are all connected; how we are all basically energy beings;  energy slowed down enough that it becomes solid, at least to appearances. And I think about sitting in my cabin working on sensing the intense  excitement and wondrous life energy that is going just above my head; tuning to it without being able to physically”see” it. It is a richly rewarding effort with the hint of the possibility of infinite expansion of feeling and learning the magic that is around us in nature.

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