I was at the beach last year and I
watched two people attempting to photograph a crane. They had an entire bag of photography gear
including their camera and tripod. They
moved in closer and closer to this crane in attempt to capture a shot and I
thought to myself, “that camera looks like it has a big zoom on it. I wonder why they are getting so close? Can’t they see or feel that the bird is about
to fly away?”
Within the next step, the bird took
flight. It didn’t fly that far however,
so the team of two was able to try again.
They picked up their photography gear, the bag, their camera and tripod.
It was actually a fairly big production
of relocation, probably taking them four minutes in total.
I stood back and watched, somehow knowing to
myself that they were going to do the exact same thing. I watched them put down their camera
bag. I watched them take their cameras
and the tripod and step closer and closer into the bird’s acceptable space of
radial distance. Within a second, again,
it took flight.
“What was going on in this scene?” I asked
myself. I didn’t know whether to laugh
or cry? “Were these two people really so out of touch with the energetic
vibrations the bird was giving off? Did
they really have to be getting so close?
The crane was just trying to enjoy his dinner after a long day of
probably having to steer clear of the busy beach.”
“Were these two so out of touch
with their eyes that the subtle movement cues generated by the bird’s legs,
wings and head were in their blind spots? (Were their occipital nerves attached
to their brains? Anyway. What was their
need to keep getting closer and closer and closer and closer?”
Now that I think about it, their
actions are probably just the norm these days in our culture. Nothing wrong
with their behaviors. They just are what
they are.
To add language context to their
behavioral choice of encroaching upon the bird, the United States has more word
variations for the words “me” and “I” than any other country in the world. This number suggests our focus on self is of
primary importance. Inuits have over
1000 words they use in order to describe snow.
Why? Because it is the focus of
their culture.
Based on this anthropological
statistic, I deduce that perhaps it has been me who has been stuck in my own
“freeze” frame and out of touch with “the out of touch,” rather than the two
men being disconnected or even unconnected. Upon reflection, these two men seem
fully in touch ….literally with the “current” surroundings. While last year I had an internal judgment
about them, I took some time to set myself free from my own built cage and . . .well I don’t know how I feel about the
scenario anymore.
I now recall this story from last
year because a few weeks ago, I was talking to a store clerk. He was explaining something to me, and I felt
he was a bit too close within my acceptable energetic distance space between
bodies. Like the crane, I subtly and
politely stepped back, not wanting to make an overt incident of the matter. I could have easily chosen to express my
voice had I wanted to make a statement. It
wasn’t about not “ruffling his feathers,” it’s just that during that moment, it
wasn’t that important to me. Maybe it
would have been a bigger deal had he been spit talking life Daffy Duck! While
not saying anything, I did however, step back, and when I did, the clerk stepped forward. “Ha,” I thought internally to myself. I wonder if I had “tested the waters” and
stepped back again, if he would have started to tango.
Due to cultural
conditioning, various tribes have acceptable norms for various things,
including social distance ranges between people. The clerk was Caucasian and from the United
States but he must have energetically been an Egyptian or a Brazilian. Come to think of it, perhaps the
photographers were as well. . . .hahaha.
Unlike cultural variances of
acceptable talking proximities, animals in the wild have an overall distance
requirement ratio from other in order to ensure their safety. That said, I guess if we modernize the word “wild,”
with respect to this safety fact, the new meaning would have varying acceptable
distance ranges dependent upon how much city life and exposure that animals
have to us human beings. The safety distance ratio has to do with an energetic
vibration that is detected or sensed through the environmental
surroundings.
Us humans have become very
conditioned to be out of touch with energetic vibrations that surround us in
nature. Radio, TV, constant chatter and
humming of electrical xyz coupled with our cultural focus on “self” has numbed our
abilities to be “tuned in” …..other than to the Nature Channel. Our sensing abilities for energetic
vibrations of other are not our only senses numbed. Can you think of other life aspects of life
that dull our abilities to energetically sense?
Think about smell, touch, sight etc.
Think about perfumes, volumes in which we listen, the amount of filler
words in our talk. How much do you think
“flies under the radar” with our conditioned inabilities to detect truth in our
surroundings. Much energetic vibrations
are beyond human senses as we are currently conditioned, but that doesn’t mean
they don’t exist. If you were to watch
ducks swimming around in a pond, you could visibly see the energetic ripples
radiating off ducks’ bodies and
affecting their swimming choices between and among each other. These same ripples exist between and among us
in the air.
If we want to build solid
structural relationships that last, it is important to respect the “crane.”
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