Re-enchanting the World: How to Learn From Animals 

Thank you Dr. Sheldrake. I want to contribute to this knowledge by telling a true story that happened to me with animals. I was in a natural park in Italy, it was a marvel sunny day. I went on an isolated hill and sat alone. Then I started to chant the Lotus Sutra' booklet in ancient Chinese language (a mantra). When I was chanting I heard a sound of bells coming up from the asphalt street behind a row of trees. Always nearer, always nearer. I kept going on with the reading and chanting and from the end of the row of threes a cow appeared that kept coming toward me that I was chanting. She stopped at 1 meter of distance looking at me chanting and then she lay down on a side looking at me with an eye and with an ear up...listening. As soon as I stopped reading and chanting she got up and disappeared as she came. I swear that is a true story.

My Scottish wild cat who normally was very aloof and barely deigned to come home would meet me in the park across the street every day and take me for a walk when I was recovering from knee surgery. He would come up on my lap and snuggle on a park bench. He stopped once I was well. it was unbelievable what a role he played in my recovery. I'll never forget him.

Animal story: I had a place above a stream where I could watch wildlife without disturbing them. One summer day 2 large snapping turtles began their courtship ritual of nose tickling and their graceful submerged dance. It was the most gentle and sublime thing I have seen in my life. Even 25 years later it brings tears to my eyes to recall. Surprise is the biggest way to change your heart and nature is full of surprises. Through studying native American relations with nature and learning animal tracking I arrived at the same conclusions as dr Sheldrake. Humility and respect came first then a fuller understanding of beauty and purpose. Nature is the handiwork of God, this becomes self-evident.

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a treasure to the world of science, to all of humanity. His ideas and observations are an inspiration to society now for decades. Sheldrake is a new Renaissance man, a well needed guide to a future where, further fragmentation, specialization and absurd redefinitions await us. I welcome his views as integrated wholes, as a perspective in life which can bring common sense to the world.

I am a 73 yo guy, left school at 16, not well educated. But I appreciate this wonderful video so much. Many thanks Rupert

The only thing I feel like Rupert has missed here with regards to movement is the way in which animals will process traumatic events. They will deal with the trauma in the moment through the somatic nervous system, whereas we humans will very often override that process due to our social programming, and hold onto stored trauma, often for a lifetime. This can manifest in various health issues.

I had a dog years ago that was totally psychic. She was just a rescue mixed breed, but an incredible animal. She always knew when I was planning a walking trip, no matter what I did to hide it (and I tried everything). It wasn't routine. She was amazing. I always took her on the trips and she always knew we were going. She's follow me around and sit by the door, days in advance.

When I listen to Rupert, tears spontaneously emerge. I have a history with his work, as he was introduced to me at mt undergraduate university in the late 80s, heralded by my organic chemistry professor. Nonetheless to say, I am now a full-time Actor after having traversed 25 years as a Psychotherapist and trauma specialist. I listen to him regularly to keep me attuned and present! Je t’adore Rupert!

What can we learn from Animals? ... Humility, unconditional love, healing powers, ... 😭💛

Rupert, old survivor, you've really made a difference with your life. May it continue as long as you wish it. The world, its people and other creatures are better off - with more kindness and understanding, thanks to your inquiring nature and great intellectual energy.

One day, many many years ago, I was absentmindedly walking through the aisles of a grocery store. As I exited out of one isle and started to turn into the next, I felt a sense of dread so strong it made me stop in my tracks. I turned my head the opposite way I was headed and stared directly at a lobster languishing in a tank at the seafood counter. Leaving her/him there was agonizing. I am still astonished that a crustacean was able to make me feel this way.

I have learned a lot from my five dogs, all of which are - I believe - zen masters.

With deep gratitude and a humble bow of gratitude for your life’s work. 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

A great mind put to its best use. Brilliant stuff.

We have much to learn from children and animals, dogs in particular...both are capable of unconditional love. As children we had rabbits, dogs, a tortoise and a brace of ferrets... two men in our small village had pigeon lofts. I would wander through a bluebell wood at the age of 5... alone and completely safe. I became a vegetarian of my own accord at the age of 6.

Thank you so much Sir! I am sure that animals swing higher than most human minds.... my dog used to look at me full of unconditional love, I have no children and my dog is the only deepest true love of my live ...Greetings from Berlin :)

People who have experience with psychedelics usually have the most creative things to say as they have entered the divine dimension and returned with a wealth of knowledge to dispense; Rupert is a portal to immense wisdom.

Thank you for your great work. If our world would be guided by wise men and women and if you would like to be one among them, we would all be given a real chance to live in Paradise.

Few weeks ago my neighbor died, and his dog was literally wailing almost all the time for a week before that. It's kinda funny how people reacted tho, nobody even questioned the reason his dogs is so loud, they were like "oh, dude's gonna die soon so his dog cry", like it's sort of common knowledge among older people. I live in a very rural part of southern Poland, there's a very funky mix of catholicism, orthodox christianity and pagan traditions here, I wonder which one of those is responsible for this.

As a magician, a rabbit is so cooperative and patient, it's more magical than the show itself

A thousand blessings Rupert Sheldrake, live on.

26:30 I feel compelled to mention; I live next door to my mother, and I'm usually over there at least once a day or so. She has a female terrier breed dog that is very fond of me and runs to me every time I come over. I've been close to her since she was a puppy. I also do the grooming/hair trimming for her. I don't do it on a schedule, I usually pick a time at random, just sometime after her hair is getting too long, and she really doesn't like it. But remarkably, when I have it in my mind that it's haircutting time, she hides from me.. I've tested this over and over. Initially I thought I had to be giving her a tell, but I've made sure to give no sign, I've tried to fool her, I've been as random as possible, but somehow she always seems to know.

This was fantastic. I always say animals have superpowers with all of their senses compared to us. I like his point about the fact that they have no internal dialog that gets in the way of their ability to intuit - unlike the psychotic human species.

I've always been interested in why Rupert makes so much more sense than everyone else in scientific philosophy. It's all rather self evident to a perfection. Spiritual practices, religion, and nature is all literally the same expression of the same life we all currently share. It is so simple that I've spent my life reading about philosophy and talking to others just to see why others haven't awaken to this reality.

i have pigeons, and they let me know when the weather will change. they molt when spring will come, ask for more food when fall is approaching, stay in the dovecote when storms are brewing. it goes further. i love that this begins with a pigeon story.

I could listen to Rupert Sheldrake all day

I always learn so much listening to Mr. Sheldrake and consequently realize just how much more I need to learn about life. This great show continues to raise the bar of consciousness, thank you!

The world is enchanting to all those with any vision or imagination. The seers and artists in particular. A lot of children having charming relationships with the world around them. It is about sensitivity, imagination, vision, playfulness and open mindedness. Magic is all around us and the simplest of natural wonders such as a bird, tree or stream is far more impressive than computers or the internet...

An incredibly advanced, deep, intelligent person. His talks are fascinating and strangely calming, like listening to a spiritual teacher such as Eckhart Tolle in a way.

Rupert sheldrake is such a treasure 🙏💟

When i was at my neighbor's house talking to him worriedly his red Cocker spaniel came up and rolled a tennis ball to my feet with it's nose and looked up in anticipation. i had dogs and they hardly ever showed this level of intelligence. I obliged her and soccer flicked the ball with my toe whereupon started a game between man & dog.

It seems that an intention, once appeared in one's mind, becomes an entity that emits a certain type of energy that can be described by parameters like power, propagation extent, frequency, and more. Dogs must have some kind of sensory abilities to detect those intentions.

We are so blessed to have Rupert Sheldrake! 😘🥰😘🥰

Please send love to my parrot SitaRam whose 41 years old (human years). He’s been such a rock to my family system but very ill and has been for last six months. Please send your healing love to him 🙏🏼

Love this topic -I wish more people were aware of this knowledge that you are imparting.

What a truly heavenly man. Thank you so much for spreading the love. 49:00 I'm sure that story about the aged Labrador brought tears to many eyes. What a beautiful thing. Animals are real unique subjects. If only we could see this.

When I feel a change in myself - sudden new thought of sadness or curiousness, a micro expression and a shift within my mood (but without physically reacting) my dog will get up and stare at me!

Intelligence and open mindedness is a key combo in a mind of a true genius…..

One of the best and most fascinating videos around. Thanks you David and Dr Sheldrake. Rupert Sheldrake is just one of the most incredible people. His amazing family are equally special. I saw Peter Fenwick was chairing - it would have been lovely to have seen him too.

We have a Basset Beagle mix that is about 12 years old now. She has always amazed me with her knowing when my Wife is driving up the street when the turn is 300 yards away, and in different vehicles as has been the case from time to time. Also, not that I’m proud of it but If I have cause to get angry or frustrated but show no outward sign.. I will say hit my hand with a tool and rather than scream aloud I will sort or scream inside and maybe tense my muscles… but no sound is made and no physical action is committed … I have seen my dogs tail go between her legs and she will skulks away as if she knows to get out of there, just from the energy in the room changing… Thank you Rupert, you and McKenna etc.. have opened my eyes to so much

I am concerned about small birds in Tottenham area, there were many small birds visiting in my garden, I love to have their morning songs and visits, where they could have gone? There are only left crows, pigeons, magpies and seaguls and no as many as before... it feels like a weird silence since the small ones left and I miss their songs ... 😥 Thank you for your talks, your talks are the voice of sanity in this times. So grateful. Jumpy, the cat that lives with me is changing places to sleep and also his behaviour since he is not well, knocking staff around, he also spend lots of time in the garden even when is raining lightly... and makes a lots of sounds which he never did before... he loves to sit with me to meditate and he loves crystals, mostly selenite 💎🐈 he waits for me at the entrance at home and head touch mine to great eachother, he insist to great everyone that comes home, mostly if they dont like cats ☺️

I could listen to Rupert Sheldrake for hours and never not be fully engaged. So much of the intuitive sensitivity or apparent telepathic capacity of animals has been drummed out of humans at an early age. The deadening effects of our materialistic paradigm seems to alienate us from this aspect of ourselves. The professional skeptics inhabit this oppressive dead zone.

What a lovely idea about the beauty of flowers being a dialogue between the plant and animal kingdoms.

Canaries were inadvertently used to detect noxious gasses in a mine. Talking about unexplained knowledge I witnessed today (and even had a go myself) a water board worker dowsing to find the buried drainage - I had an interesting discussion with him and he says it is the most reliable way of finding water runs under ground, he said you have to actually think about the water underground for it to work - and work it does, as I can attest! He was using two non-ferrous coat hangers bent at right angles, held loosely, to get a good result

Lovely to listen to you again after all these years. My puppy has been trying to copy me doing stretching exercises. I was putting my hands on the wall to stretch my calf muscles, and the pup put his paws up on the wall at the side of me. He loves going to dog creche and having fun with a range of different breeds of dogs. He does recognise different words and today, he must have known he was going to creche because he jumped into the car for the very first time. Rupert, I like your view that our pets keep us in the present, in the now.

I love you Rupert.Thank you for linking the termite mounds to morphicfields. You stimulated my mind in a strange way : )

04:55 "It was a death camp for animals." Even the brightest are particularly vulnerable to co-optation and working against their own interests.

Thank you Mr. Sheldrake I follow you since very long and you mean a lot to me.

Bless you, thank you.

How lovely, watching and observing animals .. one of my favorite past times in nature.. They do pay attention, we should pay attention to them!

I knew when my husband died. He had to go into the hospital and I knew when I took him in that he was never coming out. He was in for 2 months and would get some better, then a lot worse; a little better then even worse. I knew a few days before that he was dying and I told him that he was not going to make it if they didn't figure out what was wrong with him. The day before, they told us they couldn't do anything for him and they would send him home the next day on hospice. I didn't want to leave him that night, but I didn't have anyone to walk the dog and I needed to do a few things to prepare for Hospice to bring in a bed and equipment. I woke up early crying and I just knew. I was getting dressed when a nurse called and told me to come in because he had suddenly gotten bad. It was pouring down rain and flooding, but I didn't try to hurry or be unsafe because I knew I wouldn't make it. The doctor called me before I had even made it halfway there. When I got the death certificate, I looked at the time. He died right around the time I woke up. He was either gone before the nurse actually called me, or he died while the nurse was on his way to call. There was probably about 10 minutes between when I woke up and I got the call.

Dr. Sheldrake, do you know of Bunny the dog? She can communicate with her owners via speech buttons. It’s amazing to see what she says and thinks about. For example, she is able to talk about dreams. Thank you for your wonderful talks!

Hey Rupert, sending love through the morphogenetic feild ❤ Tatum

I've never heard of you , nor have I ever seen anyone else but me type or write the words how to learn outside mechanics and 50/50 if it's redundant english. But I am well learned (I dabble anyway) and not even 9 minutes in you said "what I refer to as " and leaned forward to drop the goods. Bona fidelis. Looking forward to perusing this channel see whatcha got on this... place that I missed.

Loving your work, Dr Rupert. I have only recently came across your RU-vid videos. Your talk with Graham Hancock was a great listen. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Absolutely beautiful!

👍 Watching your channel 👍 Hello from Virginia 🇺🇸

One night I came home and went to sleep with a mind-numbing distress, went to sleep with terrible dreams, but was awakened by my dog who had jumped up on the bed and nudged me insistantly awake with her paw. I opened my eyes to see her staring at me with extremely wide eyes and acting very alarmed. I'd never ever seen her behave like this....she then launched off the bed like a rocket and smashed her head right into the wall, I thought her neck had been broken, but she survived but almost totally paralyzed. She slowly recovered as I tended to her every day during several months that were also extraordinarily difficult for me. As she got better I got better as I took care of her, carried her from place to place, nursed her etc. I can't help but think she did this (having been, up until this night, a totally healthy young dog) out of a profound empathy for my state of mind. She'd always been one of those dogs who ALWAYS seemed to be able to know what was going on inside my head. (She made a complete recovery in about 4 months, going from where she couldn't move any part of her body except her head, back to running around like the carefree, lovable nut she was!)! I've seen quite a few examples of this mind-melding occurring with dogs and other animals.

Much respect to you and what you do, Dr. Sheldrake, in helping more people realize how animals are far from being machines as Descartes once thought to the detriment of so many creatures. The idiomatic expressions and metaphors attached to animals (animosity between cats and dogs, for example) are largely erroneous and unfair. We have so much to learn from animals and as you said yes we're on top of the food chain but we're not at the top of other departments such as mobility, athleticism, or even something as noble as unconditional love.

I am Very aware that my dog ans I chose eachother and that I am helping her rise in consciousness as much as she is me. My awakening centers around our experiences and taught me true love. No kids and I know this was always my choice. She is becoming Self aware, I know this as much as I know my own name

How lovely. Thank you, Rupert.

Great work. Always will remember the gift of cup a of tea and a free book. Has hardly changed since. Glad to see

I see all animals as spiritual beings and part of consciousness. I couldn’t stand the thought of animals suffering or find any reason for the killing of animals and years ago this really started to bother me. I decided to become a Vegan a year ago exactly and I will never go back. I hope to contribute more to animal welfare in the future. Thank you for your beautiful video !! God Bless!

Thank you for this wonderful session

Invaluable knowledge. Thank you gentlemen

At the joy-and-bliss part a dog started barking outside. 🐶☺

Thank you for your labor ❣️

Thank you somuch for this wonderful insight, I would like to mention Stowbridge common fair, which, existed long before the City of Cambridge, and was where Newton purchased his prisms and lenses, also in general terms where as humans spend much of their time in, what I call future think, and animals are in the right now, and recalled experience, possibly ancestral memory, so pick up lumps in the road ahead more easily than we can. thanks again . Jay Cambridge

Nifty ! Good one. Damn straight ! There is absolutely NOTHING unreasonable about any of this imo.

I have experienced Heavenly bliss.

Thank you.

Your are a Treasure to humanity Sir...Thank You for posting!...I could only hope that this video would have 50 or a 100 Million views Minimum...

Amazing, Just purchased 7 experiments...feeling inspired

In a recent Rudolf Steiner channeling he got asked "is there life on mars" ? He answered yes, but he was referring to rocks which we generally consider to be inanimate.

I lived in the mountains in Scotland. The hill cows would come down to the barns the day before it snowed.

Rupert your a dude, I can dig it bro. Much love.

The occasion when I felt the deep peace of the Lord most strongly was when there was an enormous crowd of what I thought at first were crows, but which I learnt later must have been jackdaws, they were flying over my father's very ancient garden, sometimes so low that when I was throwing my stick for the dog I was worried I might hit one. It was odd, it went on for about 20 minutes and was beautifully intense and deep. The jackdaws seemed to be riding currents of air and were making an unusual noise 'rrrr 'as if they were trying to imitate doves crooning, only of course the sound was much coarser than that, they weren't very good at their impression. But having listened to this I wonder if what I experienced as that great and beautiful peace was actually the morphic field which the birds were responding to, or using or creating among themselves allowing them to do this gliding dance. Or perhaps the peace as we experience it is the same as the morphic field?

During a minor earthquake occurring in neighbouring Austria, my in-laws's parrot started throwing itself from the top of its cage to the bottom repeatedly. It was very disturbing to watch. We as humans had no other clue that anything was wrong and found out about the earthquake the following day.

Yes yes yes! Thank you Rupert ......

Before my mum passed away, she got two cats, both black female cats, one was younger and full of life and very social, was always around my mum and sisters like 24/7 (Fruity) the other was a mother with a large primordial pouch and she was very shy and skittish, she would hide under beds and stuff and spent more time with me from the start (Minx) (I'm good with cats as well, I can have cats eating out of my hand and their owners are shocked the cat is anywhere near me, and I always attract strays and stuff) but basically, on I think literally the same day that my mum passed away in the hospital, the social cat (fruity) stopped eating and drinking entirely, I was very distraught so I didn't pay it enough mind and didn't realise it hadn't been eating or drinking. By the time I realised, she had gone very skinny and began having a raspy meow, I took her to the vets and told them she clearly has grief (All she did was mope around the house and sit in my mum's room on her chair or on her clothes, she even had some type of water collecting at the bottom of her eye that looked like a tear, she looked sullen and depressed) and the vet said it might be grief, but she's probably just got an infection, tried to ambush me with a predatory bill for hospitalising my cat which I couldn't afford, so I had to buy some antibiotics for her and take her home and force feed her. I force fed her and she was fighting, but not very hard, I did force her to drink and even got her to start eating little bits of food, but sadly she passed away a few days later, she literally didn't eat for like 4 or 5 days I reckon, she 100% refused the food. The other cat, Minx, began warming up to me and my girlfriend massively and began expressing her personality more, and she definitely is a minx, she is very loving and is practically glued to us and to me. Around the time my mum was about to pass away, she would come and sit on my chest in bed and stare at the corner of the room above my head and kept looking above me for long periods of time, as if she was looking at my mum above us, she comes and consoles me and snuggles me and gets me to play with her when I start getting stressed or thinking about heavy stuff, I don't think I'm giving her a tell so I don't know. Sometimes I can feel her staring at me, I'll look and she is. She spends a lot of time staring at me lol, I don't know why. I feel like in a happy home, a cats life in general, is bliss, they always seem content to be able to just chill, sit in the sun, eat and sleep. They're creatures of pleasure. I've had many weird, semi-spiritual experiences with a range of animals, like one time in Nigeria when I was circled menacingly by a pack of wild dogs just outside of my hotel but none of them barked and then just let me go, or this one period of time where I woke up like 3 times to spiders lowering themselves right above my face (I hate spiders so that was a definite death wish on their part) or this one time I was taking a psychedelic, and a single, tiny fly with a very loud buzz decided to fly through my window and annoy me for a bit, it was stressing me because I didn't want to be tripping and trying to chase a fly away like a crazy man, I checked with my girlfriend to see if she could hear it and if it was as loud to her, she said yeah , so idk. I've always loved nature, but from afar, but it's been invading my home recently lol.

Terry was a Dalmatian who loved Guido and always sat on the front step of home in Mosman N.Queensland, half an hour before Guido returned. Guido worked on a tobacco farm at Mary River, 50 miles away and never knew when he would finish work and what time or day he would come home.

Thank you

7 experiments is an amazing reed you can feel the passion with witch it was written, it was as good as the best novels to me

thank you

53:00 divine joy and divine pain. there is much of the latter here right now being tapped into consciously and subconsciously

Very interesting and inspiring, thanks. Something clicked in my head, with regards to dogs and human language. It seems to me that when we refer to ourselves when talking to another, we don't say the name which they know us as, we say me, myself or I etc. We don't speak in the third perspective, because we don't perceive as much in the third perspective. With an exception for the in-sane ;) Dogs most likely experience in the third perspective. By "third perspective", I mean experiencing everything as one, but with or through the perspective of it's senses. And so we might communicate better with animals if we used our own name when referring the animals to ourselves individually, or even as a group. For example. We are not "us" or "them", we are "family" or "friends". The only reason animals know our names, I'm sure a great deal of the time, is due to watching us react to our name being called. It might not be for them or their experience that we have a name, but that a name has us temporarily; the third perspective there again. I hear the ancient Greeks were far more open and honest with each other than peoples today. Were they more of the body? More in touch with nature or the "real", the present, instead of abstraction? This is probably a part of Nietzsche speaking through me. I remember he tended to be more favourable towards the older Greek philosophers. Before Socrates and Plato.

I would like to add to the experience shared below (a year ago by @follonica1 ) in that I too witnessed similar behavior in response to the SAME chant if you can believe it. However it was with a wild rhino. ( wild in a reserve almost 28,000 hectares) Fortunately it was my friend Val who was chanting and so I was able to capture on film. Unfortunately my presence ended the intimate moment - but not before I was able to witness for myself. Dr. Sheldrake - I love what you do and would be happy to send you the pictures and video if you would like proof. Thank you, Colleen.

I have a PhD in molecular biology so pretty sceptical by nature but my dog knows seems to know when I’m coming home, my wife notices him go and wait for me when I go out on the weekend and come home at random times. I thought maybe he could hear my car but he is doing it long before I arrive, around the time I start heading home from what I can tell.

My last dog Speckles Mcgillacuty loved to go to the vet, it was a food related activity, She would do anything for food, even sell me down the river.

Although I very much enjoyed Dr. Sheldrake's talk & agree with most of his views, there were a few problems that I think need clarifying. These problems are largely due to cultural differences but this western (or modern) view is so prevalent & generally accepted as factual that it needs to be clarified as cultural bias. The problems stem from the idea that these modern/western views are universal, that they are basic human characteristics that apply to all known peoples past & present. The dominant modern views re: man's relationship with other animals & the idea that humans are superior to other animals -- these are cultural views common to a great many peoples/societies, but there have been many peoples whose views were so radically different that it's difficult to translate these views into terms that are understandable. These alternate societies include most if not all the known peoples native to the Americas prior to the invasion & colonization starting in the late 15th c. (Many native peoples continued to hold their traditional views after centuries of colonization, retaining these views up into the 21st c, but in order to make it easier to contrast traditional native views with the dominant modern views, I am using pre-Col. views as examples. This isn't to suggest that these native peoples have disappeared.) The general view of known native peoples was that humans were one of many species of animals, that humans had certain characteristics that differentiated them from other animals but each animal species had particular characteristics or qualities that were necessary parts of nature that contributed to the whole. Each kind of animal (species) was seen as a distinct people/tribe with its own way of life, with each of these animal peoples having its own distinct contributions to life as a whole (i.e., to the Earth, the Earth as a living being), with the many different animal peoples (including the human one) adding its own special ways to form an overall whole that we know as 'Nature' or 'Earth'. There was no division of life into animate & inanimate. The various parts of Nature (the perceived world), whether animal or mountain or air, interacted to contribute to the ongoing living Earth. As is now generally accepted by specialists (archeology, 'Native Am. studies', etc), no known native people recognized the concept of deity, although unfortunately most specialists continue to use terms such as 'god' to refer to native concepts such as Wakan Tonka, Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, & the other named spiritual concepts recognized by native peoples. As Vine Deloria, Jr, explains in his revised edition of 'God Us Red: A Native View of Religion' ('94), the Lakota term 'Wakan Tonka' is usually translated as 'the Great Being', but this is very misleading because it is usually seen as synonymous with 'god ' or 'supreme being'. Deloria explains that 'Wakan Tonka' is a very complex concept that cannot be adequately translated into English but that the closest translation would be 'the Great Mysteriousness.' As Deloria points out, the term Wakan Tonka was translated as 'Great Spirit' by Joseph Epes Brown for the autobiographical book of Black Elk, well known as 'Black Elk Speaks'. The book became very popular during the '60s with 'counterculture' audiences, with 'the Great Spirit' gaining popular usage as a synonym for 'God', leading to the popular idea that The Great Spirit as recognized by the Lakota was merely the Christian God by another name. As Deloria explains, there was no such concept among the traditional Lakota, that among native peoples in general the idea of a deity in the western sense was unknown prior to 'contact'. (Deloria's 'God Is Red' is probably the best comparative study of Christianity & Native religions as well as the most extensive interpretation of traditional native spirituality. The idea that all peoples have considered human beings superior to other animals, that humans are somehow outside or above 'nature', etc-- these concepts were alien to all known pre-Col. peoples. A great many such modern concepts were also foreign. Peoples of the Americas developed & evolved independently of the 'old world' for millennia and much of what is thought to be universal among human cultures does not apply to the pre-contact Americas. Major concepts of gender, of religion, of 'nature' developed very differently in the Americas. Traditional views of animals & plants bear little resemblance to 'old world' views. In recent years there has been the start of deeper study of the ways native peoples developed radically different methods of cultivating plants & animals that involved partnerships between species rather than more coercive methods known elsewhere.

45:40 Dogs go into a meditative state waiting outside the Bakers. Well, most husbands also achieve this state when waiting for their owner..I mean, wife outside a' clothes shop. ;P

Interesting, Douglas Murray wrote a little about enchantment in last week's Speccie.

Earthquake monitoring, I believe, relies on vibration detection - essentially, very low frequency movement and sound. Since animals, certainly dogs and cats, have extremely good high frequency hearing, shouldn’t we be monitoring vhf and uhf sounds for early earthquake detection?

Thank you, Dr Sheldrake ☺ Thoroughly enjoying the presentation. Had to pause, at the 'human seismologists cannot predict earthquakes, and many say it is, in fact, impossible' section. This field has moved on somewhat. RU-vid channel Suspicious Observers has been accurately predicting large magnitude, 6 and above on the Richter scale, earthquakes for several years now, with an accuracy of 93%+. This is done using outgoing long wave radiation, and global electric circuit indicators, such as hurricanes and tropical storms, combined with deeper, 'blot-echo' earthquakes. This is also being taught post-grad level, and some governments have launched satellites specifically to look for these data. Hope this is of help.

🙏🌾🌿thank you .....

Whereas Rupert depends upon unbiased observation and analytic intelligence, he's surrounded by several levels of bureaucratic, unthinking ciphers whose main concern is their own artificial prestige and security.

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I met a little kitten behind a fence that wanted to get out, and it understood where I pointed that it had to go back a bit and around. It struck me as weird, because who had taught the kitten to understand where I pointed and what I meant to say? I think consciousness might be a field and we humans are like knots in this consciousness, and a human pulls other weaker knots with her when she clearly directs her will somewhere. Or it could be like in the bible where both in hebrew and greek there is a word for soul and another word that we in modern day translate as spirit but that means wind in both greek and hebrew, and spirit from latin also means wind. So maybe our inner wind depending on how clear or how strong it is directs the inner wind of other people and animals, so they know what we are referring to

I know someone that tamed a scorpion. Seems that one can bond with nearly all animals.

It struck me that for humanity to survive the challenges we face we're going to need to become like termites - group mind, but one that is attuned to the needs of the earth. :-)