A HUMAN BIRTHRIGHT

Every amoeba has chemoreceptors (for 'smelling and tasting'), and a generalised sensitivity to light and vibration. All life forms have this generalised sensitivity, the panorama mode, and all except humans use it to survive.

The panoramic mode must have evolved previous to focusing. Examples of this can be found in human babies who take around 12 weeks before their eyes can focus at any distance. It is also evident in plant consciousness, with mosses and ferns evolving before curling creepers and flowers which 'focus on' and follow the sun around.

The panoramic mode has been around since life began. This is something we were all born with – and it's nothing mystical like a spirit body, nothing philosophical, or religious, nothing we have to believe in for it to work, nothing sublime like love which we have to work on – it's a practical physiological ability which every human child has, and our culture has blindly and inadvertently suppressed.

It's our human birthright. "It is there within us all the while" Tao Te King Taoism started in China around 600 BCE. It teaches harmony with nature rather than supreme enlightenment. Taoists practised panoramic sensing. See Tao and Zen for details.
Arthur Waley translation 1934, Chapter 6.

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