SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
Focused sensing is always selective, it focuses on specific small areas. Animals use it to do all the things which they want or need.
Panoramic sensing is a receptive all-round awareness. It's a state of being open, ready and waiting. Its primary use is to guard against danger – it makes life safe.
Both forms of sensing can be used with concentration or casually.
Animals coordinate or alternate almost all of their focused activities with panoramic awareness. This is a balance. Their survival depends on it.
Most birds have a sensitivity to ultraviolet light; 
a quick panoramic glance allows them to detect any threatening life forms.
Land animals must watch, listen, and smell, for short periods of time to detect movements or changes.
A Common Everyday Sense
Life started panoramically. Every amoeba has chemoreceptors (for 'smelling and tasting') and a generalised sensitivity to light and vibration.Panoramic awareness evolved and developed because it was the most efficient way of sensing our entire local surroundings.
It is a very simple, everyday, and ordinary way of sensing. It knows no ideas, no truth or lies, no cause and effect.
Throughout evolution, it's been the natural way to switch off, stop doing or wanting anything, and be actively receptive for a moment; ready and waiting.
Sensing in the panoramic way is the feeling of being directly in touch with all we're sensing. It's a different way of experiencing life
The senses are often seen as the door between us and the world outside us. In the panoramic reality, our senses connect us directly with what we sense. The feeling is : we are the door.
Animals have been using their senses in this way for billions of years – it's clearly part of a successful survival strategy.
Whereas vulnerable animals usually alternate panoramic and focused sensing, predators combine the two. Predators generally watch over a wide area with the intention of catching specific prey. The predatory usage is governed by focusing on their prey.
The Human Experiment
Humans secured their survival by developing advanced focusing abilities. Unlike all other animals, we learnt how to survive without actively using our panorama senses.We developed an astounding ability to think and understand – to focus on memories and learn. We discovered how to shape flint tools, to make fire, and wheels, and gradually our modern civilisation developed. Focusing can be amazingly clever and creative, and it gets things done.
The problem is that nowadays, our modern early education of focused sensing and thinking, overwhelms and 
undermines our panoramic abilities before they even start to develop.
And we just don't recognise that everything we think, want, plan, or do is happening because of focusing. We don't remember that there is another way of experiencing life.
Our only knowledge of panoramic sensing comes from the subliminal use of the horizontal peripheries when driving, to alert us to something we might need to focus on.
After an amazing million-year long history of focusing for our survival, our one-sided strategy has now led us to a point of critical overload.
Today's free cultures are fracturing into extremes. And all we think we can do is to focus on trying to find answers.
Animals would become extinct if they only ever focused.
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