Animals have two ways of using their senses, focused and
Modern day humans only train and develop their focusing abilities. We are neglecting something which every other animal uses to survive.
WELCOME TO THE PANORAMA
Focused sensing is always selective, it focuses on specific small areas. Its primary use is to do all the things which animals need or want.
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.
Most birds have a sensitivity to ultraviolet light; a quick panoramic glance enables them to detect any threatening life forms.
Land animals watch, listen, and smell, for short periods of time to detect movements or changes.
Animals coordinate or alternate almost all of their focused activities with panoramic awareness. This is a balance. Their survival depends on it.
A Common Everyday Sense
Life started panoramically. Every amoeba has chemoreceptors (for 'smelling and tasting') and a generalised sensitivity to light and vibration.Panoramic sensing evolved and developed because it was the most efficient way of connecting us directly with our entire local surroundings.
Panoramic awareness is a very simple, everyday, and ordinary way of sensing. It knows no ideas, no choices, no cause and effect, no truth or lies.
Throughout evolution, it has been the natural way to switch off, stop doing or wanting anything, and be actively receptive for a moment.
Sensing in the panoramic way is a different way of experiencing life. It's a feeling of being with all we're sensing.
The senses are often seen as the door between us and the world outside us. In the panoramic reality, our senses connect us with the world. The feeling is : we are the door.
Whereas vulnerable animals usually alternate panoramic and focused sensing, predators combine the two. Predators watch over a wide area with the intention of catching prey. The predatory usage is governed by focusing.
The Human Experiment
Humans secured their survival by developing these focusing abilities. Unlike all other animals, we learnt how to survive without actively using our panorama senses.We developed an astounding ability to think – to focus on memories and learn. We learnt how to shape flint tools, to make fire, and wheels, then cars, planes, and internet. Focusing can be amazingly clever and creative, and it gets things done. And gradually our modern civilisation developed.
Until nowadays, when our modern early education of focused sensing and thinking, undermines our panoramic abilities before they even start to develop.
And we don't even bother to recognise that all we do, think, and want, is because of focusing, everyone does it. It's normal. We hardly remember that there is another way of experiencing life.
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. We are overfocusing – closed-minded, greedy, and self-centred.
Animals would become extinct if they overfocused.
Panoramic awareness is the natural counterbalance to focusing, and the cure for overfocusing.
Animals Are The Living Proof
Animals are the experts. They've been using this balance for billions of years – it is clearly part of a successful survival strategy.They are the living example and proof that it works.
Human children are born with this way of being in touch with and sensing the world.
We must balance our increasing stimulation and early education of focused reading, writing, and thinking, with an early education and encouragement of the panorama mode.
Creating a Balanced World
From the way we use our senses, we create the world we feel.We are not using all our basic and natural sensory abilities to experience the world and our lives; we have a limited experience of life.
Panoramic awareness is an innate potential which we have collectively learnt to ignore, it is probably the only natural resource which humans don't exploit.
If we want to live a balanced life, then we must use our senses in a balanced way.
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