THE VALUE of SENSING THE CHANGES

Parent Page : The Benefits / Change is Reality and Therefore Secure

The value of panoramic sensing lies in noticing all the sudden changes and movements and being able to stay safe.

If changes and movements were predictable then animals wouldn't need their panoramic abilities, they would know when and where danger was going to happen.

In this small immediate world, one day i hear a dog barking three times, then two days nothing, then another bark, i don't know why and i don't question it. A small fly does a chaotic wiggling dance, probably unique – how could i question it?

Panoramic sensing evolved to recognise, feel safe and remain open in those conditions, in exactly that sort of insecure and chaotic environment.

My experience and the blackbirds experience of the panoramic world is life at face value without any interpretation or abstract thought.

Change always happens here and now, and by being directly aware of the changes as they are happening, we become real and alive.

We are missing the opportunity to just be amazed at real life in this spontaneous and creative random reality.

Humans Are Predictable
Humans have walls and weapons, moral codes, and laws to protect us, we have no reason to feel threatened, except by other humans who ignore the rules. We organised life with clocks and roads. And then we conformed to the patterns we created.

It seems this practical security among humans has led to indifference and lack of awareness.

Modern humans almost always make predictable movements with a predictable momentum. They are almost always horizontal and they stick to the paths. Humans are boring!

Compare this to a hedgehog, squirrel or a bird, the sudden starts and stops, the round-about routes they take from A to B.

Abstract Security
Human ingenuity has provided us with many wonderful examples of abstract understanding and security. Philosophers have ideas about opposites becoming one. Poets make up stories about the circle of life.

In the real world there are very few true opposites. The only things which are perfect opposites are things like electric lights, because there's an on-off switch which humans made.

And life only rarely changes in circles; it's more like a jungle of pogo-sticks connected with rubber bands.

We're always adding another level of abstraction to our understanding – our focused world-view. But by ignoring panoramic reality, we're always moving one step further away from reality and the truth.

In previous times we used focused abstract thought to make sense of the real tactile world – now we need to be in touch with the random reality in the world again, in order to make sense of how it feels to be alive.

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