it was a nice birb, a house sparrow, i believe. there's a hole in the awning in front of my work, and the birbs like to get up in there and nest. somehow a bit of string or fishing line got up there and snagged the ankle of the birb, hanging it upside down. so, i grabbed a chair and pair of scissors to set him free. he was freakin out a bit at first, flappin around, but then we made eye contact and had an infinite moment. he relaxed with his wings outstretched, and i quickly snipped the line. with absolute grace he twisted into a vector away from me and glided then flew off across the parking lot.
while my cats may have their own prerogatives, i am a friend to the birbs.
This is what humans are supposed to do...
Protect the animals, save the animals, care for the animals in general.
Good on you for being an effective human and doing what God put us here to do, Genba.
(07-26-2019, 08:35 PM)genba Wrote: [ -> ]but then we made eye contact and had an infinite moment
I have had a few of these instances that were very profound. I made eye contact with a small lizard crawling up a brick wall once... it quickly became telepathic. Not that there were specific thoughts communicated, but it was more like a vibe of recognition and I came away with a 'friends forever' kind of imprint from the experience.
I think we can develop an 'affinity' with animals from these experiences. A mutual affinity.
I communicated with a spider in much the same way years later. I've been in the habit of trying to save spiders instead of just killing them. I don't always succeed at this... and there have been times that I killed spiders (without even really thinking about it, it was just my first response) and then felt really bad about it. To be fair, most of these spiders look like recluses, sooo. It's not like they aren't dangerous. There's just a lot of them in this part of the world. I HAVE been known to save them though...
But this particular one was crawling across the kitchen floor. I got a large cup and put it on the floor to crawl into... it was trying to avoid the obstacle, initially. But after a little bit, I had sent a very firm thought to the spider... "you get in the cup or you die" and it stopped in its tracks, seemed to really get the message, and then it just crawled into the cup and I put it outside.
(07-26-2019, 08:45 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: [ -> ]I think we can develop an 'affinity' with animals from these experiences. A mutual affinity.
It's like we gain "rep" with their species through these experiences.
Talkin to spiders and lizards ...mo you beling in that lsd trippy las vegas movie with johnny depp