Stalking game as a meditation teacher
Hm, keeping up a blog on a semi-daily basis is more time-consuming that I anticipated, so here I am a week later!
Somewhere I read that humans originally learned to meditate by stalking game - i.e. learning to remain totally still and also not to 'think' because an animal can telepathically pick up thoughts focused on them. Also, it turns out that our ears transmit a signal as well as receiving them. Perhaps the animals 'hear us hearing?'
And of course, 'stalking' can be done with a camera and not with a weapon. Hunters / wild animal photographers rapidly discover that directing their gaze at – or their thoughts at – their target usually triggers a rapid departure. Some citation/sources for these ideas:
"Where the Spirits Ride the Wind" by Felicitas D. Goodman, Ph.D.
She advanced the theory that primitive sculptures of shamans teach us postures that can put us into specific trance states. I like her work a lot. She's advanced in age, but her work is carried on by others via The Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe. A review of her book can be found at:
http://homestar.org/bryannan/goodman.html
also see
"Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook" by her co-worker Belinda Gore
Animals' telepathy came from Rupert Sheldrake's book 'The Sense of Being Stared At : And Other Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind' – New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2003
I personally have found myself using 'no mind' when trying to approach a wild animal, or for example (and this is a good experiment for anyone) encouraging a butterfly to land on your finger. Stick your finger out when a butterfly is around, but do not think AT the butterfly. Think about what a beautiful day it is, or concentrate on the sky or something else – or just relax and focus on the breath.
As far as the ear as a sound transmitter, I found these via a Google on 'Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions.'
http://medical.webends.com/kw/Otoacoustic+Emissions,+Spontaneous
http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0303/anthologyi.html
and for a history of the discovery:
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/about_us/history/auditory_biophysics.shtml
and also:
http://www.earaces.com/oaes.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ent/topic372.htm
Somewhere I read that humans originally learned to meditate by stalking game - i.e. learning to remain totally still and also not to 'think' because an animal can telepathically pick up thoughts focused on them. Also, it turns out that our ears transmit a signal as well as receiving them. Perhaps the animals 'hear us hearing?'
And of course, 'stalking' can be done with a camera and not with a weapon. Hunters / wild animal photographers rapidly discover that directing their gaze at – or their thoughts at – their target usually triggers a rapid departure. Some citation/sources for these ideas:
"Where the Spirits Ride the Wind" by Felicitas D. Goodman, Ph.D.
She advanced the theory that primitive sculptures of shamans teach us postures that can put us into specific trance states. I like her work a lot. She's advanced in age, but her work is carried on by others via The Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe. A review of her book can be found at:
http://homestar.org/bryannan/goodman.html
also see
"Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook" by her co-worker Belinda Gore
Animals' telepathy came from Rupert Sheldrake's book 'The Sense of Being Stared At : And Other Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind' – New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2003
I personally have found myself using 'no mind' when trying to approach a wild animal, or for example (and this is a good experiment for anyone) encouraging a butterfly to land on your finger. Stick your finger out when a butterfly is around, but do not think AT the butterfly. Think about what a beautiful day it is, or concentrate on the sky or something else – or just relax and focus on the breath.
As far as the ear as a sound transmitter, I found these via a Google on 'Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions.'
http://medical.webends.com/kw/Otoacoustic+Emissions,+Spontaneous
http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0303/anthologyi.html
and for a history of the discovery:
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/about_us/history/auditory_biophysics.shtml
and also:
http://www.earaces.com/oaes.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ent/topic372.htm
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