Profundity

Honor All Levels Of Depth

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Key Assertions That Help To Summarize This Article:

Humans, composed of all levels of depth––Spirit, matter, life, mind, and Soul––are, thus, the most significant performers of the symphony of the universe.

Humans allow the Universe to achieve its own recognition.

A great source of knowledge is one’s psyche during dreams, especially if one tends to them by making associations, by amplifying them, or by animating them.

Revere both the lower levels and the upper levels of a person’s spiritual development without exceptions; as all material things, life, and mind are manifestations of Spirit. At the same time, be able to make distinctions in fundamental, built-in, intrinsic worth based on the gradations of depth––levels of spiritual maturity.

Spirit pervades all cosmic persuasions: matter, life, mind, and Soul. Humans are composed of Spirit, matter, life, mind, and Soul. They also can achieve high levels of spiritual maturity, becoming, if they wish and work to achieve it, the level of a secular saint.

This level is achieved by those who are driven easily to fight injustice for the sake of all sentient beings. Also, being self aware, they allow the Universe to achieve its own recognition.

Everything is to be honored, but humans hold a special place. They are the most significant performers of the symphony of the universe.

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HumaNatureConnect Activity

Honoring All Levels Of Depth

For this activity, honor the whole Chain of Being, from the simplest beings to the most complex beings. In this activity, we will be honoring for the sake of others and not just for the sake of you as a Heartwood Path participant. In order for this honoring to be felt beyond yourself and beyond other humans, it will be helpful to find sensitivities that other beings have that correspond with senses or sensitivities that you as a human being also have or can develop. Using Dr. Cohen’s System of Natural Senses, we will provide you with a complete list of sensitivities that exist as the various strands throughout the natural web of life. It will be up to you to determine, through observation and imagination, what beings with a particular sensitivity you wish to honor, and how you wish to honor these fellow beings. Use the following set of questions as your guide:

After you answer each of the questions below determine how you could use your natural senses to honor the beings you identify? If you do honor one or more beings, write down your impressions in your journal.

What being do you see or know of that…

1. has the sense of light and sight, including polarized light?

2. has sense of seeing without eyes such as heliotropism or the sun sense of plants?

3. has sense of color?

4. has sense of moods and identities attached to colors?

5. has sense of awareness of one's own visibility or invisibility and consequent camouflaging?

6. has sensitivity to radiation other than visible light including radio waves, X rays, etc?

7. has sense of temperature and temperature change?

8. has sense of season including ability to insulate, hibernate and winter sleep?

9. has electromagnetic sense and polarity which includes the ability to generate current (as in the nervous system and brain waves) or other energies?

10. has hearing including resonance, vibrations, sonar and ultrasonic frequencies?

11. has awareness of pressure, particularly underground, underwater, and to wind and air?

12. has sensitivity to gravity?

13. has the sense of excretion for waste elimination and protection from enemies?

14. has the feeling sense, particularly touch on the skin?

15. has sense of weight, gravity, and balance?

16. has a sense of space or proximity sense?

17. has the Coriolis sense or awareness of effects of the rotation of the Earth?

18. has sense of motion, body movement sensations, and sense of mobility? How could you use this or any other natural sense to honor that being? If you actually do honor this being, write down your impressions in your journal.

19. has the sense of smell with and beyond the nose?

20. has the sense of taste with and beyond the tongue?

21. has an appetite or hunger for food, water, and air?

22. has the natural sense of hunting, killing, or food obtaining urges?

23. has the humidity sense including thirst, evaporation control, and the acumen to find water or evade a flood?

24. has the hormonal sense, as to pheromones and other chemical stimuli?

25. has the sense of pain, external and internal?

26. has the natural sense of mental or spiritual distress?

27. has the natural sense of fear, dread of injury, death, or attack?

28. has procreative urges including sex awareness, courting, love, mating, paternity, and raising young?

29. has the natural sense of play, sport, humor, pleasure, and laughter?

30. has the natural sense of physical place, navigation senses including detailed awareness of land and seascapes, of the positions of the sun, moon, and stars?

31. has the natural sense of time?

32. has the natural sense of electromagnetic fields?

33. has the natural sense of weather changes?

34. has the natural sense of emotional place, of community, belonging, support, trust, and thankfulness?

35. has the natural sense of self including friendship, companionship, and power?

36. has the domineering and territorial sense?

37. has the colonizing sense including compassion and receptive awareness of one's fellow creatures, sometimes to the degree of being absorbed into a superorganism?

38. has the horticultural sense and the ability to cultivate crops, as is done by ants that grow fungus, by fungus who farm algae, or birds that leave food to attract their prey?

39. has the language and articulation sense, used to express feelings and convey information in every medium from the bees' dance to human literature?

40. has the natural sense of humility, appreciation, or ethics.

41. has the natural senses of form and design? How could you use this or any other natural sense to honor that being?

42. has the natural sense of reason, including memory and the capacity for logic and science? How could you use this or any other natural sense to honor that being? If you do honor this being, write down your impressions in your journal.

43. has the natural sense of mind and consciousness?

44. has the natural sense of intuition or subconscious deduction? How could you use this or any other natural sense to honor that being? If you do honor this being, write down your impressions in your journal.

45. has the natural aesthetic sense, including creativity and appreciation of beauty, music, literature, form, design, and drama?

46. has psychic capacity such as foreknowledge, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychokinesis, astral projection, and possibly certain animal instincts and plant sensitivities?

47. has the natural sense of biological and astral time, awareness of past, present, and future events?

48. has the capacity to hypnotize other creatures?

49. has the natural sense of relaxation and sleep including dreaming, meditation, or brain wave awareness?

50. has the natural sense of pupation including cocoon building and metamorphosis?

51. has the sense of excessive stress and capitulation?

52. has the natural sense of survival by joining a more established organism. How could you use this or any other natural sense to honor that being? If you do honor this being, write down your impressions in your journal.

53. has the natural spiritual sense, including conscience, capacity for sublime love, ecstasy, a sense of sin, profound sorrow, and sacrifice? And

54. has the natural sense of aliveness?
    (Cohen, website: http://www.ecopsych.com/insight53senses.html).

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Nocturnal Pilgrimage

Before arriving at the next waypoint, sleep and dream. By being patient and respectful, you can witness your Dream Images (a sunset, for example) and your Dream Characters (a pelican, for example) being alive during your Dream Tending. Doing so will give you insight and a fresh perspective. You will be tapping into the intelligence of the sunset, the pelican, the tree, or the whale. The intelligence of such natural being Dream Images and Characters, especially if you first apply the Natural Systems Thinking Process to these beings during your HumaNatureConnect Activities, will likely come to you during your Dream Tending.