Striking Symphonies

© David Moorhead — April 2006

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If Spring is appearing where you are,
butterflies and dragonflies delicately wing their
slender selves over lawns and blossoming flowerbeds.
Seen from my abode the creek caresses a
grove of fully leafed oaks;
imagining trees, butterflies, and dragonflies as
stunningly striking symphonies of matchless sounds of beauty.

Take a moment to imagine beautiful symphonies sounding so loudly from those flowerbeds that we should be looking twice, and gawk at hearing their extraordinary music!

Let me take you by the hand to the creek just outside my doorway. Let’s say you see a dragonfly hovering several feet in front of you as we stand on the bank of the creek. You whisper, “Look, David, see that dragonfly hovering over the water?”

“Yeah,” I’d whisper back, “that dragonfly seems to be hovering over the water.”

After a thump to the back of my head, you ask, “You’re not going to interrupt a perfectly good moment of admiring nature with a science commentary, are you?”

“Uh huh,” sheepishly spoken, “but it’s ALL just too good! Can we talk? I’ll get the sodas while you get the chairs, and we’ll talk here beside the creek.”

“Okay, David. We’re sittin'. Now spill the beans! I’m all ears!”

We humans’ optical receivers can’t compare to the dragonfly who has approximately 30,000 itty bitty optical units. It’s highly likely that dragonfly isn’t hovering over the creek seen by you and me. Dragonflies sense their world around them from within their sensibilities; we see dragonflies within ours.

What do you imagine would happen if that dragonfly puts our level of consciousness into itself? That pretty little fly-about would likely perish in half an hour! It would’ve been shocked breathless after the collapse of its colorful world into a newly splintered awareness.

It’s been common to negate the suggestion that (the physical) Universe and any earthly beings other than humans are conscious or have sensibilities. What’s far easier for industrialized citizens is to stuff nature and Universe into a bottle, and examine either within the safety of humans’ five senses. As we shout from the baseball field on behalf of people groomed by the Industrial Age, “Steeehriiieek ONE!”

As scientists keep noticing the physical universe is unfolding itself to them, little by little projecting intuitive abilities onto nature is admissible. In traditional circles, projection is a really good idea when scientists want to ditch the social life and sink perfectly sound reputations.

Believe for a minute that other species, beings, et al., are seeing us, feeling us, and evaluating humans’ behaviors; they have, and are, and will out of their consciousness peculiar to their worlds. Again, let’s shout from a ballpark on behalf of humans’ reckless habits in nature, “Steeehriiieek TWO!”

Muse the strikingly different symphonies of compassionate awarenesses within every single living being on Planet Earth. Every type of fish, every type of mammal, every type of bird, insect, worm — all species are ringing out myriad upon myriad symphonies of consciousness that only that species can celebrate in their particular communities!

Let’s applaud the symphonies playing harmoniously, swirling around and within all beings! Universal symphonies of interconnected color, depth perception, awareness, empathic richness, and invisible harmonics are being observed by the elegance of mathematics. Considering Planet Earth’s states of affairs, citizenries grimace at governments’ dissonance, which jars our sensibilities of fascinating, striking symphonies of beauty. On behalf of all crafty sovereignties, “Steeehriiieek THREE!”

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead