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bookofmirrors) wrote2009-01-04 12:09 pm
bookofmirrors) wrote2009-01-04 12:09 pm
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Predators vs. Prey
I keep wanting to link people to this meditation I did a while back, when I first met my Power Animal. I had already been a vegetarian for some time at that point, and my Power Animal was a carnivore, so I was suddenly and randomly feeling the sensation of flesh tearing beneath my teeth, which, on one hand, felt exhilarating, and on the other hand, appalled me. So, I did a meditation on it. I thought I had already posted this somewhere on LJ, but I never find it, either because I never wrote it, or because I didn't tag it (well).
So, I'm putting it here now, so I have a reference point for it.
The meditation ended up being mostly experiential.
As a predator, I felt grounded, in touch with the earth. But my heartbeat* connected with the things on top of the earth. I resonated not with the ground, but the trees. Not with the earthworms, but with all the animals that ran over the surface of the earth. Their heartbeat flowed in my veins, and I was connected with all of them. Their presence and life excited me, perhaps even left me in awe.
As prey, I was connected to the earth - the grasses and the ground itself. Rather than feeling the heartbeat of those animals I shared the surface with, I felt the heartbeat of the Earth itself, low, deep, and soothing - powerful. I was one with it.
However, at the moment where predator takes prey, prey feels what predator feels... there's a sense of being swept up into the faster world of the surface... almost an exhilaration, a "wow". This is the final gift of predator to prey. (EDIT: I didn't write this down originally, but I'm sure I remember that this gift went both ways... that the predator, as he ate the prey, got a sense of that deep thrumming Earth heartbeat, and connected with that.)
Overall, in the whole dance, there was a sense of passion. Passion in the reverence that predator felt for prey, passion in the final moment's of the prey's life.
At one point in the meditation, I was in turned a caveman, who I would have thought would be more in connection, but I actually felt less of a connection to the Earth - too consumed with trying to survive to feel that passion. However, when I was a Native American, I could feel a harmonious blend between the predator and prey energy. Perhaps this is the gift of humans when they live in harmony with their environment. The inherent instinctive connection was with the earth - that slow steady heartbeat. But, on the hunt, the senses expanded to include the energy of predator.
The impression I got is that I need to connect to those heartbeats, those passions. I feel like, if I have that passion, then eating meat is "OK", but if I do it thoughtlessly, I gain no benefit from it.
*a note on what I call "heartbeat". It very much felt like a heartbeat - I had a strong pulsing sensation. However, it was faster in the predators and slower in the prey - biologically, I know that heart rates of smaller animals are faster than that of larger ones, so this would be the opposite. I suspect what I was actually feeling with a vibrational resonance.
So, I'm putting it here now, so I have a reference point for it.
The meditation ended up being mostly experiential.
As a predator, I felt grounded, in touch with the earth. But my heartbeat* connected with the things on top of the earth. I resonated not with the ground, but the trees. Not with the earthworms, but with all the animals that ran over the surface of the earth. Their heartbeat flowed in my veins, and I was connected with all of them. Their presence and life excited me, perhaps even left me in awe.
As prey, I was connected to the earth - the grasses and the ground itself. Rather than feeling the heartbeat of those animals I shared the surface with, I felt the heartbeat of the Earth itself, low, deep, and soothing - powerful. I was one with it.
However, at the moment where predator takes prey, prey feels what predator feels... there's a sense of being swept up into the faster world of the surface... almost an exhilaration, a "wow". This is the final gift of predator to prey. (EDIT: I didn't write this down originally, but I'm sure I remember that this gift went both ways... that the predator, as he ate the prey, got a sense of that deep thrumming Earth heartbeat, and connected with that.)
Overall, in the whole dance, there was a sense of passion. Passion in the reverence that predator felt for prey, passion in the final moment's of the prey's life.
At one point in the meditation, I was in turned a caveman, who I would have thought would be more in connection, but I actually felt less of a connection to the Earth - too consumed with trying to survive to feel that passion. However, when I was a Native American, I could feel a harmonious blend between the predator and prey energy. Perhaps this is the gift of humans when they live in harmony with their environment. The inherent instinctive connection was with the earth - that slow steady heartbeat. But, on the hunt, the senses expanded to include the energy of predator.
The impression I got is that I need to connect to those heartbeats, those passions. I feel like, if I have that passion, then eating meat is "OK", but if I do it thoughtlessly, I gain no benefit from it.
*a note on what I call "heartbeat". It very much felt like a heartbeat - I had a strong pulsing sensation. However, it was faster in the predators and slower in the prey - biologically, I know that heart rates of smaller animals are faster than that of larger ones, so this would be the opposite. I suspect what I was actually feeling with a vibrational resonance.