Most practitioners of core shamanism, as I explained in an earlier post, are animists. That is, we believe that spirit indewells all things. We also believe that we are all connected, or in the words of quantum physics, we are quantum entangled.
The following is an example of that kind of connection.
Lawrence Anthony, convervationist and author of The Elephant Whisperer, died March 2. His family has reported that two herds of of wild South African elephants slowly made their way for 12 hours through the Zululand bush in a solemn procession until they reached the house of late author Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist who saved their lives.
For two days the herds hung out at Anthony’s rural compound on the vast Thula Thula game reserve in the South African KwaZulu – to say good-bye to the man they loved.
“A good man died suddenly,” says Rabbi Leila Gal Berner, Ph.D., “and from miles and miles away, two herds of elephants, sensing that they had lost a beloved human friend, moved in a solemn, almost ‘funereal’ procession to make a call on the bereaved family at the deceased man’s home.”
May we all be such people . . .
Dave
