At the end of the day, it is ego.

The bigger, I would say, the bigger an ego a person has, the more powerful that ego is,

the more in the driver's seat it is, the less ability they're going to have to be able to see, taste, feel,

experience nature as it's intended.

Welcome to spiritually hungry.

I haven't told a story in a while.

Oh, I love your stories.

I'm going to start with that.

An old Indian parable tells the night when terrified residents were awakened by blasting

and thunderous sounds outside the walls of their city.

Six brave, blind scholars had been studying near the gate, so they ventured out to investigate.

Blind scholars, I said?

That's what I said.

Each came back. How much would be my first choice to send out to investigate.

Well, they were scholars.

Each came back with a differing report of the culprit.

A giant snake, a strange tree trunk, a massive leaf, a trembling stone wall, a whipping

rope.

Each description relied solely upon whichever part of the trespassing

elephant the scholar had grasped. This story was shared in the film, A Wake, glimpses

of consciousness. It got me thinking, do any of us really understand our place in the universe?

How can we when we have no way to objectively observe it?

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