Dogs and Cats

Dogs and Cats

These denizens of creation

fall short in our bifurcated minds..

We render ourselves

as the conscious ones

find disfavor on those below..

Yet now with a quantum question

we ask who is conscious

and consulting our experience

which is always at ready

an answer returns:

not dogs, not cats, not plants or rocks

and amazingly not our divided selves..

The quantum question receives its answer:

only consciousness is conscious..

This fearful response

settles into freedom

for all those dogs and cats and all...

(from a friend, CP..)

Here's a so well written view regarding our comments on dogs and cats:

We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals.  Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees therefore a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves, and therein we err...... we greatly err.  For the animal shall not be measured by the man.  In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and more complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston