Life Giving
Many people that I have talked with have the impression that most creatures on this planet would die trying to protect their young. Mothers and fathers would lay down their own lives to secure the lives of their children. Other animals, birds, fish; reptiles would also do the same thing. Of course we all know that in the context of humans this happens quite often and has occurred as long as written history has been around. Great stories of bravery and courage depict parents giving up their lives to save their children. Even other people putting their lives at risk to save somebody they don’t even know makes the news and stories around the world.
Of we look outside the human realm and into the other species that exist upon this planet we also see amazing stories. Dogs will attack anything that comes near their pups with mal-intent. The crow will rip and tear away at a snake that is climbing the tree in which its nest sits. Ants will swarm defending their eggs and alligators will attack the raccoon that digs I the mound to reach her eggs. The bear will charge anything that gets too close to her cubs with the intent to fight and fight hard if needs be.
We all know of these stories and some of us have witnessed many of these things first hand. Spending great amounts of time outdoors I myself have seen many parent creatures defending their young. However, would they die for them? Would they go to the extreme that many humans have to keep their young safe?
Like I said, I’ve seen many parent creatures fighting to keep their young safe, but I have seen very few go to the extreme of laying down their own lives to allow their young to live. Why do you think this is? Why do you think the bird will fight like a demon, but once it realizes that the confrontation will claim the lives of either itself or its chicks, it removes itself from harm’s way and allows its chick to perish? Why does the zebra fight the hyenas to save its young only until it realizes that the fight, if continued will claim its life?
The reason for such acts of courage and determination turning to seemingly cowardliness comes down to the natural laws of life. Even though the parent animal wants to protect their young and fight for them if necessary, they also know that without a parent to take care of the young, the young would not live anyway. It’s a hard rule, but a factual one. If the parent birds are not there to feed the chicks, the chicks will die. This is a fact. The adult birds also know this fact. If they give their lives for their chicks, they know the chicks will die anyway. So the only realistic choice for the bird is to save itself in order to one day be able to give birth to a new nest of chicks… and the species continues. This is the hard truth of life for many species in this world. It takes the ability to understand the higher workings of reality to be able to make such choices. Of course such choices are never easy to make, but without understanding the deeper levels of life and our personal placements within it, how could we possibly deal with such decisions should they arise? The animals have pure connections to self and the higher aspects of self. They don’t have the same consciousness that we do as humans. Human consciousness can muddle and confuse even the simplest of choices. This is why it is so important to know the self through and through on all levels. Self Awareness and complete awareness in our individual lives is essential to living with our full potential. Awareness is the key to being able to know deep within that when forced to make hard decisions in life, we can.
Hard decisions befall everyone from time to time, but with Awareness we can deal with them much more easily.
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August 7th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Really good post White Wolf. Is the reason humans lay there lives down for their young sometimes is because they know that since there are so many of the species there young will be looked after by other humans, Adoption e.t.c? Really really good read my friend!
August 7th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Hey Ciaran,
I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. Partly that may be the case, but I think on a deeper level the consciousness of the human is conditioned differently than other species. More direct emotions and individualized thought processes come into play. Also humans for the most part have both parents involved with raising young. If one dies the other is there to care for the children. This is not the case in a majority of other species. If you look you will see that with many animals only one parent raises the young. In the cases where the animal lives in more of a pack setting it has been seen that one adult will die to defend the young. This could be because the energy of the pack or group is there as support and offers a comfort zone to a parent.
August 8th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Ahh yeah that makes alot of sense! Grizzly mother raises her young, Sperm whales e.t.c. I see know
Thanks White Wolf