How To Make Ants Antsy - Compassionately
HH the Dali Lama talks about the importance of showing compassion to all sentient beings. But are ants sentient? In my years as an animal communicator, I've experienced the reality that they are. It really shocked me to see having a brain is not requisite for a mind. It sure isn't what I was taught at Wake Forest!
Now physicists and biologists are catching on to what they are terming the Universal Mind - the intelligent mind of the Universe itself. They're also discovering plants talk to each other through their roots and even photons behave intelligently. Although ants have extremely simple brains (if you can even call them brains), they do have minds; minds that can convey messages somehow to one of our many human psychic receptors, where we translate meaning into our words. Don't ask me how, although I have a theory about the Universal Unconscious or Universal Mind.
Regardless of how, ants and other animals are much more intelligent than our anthropocentric bias has led us to previously presume. Ants are also, however, hella stubborn. (Just because someone doesn't cooperate doesn't mean they're stupid.) But ants take stubbornness to the very brink of good sense.
If I explain to a spider on the ceiling that I will take her out to live in the abandoned shed if she'll just drop into my upraised paper cup, thus saving her from my cats, she thinks about it for 30-45 seconds, feels my genuine caring, drops into the cup, and sits quite peacefully until I deposit her gently in the shed.
But ants are a pretty determined people (guess that explains the straight-ahead work ethic). Other animal communicators and I have found we can plead, cajole, warn, send mental visuals and threaten ants, but ants will continue to ignore us UNTIL... we show them the can of Raid, plop it prominently on the counter, and Fully Intend to use it the next morning if they are still there. Really Mean It. Explain that this is your house and they must stay out of it. Send a visual of you spraying and them writhing on the floor from neurotoxins. Clarify that this happens at sunrise if they are not gone, and Mean To Do It. The next morning, the ants will have left.
All animals recognize and respond in one way or another to the energy of deadly intent. In fact, any intent registers far more than our words. Cats and dogs, for instance, don't listen in on most of what we say - frankly all the yammering bores them - but they definitely tune in to our intent, even if we're across town. Studies show they know when we decide to leave work, even at an unusual time. And as any cat owner will tell you, cats always know before you leave your sofa that you are fetching the cage to take them to the vet. Never mind that you haven't said word one about it.
But why should we even warn "a bunch of ants"? Because it's disrespectful to kill people without warning. Ant people included. It's inconsiderate to kill people without first giving them a chance to leave.
Not convinced? Think about those extraterrestrial ships showing up in greater and greater numbers over our cities now. One of these days, communication will be fully established with beings most scientists expect will be more highly evolved than we are. Which would you prefer they do if they think of us as inferior - decimate humans suddenly without warning or try to communicate first? Looks different from that end of the gun, doesn't it. Even if they are ethical aliens who try to honor the rules each planet lives by (when in Rome, do as the Romans do), what will our behavior toward earth's "less evolved" species indicate? By our own value system, we would be fair game for immediate, painful eradication. If we give no compassion, how can we expect any? Let us do as we would be done by.
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Ants-Keeping Them Out the Green Way
04-21-2011, 09:50 PM
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