Neale Donald Walsch | March 9 2012
My dear friends… I said here last week that there are two ways to give something meaning: (1) we can pull the meaning from our Past, or (2) we can choose the meaning in our Present, as Highly Evolved Beings would do. Let’s pick up our narrative from there…
Lower animals do not create meaning, they simply remember it. A deer hears a twig snap in the forest and “decides” that it means danger. The deer doesn’t wait around to see if he’s right or not. The deer scampers. Because the deer remembers.
The first time that deer heard a twig snap, he may have been very young, and he watched his parents scamper. So he scampered, too. Now he scampers even though his parents are not there. What made his parents scamper? Their parents scampered. What made their parents scamper? Their parents scampered. Deer-scampering has been going on for generations.
Higher animals do not scamper if they hear a twig snap in the forest– unless they choose to. Higher animals hear the same sound, but go through an entirely different process. They think about the snap. They think about who or what might have made the noise, how close the noise is, what it means, and what level of danger they are in, if any.