MammaBear,
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- I trust you and the clan are well
- using the 'its nature' idea, I would offer that ULE's 'nature' is to respond to Intention - it is simply energy and can have no agenda of its own
- people have agendas
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- people who come to clinics may not understand that once the ULE is passed on to them, they must use their Intention to make it work for them
- this is not at all the same as coming to a clinic to get some Reiki and be healed by the practitioner
- one view is that a prinmary function of intelligence (perhaps roughly defined as the ability of an organism to learn and adapt to the environment in which it finds itself), is to help the organism deal with what it encounters - this would include communicating with other organisms, like and unlike itself
- words are one way humans do this (sometimes better than others) - but we also know that words may be used in different tone and inflection which then alter the message in some way - both the intention of the inflection and the interprettation of the inflection by the listener will affect the 'communication'
- words thus can be imprecise for any number of reasons
- also, there may be instances when our words, as precise and 'truthful' as we feel they are, simply make no impression on those who are steadfastly entrencehed behind the walls of their own ideas and words
- as for tree intelligence? I would first ask are trees 'conscious'. But, perhaps some will say that consciousness is also relative - I would have trouble, for example, if someone claimed a tree had committed suicide (of course one could argue, I suppose, that trees are too intelligent to commit suicide - bagl, bagl)
- well, at that level all of us are 'relative' as we are simply perceptions which are in the end illusory
- I would also offer that to we need to concern ourselves with what we do (act)- not with what, if anything trees 'do'
- for it is to our actions, feelings, thoughts, etc that Karma accrues (for myself I do not feel that trees accure their own Karma though they may suffer the effects of the way in which we accrue Karma)
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- and, to the extent that any animal may be able to act beyond its hard-wired instincts, tha animal may also accrue Karrma
- but, we must be careful not to project human notions and capacities upon other organisms - something many humans do almost reflexively
- yes, we managed some rain yesterday as a long line of fairly severe storms swept the southeast - most of the severe weather went south and east of us - we did garner some of the rain in the trailing edge of the system - but, we are still in severe drought
- take care
Reiki All Around,
All Blessings,
Firekeeper
