Laurens van der Post, in the 1980s, explained why the rhinoceros became such an important symbol to him from his experiences in South Africa. It related to the keener sense of smell animals have than we do. Recently Cesar Millan in Cesar's Way wrote: "While we humans have only 5 million scent receptors in our noses, the average grown dog has about 220 million." My suspicion is that animals in the wild are even more sensitive.

Sir Laurens, in A Walk With A White Bushman:

So the sense of smell in animals is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by other means. It tells you things that are not there, yet are coming. It is the smell of things to come, of intuition, on which man's capacity for creation depends. And I think myself, you see, the act of creation is very sudden - it may be building up there in the dark. But when it happens, it happens like a flash of lightning. Life has taken a leap forward. But intuition is the "vision" in creation and in the human spirit that leaps into the dark and, through the dark, into unknown areas of itself and life. There is an old saying, look before you leap. Wait until you can see, and then leap. But then perhaps you never leap at all. Intuition is the leap forward to creation when all other senses fail and would arrest it. So that, intuition is the most vital element, I think, of all the instincts we have inherited. This impels man to leap into the unknown, into new areas of awareness that he has not discovered before.

Perhaps it's not enough for us to live up to expectations of society as to how we should live. Sometimes we feel a specific obligation from a parent, a partner, a lover, colleagues or close friends. A life so lived following the party line, so-called acceptable values, often leads to personal dissatisfaction, even depression - and the challenging question, "Is this all there is to my life?" To compensate for poor self-image people are drawn to various addictions - even idealizing celebrities: actors, athletes, musicians, authors, political and religious leaders. We become dependent on drawing meaning by basking in someone else's glory. What about our own sense of meaning? "Where is my life going and does it really count in the larger picture?"

While we can't actually live in the past - because it's gone - your Bio-Energy Field, through mental and spiritual levels of sensitivity, brings past events into your awareness; we call it memory. Laurens' reference to intuition suggests we can perceive beyond the present moment into the unknown of the future. An intuitive thought perceived and acted on now, may take into account events we do not yet know about - future events or possibilities helpfully casting their shadows upon our present awareness. Can we really see into the future in this way? Lots to think about here! Good reason to keep our personal Field free from being encumbered by the past and disturbed by anxieties about the future. Accessing our own intuition, listening and following the voice within - the soul voice - will lead us in directions we can't imagine.

- Ronald Polack

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