Sense

See, Listen, Feel, Smell

Our senses are the way we interact with and interpret the external world. The human experience, by its very nature, means that each of us will experience, even the same external experience, differently internally.

Have you ever thought about the following:

When you look at something, do you actually see it?

When you hear something do you actually listen to it?

When you touch something, do you actually feel it?

When you breathe in the air, do you actually smell it?

A wilderness experience opens up a new dimension in the human psyche. It stirs something primal - a long forgotten way. A simple way. It allows you to tap into the coding in our DNA that is hardwired for survival. A time when hunting and gathering and sleeping fireside were a part of daily life.

It teaches you to see when you were only looking. To listen when you were only hearing. To feel when you were only touching. To smell when you were only breathing.

Mother nature is the greatest teacher. There is no judgment, no reasoning, no thought, no revenge. No past or future. Everything just happens in a continuum. Now.

But the intricacies are staggering. Without bias. If an organism doesn’t perfectly suit its role in the vast and interconnected web of life, there is no place for it. If its population can’t adapt to the ever changing world, then that species dies off. No questions, no explanations.

Mother Nature has returned from five major events of mass extinction, in which some 70% of all terrestrial vertebrate species completely disappeared off the Earth, and has flourished into the incredible diversity of species alive today.

A testament to her resilience.

Until next time,

Gaia Safaris