Many of us humans (thankfully not all) have lived with the illusion that we are at the top of an evolutionary pyramid where we enjoy a position of being superior to other life forms on the planet. I think of this as a “humancentric” attitude. In Western cultures, we have been taught that we are separate in some fundamental way from the other life here on earth. How do we recognize and experience that all life forms are equal offspring of Gaia, that all express their particular and valued forms and qualities of consciousness, and that every life we encounter anywhere, anytime, is our earth-kin? 

~ Nancy J. Napier

Deer in the Forest – photo by Sergei777, bigstockphoto.com