I love this essay, Aaron. Here are some of my favorite lines: “Divinity is everywhere,” he says. “Think of what a disrespectful gesture you’re making to the divinity directly behind you.” AND No thing is pure and deserving of worship. No thing is inherently taboo. AND "Empathy with other animals is a window, one through which we can catch tantalizing and enlightening glimpses into a universe we can’t fully apprehend."
I know that thinking about my dog's umwelt helps me to think about my own, and other people's and if we all did this, I believe the world would be a less divided place. Thanks for this post!
I love this essay, Aaron. Here are some of my favorite lines: “Divinity is everywhere,” he says. “Think of what a disrespectful gesture you’re making to the divinity directly behind you.” AND No thing is pure and deserving of worship. No thing is inherently taboo. AND "Empathy with other animals is a window, one through which we can catch tantalizing and enlightening glimpses into a universe we can’t fully apprehend."
I wonder if you ever read Alexandra Horowitz's Inside of a Dog--in which she talks a lot about a dog's Umwelt. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/books/excerpt-inside-of-a-dog.html
I know that thinking about my dog's umwelt helps me to think about my own, and other people's and if we all did this, I believe the world would be a less divided place. Thanks for this post!