The greatest experience of our lives cannot be denied – it cannot be seen, it cannot be represented by a picture or an action, because it calls for the identity of: Thinking and understanding, the happy intelligence that the desire to know requires. Usually, they are a time to adapt and meet the majesty and the mystery of what is not ours – the birds fly at midnight, the magic of autumn, the machu Picchu grandfather; Almost all the time, with finesse and William James of the passing experience, they don't work. However, we are here to tell each other what it is like to live and language remains the best technology that we create to close the labys between one life.
Few encounter violence and the claim of this world can be stronger than that of the orca, and no one paints a sign of the movement of the moving name of meeting the messenger of Whale Biologist and whale researcher Hane
Seventeen hundred years after the naturalist Pliny the Elder described the largest member of the Dolphin family as “a fleshy creature armed with teeth” in his thirty-seventh Natural Encyclopedia, Carl Linnae Orcinus orca – “A demon from below.” But while this surprising new creature is an attacker in a natural strike that is more effective and gentler, and gentler, it pays the same high price of consciousness that we pay. Meeting the Orca is both an encounter with something close to others and an encounter with our own depths. Strager Duabulity channels throughout Willer Whale Journals (public library) – A record of how he escaped from the cage that idea was his biology island on the island of Norway, he entered the cracks with a high power of voluntary voting.
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Killer whales don't care about our attitudes. They don't need our love or our hate. How do we understand and communicate with a large predator like the Willer Whale instead of ourselves and how we want to live with the plight of other animals around us.
Getting close to an Orca is not an easy task, even for those who have entered the far and most undisturbed reaches of the Ocenace wilderness. Strager recounts the excitement of following two male orcas in a resting place, the sight of their presence turns the sea into “a piece of heavy silk … But even if they disappear under the existing surface, other senses can reveal their presence. Recounting his first experience of going out to sea under a hydrophone connected to an amplifier, he writes:
With headphones, I could clearly hear the splash and reveal from the hydrophone as it died, then it was quiet in the Great Sea, where later the Trumming in the background, which I later learned was the sound of a boat on a boat in the distance. But through the static sounds of engines and water, I also heard the most amazing sounds, eerie and melodious at the same time. Like hot birds singing a sad song or people whistling from afar across a deep valley.
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Elsewhere, in the great ocean below me, in the deep darkness beneath the ocean floor, the animals were calling and responding to each other.
Understanding – which is mental – that these magnificent animals live under the surface is one thing, experiencing them through the sensorium of meetings that fill the space is another thing entirely. Strager shows the inner transformation that is stimulated by his direct encounter with the orca:
A large man appeared near the boat, so close that I could see the water running down his glowing skin. A dark black eye in front of a white eyepatt looking straight at me. It was just a fleeting moment, but it stayed with me after the whale left. I saw that this huge Killer Whale had been checking us out – just as we were checking them out. Sensing the awareness and curiosity of the other side, and perhaps its desire to connect, to overcome an invisible barrier. It eats the sountution of a wild man in a wild world where we are surrounded by creatures we do not understand and cannot reach.
Large and neglected, orcas have no feeling or concern for the myths and legends we have dedicated, Instagram sensations and scientific journals. And yet we share a kinship of curiosity, yearning to grasp what will be the other – something that saves us from the existential loneliness of being ourselves.
Lovers of the fascinating science of what it's like to be an owl, then it's also the Orcas that teach us about love and loss.
