About our capacity to know life.
Without an activated capacity for empathy with other living and non-living things, we become ever more disruptive of the ecosystem. Empathy though, can only be developed when we _know_ the object of care. And to really _know_ cannot be seen in a museum, read about it in a book, or watched on TV. To know (gnosis) life (bio), also called biognosis, requires deep insights and intuitive faculties of the mind AND the body. It comes through the power and the feeling of experiencing and embodying. To get there takes time, intimacy, presence, and continued listening