In the past few days I was witness to a profound experience.
I got to listen to the heartbeat in real time of a snake.
This experience reinforced my deep wonder and awe of the Universe and greatly inspired me. Listening to her beating heart, strong and sublimely present filled me with love and stirred in me the intense enthusiasm and gratitude I feel within for the ever unfolding cosmos. For here was a splendid creature that so many fear, that many ill-informed despise or wish harm that had a beating heart just like theirs. The incredible privilege to be able to hear this extraordinary sound served to fortify my wonder and love for the rich, diverse and powerful force that flows throughout the Universe.
As I listened I began to meditate on each beat of her heart. A thump thump thump that to me invoked a visualization of large mammals walking as herds across vast savannahs.
I could hear the beating wings of migratory birds flying for weeks in formation from place to place, knowing when and where to go via incredibly complex and ancient pathways.
I saw schools of fish swimming through bountiful oceans teaming with a vast diversity of life.
Each deep heartbeat conjured up visions of thunderstorms with lightning licking the Earth. I could hear the rain pattering down to a grateful ground feeding the fertile soil, pregnant with eager seeds and hopeful rivers surrounded by a richness of insects, birds and mammals waiting on the banks for their nourishment.
The sublimity of existence is a manifestation of the Spirit Force, the vitality of evolution and being that permeates all of Nature. The spirit dwells in everything from a grain of sand, a leaf, a river, a wolf, a stone, a planet and the stunning and precious beating of a snakes heart.
All is holy and sacred in Nature. Everything from a Tardigrade to the furthest Galaxy is connected, all one with the spirit of existence, imbued within our being, our essence.
The forces of Nature created us, nurture us and one day will take us whether we be a Hawk, a Reindeer, a Frog, an ocean or a Snake. Existence is a holy experience full of mystery and cosmic creativity from the flowering Universe.
Sadly the beating heart of this most magnificent snake, this most beautiful connection to my being stopped beating as she transitioned into the ethers to become new life. Her graceful and sacred existence will live again as her being rejoins spirit to become once again, as everything does, the formidable potency that is the Spirit Force. Our very existence is borrowed spirit, beautiful and hallowed sparks of creativity that manifest into existence only to ultimately dissipate, return, as even mighty stars do, to the sacred source of all being.
I will be forever grateful to hear the beating of a snakes heart.
A truly profound experience.
By Brendon Crook
Panthevita
Panthevita 