The Accessories of Wonderment
Orlando Lujan Martinez
Jane Goodall writes “Then there are the chimpanzee waterfall dances, which are a delight to witness. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male will dance at a waterfall with total abandonment. Why? Could it be that it is a joyous response to being alive, or an expression of the chimpanzees awe of nature? Where, after all, might human spiritual impulses come from.“
Jane Goodall wonders whether these dances are indicative of religious behavior-precursors of religious ritual. She describes a chimpanzee approaching the falls, with slightly bristled hair, a sign of heightening arousal: As he gets closer, and the roar of the falling water gets louder, his paces quickens, his hair becomes fully erect, and upon reaching the stream performs a magnificent dance close to the foot of the falls. Standing up right, he sways rhythmically from foot to foot, stamping in the shallows, rushing water, picking up and throwing great rocks. This water fall dance may last ten or fifteen minutes. Chimpanzee also dance at the start of heavy rains and during violent gusts of winds.
Goodall asks: “Is it possible that these performances are stimulated by feelings akin to wonder, awe and spiritual impulses?” After a waterfall dance the performer may sit on a rock, eyes following the falling water perhaps wondering: What is it, this water? Waiting for the moment of relevant.
Through the application of mathematics science knows that water, a transparent liquid, is composed of oxygen and hydrogen, both gases and elements. Information the dancing Chimpanzee could not know. The Chimpanzee apparently thought the water was wonderment.
Through research done in philosophical mathematics scientists concluded that, the universe and world,so precisely constructed and perfectly balanced by gravity, electronic fields, neutrons, protons, particles, molecules, sunlight, water, air and the 103 elements that made earth and humans, was created by "intelligent design." i.e. a supreme deity (God to the believers)
The phenomena's of miracles, intuition, mental telepathy, autism, mysticism, love, logic, well-being, soul and heart and all other mystical magic emotions have escaped the scientists mathematic equations and remain inexplicable.
The spiritual wonder of the chimpanzees dance at the waterfall, spring and the silent beauty of a snowfall remain in the magical domain of mother nature and the spiritual Go
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