Non-Human Contemplation

Preface
This collection of several historic audio recordings of Adi Da’s is of unique interest. Excerpted from a considerably longer recording, what Adi Da speaks about here is quite absent from the libraries of spiritual literature, whether Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or others.
Even Adi Da’s own formal writings and texts largely omit these words of his about the vast, mysterious-to-us, contemplative lives of the non-human beings. Adi Da left these instructions (for the most part) out of his formal texts because his intent for those writings was to provide direct spiritual instruction on matters related to human beings in particular.
And, as he describes, non-humans are already doing what we struggle to comprehend and embody. The prevalence of non-humans, who have no need for books and words to aid their contemplation, is why Adi Da founded his Fear-No-More Zoo—as an additional component of guidance to humans in how the non-human world “all around us” always inheres in the naturally contemplative state that we have forgone.
These recordings are worth listening to repeatedly and constantly returned to, if our propagandized minds might be relieved of our self-limiting humanistic prejudices and our profoundly chronic human fear. Imagine a world where all humans are also natural contemplatives—and where our contemplation informs every aspect of our lives.
Adi Da instructed that we ought to more fully observe how the non-humans live, and then “do as they do.” For further listening on this subject, see the CD The Non-Humans by The Dawn Horse Press. Also see the book Lightning Thunder Cows for an overview of Adi Da’s radical instruction (to humans) about the non-humans’ contemplative realms.
– Stuart Camps, manager of Fear-No-More Zoo – 1993 to 2018
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ADI DA SAMRAJ: The non-humans enter directly into the state of Divine Contemplation. They don’t necessarily need any Seven Stages of life, at least precisely as you grasp it in human form, you see. Or they have their own way of doing it, perhaps – now gifted to do all seven – because I don’t only instruct and awaken human beings, you see? So I know the kind of contemplation everything and everyone does.
Human beings seem to have to get very busy about their bodies, and what they’re doing as bodily beings, before they can get into the profounder states of reality. But you have to go through this incredible tour – addressing all the “this-and-that’s” about your body-mind before you’ll consent to the “perfect practice” of just dropping out. So there’s a certain way that human beings do it that is apparently more complex.
The non-humans are far less afraid than you all – because of their simplicity and their ease of contemplation. This is why in traditional circumstances, they’ve felt that the animals were the direct representatives of the spirit world. They didn’t have the obstructed consciousness of human beings. They were direct representations of spiritual communications and powers, and so they were highly venerated, and used ritually, and contemplatively, and so forth, for various purposes.
But do you think that was just bullshit? Or are human beings uniquely complicated… and non-humans are a more direct representation to you, as a general rule, of contemplative existence, God-communing existence, spiritual awareness?
And all the animals… not humanly interfered with… everything that goes on.
All of that sign, and Me, you see, are urging you very directly if you get sensitive to us.
There does seem to be something dramatically unusual about human beings… that they have to be so profoundly re-acculturated, reoriented, to get to the point where they can do what any cricket can do, and does readily. They wouldn’t deny themselves the contemplative happiness, you see? But you all have to go through an extraordinary work of preparation, and changes, “bit at a time, bit at a time”.
You’re humanly compassionate, but, look at this whole thing. And you are all straining and struggling with your whole lives, to a maybe-time when you can do what the chameleons are doing in the kitchen right now – especially since you’re not bothering them. They just hang out in those little trees in there, and zone out completely.
So they’re doing that right now. And I’m in my over a-quarter-century now of consideration about something the chameleons are doing in the kitchen, and trying to get you guys up to it. Well, it is interesting, you see. It requires a much more elaborate bit of business to deal with the leading-edge of the planetary body of yellow-red beings…