Happy Soul Food Friday!
“When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.
They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized,
save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling to regain their consciousness of divinity.”
– Manly Hall
This week:
On vacation in Hawaii this week, I saw a sign.
What struck me as ironic is that we have had legislation since 1973 to protect turtles in the whole country, but today in 2026 we treat fellow human beings with harassment, harm, pursuit, shootings, woundings, killings and trapping them!
Is it just me or do you see a dichotomy here with how we treat “endangered species” and man’s inhumanity to man?
We call them animals but, in many cases, these purported animals are more compassionate and altruistic than we are.
Here are a few stories to reinforce our appreciation for these benevolent animals presenting an earnest opportunity for self-reflection for ourselves as a species.
These dogs were put into an MRI to discover what they know about human emotions – the results were astonishing:
Good news for dog lovers, they might understand your happiness more than you’d think. Whether it’s an enthusiastic tail wag or a gentle nudge of the leg with their nose, it can sometimes feel like man’s best friend is truly in tune with our emotions. But surely dogs can’t understand what we’re feeling, right? Well, science might say otherwise. A study, recently published in the journal iScience, found that not only could dogs understand our emotions, but that they can separate them into categories surprisingly well!
They should be enemies… but what these 2 animals do for each other has amazed experts and left them speechless:
Research reveals cross-species co-operation between warthogs and mongooses. Many mammals indulge in mutual grooming to remove ticks and other parasites from their fur and skin but, aside from the occasional intriguing anecdote, it is unheard of for one mammal species to groom another. But Andy Plumptre of the Wildlife Conservation Society reports that just such cross-species co-operation regularly occurs between warthogs and banded mongooses in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.
People started building artificial beaver dams in California. Now something “mind blowing” is happening:
Following the construction of the dams, one river saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates soar from 8% to 60%. It’s well known that beaver dams transform landscapes. In their absence, artificial versions were built in northern California to recreate lost wetlands – boosting the survival of threatened coho salmon. The findings are published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Fish biologist Michael Pollock of NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center called the results “mind blowing”!
“The future depends on what you do today”– Mahatma Gandhi
Please pay it forward!
Love,
Neville
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