I frequently walk through an undeveloped tract of land near my house that borders two golf courses. I routinely see wildlife here including mule deer, coyotes, marmots, owls, black crows and hawks. One of my most amazing spiritual experiences to date happened with a coyote to this backdrop. I had seen coyotes here before, but before I started meditating and raising my awareness, it was just the experience of seeing a wild animal. That all changed last year.
While walking through a valley, I noticed a feeling in the back of my neck. Someone or something was watching me. I had never had noticed this feeling before, but I had heard about it and I immediately knew what it was. I turned around and on a ridge behind and above me was a coyote standing there and watching me.
At the time this happened, I did not really understand the mechanism that causes some people to be aware of when someone is watching them. But now… imagine you are at a party, and someone across the room behind your back is watching. You turn around and you are right, someone is watching you. How could you sense this?
Well, there are really two components to this example at this hypothetical party. Everyone there is emitting an energy signature… that extends many feet beyond their body, up to maybe 32 feet. If you were able to control your energy, pull that energy in, so that it did not interact with anyone else’s energy field, you would not “feel” like you. People would sense something strange going on with you. Like a part of you was missing.So, at the party, all the energy fields are interacting. When the person watching you, focuses on you, they also feel your energy field, a sort of sixth sense, you might say. Their consciousness decodes everything about you, how you look, how you are standing, how you “feel” energetically. Then people who are not trained to keep their energy fields to themselves re-transmit the “feeling” of you. You recognize this fiber or “feeling” of you in someone else’s signature and it creates that feeling in the back of you neck.
A week after being watched by a coyote, I was walking very near to the same place, down a ridge toward the next valley. I felt the same coyote watching me again from one ridge over. I was very relaxed mentally. I was just feeling the sun on my face, listening to my footfalls, smelling the wildflowers in bloom. Very near to a state of meditation. As this coyote watched me and tuned into my energy, I unintentionally tuned into her energy. I had been practicing the skill of assimilation earlier.
As we locked eyes, my awareness leapt from my body to inside the body of the coyote. I could now see myself walking along slightly downhill on the next ridge. My eyesight was very acute. Better than human. I don’t remember interpreting colors differently but I was astounded at how well I could see myself from so far away. I now began to explore what the rest of this coyotes senses were like. I could feel four legs with paws, arranged a bit differently than human legs. My back felt unusual, like the mechanical supports were engineered differently. Then I noticed the feeling of fur on my skin. And how hot the sun felt on my fur. I shifted my awareness again to the sense of smell. It was overwhelming. There was so much data I couldn’t really take it all in. And it was tightly coupled to taste, more so than in humans.
Then as quickly as it started, my awareness jumped back into my own body, and I was still walking down the hill. I silently thanked the Universe for sharing with me and walked back home, profoundly moved and forever changed.