The Eagle And The Chicken

Intriguing. As a parent of kids in college, I think of their "going away" to college as a means for our children to get to know their true selves. That is, if the parents have not already conditioned them to think of that education as a means to get a diploma that enables them to start earning the big bucks, but I digress . . . The discovery (if it is to happen) is often about shedding light on the misperceptions that may be occluding their experience of their true self. I submit that this parable/story is not so much about the eagle getting to know it's true nature. It is more about how the Body+Mind can be convinced of what reality is based on the perceptions that have nothing to do with the reality. The Naturalist helped correct the eagle's misperception of its avatar.