Beagle_SaloonSociety_1962 - The Monday Morning Memo

“A hundred blackbirds will evacuate a tree at precisely the same second – without a discernible signal of any kind. A variety of orchids, lacking nectar as an enticement but needing to be pollinated, attract male bees by emitting odors like that of the female bee. A wasp will bore for an hour into the hardwood of a tree at the exact spot where hides the tiny grub in whose body she lays her eggs: there is no outward sign that the grub is there, yet the wasp never misses.

At the disposal of the ‘lower’ animals are invisible clocks and computers about which science can only speculate. Similarly, scientists have discovered and recorded laws to which electricity, gravity and magnetism adhere – but they have practically no understanding of what these forces are or why.

It would seem that there exists in the time-space grid a system of natural order, a mathematics of energy whose “numbers” are even more a riddle to us than their progressions. It is this arithmetic of consciousness that more simple men call the ‘supernatural.’ The mystery of migrating butterflies, the mystery of gravity and dreams are but operating arms of the Great Mystery, the perpetuation of which sustains us all.”

- Tom Robbins

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