“I bring the creatures food. In silence we attend each others’ souls. The images of the ancients play in our minds. We see the old ones. These creatures will become my owe are each otherwise barred from. The crows. The bees. The ants. A set of trees. I bring them with me into human culture. They bring me with them into living culture.

There is a place where I go where there are colonies thousands of years old. I know them like my own grandmothers. When I sleep, they are my mind’s cells. We dream as one. I learn things no human has imagined since the time when we understood that the living beings of earth were sacred intelligence systems which we act as the universal connecting element for. When we are intimate with them, they become our own extended minds and bodies. Not merely metaphorically. In fact.”

— an anonymous informant