Red Berries and Instinct

On my walk this morning, I spotted these beautiful little red berries. And it reminded me of what I learned in medical school during botanical medicine classes. Did you know that a lot of the red berries are very poisonous? So, let’s say there’s a young deer in the forest, and he’s becoming very hungry. So he spots these beautiful little red berries and decides, “Oh, they look so yummy. I’m going to take a bite.” And then all of a sudden he gets in great distress because he didn’t know they were poisonous and his— he can’t breathe his throat swallow a swelling up and instinctly he’s able to think, okay, the poisonous berries. There is an antidote plant right around three to six feet from that poisonous plant. Now he instinctively knows that we know things too. We just don’t think we need to start thinking about what we can hear within.