From the poet, David Whyte: Humans have an uncanny ability to know things about the world beyond their conscious awareness, long before they can articulate what's going on. He says: "I experienced this in the African brush on a walking safari, which are usually quite dangerous. On one walk, our guide suddenly stopped us. We'd come to a clearing, and he just stopped us immediately. He said, "Everyone, stop." We stood stock still for the longest time. Then a male lion put its head up just 20 yards away from us. We had to back out really slowly, but we were within charging distance. We were in a dangerous perimeter. Afterwards, I said to him, "What happened? How did you know there was a lion there?" He said, "I don't know. I just knew there was something there." So for him, it was probably the slight aroma, maybe a few molecules of lion, which he'd be familiar with, which his conscious mind couldn't understand. It could have been the way the grass was laid down. It could have been the spoor tracks that he saw only hazily. But all of those combined together were integrated at this central imagination that said, 'Lion, lion close.' We have this ability to bring together in very practical ways things which are not recognized by the strategic mind, rather than the conscious mind, because this is equally conscious. In fact, it's a deeper conscious. It pays a deeper, conscious attention to the world."