Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times
Human beings were first indisputably known to use tools in Africa more than 2.5 million years ago, a sign of elevated consciousness. Tool using is heralded as a crucial step in the development of our species. Now, in this time of huge energy influxes into the Universe, we see even animals developing a more refined consciousness.
Julian Huxley, a luminary of biology, believed the evolutionary arrival of humans was so profound an event in Earth’s history that he designated the geological period when it occurred the “Psychozoic Era”. We see ourselves as unique in the natural world, sometimes forgetting there are other sentient creatures who are on a path to greater consciousness as well.
Footage of animals learning to use tools provides evidence of this evolutionary shift happening to all of us on earth, not just the human race. We are all awakening together.
Writers of stories and poems have often compared the crow to a person; they are renowned for their craftiness and intelligence already. It should come as no surprise, then that this black bird is the first to show signs of an advancing consciousness.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have caught New Calendonian crows carrying two items at once using a stick – a feat normally only seen in the human race. First one crow slipped a wooden stick into a metal nut and flew away, and just a few days later another crow conducted a similar behavior, carrying a large wooden ball with a stick.
Ivo Jacobs, the lead researchers in the study said, “This is typically seen as a hallmark of complex cognitive abilities.”