I love this, about reciting mantras!

Mar 6, 2019·1 min read

I love this, about reciting mantras! I spent a summer in graduate school living with the Jains and studying Jainism. Your article is wonderful and really brought me back to that time.

Erika Burkhalter

Photographer, yogi, cat-mom, lover of travel and nature, spreading amazement for Mother Earth, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MA Yoga, MS Neuropsychology)

…her birds do that.” The bird’s call was not an entirely unique case of bird-to-human communication. A grey parrot once amassed a 900-word vocabulary, and in India, a few have been trained to recite the Vedic mantras. But birds have only rarely assembled verbal symbols into their own, original proto-sentences. And, …

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