Consider this. And thats the way Rod Serling opened each episode of The Twilight Zone, a popular television series that often dealt with the unexplainable. Carol has long been interested in the Druid approach to energy balance. To mimic Stonehenge, she build her own, smaller version of it and found that the stone ring created an ideal environment in which to meditate. Enter Jessie, a Boxer and failed guard dog deemed too friendly to strangers for the job. Taken in by Carol, the energetic, boisterous Boxer become downright mellow when included in Carols circle of rocks, but one night, that changed. She became restless and disturbed and stared at Carol with such intensity that it threw Carol off her meditations. Carol HAD been wondering vaguely about building lintels on her rocks to increase the circles power when suddenly, Jessie bolted out of the circle and returned minutes later with a piece of driftwood which she pushed onto the top of two of the stones until it balanced precariously. She repeated the deed on two other pairs of rocks. Choosing to believe or not is a personal decision, but we offer the opinion of Dr. Raymond Blake, a researcher at Canine Cultural Heritage. The Boxer is a descendent of the Bullenbeiser Mastiff used in bullbaiting rings in the 17th - 19th centuries. The dogs were caged in small stone enclosures around the perimeter of the ring behind an iron-barred door that was lowered into position to prevent escape. In Jessies case, the two large stones in close proximity elicited the memory of her ancestors ringside cages. The placement of the wooden lintels as a symbolic roof complete the stone enclosure…The dog [Jessie] appeared neither fearful nor aggressive which indicates that she was unaware of the significance of the structure and that the inherited fragment, purely visual, held no psychological component. Who can say. We thought that Jessies penchant for placing driftwood on top of rocks was interesting enough. This is another installment from the fascinating book by Vicki Mathison, Dog Works: The Meaning and Magic of Canine Constructions.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:00:00 +0000
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