We also lost touch with the animals (embodiments of spirit as well). It was all part of what I call "the hardening of the human" that got rolling in the 17th century. The previously flexible boundaries between the human, the animal, and the spiritual were tightened to the point of asphyxiation. Just about the time people began to get real lonely in an absurd, empty universe. Funny, huh?

yours, Peter T.