.
We may attempt to imagine these, rather radically different experiences of
the lives of animals and so on as a kind of other realm, a realm existing
within the same space as our own, while completely invisible to us.
Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok,
in the early 1900’s,
put forward the theory of the Umwelt
the idea that organisms, although they share the same environment,
can have different inner worlds, different Umwelten.
Furthermore,
In ‘The Secret Oral Teachings
of Tibetan Buddhist Sects’ it is said
“A man neither feels nor perceives exactly as
a mosquito or a plant does. A being other than human :
a God, a Demon or no matter what other being,