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AWARENES FOREWORD

Tony de Mellon an occasion among friends was asked to say a few words about the nature of his work. He stood up, told a story which he repeated later in conferences, and which you will recognize from his book song of the Bird. To My astonishment, he said this story applied to me.

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard  hen. The englet hatched  with the brood of chicky and up with them.

All his life the eaglet did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyaryd chicken. He scratched the eaerth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would  thrash his wings and fly a few  feet into the air.

Years passed  and the  eagle grew  very old.

One day he saw a magnicifent biad  above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty  among the powerfull wind currents, with  scarcely a beat of  its strong golden wings.

The old eagle, looked up in awe. “who’s that ?” he  asked.

“That old  eagle the king  of  the birds, ”said  his neighbor. “He belongs  to the sky. We belong to  the earth-we’re chickens. ”So the eagle tolived and died a chicken, for  that’s what  he thought he  was.