Hi, I think I sent this to the wrong address this morning -- I am resending it now, hopefully it won't get sent out twice.
A couple comments...

> "The reason that nature is so beautiful at teaching is
> that nature is totally honest," Kem continues. "there's no
> attitude in it, or ego, or the things we have to deal with in
> the real world. We can see without judgement and with total
> awareness. And that can run into every aspect of your life.
> It's the way we're meant to walk on the earth."

One problem is that we do bring our own interpretations & judgement to what we see in nature, and in that way we can
be misled. I am thinking here more about doing science (for example, the misinterpretation of the cold fusion experiments)
but it's true in general. I am not sure that we can "see nature without judgement." (Perhaps I am misunderstanding the
point of the quote?)

> Maybe you're all familiar with the fact that Einstein used 15%
> of his brain while the ave. American of the time used aprox 7%
> (and it's going down fast). The rest of the story is that
> domestic animals use 40% and wild animals use 100% and a band
> of nomadic hunter gatherer Australian Aborigines use an ave 60%.

This is not true. I was worried I was just going to have to assert that but then I found the FAQ for the urban legends newsgroup, which has a nice article and points to another more technical article:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/10_percent_of_brain.html
http://eslvcr.fireplug.net/bcskeptics/ratenq/Re3.2-Brain10.html

Curiously enough, the second article even mentions Einstein:
"The origins of the Great 10% Myth remain obscure, but I have learned that it has long been a staple of self-improvement courses like those of the Dale Carnegie organization. It was canonized by no less a personage than Albert Einstein who once uttered it as a speculative reply to the constant barrage of questions about the source of his brilliance."

--Eric