Birds sensing the electro-magnetic flux going on continuously around us via the protons in their brians has a direct human spiritual analogy. When Christ said “if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven you must be as little children.” Did he mean we should just ignore all problems. No, what he meant was experience the world around you directly and without abstracting the experience of the moment by being here NOW…exactly like a child who hasn’t learned words and whose consciousness exists completely in the moment. This also why zen buddhist monks gaze at walls. They’re trying to let loose of their abstractions and past moments they are hanging onto the better to experience the present reality. The most important point to this is that directly experiencing the present moment is simultaneously an utterly natural and also the highest ecstatic experience one can have. Its the ultimate integration of opposites, i.e. your inner consciousness and the otherness all around you.