A return from brokeness

Horses are the antidote to A.I.

Some horses have troubled pasts with incredible resilence to heal. Some humans have the good fortune to find these horses. I am sure someone has said this better than me: the more broken the human, the more receptive the horse. The more rejected the horse, the more willing the horse gives. Where else do you find such an unbalanced equation in a world driven by artificial intelligence (A.I.) as the solution? 

A horse is the antidote to A.I. The more broken I feel in my resistance to assimilate in the digital world, the better chance to feel connected at the barn. The barn is the shelter from the digital storm. Of course, it is not completely void of the digital influence. Horses know A.I. is here. They are part of the experiment.

For example, you can buy an app with a smart halter that tracks the horse’s heart rate, respiration, activity and stress levels. Or you can get a Radio-Frequency Identification microchip that is injected into your horse in case you lose your horse. Or you can be part of the numerous studies with A.I. in veterinary medicine including a supercomputer designed for the “interconnected health of people, plants, animals and their shared environments.”

Horses are in the same dilemma as humans. The difference is their response. They tolerate us and our attraction to A.I. There is no debating. The horse goes along with our crazy plans. They wait patiently for us to admit our brokenness and our flawed reliance on A.I. This experiment is with no end. So what do we do? We return to the barn.

The beauty of taking your brokenness to the barn is that a horse prefers this. When you feel like jumping off a building, go to the barn. When you are thinking about walking in front of a bus, go to the barn. When you are ready to smash your phone, go to the barn (and leave the phone in your car). And when you are not sure where your home is, go to the barn.

This is what I did one day and continue to do. Lost in the sea of all my problems, with wires crisscrossing in my brain, WHAM, I received a gift from a horse who I recently met. It was not an external gift. It was internal.

Through the guidance of a very skilled human trainer, this horse and I discovered something together. We harmonized without any A.I. influence. On this day, in an instant, I accepted that being super-human is a myth. 

Healing is vibration. There is an underling vibration that sustains everything in structure and form. This horse and I found form through this underling vibration. The brokenness of our past was long forgotten. Our families, not present in the arena, cheered us. I come from a broken family. Due to geo-political engineering, my family is scattered across the world. We send digital messages and send occasional birthday wishes on WhatsApp.

Horses are also from broken families. Most horses are sold three or four times on averge, or more, in their lifetime. They know about the loss of family and the loss of the herd. This is something that A.I. does not understand, feel or comprehend.

This horse and I were actively listening to each other during this ride. We could feel it. We were in tune, like a piano or guitar. The body system, same with a horse, can be tuned so that our nervous system, muscle tone and organs are in harmonic balance. A.I. cannot offer this.

Balance, healing and quietness are available to any horse rider and any non-horse rider. The only requirement is that you give up being super-human. Show up as YOU. The horse sees you before you see you. Embrace the underlining music that precedes form. Bring your brokenness to the barn.

For more information about scheduling time in the barn, send me an email at cam@camronadibi.com