The people and animals in my physical reality had names, so it seemed natural for me to give names to the physically inanimate objects in my life and, in many cases, to assign sexes to them as well. When you develop deep, meaningful relationships with physical objects, you can form bonds with them and they with you. They can offer information and energetic protection and communicate with you in amazing ways. One outstanding example of this for me occurred when I was driving my Toyota hatchback car named “Zippy”. Zippy and I had stopped at a red light. A tall delivery truck stopped in the left lane next to me and completely obscured my view of the traffic to my left that was traveling towards the intersection. Zippy was a stick shift, and I had developed the habit of putting her in first gear while waiting for the light to change because I wanted to be prepared to zoom forward the minute that it did. The light changed to green. I engaged the clutch and pressed down on the gas pedal. Zippy didn’t move. I looked down at my gear shift, and it was in the correct position. I tried again, but Zippy would not budge. I then heard a rumble, and when I looked up, a very large truck had run the red light and came barreling through the intersection at high speed. If Zippy had moved forward when I asked her to, I would have been directly in the truck’s path. The very second that the truck sped past, Zippy rolled forward without any effort at all.