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Subject: LINK: A discourse on the Reptilian Brain. We ARE the Reptilian brains!

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Subject: A discourse on our Reptilian Brain. DRACs are alive and well

inside Human Brains. We are the new REPTILIANS !

http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=280

Excerpts :

Some basic facts about the evolutionary development of the triune

brain must be understood in order to apprehend the senseless descent

of our culture into the abyss of darkness.

The destruction of the American dream is well under way. It is

mostly the result of a few ounces of brain matter, the basal ganglia,

situated above the hindbrain. What the dealers and the wheelers do

not realize is that their repressive deeds have little to do with

their idealistic expression of capitalism or the free market. Their

toxic deeds are but expressions of a part of the forebrain ......

Paul D. MacLean, M.D., introduced to you in the last article, removed

cells from the human basal ganglia. He stained them in the proper

method for slide preparation, then repeated the process with

reptilian brain cells. When placed under the microscope there is

little observable difference between these slides. This simply means

that our reptilian ancestry is alive and well in our brains. While

dinosaurs no longer roam the earth, they bequeathed some of their

performance patterns to every single baby born on the Blue Planet!

MacLean applies the term "reptilian brain" or "R-complex" to the

basal ganglia.

After MacLean established the similarity between the human and

reptilian basal ganglia, he turned his attention to reptilian

behavior. His research yielded some rather astonishing results. In

addition to the physiological characteristics imprinted in the R-

complex, it also generates fundamental behavioral or psychological

functions. On page 100 of his book, MacLean lists "25 Special Forms

of Basic Behavior" and on page 143 he lists an additional

six "General Forms of 'Interoperative' Behavior." For our purposes,

we can generalize and reduce these 31 forms of behavior into four

major categories. They are A.) Territory, B.) Hierarchy, C.) Ritual

and D.) Deceit

These functions of the reptilian brain are only concerned with

survival of the self. The reptilian brain has been most effective in

achieving that goal. While many species have been exterminated,

neural reptilian circuitry survived. I am convinced that long after

homo sapiens disappear from the earth, the basal ganglia will survive

in whatever life-forms succeed us. Having survived for about

240,000,000 years, there is no reason to believe it will not survive

into the long distant future.

Every aspect of the basal ganglia concentrates on the needs of

individual survival - it has no concerns for other members of the

same or any other species. The territorial imprint in the reptilian

brain, unchecked by any other dynamics, is responsible for the

existence of free-roaming dinosaurs destroying the possibility of a

society of free citizens exercising their privileges with a profound

sense of social responsibility. While many of our leading alphas talk

a good game and make idealistically sounding speeches, their actions

evidence their enslavement to the R-complex.

We need to understand three important points.

1.) No self-correcting mechanisms exist among the divisions of the

triune brain. Self-limiting neural ganglia do not exist to put a stop

to self-centered drives.

2.) Human territoriality extends beyond the merely physical. Ideas

and beliefs are a substantive part of each individual's territory.

Whether invasion comes from a burglar or someone holding a radically

different viewpoint, the response of the R-complex is the same. It

reacts to opposing points of view as instinctively as it does to an

invasion of territory.

3.) It appears that reptiles limit their territorial aggressiveness

to simply insure sufficient "Lebensraum." In humans, however,

territoriality expansiveness for many members of our tribe operates

on the premise that too much is never enough.

With reference to points 1 and 2 it can be said that it is almost

impossible to have a rational, intelligent conversation about

differing political, religious or economic points of view. In most

instances, discussion within minutes becomes a defense of one's

system of beliefs. When controlling alphas decide that the fiscal

bottom line is the be-all and end-all of corporate responsibility,

when politicians decide that in the name of capitalism even inhumane

decisions are acceptable, then reason and logic cannot prevail. Money

and power are simply modern adaptations of the territorial imprint in

the R-complex.

We all remember that a car model having a defective fuel tank

exploded in several instances causing a number of deaths. The company

did a cost effectiveness study. It concluded that it would be cheaper

to pay a few death claims than to recall and retrofit all cars on the

road. The decision-making executive did not fit the F.B.I. profile of

mass murderers. They just acted on the impulse of their reptilian

brains.

When Enron cheated Californians of billions of dollars during their

manufactured energy crises, neither Kenny Boy et al, including POTUS

who refused to come to the rescue of the citizens, could be accused

of looking like Al Capone. No, they just acted in accordance with

their reptilian brains unchecked by any controlling elements.

Nothing, not even sex, is more important to any living organism than

its own space, its territory. Thank you, Dr. Freud, but territory

preempts sex as the most fundamental of all needs. Without space we

can't make love. Without your own space, you cannot exist.

It is a peculiar twist in the human species that insists on extending

its territory beyond survival needs. It is not enough to merely

establish and defend one's territory. We evidence our aggressiveness

by conquest and subjection of the conquered. I presume that human

desire to lord over other members of our species is due to the

neocortex. Recall that the newest part of the brain is only about

three to five million years old. By some twist of nature, the

reptilian brain made the youngest part of the forebrain its servant.

The non-linguistic and non-reasoning ancient brain uses the neocortex

to develop both a rationale for the irrational and to voice supposed

reasons for the unreasonable. Thus we justify wanton appropriation of

another's labor by defending practices in the name of the Free

Market. The reptilian brain asserts repressive labor practices in the

name of Competitive Edge, wages at levels below the minimum standards

of living in the name of Capitalism. And all the while, the

dominating dinosaurs vote themselves compensations that would make a

common pickpocket blush with shame.

Reptiles espouse lofty religious themes while trampling justice and

righteousness in the mire of their self-created reasonless drive for

ever-larger profits at all cost. The selfishness engendered by the

reptilian brain knows no dishonor. Have not all the reptile/gentlemen

a list of reasons for their behavior a mile long? Little do they

realize that the list is the eventually self-destructive creature of

their own irrational basal ganglia. Does not "the glory that WAS

Greece and the splendor that WAS Rome" say anything to these usurpers

of the common good?

The R-complex's territorial imperative causes leaders and rulers to

trample dinosaur-like through the halls of Congress, the walnut-

paneled Board Rooms, and the Oval Office. And the rest of us find

ourselves imprisoned in the "cages" designed by them. Limitation of

civil liberties, imposition of religious dogmatism, destruction of

equal access to health care, economic enslavement through usurious

interest on credit cards, and pillage of the environment are but a

few examples of the cages imprisoning us.

There are no great democratic ideals to be found in sending our young

men and women into combat to protect the monetary interests of the

oil companies. The decision committing troops are hatched in the R-

complex of the wheelers and the dealers. Nothing noble exists in

pharmaceutical companies ripping off everyone with their pricing

structure. These decisions are engendered in the R-complex of the

wheelers and the dealers.

Dinosaurs are alive and well. The very structure of our society

testifies to that fact. The next article will consider the

hierarchical, ritualistic, and deceitful imprints in the human basal

ganglia.

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Thought For The Day

"Conflict in relationships occur when people attempt to impose their

personal thought system, their personal reality, on others, without an

understanding that other people have separate frames of reference."

R. Suarez