Materialistic neuroscience is mesmerized by the brain and its status as a provider of authentic scientific data required brain facts to explain the different types of thinking that human beings engaged in.
Working with its materialistic hypothesis that consciousness was an emergent property of matter it proposed that as the human brain evolved it retained and built upon more primitive brain structures and these primitive layers explain why humans can engage in behavior that falls way below what is considered socially and morally decent.
Then, using some nifty Aquarian Age technology it observed different parts of the brain light up in response to different types of thinking and developed its triune brain theory of thinking.
The theory identifies three different types of brain, each responsible for different levels of thinking.
The reptilian brain aka the primitive or downstairs brain consists of the brain stem and spinal cord. It controls your very basic thinking.
The cerebral cortex and its various parts, in particular the middle prefrontal cortex, aka the upstairs brain is responsible for higher order thinking, planning, imagining, analysing, problem solving and decision making.
The limbic system or mammalian brain which includes the pituitary gland and hypothalamus controls your immune and endocrine function through the production of hormones.
Neuroscience proposes that when a down shift occurs to the reptilian brain it prevents information from being switched up to the higher thinking centers of the brain.
Its reptilian or gorilla brain refers to those thoughts, feelings and impulses that fail to pass the civilized thinking test. It’s the realm of vicious aggression, unspeakable violence, harsh brutality, sexual abuse, cruelty, torture, predatory behavior, hatred and selfishness.
It seems that human brains are programed to express animal urges and dangerous impulses. The struggle to survive has fostered hostility, conflict and aggressive competition.
That said, the adult human brain does what it has been trained to do. Its knowledge of what is right and wrong is often misguided. It fears what it doesn’t understand and then wants to destroy it. And when a dangerous brain controls the behavior extremely bad things happen.
The constant reporting of violence, brutality, cruelty, sexual abuse, coercion, injustice, inequality and self-interest reveals the extent to which so many people are controlled by their reptilian brains.
But modern neuroscience has been tricked and fooled into thinking your brain is doing your thinking.
It’s unaware that the thoughts you think emerge from your greater consciousness and that soul-intelligence utilizes electromagnetic energy to stream thoughts and feelings to objective consciousness: your brain.
You have high and low quality thoughts. Kindness, sympathy and altruism coexist with harshness, lust and selfishness and you know your mind can go places it shouldn’t. When animal desire surges decency controls easily succumb to self-interest and personal advantage.
The animal soul
You’re evolving towards the angel, but within your soul are states of consciousness acquired in your evolutionary past where the struggle to survive saw you develop aggression and selfishness.
Hermetic astrology teaches that your soul is on a journey to develop intelligence and ability. It’s built of thoughts, feelings and impulses aka states of consciousness and those having a low vibratory rate congregate in the portion designated as the animal soul.
It teaches that you are fundamentally an animal with an active animal nature. Embedded in your soul are thoughts, feelings and impulses that were acquired and developed during its evolution in wild animal life-forms.
It teaches that your character is composed of ten dynamic states of consciousness. Your higher-self expresses generosity, kindness and sympathy; and your lower-self expresses selfishness, harshness and disparagement.
It teaches that your character is revealed to you as its different states of consciousness access your objective awareness and influence what you think, say and do. And that the low stuff is emanating from the animal parts of your soul: the Mars and Saturn thought-cell groups.
During your formative years attempts were made to civilize your animal tendencies, but only you know if this early conduct training was successful. And as an adult coming to grips with the dark side of your soul aka your wild, untamed animal tendencies can be a challenge.
But this devil within is the foundation of your future spiritual self. Your higher nature invites you to tame the animal and elevate your thoughts and feelings into a higher mode of expression through a process of energy transmutation.
You have spiritual attributes awaiting development.
But awareness of the devil can create conflict and torment. There’s struggle as you strive to modify, elevate and transform destructive animal impulses.
You need to know that you can change, modify, improve and elevate your devil thinking and doing. It’s not set in cement. It can be transformed into constructive, worthwhile effort that contributes to your peace of mind, day-to-day success and spiritual development.
Take home message
You have a mind and body so your psychological-physical unit. You have a character, personality and intelligence type. Your fundamental human nature is a pattern of behavior that is totally yours and unique to you.
Your soul’s mental content has come from previous experience. It’s been formatted in accordance with the law of associated memory. Thoughts and feelings that surge together merge together. Your life story, as a series of events and conditions, is the result of ten dynamic desire-urges that exist within your soul doing their thing.
Your behavior is a response to circumstance. It has been learned and consolidated through repetition and is now an established habit. And whatever you do starts as a thought or feeling and everything you think, feel and do is you. This is your personal reality.
Your thoughts and feelings possess psychokinetic power and today they’re actively pursuing a type of experience that is similar to the one associated with their original formation.
First experiences set a trend and if your thinking, feeling and doing stays the same there will be no change and no improvement. But when you change, modify, upgrade or elevate the functional status of your thinking, feeling and doing there’s perception change, attitude change and behavior change.
You’ve changed yourself from the inside; and your mental, emotional and spiritual development is a change process involving the constant upgrading of your capacity to reproduce events and conditions as harmonious states of consciousness.
You need to know that you can use your birth chart to guide the process. The consciousness it maps can be reduced to what you think, feel and do.
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