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HOW SCIENCE AND THE NON-DUAL UNDERSTANDING CAN COMBINE TO ELIMINATE OR REDUCE STRESS, TENSION, WORRY, AND ANXIETY
“Primates include lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, gorillas, humans and more than 500 other species as well. With few exceptions, all OF those primates form hierarchies.”
--floyd
“Hierarchies are systems or organizations in which group members are ranked one above the other according to status or authority, making hierarchies one of the top generators of duality and, therefore, the bane of the existence of human primates.”
--floyd
“Hierarchies are a blight upon humankind’s existence because they are the surrogates which reinforce such duality-based beliefs as ‘different-from’ and ‘better-than’ and which carry ego-states to term where they will all upgrade themselves or downgrade all others. For example, “The Spouse” will eventually upgrade itself to ‘Super Spouse’ and will downgrade its co-dependent counterpart to “Lousy Spouse’.”
--floyd
“Hierarchies are the ‘au pairs’ of duality-based beliefs and false identifications, feeding them, caring for them, and catering to their desires and whims, forever supplying and resupplying groups with fresh supplies of believers of such concepts as special, self-important, ‘different-from-ment’ and ‘better-than-ment.’ They also program and condition minds to believe in learned ignorance and in stupidity-and-insanity-based ideas.”
--floyd
A few weeks out of each year, Sapolsky shifts his lab to the plains of the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya. Over thirty years ago, he went there suspecting that he could find out more about humans, stress, and disease by looking at non-humans, specifically, a group of non-humans that are often quite human-like (or vice-versa), namely, baboons.
He says, “You live in a place like this, you’re a baboon, and you only have to spend about three hours a day getting your calories. And if you only have to work three hours a day, you’ve got nine hours of free time every day to devote to making somebody else just miserable.”
Indeed.
Then he notes, as the audience is shown one baboon abusing another one (the abused one being farther down than its abuser in the hierarchical chain of the troop being studied), “They’re not being stressed by lions chasing them all the time . . . they’re being stressed by each other. They’re being stressed by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
And it is that which makes them “a perfect model for westernized stress-related disease.” It is explained, “To determine just what toll stress was taking on their bodies, Sapolsky wanted to look inside these wild baboons - at the cellular level for the very first time, so “from each baboon blood sample, Robert measured levels of hormones central to the stress response.”
Sapolsky: “To make sense of what’s happening in your body, you’ve got these two hormones that are the work horses of the whole stress response. One of them we all know, adrenaline (American version, epinephrine). The other is a less known hormone called ‘glucocorticoids’ which come out of the adrenal gland along with adrenaline, and these are the two backbones of the stress response.”
To understand the origin of the stress response in life-forms, Sapolsky goes back to its earliest development, involved with the fight-or-flight response that is driven by the desire of the consciousness for continuity . . . for continuation of its manifestation; thus, Sapolsky notes, “What stress is about is somebody is very intent on eating you or you are very intent on eating somebody, so there’s an immediate crisis going on.”
Consider examples of the stress response being triggered when a zebra is chased down and attacked and eaten by a lion or when a migrating wildebeest is attacked by a crocodile as the wildebeest tries to cross a river.
Then, see how those origins have been distorted via the assumption of false personal identifications (which, when they erroneously feel threatened) trigger in humans a stress response such as when an imagined ego-state like “The Employee” is chastised by “The Employer”;
next, see how the early origins of stress responses are now reflected in the colloquialisms used by humans when their ego-states mistakenly perceive “threats to a false identity” as an “actual threat,” such as when a worker describes to co-workers an encounter with his unhappy employer:
“He chewed my ass out!”
“Boy, did he tear me a new a-hole!”
“Man, he ate me up and spit me out!”
“He ripped me up good!”
(All descriptions straight from the savannah that could have been heard if a “targeted victim” had been able to describe an attack by a would-be predator.)
Or in relationships, sentiments that can also be traced right back to humanity’s roots on the African veldt:
“Stop attacking me!”
“She tore out my heart!”
“You’re killing me!”
“He broke my heart!”
“She destroyed me!”
“He devastated me!”
See, the actual dangers and threats of the savannah have been brought forth into the minds of humans (who can no longer differentiate between 1. actual, physical threats, and 2. the false threats to personas that are perceived erroneously via the delusion-plagued minds of the masses to be real).
Sapolsky: “When you run for your life, basics are all that matter: lungs work overtime to pump mammoth quantities of oxygen into the bloodstream; the heart races to pump that oxygen throughout the body so muscles respond instantly;
“you need your blood pressure up to deliver that energy; you need to turn off anything that’s not essential; you know / believe that you’re running for your life; this is no time to ovulate, to repair tissue, etc. The message is, ‘Do it later, if there is a later’.”
The irony of humanity’s perspective when abiding under the influence of personality and false, personal identifications and those identifications’ agendas is that the earlier legitimate response of life-forms being attacked now seems as real to false ego-states when they erroneously perceive that they are being attacked.
The difference nowadays between humans trapped in personal identification and other life-forms is described by Sapolsky as follows:
“If the zebra escapes, its stress response shuts down, but human beings can’t seem to find their ‘off’ switch. We turn on the exact same stress response for purely psychological states.”
And that’s where the non-dual understanding comes in. It provides those who come to understand who / what they are not with an ability to separate a false identity’s agenda and fears and desires by being able to differentiate fact from fiction;
by differentiating false identities from one’s actual reality and Reality; and by being able to establish a perspective of non-attachment to all that has - prior to the point of realization - guaranteed that either a fight or flight (or freeze) response will almost constantly be at play.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
