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THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH
“Again, primates are primates are primates. The basic behavior of one primate will usually adumbrate the basic behavior of all primates. Apes mirror humans; humans mirror apes; moreover, what happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but what happens on the savannah will happen everywhere else on the globe where humans have clustered together in cultures and societies.”
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THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS AND THE CALL BY THOSE CONSEQUENCES FOR REALIZATION AND A NISARGAN PERSPECTIVE
To continue with Tuesday’s post which ended with this:
Narrator: “So how does this formidable finding [that stress can shorten the telomeres which are intended to protect DNA from being damaged] apply to us?
San Rafael, California. Once a week Janet Lawson keeps a very important appointment. She joins other mothers who share circumstances that produce chronic, unremitting stress. Each of these women is the mother of a disabled child.”
Woman: “As my son’s only eight and there’s only so much I can handle, I don’t allow myself to go too much out. I can’t.”
Another woman: “I had a friend recently who said to me, ‘You know, I think you really should consider putting Lexie in a home’. And that was really stressful in and of itself. So I was like, ‘Wow, how can you even say that?’ She’s a little girl, and even though she can’t really communicate, she loves. She loves’.”
Narrator: “These remarkable women came to the attention of biologist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn.”
Blackburn: “I don’t directly know the individuals, but I know the stories. I thought it was worthwhile finding out what is really happening at the heart of the cells in these mothers who have done such a difficult thing for such a long time.”
Narrator: “Blackburn is a leader in the field of telomere research.”
Blackburn: “We have forty-six chromosomes and they’re capped off at each end by telomeres. We looked at the group of chronically-stressed mothers to see what’s happening to their telomeres and to the maintenance of their telomeres.
“What we found was the length of the telomeres directly relates to the amount of stress somebody is under and the number of years that they’ve been under the stress.”
Narrator: “Such stressed mothers became the focus of a study by Blackburn’s colleague, psychologist Elissa Eppel.”
Eppel: “Mothers of young children are a highly-stressed group. They’re often balancing competing demands like work and child-rearing and often don’t have time to take care of themselves.
“If you add on top of that the extra burden of caring for a child with special needs, it can be overwhelming. It can tax the very reserves that sustain people, and if they’re stressed, they tend to die earlier.”
Sapolsky: “These women have shortened telomeres and decreased activity of the key enzyme. Basically, for every year of taking care of a chronically-ill child, one experiences roughly six years’ worth of aging.”
Blackburn: “This is real. This is not just somebody whining. This is real, medically-serious aging going on, and we can see that it’s actually caused by the chronic stress.”
Narrator: “But there is hope. Blackburn co-discovered an enzyme, telomerase, which can repair the damage. Preliminary data suggests it may actually have a health benefit to stimulate the healing effects of telomerase.”
Eppel: “One of the questions in the stress field is, ‘What are the active ingredients that reduce stress and that promote longevity?’ Compassion and caring for others may be one of those most important ingredients.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: As has been asked here often, “How can one possibly feel compassion and care is one does not understand the unicity and abide as the Oneness?” One cannot.]
Eppel: “So those may be the factors that promote longevity and increase telomerase and keep our cells rejuvenating and regenerating.”
Narrator: “Twenty years ago Sapolsky got a shocking preview of this idea. The first troop he ever studied, and the baboons he felt closest to and had written books about, suffered a calamity. It would have a profound effect on his research.”
Sapolsky: “The Keekorok troop is the one I started with thirty years ago. They were your basic old baboon troop at the time, which means males were aggressive, their society was highly stratified, and females took a lot of grief. It was your basic off-the-rack baboon troop. And then, something horrific and scientifically very interesting happened to that troop.”
Narrator: “The Keekorok troop took to foraging for food in the garbage dump of a popular tourist lodge. It was a fatal move. The trash included meat tainted with tuberculosis. The result was that over half the males in the troop died.”
Sapolsky: “Not unreasonably, I got depressed as hell and pretty damn angry about what happened.”
Narrator: “For Robert, a decade of research appeared to have been lost. But then he made a curious observation about who had died and who had survived.”
Sapolsky: “It wasn’t random who died. In that troop, if you were aggressive and if you were not particularly socially-connected, you didn’t spend your time grooming and hanging out. If you were that kind of male, you died.”
Narrator: “Every alpha male was gone. The Keekorok troop had been transformed.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: Ah. Could that not be an intended result of the non-dual teachings and the understanding that can come with it? The transformation of groups, societies, cultures or even “individuals”?]
Sapolsky: “What was left was twice as many females as males, and the males who were remaining were, just to use non-scientific jargon, they were ‘good guys.’ They were not aggressive jerks. They were nice to the females. They were very socially-affiliative. It completely transformed the atmosphere in the troop.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: So is that the key? Must all the alpha male, aggressive jerks be killed in order for there to be peace on the planet or in your own life? Not likely happen, is it? The non-dominants in a hierarchy are the least prone to stand up to aggressive, alpha types.
As noted, personality is at play in continuing any status quo and in allowing hierarchies to remain and allowing abusers to remain dominant: Type Nines put up with intolerable Type Eights and Type Sixes are loyal and seldom challenge authority (and they make up 50% of the all humans).
There seems to be 50% who are followers throughout all species. Only ½ of 1% are Types Fours (such as Maharaj) that will stand up to authority, the consequences be damned. Most will never stand up to abusive authority or authorities the way that Type Fours do.
So what other shift might happen that can bring about the kind of peace that manifested in the troop that Sapolsky studied after the aggressive, alpha jerks died?]
Narrator: “When male baboons reach adolescence, they typically leave their home troop and roam, eventually finding a new troop.”
Sapolsky: “And when the new adolescent males would join the troop, they’d come in just as jerky as any adolescent males elsewhere on this planet, and it would take them about six months to learn, “We’re not like that in this troop. We don’t do stuff like that. We’re not that aggressive. We spend more time grooming each other. Males are calmer with each other. You cannot dump on a female.”
It takes these new guys about six months, and they assimilate this style. And you have a different baboon culture. This particular troop has a culture with very low levels of aggression and with high levels of social affiliation, and they’re being behaving that way for twenty years.]
NON-DUAL NOTE: Do you see why the realized automatically and spontaneously gravitate to those that are at peace and automatically and spontaneously move away from noisy, aggressive, belligerent, bellicose, egomaniacal, uncompromising, sociopathic, pathological, boorish, hard-line, hard-nosed humans?]
Rather than ending up as I did - having to bust up the face of my bully Donnie Leone - the wiser strategy might be to learn how to spot Type Eight bullies / sociopaths / psychopaths in order to filter then out of your existence before ever letting them in in the first place.
That’s not always an option, but it is one to consider. Understand that it’s the “wanting” which drives primates to engage in risky encounters in an effort to get a payoff.
The ape that tries to move in on a troop which already has an established hierarchy that has a “boss primate ape” in place will often very quickly find that it is in a fight for its life.
What was that intrusive ape wanting? Power in a troop? Females apes at its beck and call? Maybe a desire to be taken care by the members of a troop? Might it have been wiser to suppress the drive to want and to get and instead to be satisfied with what it had?
Relationships among primates are often very complicated and often very costly, yes? Non-duality tries to make clear that each persona / false identity / personality has a basic fear and a basic desire?
Is it sane to allow the agendas of things that are not even real to determine one’s thoughts and words and actions? The non-dual understanding has long indicated, “No.”
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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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