I am reading Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. The genes that use humans as vehicles, and are only interested in procreation, and not in the life experience of the vehicle.
But, as I have said before, there are 160 intangible capacities, mostly dormant, in the human DNA. The ones that we are going to look at in this article are the capacities (genes) of generosity (altruism) and trust.
Trust and generosity seem to be at odds with the selfishness of the genes… but they don’t have to be.
The most popular image I have on Instagram says: Arrogance is weakness disguised as strength.
Now, why this is worth writing about?
Because it is the tip of the iceberg of something really important.
We have spoken about the selfish gene. For the gene you are a survival vehicle only. And a person, who is not related to you, is competition, rival… and in your gene’s way to make more copies of itself.
I know this is unfamiliar territory, but please bear with me, because where it is taking us is worth going to… so patience… you don
Here’s an awareness exercise (meditation) that I particularly like for rejuvenating yourself with silence:
Sit up straight.
Close your eyes.
Take a few deep breaths to settle down. (if you know how to center yourself, you can do it first)
Then here’s what to do with your awareness:
Eyes closed, get a sense of the end of your personal space in front of you. It’s an energetic phenomenon, mine is about three feet… You’ll feel it. We’ve spoken about a lot of things. One of them will be of special relevance to you. That is, why people want to change. It all came out of both of us watching the first few sessions of the 67 steps, excellent, by the way. But what’s most interesting is that what he is getting out of it, and what I am getting out of those sessions, the 67 steps, are so different: it is hard to be Urges make you do self-destructive, self-damaging things. Things that when you watch other people do them, you shake your head. Fear of being left out, fear of being left behind has an age associated with it. It’s young. And your behavior to “fix it” will be young too. But I had a premonition about the rest of the series. Made up by skilled television writers, I knew it was going to be something dangerous to my well-being. Unneeded complications, many different side-story lines, all dramatic and irrelevant, all stories I would not watch Netflix for. But all of these side-stories had a claw as sharp as the tiny hooks of burr… of v Its purpose is survival. The organism wants to survive, desperately. We don’t know what that love is, but we want it. And some of us want to earn it. I just followed a link that introduced me to Chris Farley, a fat comedian, who died… because he could not live without that love. ((Chris Farley is the fat guy Robert Fritz, author of the book, The Path of Least Resistance, can offer a lot of information on the topic. Fritz’s oscillating structures is a model and it is useful. What no one seems to write about is the big cycles that are hard to see, and even harder to see that you have anything to do with them. I call this “the machine” and it is time to bring it up again, because so many people are unwittingly pulled into the downward phase of the The Law of Cycles… an excerpt from Dan Millman’s book: the life you were meant to live The world of nature exists within a larger pattern of cycles, such as day and night and the passing of the seasons. The seasons do not push one another: neither do clouds race the wind across the sky; all things happen in good time; everything has a time to rise, and a time to fall. Whatever rises, falls, and whatever falls shall rise again: that is the principle of cycles. Patience is power: with time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk. CHINESE PROVERB Different forms of energy vibrate at different rates; like a river, energy flows from a higher to lower levels, moving through repeating cycles, expanding and then contracting, like our breathing. Since everything in the universe is a form of energy, everything falls within the domain of the Law of Cycles: Sunrise and sunset, the waxing and waning moon, the ebb and flow of the tides, Times like this are the real tests whether the capacities are working or not. Suddenly I had no access to anything that is on that computer, not the data, not the software, and I had a few choices: go crazy, go out of business, or bring resiliency, aka mental toughness to carry the day. It’s Tuesday, and a few minutes after the death of my trusty computer, I went downstairs and to my weekly outing to the chiropractor and to the gro
How can you get to do what you most love to do for a living?
I had today, being Sunday, my Sunday call, the one I’ve had for 9 years now. Left out, left behind… and you are scrambling or resign…
When you become aware of your urges… a feeling that urges you to do something, mostly to relieve a tension, a pain, a fear, you’ll probably find this fear of being left out, being left behind.As you may know,
What makes soap operas addictive? What are YOU hooked on?
Very “interesting” experience. I watched the first year of Dexter, and although I wanted to watch all episodes, the first year was not addictive. Behavioral strategies vs. beingness strategies
We all want to be loved. It’s hardwired, because being loved is the surest way to be fed, as a child, get sex as an adult, be promoted or helped as an adult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngdYG Your machine: Cycles, patterns, spiritual path: Life is a circle of repeating changes, rising and falling like the seasons.
All models are wrong, but some are useful. This model is useful. The law of cycles
Swim or sink… do or die
This morning my main computer quietly died.