When thinking about loops, and how we seem to be caught endless cycles….yet tell ourselves we create reality, I started thinking about instincts.
My understanding of “instincts” is that they are the default actions of the vehicle we call “our body” to specific external stimuli.
We just accept that our bodies just happen to do them. That they are like death and taxes, there’s no escaping and no way to get through the complexity of them to understand why they are such a force in our lives.
I got to thinking, maybe that’s what keep stuck in loops…the facts that we allow for a reality where instincts “just are”…even though if we thought about it for two seconds…the fact that we as a species are able to transcend them is what allows us to differentiate us (most people consider it “beign better/higher order” than) from “animals” (or lower species).
We lie to ourselves about the fact that these vehicles are multidimensional infinite universes in themselves. It seems like communities of brain cells behave in a particular whenever certain conditions are met…ordering another community (the organ at the other end of the neuerons) to act.
If we believe that all things (particularly living ones) have a level consciousness, it seems like the cells that make up our body are slaves to something or caught in loops where it doesn’t occur to them to make a different discion….or do they??
Isn’t what makes us the dominator of all other earth species our ability to transcend the survival level (best described by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) in order to shape our reality into away that in a lot of ways goes AGAINST those “survival instincts” we may not be exactly looking at in an empowering way?
Doesn’t it seem like control of another’s instincts is the root of ALL of the “problems” we talk about facing as a species? Isn’t the most effective “mind control” to place an (irrational, disempowering) emotional attachment to our survival instincts?
I mean fight or flight fear response is an effective survival mechanism in the wild or faced in certain situations, though it seems that something/someone with a better understanding has twisted this instinct to emotionally attach it to such irrational ideas of losing a sh!tty job we feel we need.
It seems like we’ve been tricked into thinking “you are what you eat” is a cute euphemism, and not one of the most important truths we could possibly understand.
And if we can be emotionally manipulated into defending eating poison and acting on irrational fear…how easy would it be to implant higher order “instincts” or even abstract contrusts…like “controlling” or “following” others?
In light of our treatment of other “lower” species, isn’t it time we start viewing our reality from a position where there’s the possibility that something has happened that we don’t easily recognize (like my attempt to train my dog to relieve itself outside).
Not that all of the manipulation is “bad” or even disempowering…but wouldn’t it be universally (to our species) empowering and desirable to have a better idea of why our bodies behave the way they do, rather than just accepting that it is just how it is? Do we really believe that there is a purpose for everything, a knowable reason? Do we all just believe in random, coincidence?
…I’m having a hard time with that, myself…