Lizard Legacy & Monkey Brain?

November 8, 2011

Calling someone a “snake in the grass” is one of those ugly remarks; however, is being a lizard much better?

Oh, yeah!

You see we all have this lizard legacy, and it’s a good thing too because it’s there for our protection and survival. In fact, we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for our lizard legacy. In today’s parlance, it’s called the reptilian brain. Thankfully we have evolved along the way and added to it the mammalian, neo-cortex, and pre frontal lobes to make our brains more functional.

It’s probably that lizard legacy that gave us the phrase original sin.

Not totally of course, but a lot of our physical (fight syndromes) proclivities are stored in that brain stem area. Many of our fears, phobias, and addictions are also tucked away for future reference. When we add to the lizard legacy the “Monkey-brain” (rational part of the brain), is there any wonder we act like a bunch of animals much of the time?

Thankfully, we’re spirit being with the capability and capacity to put it all together and act responsibly: if our religious beliefs will allow for such. Yep, there’s the challenge for sure.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

Thinking & Feeling

November 6, 2011

One statement that I used to make a lot early in my life was, I BELIEVE! Not quite so bad is, I THINK!

I’ve come to a place in life where I prefer to be around those who say, I FEEL!

Somewhere back in the early days of marriage I came to a realization that opened my eyes to reality: marriage will do that. When someone tells you what it is that they FEEL, there’s really no argument because it is “their reality”. A person FEELS what they feel and for you to deny their feelings won’t produce good results.

Worst of all though are the GOD SAID people!

How can you argue with people who have heard from God? Of course most have not, they have just heard from their ego that’s told them the best way to close out an argument is to SAY that they’ve heard from God. Edna Zavala (a curandera) puts it like this, “The cosmos is not solely a quantitative measure, cold and precise. Nature is not just a measure that is explained through a concept.”

In other words she’s saying that we learn by intuiting, feeling, and perceiving.

Somehow we in the Western world have learned with our MINDS and INTELLECT only forgetting that we are tied to nature, or as astronaut Edgar Mitchell has put it, “We are made of the same substance as the stars, and we come from them.” When we move away from nature into houses, cars, and offices planted on concrete jungles we lose sight of our true nature and begin to think that we are the center of the universe because we created all that we live in.

Hello!

When’s the last time you took a hike in the red woods, scaled a mountain, sat beside the oceans surf, or maybe just laid back in a hammock and contemplated your navel? It could change your life! Unfortunately we’ve been taught to THINK instead of FEELING. Maybe life would be better if we did a little of both and listened to what the stars, trees, and plants are telling us. Are you interested?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

Limited Vision?

November 4, 2011

Life is so big, the planet so large, and the universe so awesome that there’s no way anyone can appreciate how vast the world is or so small we are in comparison.

We have such a limited view, such a limited vision of the reality of life!

It seems that we’re making progress; however, when one looks back at recent archaeological discoveries, tries to comprehend how the Great pyramids were built, and explain the many sacred sites around the globe, it’s obvious we’re clueless in many ways.

>Who can fathom the 5,125 year cycle of the Mayans?
>Who can comprehend the five Suns of the Hopi?
>Who understands the impact of the 100,000 year cycle of ice ages?
>Who really knows if the 420,000 year Antarctica core drillings are valid?
>Who know the language of Gaia?

We have such limited visions in part because we have clung to the visions of individuals who interpreted the world thousands of years ago. While there much to be learned from what has been handed down to us, let us not be blinded by their humanity and lack of scientific knowledge.

We stand on the stage of great change and challenge.

December 21, 2012 is more of a symbol and a reminder of massive changes underway in our galaxy: more than being a single day or hour of apocalyptic happenings. We need to go within and to see far without. We are spirit beings who came from afar, for reasons way beyond making the monthly mortgage.

What are those reasons, or is you vision too limited by “daily debts”?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary