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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a
pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
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Nurture
Nurture: 1 Breeding, upbringing,
education, as received or possessed by a person. b Moral training or discipline. 2 That which nourishes;
nourishment, food. 3 The process of bringing up or training a person, esp. a child; tutelage; fostering care. Also, social
environment as an influence on or determinant of personality (opp. nature). Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: All sentient beings are born pre-primed with certain
distinguishing instincts, the main ones being fear, aggression, nurture and desire. They are blind Nature’s rather clumsy
software package designed to give one a start in life and to ensure the survival of the species. While absolutely essential in the
days of roaming man-eating animals, rampant disease, high infant mortality, these very same instinctual passions now threaten the
survival of the species.
The instincts only ‘care’ for the survival of the species – the
strongest, most aggressive, the crudest. Further, blind nature gives not a fig for your happiness or well-being. We are
relentlessly driven, despite our good intentions and moral codes, to act instinctually in each and every situation in our lives
and this is the cause of all our angst and confusion. Usually we divide our instinctual passions into groupings of ‘good’ and
‘bad’ and try either to repress or deny the ‘bad’ ones – fear and aggression – while giving full vent and validity to
the ‘good’ ones – nurture and desire.
Nurture is essentially the instinct to procreate, provide for, protect
and pass on any knowledge, customs, morals, ethics and beliefs to the next generation. By nurture one is ‘compelled’ to
blindly defend one’s ‘own’ – regardless of the sensibleness and appropriateness of the action. Nurture causes us to care
for, comfort and protect those we consider our ‘own’ and leads to dependency, jealousy, empathy, duty, sacrifice for others
and needless heroism.
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Nurture also causes us to feel
sorrow for ourselves and others similarly afflicted persons, to desperately cling to others for comfort and solace. Women are
programmed to reproduce the species and men are programmed to provide for, and protect, the offspring – a blind and unremitting
instinctual drive. When nurture fails within the species, as it inevitably does, we turn to animals, pets, trees, ‘endangered’
species, ‘mother’ earth and other non-reciprocating, safe objects.
For the spiritual seeker, the
journey ‘in’ is a journey to find one’s instinctual self – one’s roots, one’s original face, the Source, etc. If, on
this inner journey, one ignores or denies the passions of aggression and fear and concentrates one’s attention on the passions
of nurture and desire, one can shift one’s identity from the psychological thinking neo cortex – the ‘ego’ to use their
term – and ‘become’, or associate with, or identify with, the good feelings of nurture and desire.
This is a seductive and
self-gratifying journey, for one is actively promoting the flow of chemicals that give rise to the good, pleasant, warm,
light-headed, heart-full and ultimately ecstatic feelings. These flow of chemicals overwhelm the neo-cortex to such an extent that
they become one’s primary experience, and the input of the physical world as perceived by the senses and the clear-thinking
ability of the cognitive modern brain are both subjugated – or ‘transcended’ to use their term. One then ‘feels’ one has
found one’s original ‘self’, which one has of course, though t’is all but a fantasy of one’s imagination.
Thankfully there is a third alternative, which is the
total elimination of one’s ‘self’ in total – the whole of the amygdala’s instinctual programming that gives rise to the
animal passions.
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