Oral Bio Survival
All these systems, or brains, recapitulate some part of our evolution as LIFE on this planet. The first can be interpreted as the foundations of the being, where in domesticable primates it means the infantile phase, the new born child. RAW generally emphasizes the ORAL aspect of this brain on high techno-bureaucrats, but it’s concerned basically with the bio survival, recapitulating, according to Leary, the marine (aquatic) stage of evolution, and one can’t help to notice that most of our body is water and the most precious substance that you have to ingest every day is water, the pre-Socratic philosopher, Thales of Miletus thought that water was the essence of life, and so on. The oral bio survival circuit for us is concerned maybe with what Maslow consider the first layer of needs in his pyramid, but it could be also related with a mother figure, whether it’s the sun, the moon, your girlfriend, your guitar, it may be playing the role of being the externalization of your safe place, your home. This circuit is probably responsible for the feeling of insecurity, vulnerability and dependence and if you are mainly operating on the bio survival level, you may search for the safe place on whatever was imprinted on you as a child. This means that if you imprinted the world as a safe place where you can always keep on exploring, you may not search for your mother to hold you when something threatens your first brain.
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- Determine to enjoy this primitive circuit fully from now on. Play with yourself and others and the environment shamelessly, like a newborn baby. Meditate on "Unless ye become as a little child, ye shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
- Never mind your diet—you will reach the optimum weight for your height when your brain is operating properly. Enjoy one really sweet and gooey desert every week. Diabetics, of course, should buy this goody in the non-sugar section.
- Get "high" (on marijuana if this is permissible to your superego, or on ginseng, which is legal everywhere and recom- mended by many holistic physicians) and then go to a health spa. Enjoy a good swim, a massage and a sauna. Repeat every week, forever.
- Take a course on kung fu or karate for at least three months, then re-read this whole chapter. You will be surprised at how much more every sentence will mean.
- Lie on your back and pant rapidly to the count of 20. (Each exhale-inhale cycle counts as one, not as two.) Panting means breathing rapidly through your mouth, as forbidden by almost all experts on health, but this is only an exercise, not a full-time practice. When you reach 20, stop and resume nose-breathing, in the slow, rhythmic manner recommended by yogis, to the count of 20. Then repeat the panting to the count of 20. Then repeat proper yoga breathing. This is known as the "breath of fire" in Tantric yoga. The results are most amusing and enlightening. Try it!'
- Visit an aquarium and observe very closely. Try to see the bio-survival circuit of the fish brain in operation and recognize when and how that circuit in your own brain has operated throughout your life.
- If you don't have a baby, or haven't had one for many years, play with somebody else's baby for an hour. Then reread this chapter.
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First Grade activities: soak in a hot bath, let someone you trust carry you, receive a full-body massage, crawl and baby-talk, cry out when you feel helpless, feel the fear of falling and sudden loud noises, get real hungry, cuddle with someone who loves you, discover who your "Mother" models are, satisfy yourself, be held by someone, permit somebody to feed you.