Anal Emotional Territorial
The second system starts to develop as soon as, or maybe earlier than, the child starts to learn to walk. Mastering gravity, getting up and walking around recapitulates the mammalian stage of our evolution, it concerns itself with the territory of, and the animal status in, the group. The territorial can stand for physical but also for mental space and it is emphasized another aspect by RAW on this circuit, the ANAL. So sometimes we throw actual shit, sometimes we just shout SHIT at each other. It’s easy to spot the anals who didn't handle well their emotional brain, they usually can’t lose a game, even the most childish ones, and they are always right, because their emotional-territorial mindspace is easily disbalanced. This is the mammalian brain, concerned with the father figure, the protective figure, the authoritarian, the pack leader, the guide. Perhaps when you are feeling anxious, your second circuit may be malfunctioning.
- Whenever you meet a young male or female, ask yourself consciously, "If it came to hand-to-hand combat, could I beat him/her' ?" Then try to determine how much of your behavior is based on unconsciously asking and answering that question via pre-verbal "body language."
- Get roaring drunk and pound the table, telling everybody in a loud voice just what dumb assholes they all are.1
- Get a book on meditation, practice for two fifteen-minute sessions every day for a month, and then go see somebody who always manages to upset you or make you defensive. See if they can still press your territorial retreat buttons.2
- Spend a week-end at an Encounter Group. During the first half-day, try to intuit which quadrant each participant is coming from. At the end, see if any of them have become less robotized. See if you have become less robotized.
- Go to the Lion House at the zoo. Study the lions until you feel you really understand their tunnel-reality.
- Rent a video of the kind of comedy that small children like—the Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, etc. Observe care- fully, and think about what function this humor serves; but don't neglect to laugh at it yourself.
- Spend all day Sunday looking at animal shows on TV (getting stoned on weed, if this is permissible to you). Then go into the office the next day and observe the primate pack hierar- chy carefully, like a scientist.
Second Grade activities: Play any sport to win, Watch a Clint Eastwood movie, Take a ride on a ferris wheel, Develop your own power elite group, Slamdance at a punk-rock concert, Initiate a wrestling match, Lose an argument and feel defeated, Make someone else feel important, Take a karate lesson, Climb a tree, Throw a tantrum, Rebel against your favorite authority figure, When feeling violated, don't hold back your anger.. .lash out, Act like you're on top of the world.