SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump RE: Consciousness Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Freud's sub-conscious, Rumi and The Cranial Fire and the Origins of the way we think by Robert Ornstein (Prentice Hall 1990) Emotions tell us what is important. We remember events with emotional content, a death, a life threatening event, first babies, news of shocking disasters. When messages have an emotional "hook" they are more likely to be remembered and effect behavior. This is the key to sales, advertising, political marketing, education, relationships, beliefs and religion, and most social psychological behavior. This is why the evening "news" tries to "shock" us, to get us aroused, so we respond to the commercials. The "entertainment" contains progressively more "shocking" material because as we get used to violence, sex, strong graphics, it fails to "surprise" and more is needed. We have a biological program to respond to "something wrong" or strange, loud sounds, monsters and tigers. Emotions start in complex biological responses of the Brainstem ( Reticular Activating System RAS ); the ancient Cerebellum and the Limbic System, hypothalamus, and pituitary gland with a outbreak of electrical and chemical messages. The glans, hormones and sympathetic nervous system respond automatically to perceptions of danger. The fight/flight or stress response prepares the body to fight or flee, and is experienced as fear and anger. When we perceive that "something is wrong", there is some information in the environment that does not fit the pattern of our expectations. The body-mind responds with faster heart rate, raised blood pressure, respiration, perspiration, salivation, eye pupil size, decreased skin resistance (GSR), and we are physically ready to fight or run. Somewhere about 95% of body- mind activity is pre-conscious, only being interpreted by the higher functions of the mind after the fact. We all feel "there is something terribly wrong with us". We have a hard time believing we are "the perfect creation of a loving G- D." We come from clay, rocks, plants, animals who are perfect in being themselves. Therefore we are subject to having "our strings pulled", "being jerked around" by passions we don't understand or control. Rapid social change, partly caused by run away technology, has created the sense of danger all around us. "Thing are not what they are supposed to be" in the small town world of Rush Linbough and millions of our fellow citizens. The biological response feels danger from "change" in sexual roles, the behavior of children, in a global economy at the end of the industrial revolution. The NEW social-economy promotes quick, rapid, inventive, innovative, creative complex technologies and information processing abilities. The humans raised in an industrial system, step by step, top down, sequential concrete ordered and planned factories and factory schools, FEEL the New World Order as dangerous to their survival, and they are right. There is no reason to believe the patterns of the body-mind can be rewired. There is NOT a wonderful track record of society being the instrument of creating a "new" human type as the product of social engineering. Salivation by faith, by society, or any institutional means church or state has dramatically failed, along with the established church and the Soviet Union. The moral and personal choice of "reality" vs. "illusion". the good, the true and the beautiful, is all there is and all there ever was. We have a 1000's minds, and capacities. Our talents can be liberated from the fog of social habits. Only I can do it, and only you can do it, and maybe we can do it together - called synergy. SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump is where YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free. ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ***************************************************************** SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump is where YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free. ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 [log in to unmask] *****************************************************************