Do Dinosaurs Or Reptiles Know How to Love?
Imagine you are a reptile for a moment, could you love? Well, you have a reptile alive inside you now, so it is important to understand if it can and what it means for your life if it cannot. Yuck! I’ve got a lizard inside me? I’m afraid so. Our dinosaur ancestors had one and it’s called the limbic system today (don’t know what dinosaurs called it). Be that reptile for a moment, would you admire poetry and music or would you main concerns be being eaten, eating or making baby reptiles? I think of this as the four F’s: Fear, Food, F***, Flight. A bit graphic, I admit, but it is memorable and its important that it be so. We live from these beliefs all the time and rationalize them away after the event. Let’s get back to you now. How is this affecting you today? Well, when we see something, it is first processed by the limbic system, then because the signals are a bit slower it gets to the rational higher brain functions. So very often, our first reactions are reptilian which we later rat
