I like Don Juan's explanation for our lizard brain in "Active side of infinity"
[Long ago, the native sorcerer/shamans of Mexico] discovered that we have a companion
for life," he said, as clearly as he could. "We have a predator that came from the depths of
the cosmos, and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The
predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile; helpless. If we want to protest, it
suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so.
They took over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly
because we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, gallineros, the
predators rear us in human coops, humaneros. Therefore, their food is always available to
them.
Think for a moment,
and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between the intelligence of man the
engineer, and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs; or the stupidity of his contradictory
behavior. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of beliefs; our
ideas of good and evil; our social mores. The predators are the ones who set up our hopes
and expectations, and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed,
and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal
They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their
mind which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, and
filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now
The more I thought about it,
and the more I talked to and observed myself, and my fellow men, the more intense the
conviction that something was rendering us incapable of any activity or any interaction or
any thought that didn't have the self as its focal point.
The flyers are an essential part of the universe, and they must be taken as what they really
are; awesome, monstrous. They are the means by which the universe tests us. We are
energetic probes created by the universe and it's because we are possessors of energy
that has awareness that we are the means by which the universe becomes aware of itself.
The flyers are the implacable challengers. They cannot be taken as anything else. If we
succeed in doing that, the universe allows us to continue