The most important career of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under the most miserable conditions. Conditions like when a former prostitute will not stop begging you for money, threatening you, following you, and posting pictures up on social media to upset you and your family. So after the brain ensures your survival, everything else is secondary. In order to keep your body functioning, the brain is required to generate internal signals that register what our bodies require such as food, and rest or protection. Our rational, cognitive brain is actually the youngest part of the brain and occupies only about 30 percent of the area inside of our skull. The rational brain is primarily concerned with the World outside us: understanding how things and people work and figuring out how to accomplish our goal, dreams, and manage our times, and sequence our actions.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 10

Beneath the rational brain lie two evolutionary antiquated, and to some degree separate, brains, which are in charge of everything else: the moment-by-money registration and management of our body’s physiology and the identification of comfort, safety, threat, hunger, fatigue, desire, longing, excitement, pleasure, and pain. The brain is built from the bottom up. It develops every child in the womb, just as it did in the course of evolution. The most primitive part, the part that I already online when we are born, is the ancient Neanderthals, often called the caveman brain. It is located in the brain stem, just above the place where our spinal cord enters the skull. This caveman brain is responsible for all the things that newborn babies can do: eat, sleep, wake, cry, breathe; feel temperature, hunger, wetness, and pain; and rid the body of toxins by urinating and defecating.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 10

The brain stem and the hypothalamus (which sits directly above it) together control the energy levels of the body. They coordinate the functioning of the heart and lungs and also the endocrine and immune systems, ensuring that these basic life-sustaining systems are maintained within the relatively stable internal balance known as homeostasis. Breathing, eating, sleeping, boo booing, and urinating are so fundamental that their significance is easily neglected when we are considering the complexities of mind and behavior. However, if your sleep is disturbed, you have trouble urinating, or your bowls do not move own their, or if you always feel hungry, of if being touched makes you want to scream (as is often the case with traumatized children and adults), the entire organism is thrown into disequilibrium. It is amazing how many psychological problems involve difficulties with sleep, appetite, touch, digestion, and arousal. Any effective treatment for trauma has to address these basic housekeeping functions of the body.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 10

Right above the caveman brain is the limbic system. It is also known as the mammalian brain, because all animals that live in groups and nurture their young possess one. Development of this part of the brain truly takes off after a baby is born. It is the seat of the emotions, the monitor of danger, the judge of what is pleasurable or scary, the arbiter of what is or is not important for survival purposes. It is also a central command post for coping with the challenges of living within our complex social networks. The projected self is the process in which division is assumed as the ongoing duality of me and my experience, my demands against the demands of the World outside. Resolution of this dichotomy involves questioning into the assumed division of self-image and experience. One may express such resolution, not as a strategy or solution brought into the present, but as timeless presenteness that is always the case. Allowing recognition of this being that never is not there, but simply is not located or objectified. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 10

In examining the process by which psychological distress gives way to a release of the unreal, constructed and projected self, very briefly refer to the case example of Luke. Luke suffered from depressed mood and anxiety about being seen negatively by others. He tended to focus on family expectations that he maintains a successful marriage, and also understood his being as a person defined through having a successful relationship. Luke was to, in a key moment, relinquish the previously perceived self-image, status, and artificial sense of self-esteem involved in having a self that could be presented as successful at getting love and giving love. This moment arose after tears, anger, regret, and disappointment has been voiced. However, that moment itself involved clarity, stillness, and a kind of stark realization that the momentum of the past had dissolved. Luke stated, “I do not need to be that man anymore, who has to be seen as successful in relationships.” #RyanPhillippe 5 of 10

The limbic system is shaped in response to experience, in partnership with the infant’s own genetic makeup and inborn temperament. (As all parents of more than one child quickly notice, babies differ from birth in the intensity and nature of their reactions to similar events.) Whatever happens to a baby contributes to the emotional and perceptual map of the World that its developing brain creates. The brain is formed in a use-dependent manner. This is another way of describing neuroplasticity, the relatively recent discovery that neurons that fire together, wire together. When a circuit fires repeatedly, it can become a default setting—the response most likely to occur. If you feel safe and loved, your brain become specialized in exploration, play, and cooperation; if you are frightened and unwanted, the brain specializes in managing feelings of fear and abandonment. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 10

As infants and toddlers, we learn about the World by moving, grabbing, and crawling and by discovering what happens when we cry, smile, or protest. We are constantly experimenting with our surroundings—how do our interactions change the way our bodies feel? Attend any two-year-old’s birthday party and notice how little Ryan will engage you, play with you, dally with you, without any requirement for language. These early explorations shape the limbic structures devoted to emotions and memory, but these structures can also be significantly modified by later experiences: for the better by a close friendship or a beautiful first love, for instance, or for the worse by a violent assault, relentless bullying, or neglect. The city might strike horror in your heart. The city is in ruins. So much pollution fills the air that it never rains. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 10

Most people seem to have left the planet; only leaving those with defective minds behind. People who have done so much evil that that are cursed, and haunted. Their curse is that have subscribed to the Devil’s network and cannot break free. Their minds are corrupt and the threads of their brains bleed together so that they cannot distinguish memories, thoughts, nor identities. They in essence believe their lies to be true, even if you have proof that they are wrong. They do not know they are cursed, but refuse to recognize God and repent for their sins, so they live in a daily hell where they lie and hurt people for fun. Garbage collects everywhere. Seamy character roam the streets and mostly abandoned buildings. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 10

Layered on top of this image lies a World of technological perfection. Automatic air-lock doors open and close along the street. A huge dirigible passes over the city periodically, with neon signs advertising products. Police patrol the ruins in electronic airships. Lights, electronic gadgets, computers of every sort populate this city. We are presented a massive image of the making of a new World soul. Some are searching out a group of genetically engineered creatures who look exactly like human beings, except that they are technically perfect—they are brilliant, have incredible athletic bodies, and are extremely peaceful, as long as psychopathic people refrain from blocking their paths. Our hero develops a strong bond with a genetically engineered young man, and he with him. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 10

The young man was constructed with the memory implant from another person, whom he looks a lot like him, and seems to have his feelings. This image is important for it opens a door that we must pass through. We have distilled the World of electronic technology to what it seems to be actually about. WiFi networks have created a new kind of soul for their Earth, one that somehow allows people to teleport certain places or bleed into other threads of reality. World are now combining. The past is mixing with the present and the future and the dead seem to be returning to life and are concentrating on the technological hopes to see the World through it to soul. And Nature, ever, like the antiquated Hebrew God, cries out, thou shalt have no others gods before me!  #RyanPhillippe 10 of 10