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Human Software and Hardware
So continuing with the subject of fear and power. Having watched Dawn Callan help thousands of women with NO understanding of this “get it” within 24 hours of training, I realized I was dealing with a genius, someone with unusual knowledge and the rare capacity to convey it. Her discussion of her “map” to a proper and healthy human animal connects with what spooky old yogis, shamans, and others with specialized knowledge had taught over the decades of my life. She is considering the “Chakras” to be a map of our hardware, what we came into the world with. And that it is critical to differentiate between this and the `software’ we install along the way.
“What’s the hardware in there that we have that can’t be changed and is infinite and eternal that we can always count on because (we can) always go there and get the same thing. It doesn’t change. And then there’s the software that gets to again along the way that you CAN change software habits, patterns, behavior, psychology that you work to change.”
What is the basic stuff? What did we actually come into the world with? I’ve heard some very very basic notions: fear, anger, pleasure. Initial things we fear would include fear of falling and loud noises. Food triggers pleasure, denial of food triggers anger. Pain is another core basic.
But just maybe everything else, everything else that we learn is tied into one of these basics, secondary at the very most. When we are children, our parents have Godlike power, and what they tell us, what they do FOR and TO us, goes…