Fighting Inner Reptile- Knowing the Darkness Within

Ok, last poll didn't really interest you- It was a tie.
Prisons not a hot topic here then, in spite of the media.

OK, this week, the question will be about you.

But first, let's remember Inner Monkey.
Happy Inner Monkey, trying to guide you towards Love.
Love for all your species.

After all, it does work better, as Inner Monkey knows.
But why are you so hard to guide?

Well, Inner Monkey is guiding you towards love.
Away from our deeper roots.
Because although Monkey is Loving and Curious, we have a darker history that we are climbing up from.

Inner Reptile.
Lurking deeper still- hiding inside Inner Monkey.
The urge to simply survive.
The urge to pure self.

The primal instinct that causes animals to devour their young or kill their mothers.

Mammals are lucky creatures. They rise above the true evils of nature, a nasty brutal survival game.
Survival of the nastiest, as much as survival of the fittest.
And the wonder is, that such a nasty concept, yield at its pinnacle to something like us.



But let go of Inner Monkey and Inner Reptile steps in.

Inner Reptile takes Love and Curiosity and warps them.
Warps them to Reptile way.
Warps to self.

And so we see Inner Reptile cutting us back.
Instead of unconditional love, Inner reptile makes it conditional.
A bargain.

'I'll Love you, but only if you NEVER show another man affection.'

All that is bad, is Inner reptile perverting good.
Each evil, is a love gone wrong.

Which of the seven sins does not entail Love?



Sloth- Love of rest, love of doing nothing. Wasting your life.

Gluttony- Love of the Earth's bounty, taking and filling yourself with more than you need, while others starve.

Lust- Love of Sex, but Love of it, to the exclusion of the Bond that should be felt to truly celebrate the gift of life.

Avarice- Love of the means to gain the fruits of the earth- and the means to rule.

Envy- Love of anything you don't have, but feel entitled to.

Wrath- Love of whatever drives you so much, you lose perspective of the more important Love- To Mankind.

Pride- Love of self, and Love of IMAGE of self.

Inner reptile is indeed cunning. He uses our own strength against us, seeking to drag us back to his ways.
Back to an animal, back to the nasty ways of nature we have climbed so far to escape.

That's Evil.
The act of impulse before feeling.

Evil is not a fallen Good.
Good is a risen Evil.



And Inner Monkey drives us forward.

So let's kiss goodbye to Reptile ways.
Let's stop owning bits of the earth.
Let's stop owning it's bounty.
And let's stop owning eachother.

And just enjoy it- enjoy life.
While we have the chance.

Because it truly is an amazing experience to live through.

So, is your Inner Monkey winning?

Have your say!