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In the split second moment of conception, the two streams of genetic information from your parents, handed on from generation to generation over literally hundreds of millenia, combined in one single cell that was to become you. It ensured that you became a totally unique living record of the lives and ways of your ancestors. And we are not just talking about the way you look - we are talking about your ancestral memories, the complete set of instincts and response patterns that were responsible for the survival of those two genetic streams in the first place. The instincts and response patterns that you were actually born with.
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Before The Beginning
Although we are taught that man first appeared on earth around 3 million years or so ago, there is no proof that those creatures were actually our ancestors. Some scientists believe we are related to the very early species and/or to the later Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man, while others believe that we are a separate race entirely, first appearing between 90,000 and 200,000 years ago. It doesn't much matter, really, as far as we are concerned; if we are related, then we have inherited their savagery; if we are not, then we had enough of our own to deal with theirs, for they were around until about 30,000 years ago, by which time Modern Man was an established species.
Homo Sapiens was probably nomadic in existence until about 10,000 years ago, when they started to form settlements and domesticate plants and animals - the earliest attempts at civilisation.
So there had already been many thousands of years of ancestral savagery; for some it was kill or be killed and take what you want; for many, it was keep your head down and out of trouble; and for the rest, every time danger threatened it was run like the wind. The fight/flight/freeze response surely has its roots here.
There have been hundreds of generations of violence, plagues, famine, witches, warlocks and wizards, crusades, wars, fantastic inventions and even more fantastic events since those days.
Interbreeding passed on mixed genetics; environment ensured a goodly amount of neurosis and general anxiety. So truly, each and every human being is unique, because the computations of the effects of that environment upon the genetic exchanges are almost infinite. And when you take a look at the whole evolutionary process on a percentage basis, it's no wonder that we all of us still exhibit primitive behaviour quite often.
The Wandering Savage
Even being generous and assuming that Homo Sapiens, our race, did not appear until around 100,000 years ago, we are no more than one half of one percent modern, the rest primitive. 99.5% of our psycho-genetic make-up has not reached the level of the middle ages and by far the vast majority of it is still that of a wandering savage.
Evolution moves slowly and it will be a very long time yet before the human race truly becomes as we try already to be. In the meantime, most of our race are going to be born with conflict - or potential for conflict - already in place, the resolution of which is unlikely to be at birth, but probably as and when needed, or maybe even never.
The nomadic behaviour of some ensured that interbreeding and cross breeding soon guaranteed that each individual carried the genes for different behaviour patterns, though there would almost always be a single dominant one - or dominant set, since a behaviour pattern is unlikely to be created by a single gene. It's certainly possible, though, that an individual can be subject to two opposite and equal urges being 'built in' to the psyche, as it were, so that there is a permanent state of flux between, say, the urge to pacify and the urge to dominate. These conflicting urges would have caused conflict in an environment where the rest of the tribe were still committed to, or appearing to be committed to, just one of those behaviours.
So neurosis, the feelings of being a misfit in some way, would have been created. It indicates that neurotic behaviour patterns could even be in some way instinctive - in that they could be inborn' rather than created by experience - which raises serious questions, not to be approached here, about the efficiency of the principle of natural selection.
It's worth recognising the fact that while it is possible that there were as many as 150,000 generations of our ancestors as savages, there have been only around 100 generations since the advent of Christianity and the guilt and sometimes excessive superego development that goes with it. The prehistoric gene still carries an awful lot of weight, and it is in constant conflict with the Ego in even the most healthy individuals. At birth, each and every one of us is already subject to this vast history of genetic and behavioural influence.
We are born genetically programmed with a predominance towards one of those three tribal behaviours - the Warriors, Settlers, or Nomads.
And then life happens…
It is only as we mature and begin to develop the more finely tuned emotional responses that the human animal is capable of, that we begin to recognise the truth; that few things are perfectly good or perfectly bad. Along with that recognition comes the ability to offset one circumstance against the other and accept what seems to be a reasonable compromise. But the decisions we make in that direction are at a purely conscious level; the subconscious has its own unchanging view of things, and where it perceives an event is bad, it will create a feeling of unease, even though we may have made a decision that seems to reflect what we really want. That is how our subconscious always perceives things for the whole of our lives. Good or Bad. Black or white. And until that later emotional development, the identification procedures and demands of the ID are not modified enough by the influences of the SUPEREGO to soften the impact upon the EGO; so everything is perceived as either good or bad, responsible for pleasure or unpleasure, and an experience to be stored for future evaluations and comparisons.
By the time we are about ten years old, we have discovered how we fit into the world, the likelihood or otherwise that our desires and expectations will be fulfilled, and what is expected of us. The affects of life and experience upon our birth predisposition have shaped and moulded our own unique personality and we are now the sum total of our ancestors, our triumphs and our disappointments, and our reactions to the behaviour of others.
An Easy Personality Test:
Although this test has only 4 questions, it is astonishingly accurate.
On each question, note down the order in which each statement applies and write your
answers on a single line. For instance, if you think on question 1 that your most likely
course of action would be to research thoroughly, your second most likely to make a
spontaneous decision, and your third to ask other people, then that line will read ‘a, c,
b’. So you’ll get something like:
a, c, b
c, a, b
a, b, c
b, a, c
Question 1
When buying a medium-priced new item, you are most inclined to:
a) Research what you want and seek it out
b) Get a clearer opinions by asking other people what they think
c) Make an spontaneously instinctive decision
Question 2
In a minor disagreement, you are likely to:
a) State your case very firmly
b) Try to find middle ground with a fair compromise
c) Use personality and wit to make your point
Question 3
You have to go a party where you don’t know anybody. You are likely to:
a) Not give too much away about yourself
b) Be a bit nervous but go out of your way to make friends
c) Enjoy playing to a new audience
Question 4
How do you think other people are most likely to describe you?
a) You are positively orientated and determined
b) Usually in a good mood, an agreeable person to be with
c) Different from the crowd – an individual
When you have answered all the questions,write down your answers then read below.
If you answered mainly A then you are predominatly a WARRIOR personality:
If you answered mainly B then you are predominantly a SETTLER personality
If you answered mainly C then you are predominantly a NOMAD personality
Here is a quick recognition guide for each group which, while it is not as accurate as the questionnaire, will give you a good idea of where anybody 'fits', just by watching them for a moment or two. Learn the characteristics, behaviour patterns and reactions of each personality type, and you will never look at people in quite the same way again!
WARRIOR
Physiology: Fairly straight-faced, few body response patterns, steady gaze.
Positive: Practical, tenacious and self-sufficient. Quick thinkers.
Negative: Suspicious, dictorial, manipulative. Cannot easily admit mistakes.
SETTLER
Physiology: Responsive body and head movements. Frequent smiles.
Positive: Caring, cheerful, pleasant, talkative and tolerant. 'people' people.
Negative: Depressive, indecisive, underconfident. Prone to mood swings.
NOMAD
Physiology: Often expansive in gestures. Can be animated and noisy. Laughs easily.
Positive: Fun-loving, enthusiastic, outgoing. Inspiring and optimistic.
Negative: Unreliable, childish, boastful. Prone to exaggerating minor successes.
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