Your brain's amygdala switch is either clicked backwards- where you are using only a very small fraction of your brain power- or it is clicked forward into open infinity-knowledge-pleasure circuits. Until one learns a few brain facts, clicking the amygdala forward or backward happens without a person knowing what is going on and the brain circuits are at the whim of the environment, out of control. Unfortunately, we see an awful lot of backward clicking these days. After 10,000 years of civilization,
well, we are still struggling.

CLICKING FORWARD Into REAL BRAIN

This happened to me when I was 6 years old, but I can see it as vividly as if it happened yesterday- a permanent frontal lobes memory. I was standing in the empty weed filled lot next to my parents house in Lakewood, New Jersey. I was wearing some old play clothes and blue sneakers with air-conditioning- they had lots of holes in them. In was a hot July afternoon. I was keeping myself busy watching some workmen work on the street in front of my house. These were people I had never met, or talked to in my whole life. Complete strangers. I watched them as they did their hard work in the mid-day sun, on the hot pavement. They must have been sweating up a storm.

All of a sudden, I heard the ding a ling a ling tune of the neighborhood ice cream truck. I must have smacked my lips as it was driving up, but to no avail. I was just a little kid and had no money.

At that moment, one of the workers across the street looked at me and clicked his amygdala forward. (Though we didn't know what it called was at the time). Without anybody saying a word, he ran across the street and gave me a shiny dime out of his own pocket, enough for an ice cream bar in those days. I instantly got a big glorious transfusion of frontal lobes energy, and a huge grin from ear to ear automatically appeared on my face. He then began smiling too. I ran to flag down the ice cream man- Yum! It was Pure Magic. 100% Real brain.

I never got the man's name, and will never know. But I have not forget his act of amygdala clicking kindness, although it is now almost 40 years later.

CLICKING BACKWARD into DORMANT BRAIN

I saw this one today. It is a perfect example of being clicked backwards, stuck in reptile brain fear, paranoia, non-cooperative, negative brain waste gunk.

There's a guy who stands outside of Safeway selling newspapers every day. He stands next to a row of a half a dozen soda machines, which are frequently out of order. But you never know which ones, it's like playing slot machines- are you going to get a soda this time!?

Another man goes up to one soda machine and pulls out a dollar bill. The newspaper guy sees this and says, "Don't do that! That machine is broken today!" The man with the dollar doesn't understand why this perfect stranger is offering assistance. The man with the dollar comes from a neighborhood where nobody ever helps anybody for no reason, especially strangers. Most everybody in his neighborhood is clicked backwards all the time, into fear, and self-defense, counter attack circuits. It's a rough part of town. Urban reptilian battle zone- "Don't trust anyone."

So the man rejects his neighbors warning- non-thinking reptile brain reaction- and he puts the dollar in the machine! And guess what?.....No soda! The machine is, yes, actually broken.

This poor man couldn't understand cooperative intelligence, and actually reacted to it as a threat- he clicked backwards, or stayed clicked backwards, and it cost him a buck. But there's more.....

Still thirsty, the man takes out ANOTHER DOLLAR. He walks to a machine at the end of the line- and the newspaper guy yells out "WAIT!" He warns, "That machine is broken too!"

The guy looks at his dollar. He looks at the machine. He looks back at this stranger. And then.....then he puts the second dollar in the second machine.........

What do you think happened? (Tune into Art Bell on July 7 to find out.)

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