Liberating the Caged Human Animal
Dr. Peter Hercules
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CONCLUSION

Civilization is a ten thousand year old regime based on the rejection of the natural system that operates within and around us. This opposing system was created to enable the mediocre and life-haters to gain optimal comfort despite their rejection of natural laws.

 
 
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Conclusion
 
 

It has been built through the enslavement and domestication of both plants and animals. Human apes have been the most significant domesticated animals in the system of civilization.

You are both a descendent of slaves and a slave yourself.

Your basic genetic program has been diverted from its natural expression. You are not moving in the direction towards self-actualization. At a fundamental level you are a wild animal locked in a cage. Your domestication and thus your self-betrayal are your disease. Whatever is unhealthy and dead within you is due to that fact. Civilization gives you the option to stay in your cage and collect whatever comfort you may find within it. Your other option is to get out of the cage.

The means to get out of the cage is to commit your being to the affirmation of the basic program. The self-actualized wild animal you is the product of the expression of this program. I chose to name this the True Positive Individual and make this the goal of the transformation process.

The process itself I call Rational-Emotional Integrative Updating - changing both how you think and how you feel and integrating the rational and emotional aspects of yourself in order to create a state of internal harmony between your heart and your head to enhance the attainment of a closer approximation of the True Positive you.

The process involves analyzing and updating thoughts that are out-of-date with the goal of becoming your True Positive self, and giving your best effort each day to be as much like that person as you can be.

It furthermore involves paying attention to your automatic learned emotional responses and identifying those that are in conflict with the larger objective. Once those responses are found and the decision is made to change them, this change can be achieved by means of the method I call Unconscious Updating.

By applying this strategy on a consistent basis you can and will change how you think and feel and get back on the track that life should be taking you on. The product of all of this is maximal probability of survival, self-replication and happiness during your life - well-being.

If you know yourself to be in a cage and are looking for the way out, Rational-Emotional Integrative Updating is the key. It is up to you to pick it up and unlock the door to the beginning of your real life.

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