What are your favorite animals?

No other animal has this great thing up there, this mind. When Dr. Freud began interpreting the inspirations and zeals of the top end of the spinal column in terms of the other end, he misunderstood the whole thing. Since the whole sense of mythological imagery is to propel you up into the spiritual realm, interpreting these things in a purely physical, biological way pulls you down again; it punctures and deflates the symbol. We share with the animals the desire to live, the urge toward survival and security. We share with the animals the zeal for sex and the zeal for winning and pres- tige-I’m the winner. Yet we bear within us the potential for an entirely dif- ferent level of experience, a level that can come to us in a moment.

Dante described this enlightened moment in his Vita nuova-the mo ment when he beheld Beatrice, the moment that turned him from a mere human animal into a poet. One might see her as an erotic object, yet what he saw was a manifestation of beauty; he experienced her presence on a dif- ferent level altogether.

All humans are human animals until they reach the 4th psychological centre (heart chakra).

We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: We sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being, the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth-the Virgin Birth-in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life. As the mystic

In picture,Lower 3 chakras are animal instincts(Food sex power), Upto 3rd chakra ,both human and animal are sharing the same psychology.Just like animals too fighting, smashing, eating.

Humans are also human animals in the depth of being.

In the Indian kundalini system,All three chakras are symbolised in the pelvic region.This is a metaphorical language, but you can say that some people are living on the level of the sex organs,and that’s all they’re living for.Thats the meaning of life.This is Freud’s philosophy.Then You come to the Adlerian philosophy of the will to power,that all of life is centred on the obstruction and overcoming the obstructions. Well,sure that’s a perfectly good life, and those are forms of divinity also.But they are on the animal level.In jungian philosophy, people psychological centres may switch among sex, surviving and power by circumstances.

Then there comes another kind of life, which involves giving oneself to others one way or another.This is the one that’s symbolised in the opening of the heart.

At the level of heart,the 4th chakra symbolised,

Humans became pure human,where compassion born in human heart.

Animals are self-interested primarily.

Homo sapiens sapiens have the potential to become pure humans.