Three Levels of Mind

Finding a New Path Forward for Humanity that is Congruent with Human Evolution

Introduction

The main theme of this essay is to show that the human species has diverted from its successful evolutionary trajectory in a very severe way. If we cannot correct this change in direction then we are headed for worsening human relationships, more disastrous wars, more violence and control from religions, and increasing the burden on health systems that are already struggling to cope with the incidence of both physical and mental ill-health.

It should be obvious to everyone that the human species is on the wrong road, or what some commentators on the human condition describe as full speed toward a cliff. My imagination goes to the lemmings who do go over a cliff and drown in their own stupidity. But wait! A check on Wikipedia says this story is a fraud started by movie makers. I found out lemmings migrate, and sometimes they do jump of cliffs into rivers to swim to new feeding grounds.

I found it interesting that the lemming suicide story was described as a fraud, perpetrated by humans on fellow humans for financial gain. The main topic of this essay, that we are deviating away from evolutionary principles, is due to the fact a lot of human activity is fraudulent or outright lying in some way. Despite my discovery that lemmings do not commit mass suicide, it is my view the human species is about to show the lemmings how to do it. 

Why is the human species becoming so dysfunctional in just about every area of activity?

See Dr Iain McGilchrist, a leading British psychiatrist on “Why left-brain thinking is leading to Western Civilizations collapse.” 

Left-brain thinking is a wonderful part of being human, but I will show in this essay that when it is devoid of the sensation and feeling parts of the human brain, it becomes dangerous to our survival as a species.

The main body of this essay will start with a description of the evolutionary development of the human brain; from atoms created in the distant cosmos billions of years ago, to those same atoms forming the human brain of the twenty first century. With this evolutionary knowledge as a background, I will then discuss human relationships, mental and physical health, religion, and war. These are probably the major topics that humans struggle with; there are many more. What I experience around me is a multitude of beliefs, systems, ideologies, theories, research programmes spending billions of dollars, and the university departments of sociology and the humanities that have no clear empirical base or underlying paradigm. Consequently, humans have created a jumbled mess of theories and systems that are sucking up huge resources of time and money for very little outcome. A good example of this is occurring in the United States of America. America spends more money on ‘health’ way beyond all other countries, and yet their health outcomes are no better than some third world countries. Obesity, chronic illness levels of 50 percent in children, autism and much more, with no cures in sight. 

Wars and religions are other systems that rely on fraud, propaganda, outright lying, and treating other humans badly for power and money.

There is a way out of this dilemma. 

The current understanding of the human brain is that we have an intellectual level that sits above emotions. Most of medical research assumes the cognitive level can be manipulated to control emotions. This essay will show that assumption to be mostly false. Then we have the pundits backing Artificial Intelligence (AI) with billion-dollar investments in the hope of curing all disease. A noble aim, but what if all disease is somehow based in faulty emotions, or even something in lower brain structures that we do not understand? How will an intellectual machine break through that barrier? 

This essay will describe how the process of evolution has given us three levels of psychological brain function. The cognitive level in the prefrontal cortex, the feeling level in the limbic system, and the level of sensation in the brainstem/midbrain area.

This brain setup was unravelled by Dr Arthur Janov, an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer starting as far back as the late 1960s. Janov developed a therapy that would allow an individual to access their feeling and sensation level of mind. The therapy allows a person to bring large parts of their previously unconscious mind to conscious awareness. I underwent the therapy from 2004 to 2009 in Los Angeles, and now practise it in Australia. 

All in the mental health and brain science industry are struggling to understand how the human brain generates thinking, moods, and behaviour. Janov Primal Therapy takes a person, step by small step, down into the usually unconscious recesses of the brain. During this slow descent they gradually discover how their own thinking, moods and behaviours are influenced by earlier pro or anti-evolutionary experiences (usually from very early childhood). Releasing the Pain caused by anti-evolutionary experiences is the curative factor. 

When reading this essay and the concepts it tries to explain, see me as a professor of feeling and sensation, a title which is not recognised in any university anywhere in the world.

I am making the claim that experiencing Janov Primal Therapy at the Three Levels of Mind will bring all the similar, but disparate research, ideas, and theories into a solid base, robust in science, and understandable by everyone. A new paradigm more powerful and life-changing than any other in the whole of human history.

A Journey of Evolutionary Creationism

To gain an evolutionary understanding of the development of the Three Levels of Mind, we need to go back as far as 655 million years ago. Scientists have recently discovered the fossilised remains of diploblasts in the trezona formation in South Australia (just happens to be my home state). Diploblasts possessed epithelial nerves, muscles, connective tissue, and mouths.

Then we can go back even further in earths evolution by several billion years, when we were just single atoms, and maybe some molecules, hanging around in a very hostile environment as far as any life was concerned. 

Just to emphasize my evolutionary point further, scientists tell us the various atoms that make up the planet earth were formed by the heat and pressure of dying stars in the vastness of the universe.

With all this wonderful creation over billions of years, we have created in our minds hundreds of different religions that argue and even kill others of differing views, have wars where we kill and maim each other over small pieces of land, or differing ideologies. Human relationships are becoming more hostile, plus health and well-being are tanking.

Why did it all go so wrong?

The answer to that question can be explained within the Three Levels of Psychological Brain. The cognitive level in the prefrontal cortex, the feeling level in the limbic system, and the sensations in the brainstem/midbrain. Science has not yet demonstrated these three levels as all brain science is approached from a cognitive/intellectual level of mind – the top level only.

In my previous writings I have agreed with Sigmund Freud in that the conscious part of the human brain is only the tip of the iceberg. That puts the conscious part of the brain as low as 11 percent. However, I have since discovered that Dr Iain McGilchrist puts the conscious level at less than 1 percent of brain function. Whatever that figure is, we both agree that the unconscious is by far the largest part of a functioning brain. McGilchrist explains the situation from a left-brain right-brain aspect. Arthur Janov explains the unconscious brain as having a ‘feeling’ level, and lower down a level of sensation.

It is the lower levels that I want to explore, because they hold the secrets to how the cognitive level of the brain works, and why it is becoming so dysfunctional. The most important point I want to make is that the level of cognition is the intellectual level, the one that is measured by IQ’s. This type of knowledge can be passed on in language and books, and nowadays the internet. 

The level of sensation in the brainstem/midbrain area has a type of knowledge that is learnt and passed on by experience only. It senses the environment, and then reacts to that experience. Then try and accept the fact this experiential process may have been going on since the atom only aspect of this planet. Learning through experience is very much active in how we operate as humans in the present time. This is an extremely important way of understanding how we have developed through the evolutionary timeline, and should be basic knowledge to the average person in the street, but it is not. The experiences all primal therapy patients have during their sessions is the reason they get better. Nothing to do with medication or CBT!

If you want to understand the nature of the sensation level of mind, listen to a range of people’s near-death experiences (NDE’s). Most of them talk about Love, and the knowledge they receive through sensation only.

As a concept worth thinking about, somewhere back in evolution, those cells or organisms that ‘experienced’ the beginning of love were probably the ones most likely to survive. It is one way that I can begin to understand why the sensation of Love is such a powerful force in humankind – in its bonding, its health benefits, and its effect on giving meaning to life. Life may not really have any intrinsic meaning, but the sensation of Love certainly makes it worth the experience of being alive.

Rather than have all this discussion about the meaning of life, the purpose of any individual life, and the drive to create a career, we should be more focused and understanding of the power of the evolutionary forces that make us who we are. Just relax and enjoy the journey.

My personal example of lived experiences. 

I was born into a family where other siblings kept my mother busy; no private tender experiences for me. My father was dangerous when he was drunk, and was a weakling in mind and body when sober. That was my human experience as I was developing through childhood. Although my body and mind worked hard to survive (an evolutionary necessity) my life was not going to be very enjoyable because most of my experiences were anti-evolutionary in nature.

I write this essay from the type of knowledge I gained through the process of Janov Primal Therapy. That knowledge comes from experiencing the horrors of my childhood, and releasing the Primal Pain enveloping those memories. Releasing the Primal Pain has been the key to my much improved mental and physical health. Reliving the Pain is just so awful, but I think of it as an experience I had to have to get my atoms and cells working in my favour. (N.B. medication and meditation are therapeutic methods that manage the symptoms of Primal Pain, but do not remove the Pain from the brain).

Let us not forget that for most of human evolution we only had a sensation level of brain, plus a body of some kind. It is difficult to find information about when feelings started evolving, but it was probably millions of years ago, as feelings are important for humans to bond. Evolutionary biologist professor William Ratcliffe does research on multicellularity, and he suggests single cells started clumping together for safety and helping each other out. Helping each other out and being aware of others safety is a common factor in humans of today. That human trait could be billions of years in the making, and one of the reasons for our successful evolution. 

The living forms we evolved through must have developed ways to combat the toxic elements, such as viruses and bacteria, and eject other damaging substances through an immune system, and vomiting and diarrhoea. If we are serious about combating modern diseases and mental dysfunction, then we need to start with understanding our past, like millions of years past. Most of our current methods of healing a sick mind and body are not congruent with our evolutionary development; that is why the failure rate is so high. I think most of humanity is unaware that we get sick in the first place because we abuse what I call the universal laws of creation. 

Importance of community during evolution.

Mammals are different to other animals in that the infants must stay close to the food (milk) source, and fatherly and community protection. Plus, mammal mothers only had one or two offspring to care for. Mammal survival depends on close interaction with parents and community. Part of mammals’ evolutionary survival success was to develop a feeling level of brain that facilitated our close connection with each other. The feeling of Love is overwhelming, and drives us to be good parents and community members. (by overwhelming, I mean strong feelings that force us to act in a Loving manner).

The current mental health model does not recognise the Three Levels of Psychological Mind and its creation through millions of years of evolution. In many cases their attempts at cure are anti-evolutionary in nature.

Psychiatry - uses a physical substance to treat depression and anxiety, which are common dysfunctions of the sensation level of mind. Depression and anxiety are signs that the affected person needs to attend to their ‘inner’ life. Subduing these messages through medication is anti-evolutionary. The Primal Pain needs to be expressed, not dulled, or managed. 

Psychology – Their focus is on exercising some form of control over unwanted ‘emotions.’ Mindfulness, naming the emotion, sitting with it until it subsides, plus a long list of processes that amount to distractions, are commonly used. Not fully expressing your painful feelings is denying your evolutionary make-up, and so is anti-evolutionary in nature.

The mental health situation in the Western world is getting worse, partly because we are taught to manage or suppress. That is like sweeping it under the carpet where it just festers away. The management of disease is also problematic, because it means we do not get to experience the cause of the problem. Not understanding causes means cures are hard to find.

Janov Primal Therapy teaches a person to fully express every feeling, to clear out the repressed Pain, so that the human organism can function in a healthy, pro-evolutionary way.

Human Relationships

It should be obvious to everyone that human relationships are the most important part of human life. There have been two long-term Harvard studies that followed groups of men for many decades. One of the study directors, Robert Waldinger, had this to say, “The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.” He also adds “The biggest predictor of your happiness and fulfilment overall in life is, basically, Love.” 

What surprised me about that statement was, to my knowledge, science does not have a definition of what Love is. The best they can do is describe it as ‘warmth and affection’ which are more symptoms or signs of Love, and not their actual reality. The supervisors of the studies do not give a scientific analysis of what Love is. If we do not have Love, how do we achieve it? That kind of information would have been very useful.

In any case, Love and human relationships are better understood from an evolutionary and Three Levels of Mind perspective.

The main human survival mechanism was, and still should be, the need to form a protective community to ward of predators, initially of wild animal origin, but in recent times human predators as well! If humans had to group together (like the first cells did) to be safe from predators, these protective communities needed to develop ways to enjoy each other’s company, otherwise communities would fall apart. We are seeing that play out now, because we are drifting away from our evolutionary heritage.

But just surviving is not enough. We needed to develop a secure and permanent way to procreate. The sensation of Love must have developed early in human evolution, and then evolution favoured the offspring of parents who had the best Loving relationships. The two Harvard studies mentioned earlier have plainly illustrated this idea.

Love and aspects of procreation are debated within intellectual circles. A quick check of Wikipedia and we find there are 11 types of Love, and 5 types of Love language, and 4 agreements. I guarantee these authors of ideas and theories have never experienced the source of true Love. If they had they could not write such nonsense. Theories like these keep the human species on the wrong road. There is only one type (sensation) of Love, the feeling of Love produces a singular language that is the same for everybody, and the one agreement is you either Love me, or you do not.

Love and procreation have been aspects of successful evolution, so they are millions of years old. Language has only been around for a few thousand years. Professor George Puolus from South Africa says the first sounds where probably made about twenty thousand years ago. These may have been a type of ‘clicking’ that still occurs in some African tribes. Poulus suggests through his research that modern language is only about five thousand years old.

My point in mentioning language development is important in how we view communication in the 21st century. Language, which is generated and understood from regions in the neo-cortex, the newest part of the brain, has become the dominate method of human communication. We have abilities to communicate in other ways through feelings and sensations. As a species, we are not using these original ways of communication as we could be. All current communication operates on the language model, and little is understood about how we communicate with feelings and sensations. As a Primal Therapist, my aim is to connect people to their underlying feelings and sensations. Our feelings will communicate information to us, and from us, that language simply cannot do.

Rupert Sheldrake, a British scientist, talks about ‘morphic resonance’ and other scientists are delving into how cells communicate without any obvious mechanism. (including William Ratcliffe, mentioned earlier). These examples are where communication science needs to keep exploring. This is the direction science needs to take to prove the efficacy of Janov Primal Therapy. 

Albert Einstein – “The medicine of the future will be the medicine of frequencies.”

Whatever the communication mechanisms are, if we do not receive Love, then we cannot pass it on to our children. We receive Love from our parents through pro-evolutionary experiences.

If we do not receive that Love, then the child suspects their life is in danger, and may even feel they are going to die. (as from my own experiences during therapy, and then from my patients). That creates a lot of Primal Pain, which, if it becomes too severe, must be repressed from conscious awareness. This shutdown of the human organism against feeling Primal Pain also blocks any feelings of Love that may try to come through to conscious awareness.

The action of repression makes us depressed, anxious, and neurotic, and such people are not easy to live with. That, in a nutshell, is why human relationships are becoming such a struggle. Primal Pain is the underlying reason why so many marriages’ fail. I observe around me many gyms and beauty parlours, where people attend to personal beauty and toning up muscles. The problem is, it is repressed Primal Pain that makes marriages and other human relationships so difficult. Where does a person go to tone up sensations and feelings?

The following is a death-bed story that is becoming more and more common. “I held onto anger and cut people off for stupid things. At the time I thought it was easier, but I ended up sad, lonely, and alone for most of my life. I never found Love. I never gave myself the chance to experience it and now I know this is the entire point of life. I get it now.”

It must be a heart-rending experience to face such a truth when about to die. The backstory was that the man was un-Loved as a child, and so his life was spent accruing wealth as a substitute for the emptiness that comes through lack of Love. It is difficult to find Love as an adult if we did not receive it in childhood. I went through the first half of my life not being able to give or receive Love. I was 65 years old before I felt the effects of oxytocin, the Love hormone. The feeling of Love surprised and delighted me, and I was happy that my oxytocin and Love neurons had not withered away through lack of activity. I would have passed through my life without ever experiencing Love if I had not found Janov Primal Therapy.

As a species, we will not solve the current sad state of human relationships until we learn to give our children the full range of pro-evolutionary experiences, based on an understanding of what Love is, that will carry our successful evolution safely into the future.

Physical and Mental Health

Most of what we see and hear about physical and mental health is mainly focused on what medication and supplements to take, or what the latest mind control activity is. Also, the next big breakthrough is ‘just around the corner.’ Sadly, I will use the cancer industry as my favourite example. Ever since I can remember, science has been claiming that they are getting close to curing cancer, all they need is a few more billion dollars. The US government invested 10 billion dollars in a war on cancer in the late twentieth century. Meanwhile, during my natural therapies studies I discovered that cancer is mostly a lifestyle disease, and research shows that if people adopted the appropriate lifestyle changes, the incidence of cancer, and many other diseases, would drop by 80 percent. My question is – why don’t we change our lifestyles? Why is it so difficult to change lifestyles? That is where a large proportion of research dollars should be allocated. What is going wrong with the human brain?

Now we have artificial intelligence (AI) dominating hope and research. This is frustrating for people who have undergone Primal Therapy, because we all know the healing power of the human brain does not lie at the intellectual level, but at the sensation level. We already have enough human intellectuals not connected to the lower levels of their brains, and that is a major reason why humans are so sick. The machine is faster than human brains, but for me, that means going down the wrong road faster, and over the cliff sooner. The lemmings will be looking at each other and asking, “why did they do that?”

Instead of looking forward to modern technology, I believe we should start by looking back in history, millions of years ago when the human organism was being formed through the combination of atoms and molecules, using energy fields that science does not yet understand.

Physical Health

When we started out as single cell organisms, we progressed to the human stage by consuming the available foods in our environment. A million years ago we were most likely eating fresh, organic, locally grown wholefoods, most of which were not cooked. What are we eating today? Chemically infused foods, most of which travel across continents and seas. That means we are selecting foods for taste, convenience, and choice over nutrient content. The industrial revolution enabled us to invent machines that can process food into various parts, and add things like sugar and salt, flavours and colouring. For example, corn can be processed into nearly forty different products, when our ancestors had no option but to eat the whole original cobb. 

I took a natural therapies course in my late forties, and the mantra of the college was eating organic wholefoods as much as possible while avoiding processed foods. Eating as much raw food as possible helps in creating good gut biome, because cooking destroys the enzymes that are needed for digestion. Another useful thing to know is that food and the therapeutic plants used in natural therapy contain hundreds of different molecules. Echinacea has immune boosting properties and contains many hundreds of different molecules. Along comes ‘clever’ science and extracts what they believe to be the active molecules. Who knows as to whether the remaining molecules are needed for the active ones to be effective? Our successful evolution revolved around eating all, or most of a plant, grain, or nut. The human diet of the twenty first century includes too much processed junk food. That means the vital organs, including the heart, brain, liver, skin, and immune system cannot function properly because they are not getting the nutrients they evolved with.

But not to worry. The pharmaceutical and supplement industries have an expensive pill for that. They certainly have no interest in telling the public about what constitutes a nutrient dense diet.

There is another aspect to food consumption related to the Three levels of Mind. During the time of evolution when humans only had the sensation level of mind, we had our senses to detect good food – what to consume and what not to consume. Then we developed the next two levels, feelings and cognition, and with that came Primal Pain which had to be repressed. A side effect of that survival process was that our sensitivities to food was also stifled. For example – My primal pain was so bad that I drank too much alcohol – alcohol is toxic to the system, but my need to feel good for a short period of time overrode that knowledge. Ice-cream was my comfort food and addiction, plus I loved calorie dense and nutrient deficient food like pies and chiko rolls.

Now that I have removed most of the Pain from my brain, my sensitivities to food and drink have greatly increased. Sometimes my body/brain tells me it is time to eat a bowl of raw salad and vegetables. The obesity epidemic will be almost impossible to reverse if we keep leaving the knowledge of the Three Levels of Mind out of the solution. An intellectual mind that is in full communication with the feelings and sensations will never produce an obese body. 

It is anti-evolutionary to do so.

Mental health 

The mental health people and scientists often say that mental health is complex. The causes are said to be many, including genetic, gut biome, and environmental. The cures are also said to be many and varied, with a common understanding that all people are different, and so each person will get individualised treatment. In a world where most people do not get the required care from parents, it is reassuring to know that your doctor will treat you as an individual who deserves special treatment – just for you, my child!

You are being promised something they cannot deliver, because it goes against evolutionary principles. They are not understanding how the human species evolved out of the energy fields of the universe. Biologists are giving everyone false hope, not wilfully, but because they do not understand our evolutionary development. Twelve solid months of Janov Primal Therapy at the start of their science study programme would fix that conundrum.

As a contrast, Janov Primal Therapy says there is only one cause of mental disorders, and therefore, only one cure. The cause is Primal Pain produced when our basic survival needs are not met. That situation is experienced as anti-evolutionary – the possibility of death, when survival is everything. The cure is to release the Pain in small doses when it is safe to do so. 

I write this in Lismore, New South Wales, which suffered a ‘monster’ flood event in 2022.

When the water is rising, a person may stand on their veranda in ankle-deep water, waiting to be rescued. As the water rises to waist level, they hold onto the veranda post. Nervousness sets in as the water keeps rising to chest, then neck level. At this stage fear and panic set in. But this is where the lower level of mind keeps the person focused on survival. Part of that focus is to push the panic down, because if the panic takes over, it may cause the person to drown.

The person is eventually rescued and taken to high ground. Once on safe ground the person should then express the panic that had to be repressed in favour of the focus on survival. That does not happen much if at all. Our society does not understand the Three Levels of Mind, and mostly feel uncomfortable if they see someone expressing panic and fear, especially when the person is now safe.

It appears that many of those affected emotionally by the floods are holding all their fear and panic in, repressing it out of conscious awareness. This is causing depression, flashbacks, night terrors and sapping the energy that could be used to do what needs to be done.

The basic story of the flood victim underlies nearly all of humanity’s health problems. The same actions are involved in childhood trauma and war veterans. We have an anti-evolutionary experience that should be dealt with at the time, or if that is not possible, then it is repressed from conscious awareness. That repression shuts the whole human organism down, and so we become sick. The cure is to release the Pain in small doses.

That is what Janov Primal Therapy does. Sorry guys and gals, no individualised programmes based on your genetics for you. Everybody gets treated the same way because that is what evolution demands. Having said that, as a Primal Therapist with 15 years of experience, the process of therapy is a wonderful balance of science and empathetic art. To be with somebody as they release their Pain is a humbling experience. People thank me for helping them sort their inner turmoil.

When I sat down to write this essay the idea of anti-evolutionary and pro-evolutionary experiences was not in my thought processes. But over time it has become a very useful tool in expressing what I am trying to achieve. I will use it here to explain some issues with the way we treat mental and physical disorders. This was discussed briefly earlier in this essay, but it is so important that I feel the need to repeat. It should be part of the human healing narrative. It should be taught in Primary school because it underpins human existence.

Psychiatry

When we suffer anti-evolutionary experiences, we suffer Pain. That is a normal survival mechanism refined over millions of years. It should be the signal that we need to address the Pain, otherwise it will make us sick, and evolution does not want that. Psychiatry’s main weapon is to use many types of medication. These medications subdue the upcoming Pain signals, and so we feel a little better, but the Primal Pain lies deeper in the brain, and still exerts its harmful effects on the human organism. Subduing Primal Pain is anti-evolutionary in nature. Most of all, medication subdues the sexual response, and that is a very anti-evolutionary outcome (from personal experience and a known common side-effect).

Psychology

Psychology is similar in action in that it does not interpret the messages from the lower brain (depression and anxiety) in the correct way. Meditation, mindfulness, positive thinking, and other activities that distract the sufferer are common in cognitive behaviour therapies. Managing the symptoms of Primal Pain is the core aim of psychology, but that is an anti-evolutionary approach.

Psychotherapy

Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and S Porges are regarded as some of the best trauma specialists in America. They say it is not necessary to relive the original trauma. Any person who undergoes Janov Primal Therapy knows that is not true. There is something in our evolutionary biological processes that means we must relive the trauma, otherwise the Primal Pain will not release. So, most psychotherapies are also anti-evolutionary. They lead people down the wrong highway, and in this case ignoring the signs that say – go back to the original starting point; right back into your miserable childhood.

Science will prove all this one day, but now they too, are still speeding down the wrong highway, avoiding all the signs that tell them they are heading in the wrong direction!

Pharmacology

The basis of pharmacology is that they can introduce man-made chemicals into the human body to treat all sorts of physical and mental disorders. I will give my views on why this may not be possible, not now, and not in a future that is aided by the power of AI.

This is a situation that needs to be looked at when we were just atoms and molecules buzzing around on a mostly molten earth. As I have said elsewhere, there are forces within the universe, between atoms, that have been responsible for all life on earth. Every atom is said to have at least twenty-five smaller parts, like up-quarks, down quarks, and gluons. I am not a biologist, but I enjoyed my basic biology course as part of my natural therapies’ studies. I learnt that each cell has many millions of parts, and enzymes that create and break down molecules at the rate of millions of times a second. I have just read that a single resting neuron requires 4.7 billion units of energy every second. How scientists ever got to know this is beyond my understanding; I can only accept it as truth, but the miniscule size of atoms is amazing, and the sheer number and speed of reactions is way beyond anything I can comprehend. The vastness of space is something most peoples’ minds cannot grasp, and it is all made up of atoms (and other particles) so small that we can only see them using powerful electron microscopes.

When we experience anti-evolutionary actions from others, or something threatens our survival, the energy fields, or the way atoms, or parts of atoms spin, goes out of balance. I do not think we even have a term for that in the English language. That imbalance causes our sickness.

Biologists believe they can put a man-made chemical in the human body to correct that imbalance. I am now viewing that as extreme hubris. To think we can successfully alter billions of years of evolution with chemicals is just silly. Science is still not fully aware of the true nature and purpose of the DNA strand, and the energies involved in atoms and parts thereof and how they interact are way beyond that.

My view is that the DNA strand is subservient to the actions of how atoms vibrate. Science is admitting that the DNA strand only accounts for about 5 percent of the information needed to form a fully functioning human.

Once again, I think more in terms of Rupert Sheldrakes morphic resonance, a resonance created by vibrating atoms and molecules that help to form our DNA.

There is little I can offer in scientific research, although the communication mechanism between cells is being looked at. There are some good signs I can point to though.

Firstly, I basically cured my own depression and anxiety without medication. The SSRI I did take was useless. I practise Primal Therapy on others and they get better by releasing their Pain. It appears to be an extremely strong energetic process. The release of Primal Pain is an awesome thing to watch, but not so good to experience personally.

Secondly, not success as proof, but a failure. A failure of the current health system to provide meaningful answers. Despite billions of dollars in research, the pharmaceutical industry is not living up to promises. There are many scientists who are sceptical about big pharma’s claims, and some are prepared to write books on the subject (Aseem Malhotra). My view is it only exists because of its money-making ability, its propaganda bordering on lies, research department fraud, hubris, and ego. If I am right about the evolution of the human body, pharmacology can never be successful. I will admit though, I am a regular user of pharmaceutical products for management reasons only, like pain relievers, and itch creams, plus the anaesthesia at the dentist. 

I do think most people in the health industry are doing their best, but the systems have become corrupted over time. The result of that corruption, propaganda, outright lying and fraudulent behaviour is showing in the ineffectiveness to make progress in the understanding of the underlying issues involved in human health and wellbeing.

An example. Various pharmaceutical companies have been fined billions of dollars for unethical behaviour. My view is that the successful court processes only show the tip of the iceberg. 

Religion – or Love?

I hope by now the reader has some idea about how the level of sensation in the human mind was important in our successful evolution. It is still acting very strongly to interpret our lived experiences and act on them accordingly. We cannot take full advantage of this phenomenon because our intellectual brains are now dominating our awareness. Add to that the knowledge a traumatised brain shuts down against our sensation level of mind, which contains the inner guidance system (Love, morals and ethics, altruistic ideals, and empathy).

An example: When people undertake Janov Primal Therapy, the first thing for every person, without fail, is for the therapist to direct the person to their feelings; to connect the intellectual level of their brain to the feeling level. Emotions are often talked about in other types of therapy, but emotions are not feelings, they are a reaction to feelings. The process is a steep learning curve for everybody. The common reality humans currently work with is based on intellectual knowledge, theories, and ideas. Our inner guidance systems of Love, morals and ethics, altruistic ideals, and empathy all come to us through feelings, and these things have their origins at the sensation level of mind. The shock of accessing feelings people did not know they had, changes that person’s perspectives on the functioning of their own brain.

The level of sensation is usually not accessed for quite some time, but when it is, it turns a person’s reality on its head. 

“Inner experience is such a different character. There is nothing else like it.” Or once gain I suggest listening to peoples’ experiences of near-death episodes. They are describing the nature of the sensation level of mind in its full expression.

Most of what I am writing in this essay comes from my sensation level of mind, or my inner experiences. 

When people experience the sensation level of mind, they understand that this level generates their ‘spiritual’ knowledge. Many people in the general population have spiritual type experiences all the time, but unfortunately do not recognise where they come from. The most common example being the near-death experience.

We have not deviated from our evolutionary progress in a minor way that just needs a bit of tinkering; we are charging down an unknown highway at maximum speed, missing the signs that say ‘wrong way, go back’ and those signs are everywhere. One of the biggest signs reads ‘Religion. Wrong way, go back.

So let us go back to the year Jesus was born -year 1 CE 2025 years ago.

At that stage of our evolution, we had already evolved the aspects of our nature that enabled us to survive and prosper for millions of years. 

 In my view, the most important aspect was our ability to Love – to Love and be Loved – the ultimate experience of and for humans. All our morals and ethics, the altruistic brain, and empathy were well established in the very fabric of life millions of years ago through the vibration and resonance of our atoms, molecules, and cells. 

Religion argues that morals and ethics only came about because of the bible and other Holy Scriptures, which people had to obey. Therefore, only religious people could have morals and ethics. If we accept that morals and ethics had to be hardwired into the developing human brain as guarantees for progressing through millions of years of evolution, then that argument is no longer valid. Not that it ever was for me. From a very young age I was amazed at the hypocrisy of religious people. Jesus spoke mostly of Love, but hardly any religion in the world today actually practises, or even understands, the function of Love in the human organism.

All of the versions of the Holy Scriptures seem to have been written by people who understood the spirituality aspect of life, but not where that spirituality came from; hence the invocation of a God. 

Love and God from a Three Levels of Mind perspective.

 I assume everybody is familiar with the saying that God is Love, or Love is God. As I have tried to explain, God is an invention of the intellectual level of mind that had a theory, or thought bubble, to explain spiritual experiences. The intellect does not have much power as far as action goes. Any theory or idea or thought is a type of wispy cloud that comes and goes without leaving a trace. That is why science will never be able to prove or dis-prove a God. A person can believe in God this week, and declare atheism next week. They can be a Roman Catholic today, and a Buddhist tomorrow.  

In contrast, Love is a product of the sensation level of mind that produces an irresistible force that comes to us through feeling. Anybody who has ever been in Love understands how strong that force is. I write this in Lismore, a town in northern New South Wales, that suffered a huge flood   event in 2022. People did not sit on their verandas’ discussing the weather or religion, they jumped in small boats to rescue their fellow humans. Love has the power to drive pro-evolutionary action. 

The Bible, and all other religious texts, got their morals and ethics and views on Love through thought processes, not realising they were describing aspects of the lower levels of brain function. Love was a part of a humanity’s makeup millions of years before scripture was being written. Love remains an esoteric concept by most scientists, but it has a powerful effect on our biology and physiology. This phenomenon is not understood because scientists do not have to experience their sensation level of mind as part of their studies. Love is not visible through a microscope, bit its effect on our biology can be measured through things like brain area volume, oxytocin, and cortisol levels.

Jordan Peterson, a famous Canadian psychologist, says intelligent people can do evil things. When early childhood trauma is so severe that the top level of the brain, the intellectual level, must be separated from the sensation/feeling levels, that also detaches the intellectual brain from feelings of Love, morals and ethics, empathy, and altruism. The sensation/feeling levels of our brain contain our reason for living, the beauty and awesomeness of life, and being disconnected from those levels is why humanity is imploding. It is also why intelligent people can do evil things. Science may one day prove that the more severe the Primal Pain, the more evil a person can be. However, not all people with Primal Pain are necessarily evil. Primal Pain is the regulator of good and evil  - how simple a concept is that?

A point to ponder: All universities’ all over the world deal in the intellectual level of mind almost exclusively. Any discussion about feeling and sensation can only be intellectual in nature. Feeling and sensation are understood through experience. Universities are flooding the market with educated individuals who do not have to display any ability to have any empathy for their fellow humans. IQ reigns supreme.

Carl Sagan -  perhaps my favourite scientist, states somewhere that humanity will have to get religion out of the human belief system before we can advance safely into the future.

The power of Love is a fantastic replacement, and the unifying force humanity needs.

Universities will have to become places where students are required to experience their own feeling and sensation level, in a balance with their intellectual minds. Much of the world is being run by people who are not in touch with innate pro-evolutionary forces.

All the above can be achieved when the Three Levels of Human Mind is adopted by science as the next major paradigm in human evolution.

War

War is obviously an anti-evolutionary activity.

So why do we have them?

There are some people who say we humans are naturally warlike, and we must live with that ‘natural’ tendency. My view is that war has become a part of the human condition only since the development of an intellectual mind. The intellectual mind has gradually usurped the lower levels of feeling and sensation. Our successful evolution was based on the fact we needed to co-operate as a species to overcome obstacles to further evolution. That action is as important today as it was millions of years ago. If science understands the situation and proves it, humans can start to manipulate the brain in a pro-evolutionary way, rather than keep taking us down the wrong road and over a cliff.

Our human moral guidance system, based on Love, is in the sensation level of the psychological mind. This moral guidance system becomes conscious to us through the level of feeling. The guidance system exerts a strong effect on the intellectual mind. If the sensation level is imprinted in the correct way, our actions are mostly pro-evolutionary. However, the reverse is true. If the sensation level of mind is imprinted with anti-evolutionary experiences, then our intellectual mind will generate anti-evolutionary actions. This action within the three psychological levels of brain functioning is at the core of understanding how humans can indulge in such evil behaviour. Many in the mental health field talk about why humans can be so evil, but without ever having to experience their levels of feeling and sensation as part of their degree courses, they are missing vital information.

Example: When we fall in Love, we basically loose our rational minds, and fall into a wonderful uncontrollable state of mind which, in one important aspect, is far removed from wanting to hurt or kill any other human for whatever reason. I was severely traumatised as a child, so my feeling level of mind shut down against the anti-evolutionary experiences. On my wedding day, at age twenty-one, I was standing at the alter thinking “I have no feeling for this person.” Other people had described Love in ways I could not comprehend. In my mid-sixties I had released a mountain of Primal Pain through Janov Primal Therapy. I then started to ‘feel’ my life more, and eventually to experience the wonderful feeling of Love. I was 65 years old before my oxytocin started to flow freely. Thankfully, my oxytocin producing cells had not faded away through lack of use. What a revelation.

When we cannot feel what we are doing to other people, it becomes easier to kill ‘our enemies.’ (the enemies the government picks for us, or in Australia, the enemies that the United States pick for us). The small community I come from has lost two young men in useless wars (Vietnam, Afghanistan).

Another dysfunction of the human mind is not well understood. It is our ability to deny our horror feelings by diverting them into ideology and belief systems. For example, many people regard Hitler as the most despicable and evil character of the last century. His ideology was for the Aryan race to become dominant in a one-thousand-year Reich (Empire or Kingdom). Hitler and his followers were prepared to conquer Europe and kill millions of the nominated enemies for the cause.

This ideology proved to be extremely anti-evolutionary, and was acted out because nobody seemed to know why the human brain was capable of such horror, much less how to stop it.

We view Hitler as evil, and most people are disgusted and horrified, but eighty years later another ideology is taking hold that is threatening to do the same thing. Fundamentalist Islam has plans to dominate the world, and those not in agreeance will be killed. This is not just a threat, Christians and others are already dying because of this anti-evolutionary dogma. And we tend to believe that in 2025 we live in advanced and civilised societies. 

The human brain is not functioning anywhere near the best way possible. We need to be living in a society where the narrative is – if you want to kill another human then you are detached from your inner guidance system, and therefore you need therapy. Then look for the cause of the wrong imprinting – was it parents, government bureaucrats, religion, or these days, the local university. As an Australian citizen, I was horrified when the Middle East degenerated into war once again, groups of university students started chanting that it was reasonable for one group of people to kill another group. I will make the claim again, that Universities are turning out intellectuals that are not connected to their innate pro-evolutionary guidance system. Intellectuals with no connection to feeling and sensation can demand the death of other humans.

Hitler was supposedly traumatised by a violent father, and had no trouble recruiting other traumatised individuals to help him. Those that opposed him were killed (re Night of the Long Knives). Fundamentalist Islam creates its own followers by imprinting young brains in an anti-evolutionary way. (Subdue the lives of women and train children to hate the Jews and the wicked West). Come on guys, you are wrecking the best lives of your children and women for the sake of some anti-evolutionary dogma. Plus, it is my observation that your antics are keeping your societies in the dark ages. Is that what you want? A repressed society cannot bloom for every person as it should (just as I could not ‘bloom’ as an individual because of a very repressive father).

We need to think in terms of one human species co-operating together for evolutionary success. We will evolve together, or we will all go over the cliff together.

The beauty and practicality of the Three Levels of Mind can be a tool to stop all current wars, and avoid all future wars. The first step is for science to prove the validity of the Three Levels of Mind. To start the process, there are thousands of people who have undergone Primal Therapy over the years, who would welcome the chance to tell their success stories to the people who need to hear them. I may be naïve, but I would like to believe that universities all over the world could produce enough evidence in six months to be convinced that the Three Levels of Psychological Brain hypothesis is worth spending a lot of resources on.

The evidence and hypothesis could be presented to governments who could then take the bold step of halting all wars for two years. Call a truce until we can sort out why we have a need to kill each other. During this time, the hypothesis would be proven. The Three Levels of Psychological Brain will then form the basis of scientific knowledge for taking humanity down the right road. No wars, no religion, and all our actions based on Love for our fellow humans.

Put the guns down and go home and give all your family members a big hug.

The lemmings, mentioned earlier, will not get to see the human species drown in its own stupidity.

Conclusion

Every person who undergoes Janov Primal Therapy understands that most of the current systems humans have created are not fit for purpose, and we also know why. The rest of the population understand there is a need for change, but where will that change come from, and what will underpin it?

Peter Boghossion on You tube. “We need to take a sledge hammer to the system. We need to bring the system down.”

Daniel Schmacktenberger on You tube. Why humanity won’t survive unless we change.” And “We need new systems of governance that are not any systems of government the world has ever done before.”

These types of statements sound radical, but the paradigm of the Three Levels of Mind has the power and underpinning principles to match what is required. Adopting the new paradigm will lead to the changes as described. Augustin Gurza, who had undergone Janov Primal Therapy late last century had this to say. “It would not only mean the dismantling of a profession, but the destruction of the personal lives of its practitioners, who would have to make a sudden alteration in their entire view of the world. It would require a basic redefinition of the field (of psychology) because the competing paradigms differ not only in substance but also in methods, problems, and solutions they define. It is no wonder that the theoretical battles are so intense and that the proponents of the old school never give up without bitter resistance. The acceptance of Primal theory, however, would have a revolutionary impact beyond the field of psychology, and even science altogether. The sociological and political implications of the theory are so vast and so profound that social and political systems would be endangered by its success.”

Thomas Kuhn wrote extensively about how difficult it is for humans to accept a new paradigm. Of particular note, Kuhn argued that science does not progress via a linear accumulation of new knowledge, but undergoes periodic revolutions, in which the nature of scientific inquiry within a particular field is abruptly transformed.

I hope this essay convinces enough people that humanity is on the edge of self-destruction, and the only way to stop this apocalypse is to adopt a new paradigm based on pro-evolutionary principles. The current paradigm must go because it is too anti-evolutionary in nature. The acceptance of the Three Levels of Psychological Brain, combined with Primal theory will be the most important paradigm change in the history of human evolution.