The Reptilean Brain, Skinnerian Training & the Experience of God

There are various ways to reach the subconscious.

The.

Surface of the subconscious.

Can be reached through mental talk?

A little deeper level.

Cannot be reached.

By mental talk, but it can be reached by mental images.

The deepest level of the subconscious cannot even be reached by mental images, but it can be reached by body sensations.

The way mindfulness deals with the subconscious.

Is?

By setting up a feedback loop.

Which I've described in other segments?

Whereby?

At the level of body sensations.

When the reptilian brain which is essentially a body brain a touch feel brain.

When the reptilian brain notices that when it interferes with the flow of body sensation its own product. Of course, that there is suffering.

And when it stops interfering that there is the absence of suffering or fulfillment.

The reptilian brain notices that.

And it is changed in the classical skinneri, Skinneri and mode. You train the animal the way you train, an animal with reward and punishment at the level of body sensation.

So by putting yourself in in an environment where not much is going on for a period of time, either the micro retreat of that daily sit or the macro retreat of?

Taking a weekend or a week or 10 days or longer, and going off and doing nothing but meditation within that simplified environment. The deepest mine can unlearn it's habit of fighting with itself.

Essentia Lee What BF Skinner and the others in the Behavioralist School proved was that if you want to train an animal that animal has to.

Be given rewards and punishments and those rewards and punishments have to.

B.

Immediate appan the behavior and they have to be absolutely predictable.

If they're not if their random.

Then you won't get strong.

Learning.

And if there's a gap between the behavior and the.

Reinforcing stimulus.

Then also there won't be strong learning.

So, in the simplified environment of us, it or a retreat a situation is setup where the animal within us, the reptilian brain.

Can consistently and immediately?

Be aware when it fights with itself.

There is suffering so that's the punishment when it stops fighting with itself. There is fulfillment that's the reward.

The simplified environment of formal practice creates the situation where there is consistent and immediate.

Reinforcing feedback.

In the classical skin, Arian Mode. I know Skinner is sort of a dirty word in a sense because the behavioral is.

Influence at a certain period in the academic world lead to ridiculous notions about the nature of.

Of humanity, however, they did have some good points, going for them and it turns out somewhat. Ironically, I think that.

The most subtle and powerful spiritual path that I'm aware of something that the skin. Ariens would have been horrified by which is the Buddhist experience.

Turns out that.

Large parts of it are best explained by skin. Arian model, but in this case. The behavior is not that the lizard is being trained to or the mouse is being trained to press a bar or turn this way or that way, and amaze the lizard level of the human.

Is being trained as a lizard? Is trained but by a human? Who has intentionally set up that situation for themselves?

To train their lizard brain the lizard brain is being trained into something incredibly subtle.

The new behavior is.

Not interfering with its own activity.

Which is?

To say that it's being trained into equanimity.

The result.

And this is where the skin. Ariens would freak which is sort of poetic justice. The result of that skinnerian conditioning of the lizard brain is that ordinary experience becomes utterly spiritualized, and becomes. Indeed, a direct contact with one spiritual self or one spiritual source.

So that where is the skin skin Ariens would have in their extreme form denied that there even is a thing called subjective experience. It turns out that their model can be used to explain the deepest of all subjective experiences, which some People would say is the experience of.

God.