civilization that’s different from the one we have now. The reptiles are conscious but not self-conscious. What that means is that they will live for the moment but they don’t have any vision about what the next week is going to be. Rahasya: It would be nice, if not imperative, to stop repeating reptilian patterns as we evolve into a more advanced civilization. Bruce Lipton: A perfect example is going to war in Iraq with no plans of what to do six weeks later. That is an excellent example of reptilian thinking. The mammalian civilization is a very different one because the character of mammals is nurturing, and the fact of nurturing means nurturing the planet, and right now we’re like dinosaurs raping the planet. We mammals started this a long time ago, and in fact, I think it was actually seeded in 1969 when we were in the bird phase—the bird phase was Wilbur and Orville Wright getting off the ground until its fullest evolution, when we landed on the moon, and we took a picture of the earth. When we took a picture of the earth in 1969 and it was sent back here, it changed the mind-set for a lot of people: “Oh, my God, that’s all there is. We have got to take care of that.” And that’s when all of a sudden we got the idea to take care of the air, the water, and all of that came from political decisions. And that’s because there were enough people who were mammalian in character saying that we must take care of those things for our future so they’ll be there. And so we’re working on this, and it’s been an uphill battle, and it’s coming to a point where the dinosaurs (the reptilian system) is going to crack. In the past, the dinosaurs went through waves of extinction, something happened, and we’re about to hit something that will turn under the current system so it can’t survive. And then a new system, a mammalian-based one, will come out of the ashes of that, but you can’t have a mammalian-based system until the other one crashes, so that means you have to sit here and keep preparing for the future and also recognizing while you’re doing this that all around you things are going to look pretty chaotic. TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE
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