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How does ancient wisdom intersect with a primal perspective?

I spend a lot of time talking about evolutionary blueprints, primordial logic, and genetic instinct, because

I happen to think there's value in it. We live today with the belief, or maybe bluster, that

we're evolved beyond our evolution. Too often there's a resistance to scrutinize our innate

responses to the world, to question

our choices, or to imagine that what we want to pursue is anything other than deep and

enlightened rationality at its finest.

Sometimes people are offended by the concept of seeing themselves as products of their

evolution. For some people, it's the equivalent of seeing themselves as products of their evolution. For some

people, it's the equivalent of calling them advanced animals, to which I basically agree, much

to their continuing exasperation. And yet, there's the crux of our human story, these additional,

incredible capabilities that we can access and use to guide our

lives. These capacities over the millennia have impressively flowered into everything from science to

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