Ori, Esu and Okan: the difficult alignment. (Must read)

 
What has now to be introduced is the concept of the existence of a third mind. Differently from what one may think, human beings are connected to three minds, the neo cortex (logic), the paleo cortex (analogic) and the ARCHEO mind. Archeo mind is a definition of the most ancient mind, that served the environmental and survival exigences of the first humans. The archeomind never existed as separated form obviously, but undoubtedly it fulfilled important functions during the initial stages of human life, prevailing over the other parts. The archeo mind could be represented as reptilian, as it manages those mechanisms that are instinctively in action when we are facing a sudden threat. Those mechanism are three: flee, fight or freeze. And they are conserved in the behavior of modern humans even though their meaning has changed. We cannot neglect the influence of this archeomind over the paleo and the neo cortex.

There is no behavior or communication that does not come from the integration of these three minds, acting in coordinate sequence: the archeomind judges the threat of some changes in the external or internal environment (in this case environment is a nominalization, that is a generic name able to describe whatever is representing a change in the orderly sequence of events of the ordinary life), the paleo mind elaborates the consequent emotion and shape it to its profound exigences, presenting it to the logic mind that may eventually have only the function to criticize the new “idea” or to accept her from a logic point of view (process of rationalization and justification). In terms of Ifa the archeo mind is able to work in very rapid binary terms, allowing to define in few msecs (40 to 120 msec) the ibi or the ire of a new situation. This is important as we are stating human beings possess inside themselves the necessary tools to immediately define the ire or the ibi of an external change. We may recreate that condition in front of the Opon Ifa, that is in front of our analogic microcosmos, through several different tools (from bones to cowries, to seeds and other symbolic ingredients).

Those tools are symbolical of our archeo mind and of her ability to judge the ibi or the ire (and different types of ibi or ire). This is an innate condition which human beings were gifted with in order to quickly approach the sense (the verse or the inverse) of the manifesting Odu’s energy. After realizing the terms of ibi or ire, the archeo mind provides an immediate reaction that may be, in case of ibi, flee, fight or freeze with the consequent activation of the ortosympathetic nervous system. In case of ire the archeo mind provides the reaction of parasympathetic activation with consequent relaxation. So we could say that in modern terms ibi and ire are related to the term “stress”. Ibi represents the “distress”, while ire represents the “eustress”. The neurologic mechanisms that stand on the background of this delicate regulation are located in the deepness of our brain, mainly in a zone that is called “thalamus”.

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