Fundamental clarifications regarding instinct [IF47-1focus]

The topic at a glance
By instinct we mean: 1) those which are the directly physiological instincts that allow the individual's body to survive; 2) all those behaviors and reactions towards the adverse conditions that the environment presents to the individual when he incarnates, so that the individual - and, consequently, the race - has the possibility to continue to exist and therefore to carry on L'evolution.

I have heard a lot today aboutimprinting; you have now confused it with archetypes, now with the instincts, now you have put it on its own, and so on.

Perhaps you should always keep in mind that theimprinting is a very different thing from what is theinstinct and from those who are archetypes; as while instinct and archetypes are to some extent gods instruments (and then we will see what kind, and it will be the second thing to clarify) the imprinting instead is “a process"; not even a mechanism, a "process".

A process of transcription of certain elements that acts as a substratum for the development of that great interchange of actions and reactions that take place within the Akasic mass when the Akasic mass begins to approach the physical plane to begin the evolution of the race.

We come now for a moment to instincts and archetypes: instincts (we have said) are tools; also useful, undoubtedly necessary, indispensable in the equilibrium of the development of reality to ensure that evolution can go on. Obviously they are not the same as archetypes, otherwise there would have been no need to distinguish between the two. So let's try to clarify as best we can what are the substantial differences between instincts and archetypes.

[...] The instincts have their need for existence "simply" (and I say "simply" in quotation marks as usual, because nothing is ever so simple in this spectacular framework that the Absolute has created) they serve "simply" to ensure that the physiological race, the race incarnated on the physical plane, on planet Earth or possibly on other planets, can continue to survive in the environment in which it is inserted; because without this substrate of instincts - which come, as you know, from the experiences made as a mineral, vegetable and animal - the human being would continually be in such danger of death that the race would die out in the short span of a few generations.

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D - Scifo, sorry, it seems to me that I had read, if I have not misunderstood, that you had made one distinction between instinct and natural laws; for example: weren't the maternal instincts, the survival instincts, more than instincts, linked to the natural laws that the Absolute has set for the species?

Io I had said, if I remember correctly, that almost always, normally, we indicate as "instinct" those that are simple behaviors linked to physiological processes that allow the survival of the physical body of the individual; for example, the fact of breathing, which is a physiological mechanism and which is, of course, necessary for the survival of the physical body; but that our conception of instinct, on the other hand, was broader in that it included behaviors that were not only physiological but proper to reaction to the environment such that not only was it possible for the individual to survive but this survival could ensure that the species continued to exist.

D - So you mean that, as laws of nature, we could consider breathing, eating; whereas, on the other hand, how could it be instincts not to throw oneself into the water and therefore not to drown, not to burn oneself with fire?

All that part of experiences from previous lives; in particular those closest - more reactive with the environment - which are the animals; who have taught that certain things are dangerous, that they can harm to some extent and that therefore have imprinted the Akasic mass of the incarnating race to ensure that the race does not come to the physical plane and find the available bodies because they are unprepared to face what the environment is preparing to put in front of them as an experience.

Q - So, on a physical level, instincts are expressed through general rules of behavior of the race, of the species?

Let's say that, generically, we can say this. So, if you wanted to do some sort of small summary of what has been said, by instinct we mean:

- (in the simplest sense of the word) those who are the directly physiological instincts that allow the individual's body to survive,

- and instead as an instinct in the "higher" sense (always in quotation marks, of course, because there cannot be a hierarchy in this type of classification) all those behaviors and those reactions to adverse conditions that the environment presents to the individual when he incarnates, so that the individual - and, consequently, the race - has the possibility to continue to exist and therefore to carry on evolution.

D - Anyway automatic reactions?

Certainly.

Q - So is it wrong to say "killer instinct"?

Ah, without a doubt. The homicidal instinct absolutely does not exist as an imprint in the Akasic plane; even if there is an imprinting due to certain incarnations in carnivorous animal forms, which however has been inscribed in the Akasic matter not as a homicidal instinct but as "instinct to find food"And it is different because, in reality, animals - whatever people say, that for example the tiger is a killer and, compared to other animals, it does it for the sake of killing, but it is absolutely not true - even in cases in which it seems that the tiger kills an animal or an individual without dietary reasons, there are actually other reasons than the tiger for which it carries out that behavior (and we cannot now, here, pause to examine the psychology of the tiger, because we would really go off topic).

D - These instincts are related to the "feel”, That is, do they manifest themselves strictly with the feeling of the individual?

The instincts act from the beginning of the incarnation of the individual as a human being, therefore since the feeling is very poorly structured and they act, in some way, even overwhelming that little bit of feeling that exists. In reality feeling is something that then comes to mediate instinct and knowing how to make a selection between when instinct must be allowed to flow freely and when instinct must be conditioned to those who are the true evolutionary needs of the individual and his feelings.

Q - Is it correct to say "instinct of danger"?

Certainly, yes.

Q - So we call these automatic reactions "instinct" only when they are expressed on a human level?

Let's say that we are speaking on a human level but, in reality, imprinting (you know it, we have already said it) starts from before; therefore, if one were to truly observe the path of this imprinting, of this process, one would see that it is a process that gradually expands with the passage to more and more specialized forms, so there is already a imprinting of instincts as far as animals are concerned; just as there is also for plants, on the other hand.

D - Also because for them there is no problem of jumping the mind, as there is for man.

Certainly. The fact, for example, that if you place a plant near a window and keep half shutters closed and half shutters open, the plant will bend a little at a time trying to stretch towards the light, this is part of the imprinting, in the instinct of that part of the Akasic portion which is connected to that plant; because it refers to a physiological need of the plant but it is also part of its attempt to survive, to adapt to the experience it is experiencing at that moment.

[…] But let's go back to our difficult speeches of these cycles. Are you convinced that you have understood what has been said about instinct? Do you want some explanation, do you have any other doubts? It will be better, from now on, that you get used to clarifying doubts as they arise, otherwise it becomes difficult to move on if we always have to stop to explain something that you had not dared to ask, perhaps, previously. Scifo
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