When there were seas to be sailed, wild continents to be explored, harsh territory to be settled, agriculture to be mastered, mine shafts to be sunk, civilization to be founded, mammal consciousness was necessary. "When life was a constant struggle between predators, a mnute-by-minute battle for survival, reptile consciousness was necessary. 151 Lalo, asking Alobar and Kudra for a promise to uplift heart + soul as well as mind in the quest for immortality, in Pan’s lineage. Thus, thou must vow upon this day that should thou be living still when these events transpire, that thou wills battle them and refuseth prosperity to any immortality thrust that doth not rise from man’s soul and heart as well as his mind.” p. Alas, because they fight with reason only, making no advance in the area of soul and heart, true immortality whilst be denied them. They wilt combat age and death with potions and the like, medical weapons that their minds have invented, and age and death will shrink back from them and their medicines. Someday, however, a thousand years from today, there wilt be men who seek to defeat death by intelligence alone. And certainly, to have conquered age to the extent that thou hast, thou must have done good strengthening work in thine own mind and heart and soul. "… mankind has been too puny in his mind and heart and soul to deserve immortality. Excerpts from Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, published in 1984 by Bantam Books
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