Jungle psychology

Ten million years ago maybe we lived as animals, maybe half human, half animal. Our "inner mechanism" video taped all that happened to us, especially all what we caused to happen. Imagine what a life we lived in the jungles and in jungle psychology. These video tapes are still in the process of evolution.

Suppose we were a starving wolf in the past and we made all possible efforts to stay alive at the expense of others. This exact image is still within us in a metamorphic form. It is possible that the metamorphic form of the wolf can be our tendency to exploit, to desire, to manipulate people and nations in intense hatred, greed, etc.

We fail to see how our animal images manifest and act sometimes in our childhood, sometimes in our adulthood in various occasions when we imitate animals in our actions, feelings, thoughts, and goals. Until we get rid of such images, we will not act on a purely human level. Humanliness is not yet a realized and factual event. It is still a vision.


- Torkom Saraydarian
The Mystery of Self-Image