Melea, Jack, and Jessica explore NMT's discovery of the instinctual cycle, building from David Gray's original concepts of "synflow" and "contraflow."
Be sure to view the diagram of the instinctual cycle while you listen!
1:35 - Overview of the three instincts
9:30 - Wondering how the instincts relate to Maslow's hierarchy of needs
10:33 - Overview of instinctual cycle as life and death processes
13:00 - Jack failing at the self-preservation instinct
14:55 - Jessica failing at the social instinct
18:10 - David Gray's "flows"
23:09 - Why is knowing about "flow" helpful?
24:35 - Finding the sexual instinct's location in a vertical diagram
27:20 - sx/sp as conception / creation
30:32 - Self-preservation reinforcing sexual's agenda
34:35 - Renaming "synflow" as "waxing" and "contraflow" as "waning"
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