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Your genetic [[unfolding]] was patterned to [[receive]] [[love]] as an essential aspect of your development into personhood. Without it, as you have noted, the [[brain]] structures that have evolved to contain and extend mind capability are mis-utilized and [[distorted]]. The web of [[connection]] among sub-regional parts that delineate personality prerogatives requires love for its effective activation. Your [[inheritance]] demands that you seek to make certain connections on an on-going basis. In the [[absence]] of the appropriate [[experiential]] substratum, you are impelled to [[improvise]]. Because [[fear]] is such a basic element in the underlying [[animal]] aspects, in the absence of love, which overrides fear, fear becomes the [[matrix]] core instead of love.

Your genetic [[unfolding]] was patterned to [[receive]] [[love]] as an essential aspect of your development into personhood. Without it, as you have noted, the [[brain]] structures that have evolved to contain and extend mind capability are mis-utilized and [[distorted]]. The web of [[connection]] among sub-regional parts that delineate personality prerogatives requires love for its effective activation. Your [[inheritance]] demands that you seek to make certain connections on an on-going basis. In the [[absence]] of the appropriate [[experiential]] substratum, you are impelled to [[improvise]]. Because [[fear]] is such a basic element in the underlying [[animal]] aspects, in the absence of love, which overrides fear, fear becomes the [[matrix]] core instead of love.

It is this that leads to the [[passive]] and [[active]] rejection of [[truth, beauty, and goodness]], all of which become part of the generalized threat of animal [[perception]] of anything out of the ordinary. When the ordinary has been loveless [[dysfunction]], and love is encountered, it is unsurprising that the emotional pitch quickly transfers into the realm of high animal [[emotion]] - fear. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system limbic system] is not integrated successfully into the higher mind-effectiveness systems when the matrix of personality [[expression]] is built upon [[fear]]. Love can still provide the route by which rewiring can proceed, but the personality expression matrix is formed at an early age and nothing can entirely overcome the [[limitations]] that result from your developing through the usual [[family]] life on [[Urantia]].

It is this that leads to the [[passive]] and [[active]] rejection of [[truth, beauty, and goodness]], all of which become part of the generalized threat of animal [[perception]] of anything out of the ordinary. When the ordinary has been loveless [[dysfunction]], and love is encountered, it is unsurprising that the emotional pitch quickly transfers into the realm of high animal [[emotion]] - fear. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system limbic system] is not integrated successfully into the higher mind-effectiveness systems when the matrix of personality [[expression]] is built upon [[fear]]. Love can still provide the route by which rewiring can proceed, but the personality expression matrix is formed at an early age and nothing can entirely overcome the [[limitations]] that result from your developing through the usual [[family]] life on [[Urantia]].

This is not meant to [[discourage]] you, but to [[explain]] in part why [[dysfunctional]] behavior is so [[persistent]] and so slowly ameliorated in the [[individual]], and so rampant and difficult to dislodge on a [[planetary]] basis. [[Culture]] carries in large part the actual [[content]] that will be used within the structure of the [[personality]] matrix. When the emotional experience of early [[childhood]] comes into [[conflict]] with the dominant [[family]] culture, the child must [[adapt]]. Since family members tend to [[share]] a common culture, the child will receive few [[tools]] that range outside that common cultural dead weight. It is [[ideal]] for a child to have a modest degree of differing culture in its [[parents]]’ [[heritage]]s.

This is not meant to [[discourage]] you, but to [[explain]] in part why [[dysfunctional]] behavior is so [[persistent]] and so slowly ameliorated in the [[individual]], and so rampant and difficult to dislodge on a [[planetary]] basis. [[Culture]] carries in large part the actual [[content]] that will be used within the structure of the [[personality]] matrix. When the emotional experience of early [[childhood]] comes into [[conflict]] with the dominant [[family]] culture, the child must [[adapt]]. Since family members tend to [[share]] a common culture, the child will receive few [[tools]] that range outside that common cultural dead weight. It is [[ideal]] for a child to have a modest degree of differing culture in its [[parents]]’ [[heritage]]s.