There's a monkey in your mind, and his name is Trevor

4 billion years of evolution is not easily overcome, but human history is littered with examples of individuals who said, "No", to their inner ape, their instincts. It can be done. The trick is to SEE it first. Then you can resist.

If you want to punch someone in the face for knocking your beer over, thy name be Trevor. If you want to punch someone because you're bored, you may as well wear a monkey suit. If you believe all the priest says and don't wanna think for yourself, it's not a coincidence that Trevor feels the same. If your heart is broken and you want your abusive ex-boyfriend or abusive ex-girlfriend back, that's Trevor messing with you.

He'll do anything, torture you if necessary, to get you to multiply (doesn't feel like that's what's going on, but Trevor's clever like that). The first step to easing a problem is admitting there IS a problem. And it's name is often "Trevor".

A comment that sums up what I was trying to say in just a few words.

"The more I learn, the more I think and reason, the weaker Trevor becomes. You can't kill Trevor, but you can become your own master."

¬ macnutz

Reader Comments

Niall · 2011-01-30T18:25:05Z

Fab!

Trevor just told me never to watch that again and not to share it with all my friends.

Bad monkey, no banana.

ippos · 2011-01-30T18:28:13Z

A good continuation

to this video would be a film a friend told me about, the film is called Revolver (with Jason Statham). Here's a start: [Link]and [Link]

EFer · 2011-01-30T22:06:43Z

It's Either EVOLVE

Or revolve.

TOP GUN. ·

Evolve.

· 2011-02-01T06:58:15Z

Woodsman · 2011-01-31T11:34:28Z

On instincts. . .

Cool video.

The one thing I'd add is that the word "Instinct" can be used to refer to a couple of very different things which it benefits us to not confuse.

Instinct #1: The automatic body reflexes, the reptilian mind working in the background, making hard-wired assumptions about reality and offering instant reactions according to that hard-wiring.

Instinct #2: The subtle voice from our higher-selves which feed us information of a hyper-dimensional nature, is informed by past life experiences, is connected psychically to other minds and which is altogether more difficult to quantify exactly because it hails from a perspective with more scope than our conscious intellect has immediate access to.

These two types of instinct occupy opposite ends of the awareness spectrum, both come from invisible sources and act upon us, but one has roots down in 2nd Density, and the other filters down from somewhere further up the ladder.

When sceptics deride our instincts, they generally confuse the two types.

Gosh · 2011-02-18T08:45:56Z

Trevor

Much of what the narrator says about the monkey makes it so similar to the concept of the Predator Mind. The firm grip this inner mechanism has on us almost all the time. I don't know if I personally forced the analogy to make it fit in the picture, but it seemed to me the Predator Mind he was talking about all along the video.

solitude · 2014-01-19T14:30:42Z

Monkey= ego.

Monkey= ego.

TrhthHunter · 2014-01-22T14:06:03Z

No There Isn't!

Oh Wait, now there is. Why am I so I be pissed?

You didn't make me read it!

''... minimize the harm it may cause to Australians and the Australian community," How could it cause harm to Australians? That sounds like woke...

Demore

The us of a is officially effed - thanks to that traitor from LA

Buffalo_Ken

First I heard of it - do something that gets attention why don't ya.

I advise all **rainians to submit applications for being treated like shit by their home country lost - and then request - what is that word for...

Is this article unrelated to the other one - seems unlikely - Australia might as well be the same as the EU and NATO ---- TOAST

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