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The one idea that stayed with me from the book was the "lizard brain": for Bly, the wild,

"jumping" verse of Spanish writers like Federico Garcia Lorca, Cesar Vallejo, and Pablo Neruda

shows a sort of passionate surrealism that jumps among the three brains Bly distinguishes as the

"lizard brain," the "warm blooded animal brain," and the "new brain." These three brains are

largely present in our 21st century psyche and show the development of the mind from its

beginnings. When I grabbed Bly's work once more, I found that he utilizes the dialect of vitality

stream in displaying this thought, and he indicates the likelihood of coordinating vitality from

one a player in the mind to the next, much like the idea of "psychoenergonomics" I have

advanced in this blog.

As per Bly, the lizard brain is comparable to the limbic framework, the passionate piece

of the mind that I call "the dread manufacturing plant." This is the piece of the mind concentrated

on survival and "battle or flight": "The nearness of dread creates a higher vitality contribution to

the lizard brain" (60). At that point the warm blooded animal mind developed, wrapping itself

around the limbic hub; this more up to date brain concentrated on public love and care.

"Obviously in the warm blooded animal brain there are two hubs of vitality: sexual love and

savagery. (The lizard mind has no fierceness: it just battles coldly for survival.)" (60). The "new

mind" is equal to the neo-cortex, the brain tissue of which "is amazingly convoluted, more so

than alternate brains, having a large number of neurons per square inch. Bly estimates that "the
stories of Christ, and the comments of Buddha clearly include directions on the most proficient

method to exchange vitality from the lizard mind to the warm blooded creature brain, and after

that to the new mind. A "holy person" is somebody who has figured out how to move far from

the lizard and the warm blooded animal brains and is living fundamentally in the new brain"

(62).

Bly goes ahead to propose that "the three brains must be going after all the accessible

vitality at any minute. . . Whichever brain gets the most vitality, that mind will decide the tone of

that identity. . . ." (62). Otherworldly development, he proceeds, "relies upon the capacity to

exchange vitality. Vitality that goes ordinarily to the lizard mind can be exchanged to the warm

blooded animal brain, some of it in any event; vitality expected for the well evolved creature

brain can be exchanged to the new mind" (64). He recommends that contemplation is an

approach to exchange vitality from the lizard or "lower" brain focus to the well evolved creature

and new or "upper" mind focuses

 Works Cited:

Bly, R.(2008). Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations. Pittsburgh: University of

Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved July 14, 2017, from Project MUSE database.