Transpersonal Philosophy

       Basic emotions provide the semantic basis of animal and human language. We understand animals and they understand us because of the basic emotional continuity of all animal life. Anxiety and desire, or if we put it in terms of basic emotions: the neural system of fear and the neural system of search (dopamine system), have a semantic content that express the Speech of the Vital Will (as the other basic emotions do).      Basic emotions specify a direction for action and a modus operandi, and for this reason they imply a type of non-declarative, non-verbalizable, knowledge-but knowledge nonetheless- at the organism’s disposal. That knowledge is part of the Speech of our Volitive Soul (not all of it, for there are connecttions of the Volitive Soul to what we call physis at large ) . By non-declarative cognitive procedure I understand that which is linked to non-declarative or implicit memories. Non-declarative memories are informatio...