Rediscovering the Wisdom
of Human Nature
By Chet Shupe
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The Shaming Of The Human Soul
By Chet Shupe
Unaware that the wisdom needed to govern a species’ life must come from the real-life experiences of countless generations before us, our intellectual minds presume that reason is both the origin and the endpoint of understanding. They see themselves as the masters of the forces of Nature that created us. Although the rational mind did not realize this, if it were to run things, the first force of Nature it would have to put down is our emotional intelligence.
The rational mind achieved this not through intention, but by happenstance when it introduced the practice of social contracting. Before social contracting existed, emotional intelligence held complete control over social order. When our emotional minds were in charge, people understood that if they wanted to be able to live with themselves, they needed to do what they felt was right and avoid doing things they felt were wrong. They learned this through personal experience.
But once the rational mind’s idea of social contracting took hold, how our behavior made us feel wasn’t our only concern. We also had to do whatever was necessary to secure a place to live. With personal survival as their main goal, people naturally pushed the limits of what felt good to achieve it. Sometimes, they went way over the line. Read More…
God did not Cast Us from Eden
We Humans Shamed Ourselves Out
By Chet Shupe
How Our Rational Minds Shamed Our Emotional Minds
into Submission Once Humans Acquired the Spoken Word
What, specifically, threatens to bring down the spaceship, Planet Earth? Mankind made a mistake. Like all mistakes, it was innocent. It was also an easy one to make—so easy, in fact, that it could be argued evolution made it, not us. But whoever made it, the chaos and suffering it unleashed have been immense.
The stage was set around two hundred thousand years ago, when evolution gifted humans with the spoken word. At first, language served us well. It extended body language, helped us share feelings, locate food and water, and make short-term plans—who would prepare breakfast in the morning, who would join the hunt in the afternoon.
Had evolution been watching, it might have congratulated itself on a job well done. After two hundred thousand years, nothing bad had happened. The spoken word had proved itself fail-safe. I, too, would offer my congratulations. But I’d add: “Don’t rest too easily, Mr. Evolution. Not yet.” Because after two hundred thousand years of unqualified success, your experiment took a wrong turn. Read More…
How We Lost Eden Without Ever leaving It
By Chet Shupe
Introduction
In an age when skyscrapers have replaced fire circles and social contracts have eclipsed spiritual bonds, one question rises from the noise: how did we lose community in the pursuit of civilization? Before property rights and city permits, humans lived in harmony with Nature—imperfect, yes, but guided by an internal compass that honored feeling over rule. This essay explores the brain’s hidden architecture: emotional intelligence as the species’ operating system, intellectual intelligence as the adaptive limb, and consciousness as our window on the world. It invites readers to consider whether the path back to belonging—to Eden—depends not on reclaiming territory, but on re-trusting the wisdom encoded in our emotions.
Section 1: The Hidden Trinity of the Mind
To understand how humans once built community but now build only cities, we must first understand the instruments of awareness we carry inside our skulls.
Emotional intelligence is not sentimentality—it is the operating system of our species. Rooted in instinct and refined by evolutionary time, it interprets our circumstances and inspires behavior that serves life. Imagine it as a kind of biological GPS: not one that draws from maps, but one calibrated by ancestral wisdom. Its signals are feelings—not arrows on a screen. Do what feels right; don’t do what feels wrong. While a GPS guides us through intersections toward a destination, emotional intelligence guides us through life’s situations toward survival—not only for ourselves, but ultimately for the species we belong to.
Intellectual intelligence is the brain’s adaptive limb. It learns, strategizes, remembers where the water flows, and where the dangers lurk. It acquires the skills needed to manage routine actions subconsciously. Read More…
How Emotional Intelligence was Overridden by the Civilized World
Chet Shupe
The Species as the True Organism
For centuries, we have built our theories of mind, morality, and society on the idea that the individual is the fundamental unit of life. We have prioritized personal property, individual rights, and justice systems designed to protect the self from others.
But what if the real organism is not the individual, but the species?
If that were true, we would find meaning not in competing against each other to serve self, but in cooperating to serve the species that gave us life. I don’t intend to prove this. But the brain model I’ve developed is based on the belief that the species is the true organism. I arrived at this view because, when I tried to diagram how the brain is organized, nothing else made sense.
When life is observed from the perspective that the species is the real organism, many contradictions dissolve. The soldier’s sacrifice, the hero’s selflessness, the mother’s devotion—these are not irrational acts. They are the inborn sensibilities of a system tuned to live in service to life.
When we serve the species that gave us life, our innate wisdom rewards us—not with wealth or privilege, but with a deep sense of contentment and belonging with others who are sharing in that service. Serving the species isn’t about righteousness. It’s simply that, if our species is to continue gifting people with the experience of life, its members must act as agents of the species—placing its needs above their own, just as a government cannot exist unless its citizens prioritize the state’s needs over their own.
Agents of Life vs. Agents of the State
But we have innocently subordinated our lives to legal systems designed to sanctify the individual. In doing so, we moderns have shifted from being agents of life to agents of the state. We are compelled to prioritize the needs of the state over those of our species. This leaves us in an unnatural state of suffering.
Our suffering is not the result of moral failure. It is emotional intelligence trying to warn us—that if we continue to ignore the needs of our species, eventually
it will cease to exist. Being true to our feelings, rather than to the directives of the state, is not about passing a moral test. It is about human survival. Read More…
Why Men Love War
By Chet Shupe
Evolution commissioned sisterhoods to be the caretakers of life, and brotherhoods to be life’s protectors. So, evolution configured men’s feelings so that when facing danger, men value the lives of the people they are protecting more than they value their own, not by choice. By the grace of evolution, it is how they feel—no good intentions are required. And because they can’t feel any other way, they know that somewhere down deep in their souls, they care. So, men love war because it provides an opportunity for evolution to remind men that their lives count. Before humans domesticated themselves, there were all kinds of dangers for men to face. Thus, they were constantly reminded that they were needed. Now that civil order has eliminated most of those dangers, men must wait until the next war for their inborn feelings to remind them that they care.
Men at war enjoy the camaraderie of brotherhood, and they feel needed. Back home, there are no brotherhoods, and no dangers to face, so they don’t feel needed. True, on the battlefield, men are at risk of losing their physical lives, but because they feel needed, it’s one heck of a boost to their spiritual ones—so much that sometimes it’s hard for soldiers to go home. Back home, they are yet at risk of losing their physical lives, but in this case, it’s by their own hand, because they find that they are no longer able to bear the burden of having lost their spiritual ones.
Lost in a Blizzard of Knowledge
How do we regain our spiritual freedom? Frankly, I do not know if it is possible. I liken mankind’s circumstances to the situation my father found himself in when I was a little boy. He was lost on horseback in a blizzard about five miles from home. The wind was so strong that he could hardly tell which way was up, much less North. He got home that afternoon, not by determining the way, but by letting go of his horses’ reins. During the entire trip, he had no clue where he was until the image of the barn door emerged from the haze of the blowing snow. He saved his life by trusting the spirit of his horse. One could say that, given his situation, he had no other option, which is true. But he had reason to trust his horse. He had ridden that horse for years, during which they had been there for each other many times. So, he knew the horse. When the two of them disappeared into that blinding storm, he had confidence that they would not end up going over the edge of a cliff.
In my estimation, humanity is also lost in a blizzard; only in our instance, it is a blizzard of knowledge. The knowledge swirling around us is making us so dizzy that we, too, can’t tell which way is up, much less determine which knowledge contributes to our species’ wellbeing and which endangers it. Our situation is worse than my dad’s. We don’t know that spiritual homes exist, thus don’t realize we are lost. Instead of seeking the sense of well-being that a real home provides, we look to more knowledge for salvation. which only intensifies the storm in which we are lost.
What Chet Shupe thinks About Valentine’s Day
By Chet Shupe
I have pretty much stayed away from women since my second divorce, some 40 years ago. This is not because I don’t like, respect, or admire women. Indeed, I see them as significantly more emotionally intelligent than men. How could I not admire them? It’s just that I have discovered that women have inborn expectations regarding relationships that I am unable to fulfill, not even by pretending. I stay away from women, not because I don’t like them, but because it pains me so when I disappoint them.
So, on Valentine’s Day, I don’t have much to do. But when I see a sidewalk stand with a big bouquet of roses, a teddy bear, or a heart-shaped box of candy on display, I say to myself: “I’m glad that I am not in sufficient trouble with a woman that I would have to get her one of those. It’s not that I wouldn’t mind getting her one. Indeed, I would delight in that. What I mind is being in trouble with a woman,
I share the above in the spirit of humor, but also for a more serious reason. I trust that, through personal experience, many men will identify with my plight. People are quick to agree that “What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love,” yet we experience less and less of it. Clearly, something has gone wrong. Is it possible we are depending too much on feelings of romance to hold family relationships together, the feelings through evolution inspire us to procreate, and not enough on sisterly and brotherly love, the feelings through which evolution inspires humans to form bonds that typically last for life? Whatever has gone wrong, we need to think about it. It is affecting mankind’s happiness, our emotional health, and eventually, maybe our ability as a species to survive on this planet.
“Rediscovering the Wisdom of Human Nature by Chet Shupe is an insightful, honest, and intriguing read about the impact of civilization on inner peace and happiness.” — Scarbaby
“Have you ever wondered what consciousness is? Can you tap into the wisdom provided by your feelings? Did you know that you are under the subjugation of moral laws that force you to ditch your spiritual obligations?” —Centfie
“What I like about the book is the same thing I hate about it. From Shupe’s point of view, I find his aggression towards civilization somehow reasonable.” — AfraBrb
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“I would humbly recommend this book to those who, like me, have always felt unmoored from life and have never understood why.” —Anjellina
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Essays
God Didn’t Cast Us From Eden, We Humans Shamed Ourselves Out
How We Lost Eden Without Even Leaving It
How Emotional Intelligence Was Overridden by the Civilized World
The Spiritual Authority of Sisterhoods – The Hope for Mankind
What About Death- Why Modern People Fear It
Artificial Intelligence- A Blessing or A Curse
Why We Humans No Longer Love Another
My Special Evening In Oak Creek Canyon
How Human Rights Silences Our Love for Our Fellow Man
Does Evolution Have an Unrecognized Flaw
An Invitation to Rethink our Belief in Civil Rule – How Hobbes Led Us Astray
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