Personality in a bottle

It's easy to forget, if ever we realised, that we experience and respond to the world from within a 'drug' induced state.

Change the level of the 'drug' and we radically alter our experience of life. We radically alter how we respond. We radically alter our personality. We radically alter who we think we are.

Where testosterone, oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, estrogen, noradrenaline and a host of other nuero, limbic and endocrinal chemicals are those governing and regulating 'drugs'.

We don't feel the effects of these chemicals. We just feel normal, and more or less consistent until the levels are altered even fractionally. Then our world collapses or we're re-born, depending on whether it was a good or bad trip.

Lövheim Cube of Emotion

Personality -- Introverted, extroverted, passive, aggressive, masculine, feminine, negative and positive, can also easily be understood as your personal blend of chemicals.

It's strange that what we feel to be so intrinsically 'soul' like and trans-personal is just the opposite, physiological and pre-personal.