As the nursery rhyme says; “Three wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song would have been longer.”

OK. It’s raining, it’s pouring. Let’s get on with it.

There’s no big mystery with these mindsets. They are all manifested out of a triune brain which has seven subdivisions. Learn what the functions are of those three brains and their subdivisions and you are well on your way to evolving waterwings to float out the flood.

I’ve been saving the best news.
There’s even a simpler way to survive. Choose love, not fear.
No joke.

But there is a catch. You won’t really know what love or fear are, until you do your home(HOME)work on your head.

Much of the mythology work mentioned below comes from the book, Myth: Matter of Mind by Francesco Ancona, to whom I am deeply indebted.
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What ARE the Great Floods mentioned in hundreds of ancient myths globally?
I found the myths fun and intriguing to read. One of my main impressions after surfacing from a flood of flood stories is - this isn't about water.

Why? A lot of reasons. One reason is that in many cases, the source of the "water" is not from your conventional weather pattern ( though, even the rain floods are more than a little strange - 999 years of storm? And some of these flood stories come from places where a flood as described could never have happened).

But when you have the flood springing forth from a fruit, or a return of primal water that swells up from the abyss or from a dying man's wounds, or a surge of the cosmic ocean, or a flood vomited by a giant frog, or erupting out of a mountain ( or in one case, out of a man's penis), then this departs slightly from the 6 o'clock weathercast. Oftentimes, the flood is streams of fire from heaven, or something other than water, like a rain of black resin.

The source of the flood is one reason I wonder if water has much to do with global great flood myths. There are other reasons, including the myriad ways that a few humans survived them.

So, our Ziusudra is not about an ordinary flood. What is Z's flood?
Here we go - off into the " deep end ."

Let me go back to the prevalence of threes in global flood stories. It's not just in the number of floods. Threes are all over the myths. And not just flood myths, threes are prevalent globally in almost all ancient myths - everything from three-layered cosmologies to triad deities to three-tiered trees, mountains and towers to three colored eggs etc.

From earliest recorded history, it appears that humans have been fascinated-obsessed by three-tiered constructions. Let me start with some of the very earliest myths from different cultures around the world.

As Mircea Eliade has said,"To know the myths is to learn the secret of the origin of things," and over the course of my lifetime i have found some "keys" that unlock startling realms of insight into myself and into the nature of humans.

What are some of these three-tiered myths? Well, the obvious one here in the west is the trinity concept of christians which meshes three separate beings into one. Christians also have their concept of heaven-earth-hell. But they certainly are not alone in the concept. The idea of trinity is everywhere evident in mythology.

For example, in egyptian mythology three major deities forming the heliopolitan system are the trinity of Geb, Nut, and Shu--- while indian mythology imagines the triple countenance of the divine to be a representation of "Trimurti," a collection of the faces of three divinities on one head: Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. Peruvian coastal myths assert that humans arose from three (copper, silver, and golden) eggs. Fairly common around the planet are three-layered world constructs such as the siberian "upper, middle, and lower earths." In fact, in greek and germanic cosmologies, a picture of three worlds placed one on top of the other is so closely paralleled that a common origin is often suspected.

Mythologies from every corner of the world speak to us of tripartite creations, mysterious trinities, triadic deities, triple-layered universes, and the prognosticating powers of trigrams (such as the I Ching). Take the celts, for example. The concept of "threeness" is pretty much a universal feature of celtic thought. Indo-European society itself, as Dumezil as demonstrated, rests on three-fold classification, but among the celts it receives a particularly elaborate expression.

In welsh and irish literature, the triad is a favorite form for the conservation of traditional learning, where groups of three characters are presented as the triplification of a single being.
A common literary motif of three brothers comprising a single unity is nearly always presented as either a relationship of undifferentiated equality or a situation where one brother dominates the other two--- so much so, that apart from their predominant brother, the other two have no real personality; they are merely constant companions who even die when he dies. The motif is called the "Threefold Death." The celtic gods and goddesses are often presented in groups of threes, such as the Brighids or the three mother goddesses from Vertillum.

Triadic groupings of goddesesses are not unusual either. the oldest may be in the paeolithic cave drawings at Angles-sur-Anglin where three powerful female presences are visible above the head of a bull. In scandanavia the feminine triad of deities, the Norns - Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld --- decide the fates of children before they are born.(their names mean "fate", "being," and "necessity."

In greece, the three "graces" personified the joy and well-being that came from fertile nature. In odd juxtaposition to the "graces" are the "graiae - the grey ones." They are the three sisters of the gorgons, and they personify "age," have a single eye between them, and are the sentinels of the lair of the gorgons. Ceramic wares of 7th-5th century BCE Greece present Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite as the classical triad of supreme female deities.

The celts, though, have perhaps the most "warlike" triune goddesses in the three "Morrighans." These triple goddesses of war were well known throughout the celtic world in different forms, like the trio of british furies called the three "lamiae."
Gods too occurred worldwide in triadic groupings. from the three Dogon rain gods in Mali, Africa to the persian Thrita to the native american triad of "first man, first woman, and coyote."

Tri-gods also were greatly involved in creation myths. Odin, Vili, and Ve are said said to have created man and woman from two trees. (Odin, Hoenir (the silent god) and Loki (trickster figure) also create humans in another nordic myth).
A creation myth from the Cakchiquel indian in guatemala has a hawk taking the blood of a serpent and a swine, using it to knead maize and create the flesh of the first man and woman. The Anasazi navajos have the first humans being born after an ascent through three subterranean stages. The micmac indians of east canada describe their god Glooscap as "giver of knowledge." his heaven has three wigwams, all of which are defended by a mass of serpents.

One of india's earliest gods was Varuna, "creator of the three worlds”. After aryans conquered India, Varuna was incorporated into another triad with Mitra and Aryaman. The Jain universe is also divided into three, a headless man's body in 3 parts; trunk, waist, and legs.

There are many more examples, but this gives a general idea. There is a wealth of information when you look closer at these myths.
Even many social structures were three-sectioned; city layouts, tombs and temples, social castes, languages - on and on. Odd thing, the same is not uncommon in modern times. From the triplet code of DNA to three-tiered religions to the three branches of US government to rub-a-dub-dub three men in a tub, civilization is a three-ringed circus.

What is this funny human fascination with threes? And what has that to do with this Ziusudra flood story?

An interesting thing happened to the human species on its way to our present jewel of intelligence, the most highly evolved form of life on the planet (so humans modestly claim anyway). The species developed a three-layered brain.
Coincidence? We just happen to be obsessed by threes, and have a three-layered brain?

Not hardly. Part of our Ziusudra story is about an answer to that.

Something we call evolution, developed a triune brain in the human species. We didn't just start from scratch with an amazing new computer in our skulls. Oh no. At the top of every human spine is an ancient brain that dates back to the Permian Age - yes, the age of dinosaurs some 300 million years ago. And mammals came into existence about 250 million years ago with the addition of a paleomammalian brain layered over the reptilian brain. ( Now go back and look at all those references to reptiles and mammals in the tri-tiered myths mentioned earlier.) It took those two brains about 235 million years to get along inside the same head, when we started developing a third brain around those two.

That third brain, the baby of the trinity, is the one we are so proud of today. Matter of fact, it thinks it's the name of the game, the only brain in town. It calls itself the neocortex, and it has grown tremendously in its short existence until it cramps our skull & dwarfs its two parent brains. And, like any overgrown toddler, it thinks it is the center of the universe.

Like psychological projections, there are examples of the triune brain EVERYWHERE in mythology.

Looking closer at one of them, the nordic myth of ¥ggdrasil the world-tree, offers a glimpse of how creative and elaborate some of these tri-brain reflections are. For one thing, neurologists have often compared the human brain to a branching tree-structure. And it is a favorite symbol in many cultures, manifesting as the "tree of life" or the "tree of knowledge," etc.

Yggdrasil is the world-tree; its branches reach to the heavens while its roots burrow down into the deepest recesses of the earth. So what kind of "symbols" would you expect the triune brain of humans to project into this tree? Absolute simplicity. In the roots of this tree are reptiles (reptilian brain), headed by a monstrous dragon-serpent. At the top of the tree are birds (often symbolic of the neocortex), including an eagle with a hawk perched between its eyes whose function is to survey the whole world (right hemisphere neo?) and a golden cock whose function is to call out an alarm in case of attack - or the end of the world - (left hemisphere neo?). Eternally racing up and down this tree is a mammal, a squirrel, causing great discord (paleomammalian brain).

This tree and others illustrate the structure of the triune brain of humans; it is a metaphor of the brains' three-part construction. (mountains are another favorite symbol world-wide for the triune brain, as are towers. )

The monster-slaying Thrita of persia (he had 2 other name/personalities) is interesting because the imagery of his myths illustrates the evolution of the triune brain. First he slays the three-headed serpent, Vrisvarupa. then he kills a demon in the shape of a boar. Then the victorious Thrita roars and the flames of Agni (fire) rise up (like the illumination of the neocortex).

Also interesting is the scandinavian three divine figures who sit on three high seats, one above the other. they are called "high," "just-as-high." and "third."

For the past 12,000 years or so, the globe has become the playpen for the third brain, and you need only look around to see the state of the playpen. Time for a change.
And the change is Z's fourth flood. The first three floods were intelligence changes in our collective heads, resulting each time with a new brain layered over the older, the survivor in each case being - a new us.

And what came flooding over us to create these changes?
Along with the cosmic ocean and fire from heaven stories, the one below also comes close to the answer in this Z tale.

This from the Bella Coola tribe of British Columbia:
Masmasalanich, who created man, fastened the earth to the sun to keep the earth from sinking and to keep the sun at the proper distance. One day he stretched the rope, so the earth sank and the water ran over it, eventually covering even the tops of the mountains. At last Masmasalanich shortened the rope, the earth rose again from the water, and mankind spread over it. Diversity of language arose from their being scattered; there was but one speech before the flood. [Frazer, p. 320]

The floods of Ziusudra are massive impulsive releases of solar plasma that rewrite the electro-chemical intelligence systems of vertebrates, especially humans. The ark is the human head. DNA is the life preserved.

Attendant to these rare explosions on the sun are significant surface effects on the earth. In effect, what survives can be said to be tuned by our star and other stellar sources. That is Ziusudra's flood mechanism.

And what might this flood look like? Other than a groovy aurora lightshow?
Doesn't seem like we should be looking for fire or water or black resin. Maybe it's raining now? Maybe it's been raining a long time? Maybe it's a flood we can't see because it's happening right under our noses? (or, behind them)

Luckily, there are clues. Let me ask you this:
What is covering the globe right now? What is it that is wiping out natural geography more and more each passing day? What is it that we complain about morning, noon and night? What is it that we feel hopelessly deluged by?

Write down your answer right here: ___________________________

Go ahead. Fill in your blank.
That is a glimpse at Z's Flood.
And Z is building an ark to survive it.

Whatever you wrote in your blank above, or whatever anyone wrote, all the answers boil down (so to speak) to Z's real flood - we are all adrift in a maelstrom of mindsets - human mindsets - baby-brain mindsets.

What are these mindsets?

Z's premise is that the initial stage of this 4th flood began about 12,000 years ago as the solar wind began a process of rewriting the circuitry in our intelligence systems. As this " brainstorm " developed, humans started showing psychological changes. What kind of changes?

How about an exponential multiplication in complexity?

In less than a blink of evolutionary timescale, the human species has gone from a simple family unit identity structure to tribalism to city-states to an ultra-complex global layering of civilization replete with a staggering myriad of roles for each individual to play within the civil-frame.

Humans also have introduced lovingness and global unity as never experienced before on this planet in that short time - along with a fear-filled capability to destroy that planet with the accidental flip of a switch.

Z says that something's coming to a " head " soon.
A head exploding with mindsets.
I will do my best not to inundate you with mindset-info.

Mindsets are manifested through a fearful baby neocortex. Like colored prescription glasses, mindsets are ways of seeing things in a prescribed perspective - and avoiding things we don't want to see. Minute to minute, situation to situation, we put them on - we take them off. Oftentimes we wear two or three at the same time. Some we hide in closets. Each of us has dozens and dozens of these prescription glasses we wear daily. And like a playstation, they also do a great job of behavior control.

There are " work " mindsets. There are " personal life " mindsets. There are " weekend " mindsets. There are " retirement " mindsets. There are " white collar & blue collar " mindsets. In fact, there is a continual traffic jam of money mindsets that pale the worst rush hour imaginable. ( O, for an Eye-in-the-sky ! )

There are custom mindsets for the man, custom mindsets for the woman, contingency mindsets for gender uncertain. Mindsets for race. Mindsets for religion. Mindsets for nationality. Mindsets for this region and that region, this town and that town, this and that profession, this club and that club. There are even mindsets for the loner.

There are mindsets for the rich and the poor and all between. There are mindsets for the warrior and mindsets for the earth mother, mindsets for the kids (customized for each stage of development until you graduate with a full bag of colored glasses).
There are family mindsets with a full compliment of daddy-mommy-baby mindsets - even single-parent mindsets - and yes, no-parent mindsets.

All mindsets project ORDER/DISORDER.
All mindsets project POWER/POWERLESSNESS.
All mindsets project IDENTITY/NO-IDENTITY.
All mindsets tell you WHO-YOU-ARE & ARE NOT.
All mindsets are TRIBAL. MOST mindsets are FEAR-BASED.

And all mindsets are totally useless when one crashes into the truth about oneself.

There are millions & billions of these mindsets ( the numbers really exploded with newspapers, television, movies, video games ) sweeping over the the earth right now, many flowing in unison in massive dualistic " jetstreams " - like great psychological atmospheric currents which sweep our minds along like so much mental flotsam and jetsam.

For example, jetstreams known as American / Unamerican - Male / Female - First World / Third World - Upper Class / Lower Class - Patriot/Terrorist - etc.

But the primary threat to life on earth is an overwhelming tsunami of science - economic - military mindsets surging in a psychostream called Numbers ( the duality? positive/negative ).

These jetstreams of mindsets are a true global flood.

The natural geography has been obliterated by socio-psycho-economic topography. We recognize parts of the world , not by physical landmarks but by economic indicators and strategic value and religious preference, etc.

The mountains are gone. They are covered by the mineral-resources mindsets. The rivers are gone. They are covered by the power-generation mindsets. The paradises are gone. They are covered by the tourism mindsets. The oceans & continents are gone. They are covered by vital-interest-zone mindsets.

Yes, even people are gone. They have been covered by collateral damage mindsets.
In fact, this may be an unprecedented flood. It seems to extend to earth's orbital belts, to the moon, and it may soon hit mars with a neocortical tidal wave.

And that's just beginning to tell you about the Great Mindset Flood, which is the opening act to the big show - the 4th time that the sun unleashes a cosmic ocean that will upgrade our software.

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