Smell defines our environment.
“This whole business about aroma, it drives us. It defines our environment, as smells are very, very important to us.
In the tribal circuitry in humanity smell has to do with the stream that is running from the 32 to the 54, and the 44/26. That whole stream is related to the sense of smell, and is one of the ways in which tribally we separate ourselves.
Smell is something is that is deeply, deeply significant to us. We are not going to have a partner who we cannot smell.
We're not going to allow people into our lives who we cannot smell.
We can know instantaneously from somebody's breath if they'll be interesting or not. It's the way in which we pick and choose - it's all going on at this deep aroma level.
Think about the way in which humanity tries to change that through the deodorant and perfume business.
Aroma is something that we use as a tool of manipulation. "You can't belong to the tribe until you smell like us."
Now, of course, that used to be basic. It meant that you ate in our house or you were clan and you all ate the same food from the same recipes from the senior female, so everybody smelled the same and everything was okay and everything was kosher that way.
But you can't do that in polyglot Cosmopolitan vast population societies where everybody, in fact, there are all these alien tribes and all these alien aromas and they're all around.
So what do you have? You have the Old Spice tribe or you have the Calvin Klein tribe. If you're rich you have the zillion dollar perfume tribes.
These are the new tribes, and they are hiding so much because they don't let you smell them. This is the way in which people hide from each other.
I like what Europeans do. No matter who meets each other, women to women, men to men, men to women, everybody fakes a kiss on the cheek. It's not even a kiss actually. You just sort of put your cheek next to that person. Boy, do you get a whiff. It's great tribal stuff.
At a distance you don't smell anything. It's just about realizing that as a human being, you get the information you need.
For example, you come up to somebody and don't know that they're about to give you a whole mouthful. But the moment you smell them, you already know.
It may not percolate to your conscious in that sense, but you are not going to be surprised when suddenly it comes out, because you smelled it coming.
This goes back to not interfering with the way in which you are designed to operate, because you are designed to operate perfectly.
You are designed to take in those aromas and know what to do with them, as long as you are not interfering.
Your interference is "I don't like myself, so I don't like the way that I smell. I want to smell better, I want to be more attractive."
~Ra Uru Hu