“The Inner Ring” was the Memorial Lecture at King’s College, University of London, in 1944. It is a superb piece of work and an apt demonstration of why C.S. Lewis is one of my favourite writers even though he is mostly concerened with religious matters but I am a non believer.
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Sex hormone ‘controls fear and desire’ [BBC]:

“The sex hormone oestrogen plays a crucial role in a wide variety of human emotional responses, say experts.

It not only has a part in generating feelings of sexual desire, claim scientists, but is also at the root of other types of arousal – producing alertness or even fear.”

Those familiar with Crenshaw’s “Achemy of Love and Lust” and Pert’s “Molecules of Emotion” will know this stuff already but I am pleased to see this information reaching wider audiences.

“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.” Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene