Does the author omit that between is and the? Are the verbs about turned down and cooled in the subjunctive?
The Buddha taught that kind of happiness. He put it this way: “True happiness can only be found by eliminating the false idea of ‘I’ or ‘self.’” Only then is the survival brain turned down and the personality fever cooled. The only problem with that formulation is that once the “I” or “self ” has been eliminated, then there is no one around to enjoy the feeling of happiness.
(Excerpt from Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! by Wes “Scoop” Nisker.)
Answer
Does the author omit that between is and the?
No. This is a sentence in which the phrase “only then” has been shifted to the front of the sentence, for emphasis and to put it next to the referent of then, which refers to when the false idea is eliminated.
The survival brain is turned down and the personality fever cooled only then.
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Only then is the survival brain turned down and the personality fever cooled.
Are the verbs about turned down and cooled in the subjunctive?
No. They are in the passive:
The survival brain is turned down.
The personality fever [is] cooled.
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