Page 100 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

asked what it would want to be when it grows up, it will only
have what society appears to offer, tinker, tailor, soldier,
sailor, from which to chose. All choices will be certainly
influenced by the adults that surround the child, The adults in
turn will be influenced by their own unrequited ambitions,
often having been drawn from the same set of options and
their experiences within these options leaving them
unfulfilled, their unconscious spiritual hunger unsatisfied. As
adults we need to understand this anomaly and be responsible
enough to treat our own difficulties first before we can think
we are fit to advise any child. We as adults cannot hope to be
proper role models for our children if we are prepared to lead
them on the same path that was inadequate for our needs.
Sometimes this degree of awareness only becomes apparent
when we are in our latter years and a reason why our then
knowledge will be coloured by our mortality, and our
awareness of our immortality is sought by us. Astrologically
we seek a reconnection with our spirituality around the ages
of forty and eighty years old though we often look to religion
instead of Spirit. Of course we don’t find it there and often
have to wait until our physical death bed to realise the truth.

To the five year old any challenge they present to the socially
conditioned adult is met with ridicule, derision, and/or
rejection. Children of this age also adopt this behaviour and
when the repeat it are called cheeky or worse. They will also
practice this behaviour amongst their acquaintances in their
world, and become the bully or the victim of the bully. Its
often the bully who rises to the top. The bully is also the
unhappiest. The bully doesn’t know love except in the ego
sense, and therefore cannot be truly loved nor able to truly