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society is presently offering to them. An example of this
would be, if the child were to feel spiritually moved it might
seek a career in some aspect of a religious life, and the limited
scope that might provide for spiritual expression. The child
might feel within it’s heart to become a member of some
caring profession. Because of the lack of spiritual support, and
because the child has been separated from the spiritual aspect
of it’s feelings, separated from its intuition, it cannot truly
relate to how it feels and when asked the question will often
reply, “I don’t know”.

Because the child is “only eleven” there is no direct pressure
placed upon it to provide a firm image that it may have of it’s
future. It’s suggestions on what it might like to be will more
often draw smiles to the faces of adults. When these smiles
are seen by the child, the child’s esteem becomes affected and
diminished. Remember this child is seeking to please the adult
and accepts the adults values as it’s measure. This “smile” is a
sign to the child that the adults do not really find pleasure in
the career it though of for itself. It will then seek a future that
will rate higher with the adult. A child might like a trade, but
the “smile” changes it’s mind and it seeks a profession. Such
is the way society is structured, potential earnings are more
important than job satisfaction, and vocations are lost.

The anticipation of the eleventh year is further heightened in
the twelfth year. The child instinctively knows that these
coming two years will find it leaving the past behind, and seek
to bring on its future. The past can only be left behind when
all the benefits from those previous years since birth are fully