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because they are unaware of what it is they seek, their power,
their spiritual power. This can often be the root cause of many
teenage mental disturbances and aided by illicit or
inappropriate substances they might utilise in their quest for
autonomy. They struggle to find their uniqueness and
meaning for life, often not realising the substitute power they
are being manipulated by, this power is the adult power of the
parent that has been their support for so long, but now is
inadequate in satisfying this urging. They do not realise that
the control the parent had over them was their own power, the
very power they had handed to the parent at birth and the
power that had never been returned to them at the time of
initiation. As a consequence they take a more personal role in
affairs that don’t really concern them, affairs that would or
should only be of concern to their parents. They become
involved in the bigger picture of life without the physical or
mental development to match. They think that to be educated
by the system will give them all the answers, but then find
with dissatisfaction that the hunger still exists. They develop
unhealthy habits and their future is now sick. They begin to
experience what takes occurs in place of proper initiation into
adulthood. They see themselves ‘old’ enough to be a parent,
‘old’ enough to drink alcohol, ‘old’ enough to vote, ‘old’
enough to drive a car, ‘old’ enough to smoke tobacco, ‘old’
enough to use drugs, ‘old’ enough to stay up late and party.
They seldom see themselves old enough to be and to behave
like a true adult and all that that entails. They see and accept
the adulthood that the system provides with responsibility to
the state controlled by state laws and not by spiritually
inspired common sense.