Page 165 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

Young adults, as they mature, will use many excuses to avoid
responsibility, and also use blame of others or other situations
to divert any part in, or any benefit from, the event away from
themselves. How can they feel the worthiness of being
involved in life if they continuously are accommodated in this
disparagement? It is always about accepting that all in life is
as it is and the product of one’s own creative ability. This is a
fact that needs to be instilled into the minds of the eighteen
year old. At this age they see society as their place to be, often
with a false confidence that is gleaned by the tacit approval of
condescending adults who’s only interest is in boosting their
own sense of superiority. Many eighteen years olds
experience ego grooming by those who seek to use and
control them. These youths are still inexperienced in the wily
ways of their fellows, the weaker characters seeking to hold
back others from becoming ‘better’ than them. It is said that
eventually everyone will reach the level of their own
incompetence, surely this is a good place to grow from and
not a place to linger. There are those who will seek to curtail
the growth of others beyond their own incompetent level. This
is common practice in many educational systems, where the
tutor will constantly seek to keep ahead of their students or to
hold students behind them. Education needs to be seen as a
dynamic practice, where all are equal and yet all are uniquely
different. The tutor can learn from the pupil as the pupil can
learn from the tutor. The tutor in this case then has more to
share with future pupils and more to learn also from them.
There is a spiritual principal that refers to the equilibrium of
knowledge. This states that when one tells another all they
know and the other shares all they know with the first person,
their knowledge becomes equal. Should a third person then