Page 31 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

To accept our Spirit consciousness to be the dominant
consciousness is not an easy task. When we are born, in
relation to consciousness, is how we should be when we die,
conscious of who we truly are. it is what happens after we are
born that causes practically every difficulty we have with the
events that occur in our lives. it is obvious that we are born
with a body and mind, and therefore an ego. Very often we
recognise in the newborn child an ancientness, as if they have
lived before. we can also recognise that the newborn seems to
know why they are here, far better than we do. Let us think
how it is when someone comes to visit us, to visit us for an
extended time, and someone we haven't met before and who
doesn't speak our language.. Isn't this so similar to a new born
child? Now look how we treat this visitor and compare this
treatment with how we treat a new born child. We don't seek
to impose our culture and thinking on the visitor, we try and
help them access what they needed from their visit and we
avoid trying to control every moment of their stay. Of course
there are those who would seek to control but that is not the
issue in this example, though no doubt we will be bringing the
issue of control later. In western culture the spiritual needs of
the child are seldom considered by those who are responsible
for this aspect of the child. There is a tendency in Western
society to leave that to the religious or to a school teacher to
teach religion. The preoccupation with teaching religion to a
child is spiritually repugnant. This might sound a harsh
suggestion to those who are religious but not to those who are
spiritual. Since its beginning, religion as we now know it, has
obscured our view of God. Every religion has formed on the
basis of the philosophy of a single human. Those who adopted
that philosophy became followers of that human. When that