Page 50 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

to show them that the choices they seem to make are not
necessarily the correct ones and we need not to excuse them
by allowing for the fact they are only an innocent child. It is a
duty as a parent or guardian that the child is consistently
shown the natural boundaries of life as a human but with the
access to the spiritual extensions.

From the moment we are born into the physical world, as we
are dependent on our parents for our physical survival, we
instinctively strive for independence. We instinctively know
we will only ensure our survival through this independence.
Instinct is something we are all born with, the new born foal
instinctively knows it needs to stand as soon as possible. As a
newborn human though, in order to survive, we subject
ourselves to the care of our parents. In other words we entrust
our survival into their care, we hand them our power. This
power we hand them is a power we cannot handle at this point
in our existence and a power we will one day seek to regain,
and indeed be enticed at a later stage to give away again.
Being a newborn we rely on our parents for everything, what
they can give us is why we chose them. What they don’t give
us is also contained in our choice of parent. There is never any
justification for us to say our parents let us down. We chose
them. There is never any truth in our parents being
responsible for us, we thrust ourselves upon them. Isn’t the
mother always a wonderful person as she provided the seed
that gave us the opportunity to choose this body we occupy.
She carried us carefully and comfortable until the time of our
entry into this world. No matter how she behaved during her