Page 56 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

these instructions would guide you into a world where social
dependency is the norm and where, in order to survive in that
world you are expected to conform to society's rules. Yes
there is a certain behaviour required and this behaviour is
quickly learnt by the growing infant. Often you will find that
the role of parenting creates confrontations and stand-offs
between parent and child, often these are the parent ego being
challenged by the spiritual consciousness of the child. The
child will always be spiritually responsive. Until it reaches a
certain age, approximately seven human years, the child
cannot reason. The child is still connected to God though it is
embodied. The child's senses search for familiarities in its
new world, similarities with its true spiritual home. Should
you travel to another far distant country do you not also look
for what is familiar to you before you venture out? Watch
how a very young child engages with you, they seldom look
into your eyes, but look around you. A very young child's
eyes do not focus as the eyes do not yet know what it is
looking for or at. It does however see what it is familiar with,
and it is familiar with Spirit. We try to distract the child by
making noise, to which the child is also unfamiliar with, and
wave bright objects to try and attract the child's attention to us
and our surroundings. The child will respond and smile at the
familiar and often grimace and even cry at the unfamiliar. We
think they are smiling at our entertainment when in fact they
are smiling at what our action represent to them, an enactment
of familiarity, bright, light colourful scenes like the Spirit
world they have just come from, and the wonderful aura we
have when we are in a state of love for this child. The child
can also see when love is absent, in fact it can read exactly
how you are emotionally, and read you well when you think