Page 60 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

can also see what a gift they are to us, a Spirit coming from
God's side to be with us and to share with us without
condition. There are no natural expectations. No child is born
into this life with expectations. Expectation is a learnt habit.
There is no need for the parent to consider what is expected of
them. The parent needs only to facilitate it's own natural
feelings, to give into them and they will instinctively know
what is required of them, the role they need to play. Every
animal has this instinct as appropriate to the species. In its
early years the child needs to rely on it's own instincts to
signal its needs to it's carer. The child who is raised in a so-
called primitive state has the potential for a more natural
upbringing, without the imposition of the controls and dictates
of modern society. In a so-called primitive society, still found
amongst indigenous societies, every facility utilised by the
child and carer are natural and as provided by God. The
"rules" that pertain, as all is natural, are God's "rules" and thus
more appropriate. The education is nature based and
determined by the need to survive in this natural world. It
provides a guarantee of survival and independence, and
freedom. The "rules" a child encounters in the western
"civilised" world are the rules of humankind and determined
to convenience the demands of the social structures that
govern us. The "education" a child receives is to assist it to
perform within the system and does not guarantee survival
without dependencies.

It is the combination of ego and instinct that begins the
process of producing a child. It is purely an animal process