Page 80 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

a child a product of humans having committed any sin by
having intercourse. Its all natural so how can it be sinful?
How can it be ever thought that such a pure human being, a
Spirit with a human body, can be born in a state of sin? Earth
life was created as a paradise not a hell. Now imagine a child,
a spiritually informed though humanly innocent, make any
sense of such a dysfunctional society. It is easy therefore to
see the resistance the intellect of the child would create to
counter the imposition of such negative controls that it is
being signed up to with only the adults agenda being
considered. The conflict commences shortly after the child is
born and intensifies as the child develops its independence. It
is a race to have the child conditioned into social servitude
before it grows too strong to control. By the early part of its
second year the child has developed a certain independence. It
can now walk and take itself to where it wants to go. It can
begin to demand to be heard, even though it might not yet
have the vocabulary. It will want to feed itself and even
expect to participate in the events of adulthood. The child sees
itself as older than its years, much the same as an older person
feels younger then its years. Like the older person the truth
comes out for the child when it tries to play the role it feels
capable off and discovers it is beyond their capabilities. To
understand the frustration of this experience we need to see
what has happened to cause the child to stray from the natural
development, development in accordance with its own pace of
growth, we need again to look at the conditions we have
created for the child to live by. In our enthusiasm and ego we
want to have the perfect child. That we should even think that
way is an indication that we are unaware that the child is
already perfect. Why should we think otherwise? If we are to