That spark we wish to ignite is our own identity. We have each become forced to give up on it in our early years, to be obedient. We all start out as a dynamo of energy, learning to talk and walk, and without interference we would have continued on that way.
Mankind is causing itself no end of trouble, forcing our young to be obedient. We have to isolate ourselves from our identity to do it. That makes us a troubled person, not a better one. Without our identity we have lost passion, feelings, access to our wants and needs, access to what our body is telling us, and access to all of the natural world.
No other life on the planet causes it’s young to have to disconnect from their own identity.
To the person, it feels like deep despair blocking every spontaneous personal expression.
Once this has happened, the only energy left is resentment, and a drive to regain the lost importance. Perhaps there are some that don’t even have that.
What has happened internally, is our consciousness or thinking has removed itself from one feeling after another, where our identity was taking us one way and others were forcing us differently.
It may not seem so serious at first glance, but when we begin the process of bringing each of these feelings back into the fold, that’s when we discover the incredible pain we suffered before we managed the disconnection.
The magnitude of these feelings is incredible. It really was a life or death situation when we surrendered our identity.
To regain our energy it is necessary to bring it all back!
Everything we have ever avoided because we don’t want to go there in our thinking, is where it is most important to go.
None of this should ever have happened. We all have a right to live our own identity. Upbringing ideas have to change for humans. Every one of us, left on our own to tackle this job through our own instincts, would do it right, and respect the identity of our young.
It’s fear of the authorities that causes us to fall in line and treat our young as society expects.
Good luck on your journey,
Norm
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