Chew on that. For a while. What did Jesus say: become a child.It's possible to remain young-at-heart and never really grow up, while knowing how to play the Adult Games required to survive in Adult Society. This is called "neoteny" or Conscious Adolescence, and is genetically innate to only two creatures on Planet Earth . . . Humans and Dolphins.
Neoteny is catalyzed through a careful, non-judgmental study of adolescent characteristics and their acceptance and integration in a creative lifestyle. The spirit of experimentation so crucial to Adolescence necessitates a certain daring. No daring is fatal. What's deadly is our FEAR of: Making Mistakes, Taking Risks, and Being Awkward. This is because all three are essential to relating with uncertainty. Neoteny is dependent upon improvisatory skills . . . of quick, in-the-moment adjustments to new information. The Japanese refer to mistakes as "God Leaks" and so when they're made, we see that Life is what happens when we're busy making other plans. The fear of mistakes can be subdued by including them. The secret to taking risks is being just safe enough to do so and not too safe to feel threatened. Being awkward becomes an art form of considerable beauty when allowed its natural expression through the body. Its genuine vulnerability endears. Its groping, searching spirit brings truth to the moment it beholds.
—Antero Alli, Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection
Yeah, the things of Adulthood are important. Paying the bills, keeping the roads maintained; security and safety. After that comes the fun. Not fancy stuff, but joyfull gleesome whoop de doo zinging balalaboom. Dare ya to be childlike!!
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"It's possible to remain young-at-heart and never really grow up, while knowing how to play the Adult Games required to survive in Adult Society. This is called "neoteny" or Conscious Adolescence, and is genetically innate to only two creatures on Planet Earth . . . Humans and Dolphins."
Well I'd say, a few humans, since most of them have been so well taught to completely shut off, stifle the child in them, and succeeded so well, that they end up having all the drawbacks of adolescence and adulthood combined to deal with: they are clueless,they think they know it all,they're uptight,blind,judgemental,if not completely fucked up. That's what you get when you comply too well into comforming to a mould. That's what you get when you want to control everything, including the uncontrollable by essence, your feelings. That's what you get when you try to be what people expect from you, and therefore deny yourself your own existence. That's how you end up already having one foot in the grave way before your time,without even being aware of it, and most people do it to themselves, they kill their own self.
Yes, a few people have survived all of this while preserving their adolescent soul. People think they're naive, or vulnerable. No, they are the fittest, because they know of their vulnerability, so they're probably more ready to deal with adversity, or even just life's little twists and turns, and adapt with finally less damage, and a more constructive attitude.
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