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gradually building up a faith in the ethereal things it has been seeing and
hearing. Now it is confronted with the enormous task of shattering the
world of psychic things to pieces, negating it, destroying it, and wiping it
out of the consciousness. It is just as though we, as adults, were called
upon to destroy or to deny and wipe out of our consciousness half of the
material world in which we have placed so much faith. When we, as
adults, come to study the psychic laws and learn the real laws of nature,
we do not have to eliminate from our consciousness many of the material
things in which we have placed our faith, but generally we merely have to
translate them into their proper terms without actually destroying them
altogether. The child mind, on the other hand, has to completely eliminate
and thereby destroy the psychic world, which has become so real to it.
When the child is old enough to play with many other children in the
streets or in the parks, he also receives many jolts through hearing other
children deny the existence of things in which he has placed his faith.
And when it comes time for him to go to school, he is again surrounded
on all sides by the acceptance of the materialistic world and the denial of
the psychic.
We know from our own experiences that as we deny the existence of
psychic impressions, and gradually discontinue our attunement with
psychic impressions, we lose the keen functioning of our psychic
faculties; they gradually become dormant until they cease to function
altogether. This is why we, as adults, have such a difficulty later in life in
reawakening these faculties and in developing a psychic attunement that
is equal to what we had as children.
Childhood Realities
Therefore, parents should begin with their young children to encourage
them in the seeing and hearing of psychic impressions. I know of
children who were placed in their little beds in a darkened room early in
their lives with the statement that they should have no fear of darkness or
of the nighttime, because there were not only guardian angels who
protected little children, but also other angels and other Cosmic beings
who would be visible to them at night as in the daytime. This was said to
some children after they had begun to express visions of some of these
psychic personalities.
I found that these children enjoyed lying in the dark for a while just before
going to sleep and allowing the Cosmic to fill the bedroom with colored
lights and beautiful visions. One of these children told me often how a
little fairy came and danced on the floor of her bedroom at night and
taught her how to dance; and, after a year of this, the little girl used to rise
from the bed at times, and imitate some of the dancing steps which the
little fairy demonstrated.
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What is commonly known as moral behavior is the human attempt to
pursue such a course of mental and physical conduct as will induce or
arouse feeling sympathetic to the realization had of the inner Self.
--Validivar
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