Your experiences above has many positives to it but there are also many perspectives one can view them.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:16 amBut it's not up to you to judge or speak up about something that is not your direct experience. No one can know what goes on in the mind of another person, especially the mind of a child. I really don't believe that we can ever know the mind of another, and so to think we do is a grave error, because we are each and all a ''never to be repeated'' unique expression of infinity. Anyone who begs to differ is in my opinion coming from a closed shallow constricted limited mindset.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:18 am
You stated it was spontaneous thus it has to be accepted but I don't think a five years old has sufficient competence of critical thinking to handle such a question efficiently and thus it could go either way. Fortunately there is nothing seriously negative in your direction.
I was a naturally inquisitive and deep thinking child. Children are not what adults think or believe they are, they are in essence just mini adults. They can remind grown-ups a thing or two about things that they themselves have forgotten about, they can remind adults how to be blissfully peaceful and always in the moment. Really, most adults today are just children inside, I am one of them, the child within me has never left me, and never will.
That doesn't make me a weak person who cannot defend myself. I obviously had to learn some pretty tough skills on how to interact with the big ego people, but I never faltered or fainted. I was incredibly strong emotionally. Never did I shy away from growing my sense of belonging to the bigger picture rather than just accepting the lie that I was just this one isolated separate little ''me'' and the world out there was separate from 'me'
For some reason,something when awry as we moved out of the child stage of our lives..as we became more competitive and ego driven we kind of left the garden so to speak, but this didn't feel right for me, I didn't feel comfortable with this ego life, I wanted to return to the garden that was my natural home, from where I came from which was the child within me. I learnt to be my own mother and father, lover and best friend to myself. Yes, I learnt that only I was going to love me and stay with me, yes, I was definitely the one.
At home with the beloved.
For a child, other than what is given in the DNA/RNA, a child is almost a "blank state" "tabula rasa" to be filled in and a natural construction and attachment to a developing self-consciousness. It is during such a phase of life where a child can easily have a sense of detachment. Maybe [note maybe] you were more conscious of these process of that is going on to ask the question 'Who Am I".
Personally I have had various weird experiences re the 'self' when I was very young [not 5 but ?7-9] but was not driven to ask 'who am I.' Such experiences are significant and they are not easily erased from one's childhood memories. I believe these memories are what drove me into the spiritual [was never religious] path. However after extensive readings and research I have found answers [researched findings] that explain those specific experiences of re the 'self' within psychology and neurosciences. I was a bit disappointed in the beginning [ego] but further explorations convinced me they are all psychological activities.
DNA wise there is a fundamental generic state for ALL human beings. When one understand say the digestive system of a human being, we can predict the core principles [not forms] are the same for all humans even babies.
We have learned almost everything there is to know about the digestive system but relatively very 'little' about the brain.
I believe whatever mystery of altered state of consciousness humans has proclaimed from their brain/mind can be explained via the processes in the brain in time when we know more of the workings of the brain as I had discovered the truth of what I thought was weird and strange.
My point is, we have to be very open there are verifiable evidences to what [no matter how strange and mysterious] we believe rather than hastily conclude based on own limited knowledge and the limited knowledge from the database of the collective [Science for e.g.].
Thus what I have been countering is those who claimed [concluded] there is a God need to suspend their 100% certainty God exists absolutely as an Absolute, Oneness, etc.