Innocence, in our
society, has a depreciatory connotation. An innocent is,
according to conventional wisdom, harmless, naïve, and a
sitting duck for criminals and con artists.
What is innocence? It is a
feeling of well being and trust that all will be well. An
innocent person is often thought to be lacking knowledge,
and therefore vulnerable. As children we are taught very
quickly to abandon the innocent trust in ourselves and
others, and to “wake up and smell the coffee,” or to “give
up your fantasies and pay attention to reality.” Innocence,
however, has nothing to do with data or knowledge, as we
shall see.
One of the (many) inverted
beliefs that exist on our planet is that an innocent can be
taken advantage of. This idea is often beaten into the heads
of children by parents concerned for the child’s welfare. We
are taught, for example, never to trust strangers and to be
suspicious of anyone who offers us something for nothing.
There are many variations on this theme, all of which can
lead the child, in his innocence, to believe he or she is
powerless. Like many memes floating around in the mass
consciousness, however, this idea is an inversion of a more
fundamental truth.
ANY belief will establish a
vibrational orientation, and begin to channel experiences
congruent to it. Therefore, children (or anyone) who are
encouraged to be on the lookout for danger automatically
begin to resonate to the very thing that is feared.
“Protection from (fill in the blank)” is therefore
wrong–headed.
Innocence is a feeling of
well–being and trust that all is well. Such a feeling can
NEVER lead to harm. Only when that feeling is corrupted by
the fear of danger can it lead to harmful experiences.
Children are dependent on
parents to provide the necessities of life. This has been
twisted to mean that a child is weak and vulnerable. Nothing
is further from the truth. A positive emotion or feeling
will always lead to a positive experience. This statement is
firmly supported by the law of vibration and the law of
attraction. A child has a small body, not a small spirit! A
soul’s power cannot be measured by the dimensions of its
physical container, because a soul is inherently
non–physical in nature. However, a child can be convinced
that he or she is powerless because of his or her innocence.
When the child assumes this belief, however, he or she
automatically begins to attract situations and people that
place him or her in the role of a victim. The playground
bully that ignored the child, for example, may now begin to
torment him.
The idea that innocence leads
to victimhood is the most insidious belief an adult can give
to a child. It automatically sets the child up for
vulnerability. The child then makes the following
computation: innocence = weakness. The child then learns to
distrust his own guidance system and look to others for that
guidance. In such a society, it is easy to establish
hierarchical and dictatorial political and economic systems.
The United States is going down that road today (2005).
Dependence does not mean
weakness! Dependence just means you need assistance. The
desire to help someone is one of the most divine impulses a
being can have, and common to all life. It is based on the
feeling of love for ourselves and our fellow human beings.
The ability to accept help and assistance is an
assumption of power, not an admission of weakness or
vulnerability. It is acknowledgement of the humanity, the
divinity, in each one of us! Physical dependence, then, is
not the senior factor placing children in harm’s way. A
child’s natural vibrational orientation of well–being is
his or her greatest asset. Only when adults corrupt children
with their own anxieties, fears, and prejudices can children
begin to doubt themselves.
We know from the law of
vibration and the law of attraction that a belief in X sets
up a vibration which then attracts X to us. A belief is
simply a set of choices about something. Those choices are
always self assumed. No one can force a belief on someone
else, because no one else can choose for you. All conscious
beings are sovereign in their own experience. The nature of
physical incarnation sets up a feeling of separateness, but
it also guarantees individual power of choice. That power of
choice is the greatest gift we have, for it guarantees that
we are our own power source. It guarantees us complete
control over the vibrational signal we send out to the
universe, and the kind of people and situations we
experience. In other words, our separateness only enhances
our power! Each of us is a self–contained, vibrational
powerhouse. This powerhouse is driven by an engine, which is
the set of all of our choices and preferences. In other
words, our beliefs determine precisely the content of our
experiences.
A child comes into the world
understanding this. The body of the child is weak and
dependent, but not the soul! That soul understands its
power, understands that it is, essentially a self contained
cocoon of powerful life force energy. The physical
experience is designed around the idea that the power of
thought is absolute. Consciousness knows that it is
cause–point, always. Consciousness designed the universe in
order to experience in it. Those experiences, however, are
always under your control! There is never a time when you do
not have the power of choice, therefore, there is a never a
time when you are powerless, never a time when the universe
is not responding to your choices and preferences.
The above arguments seem
nonsensical to those poor souls who believe that
consciousness comes forth from physical matter. For these, a
child is just a helpless blob of mud. In this inverted
conception, children are idiots who must be controlled and
directed into “proper” ways of behavior. Well, just look at
the history of this planet for the past 5,000 years. It is
one of scarcity, powerlessness for the masses, hatred and
fear. That’s what happens when we don’t learn from our
children. Every child born is an ambassador from Native
State (the spiritual realm) here to remind us of who we
really are. But we do not listen. We continue to promote the
same nutty ideas, generation after generation. Maybe one day
we’ll wake up!
Innocence = naivete =
vulnerability = victimhood. That’s the computation that
strips away your power and causes so many to believe in
their own weakness. Let’s restate this correctly:
Innocence = a pure vibration
of love and trust, and complete knowledge of well being.
Innocence = power, and a pure connection to source energy.
An innocent person can only go astray when he or she comes
off the belief in himself or herself, when he or she begins
to believe that the feeling of well–being is only temporary
(“you have to take the bad with the good”, etc.).
A denial of innocence is a
denial of consciousness itself, a denial of your true
nature. Look into the eyes of a baby and see the purity and
power of the soul. As adults, many of us wish we could feel
as we did when we were children. Why is that? Because the
innocence of the child is the connection to the power or
source, the energy of consciousness, the creative principle
that designed and maintains the universe!
Only through conscious
decision making can a person use the power of his or her own
being to aid in his or her destruction. Evil has no power. A
proper definition of evil might be: getting someone to
believe in the idea of his or her disempowerment. You cannot
be disempowered by another. That is simply an impossibility,
for your own choices always determine your experiences. You
can only disempower yourself through a belief that you can!
In the immortal words of Mike Ditka, former coach of the
Superbowl champion Chicago Bears: “If you don’t think you
can win the Superbowl, you can’t win it.”
We have been taught, on
planet earth, that innocence = vulnerability when in fact
innocence is the ideal condition for existence. Innocence
implies a complete trust in self and others. This complete
trust will always lead to a positive outcome, as long
as you believe it will. Innocence is a complete
understanding of self. We are taught that innocence is
harmful because innocence also means a lack of knowledge.
Innocence is therefore associated with ignorance. Ignorance
is associated with stupidity and harmful outcomes. But
knowledge is very different from wisdom. Wisdom is an
inherent understanding of the spiritual and eternal nature
of your being. It is the ultimate source of power. Knowledge
is data. Data is obtained from observation; usually,
observation of the activities of others. A head stuffed full
of data does not guarantee successful outcomes. Looking to
what others have done does not breed character and personal
integrity.
All data (things) comes forth
from the decisions of conscious beings. Your house, the
chair you are sitting in, all of these things were fashioned
through the choices of conscious beings. Anything that can
be perceived is truth. Something that exists is true! It is
true because it exists. Therefore, truth = that which
exists. Truth can be self created (when you make something
yourself) or created by another. To an individual conscious
personality, 99% of the ‘truth’ is observation of the
creation of others. This leads to the false idea that
individual beings are powerless. We are simply not taught
that we have the power to create our world in any way we see
fit. We have taken the creative power of choice and turned
it on its head. We have taken the creative energy of source,
the energy that created and sustains the universe, and
called it a source of weakness and vulnerability! We have
called black white, and good a source of evil. Such is the
power of choice. As the brilliant lecturer Esther Hicks
says, we are all so powerful that we can choose slavery. And
on earth, that is precisely what many of us have chosen.
Most of us are taught, almost
since our first breath, that we are vulnerable and weak and
dependent and that that is a very bad thing. We are taught
that struggle is inevitable, that toughness and the ability
to fight our way through is not only admirable, but also
‘just the way it is.’ This insidious inversion of the truth
is guaranteed to create self–limiting beliefs that confirm
our own vulnerability!
Of course a child is
dependent. Of course knowledge is necessary to create and
build in the physical universe. But the platform for
accomplishing a successful life must rest on the foundation
of belief in self. The creative process itself begins with
innocence (and therefore ignorance), because the created
thing only exists within the mind. To then say that
innocence is a bad thing is to stop the creative process
before it can even get started.
A human being is born utterly
helpless, and weak. This is by design! The human experience
is almost guaranteed to get us believing in our own
vulnerability. The joy of the human experience is
discovering the power source within you, despite all reasons
not to. The contrast and variety of our world invites us to
look inward and discover the joy and love of self. When one
makes that connection to self, one not only discovers one’s
true nature, but one’s connection to others, and the oneness
of all life. And when you discover that, you can do
anything.
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*Inspired by
“Whoops! We Got it Backwards” by William Fechter, PhD.
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