Perpetual childhood 20.25

[Bring4th_Austin]

I concur with Nau7ik's interpretation. It's well to remember that polarization does not have to be a conscious project per se, but it does incur a kind of responsibility to use what you're learning at whatever level you're learning it. It is the refusal to accept the responsibility that attends the spiritual power inherent in polarization that causes the Creation to afford the entity that which they desire, i.e. comfort, sleep, and the random probing of distortions to elicit a bias that can be a vehicle for a polarizing process.

Refusal to accept responsibility is a hallmark of childhood; even literal children who accept responsibility strike us as old souls or beyond their age, while plenty of adults who ignore worldly responsibilities strike us as "immature". What we are recognizing is the decision to, as those of Ra put it, grasp the baton and begin the race. It may also be tied in with a need for security that polarization mitigates against to some extent.

Thinking about the idea of "a need for security" and this notion of spiritual childhood, my mind goes to those aspects of our inner lives that serve the role of an "upbringing" in society - sort of like abstract social parents. I hope this isn't too vague to put words to, but I'm thinking things like social institutions, social identities, belief systems, religion (or anti-religion), value and moral systems, etc. These are all essentially given to us by whatever environment we are born into, similar to our parents themselves. And they serve a similar role as parents by giving us boundaries, teaching us how to relate to others, establishing a groove within our social world so that we have some interface that allows us to join society.

These things offer us a sort of protection like our parents do, though similar to our parents, our relationship with them is not always healthy. But it can be comfortable, and so it may feel better to stay within the confines of those things despite their effects on us.

In my perspective, growing beyond these social structures is the crux of spiritual development in third density. That's not to say that they are innately bad, but just like with our parents it is healthy to grow beyond them at a certain point, to claim our independence. I think this might be where many people are stuck in a sort of "spiritual childhood." We may have grown beyond our literal parents, but we've yet to grow beyond these abstract social parents. We can cling to them as a child clings to its mother's skirt. I think the spark of spiritual seeking in our environment typically begins with an event that cracks this social programming and allows us to distinguish between ourselves and our social world, offering us space to "grow up," as it were.

Maybe what Ra is talking about when they say "learned/taught themselves the appropriate distortions for rapid growth" is an ability to withstand the type of strong blow it takes to crack the social programming, whereas in a longer and slower lifetime these things can be worked out with less turbulence and more quiet contemplation.

All speculation, interesting to think about though.