what are the ways in which we avoid catalyst?

[BrownEye]

I've been avoiding catalyst successfully since I began working from home a long time ago, and became a cave-dwelling recluse.

I did some pretty stupid crap when I was younger. Noticed that there was a power keeping me out of harms way. Eventually I sobered enough to take life seriously. If this did not happen I assume I would have eventually been allowed to experience the consequences of my own idiocy.

I've seen this in a different light lately. The general perception is that young people are reckless because they aren't wise enough to know they are mortal. (This is supported by the fact that the frontal lobe isn't fully developed until a person is into their twenties, and sometimes not until the late twenties.)

However, I think it may be just the opposite. That young people have the innate sense of immortality, and through conditioning discard this knowing for the "safer" belief in mortality.

Any comments on this theory?

Possible. For me there may have been an unconscious knowledge that nothing could harm me. While we can choose to harm ourselves, it does not appear that we can end our incarnations out of free will. If the lessons can still be learned with an amount of damage or suffering, then we are allowed to cause our own suffering. I am finding that for some the body itself needs to be kept fully viable and so is not allowed to be permanently damaged.