The Forgotten Child
2 December 2023· 4 min read· 3 min reflection

The Forgotten Child

I've been going through a lot of healing in myself. I wonder if it shows. People often reflect back to me that they think I hide behind the notion of doing inner work too much. Yet to me Inner Work is the most important thing there is as it is essentially all of our Salvation. Frame it as you will.

You see childhood is a Rites of Passage. Sadly as a result of an abundance of unconscious blind spots in the collective consciousness the child is forced to abandon his quest of Sovereignty and Soul Embodiment to subscribe to what can only be described as a collective psychosis. Some indigenous tribes call this collective psychosis 'Wetiko'. The child is subject to unhealthy conditioning from birth. The main deciding catalyst factors being parents, schools, his neighbourhood etc. He doesn't have the chance to anchor in a sense for his soul and his purpose in this life before he is broken in by external forces and his mind becomes infiltrated with tainted knowledge which becomes detrimental. He starts to form his ego in accordance to the infiltrated culture. His sense of self is but a set of ideals and memories often containing trauma which weaves into a story he tells himself about himself. He thinks his past defines his self worth and his future. He thinks self is beheld within conceptual frame working. Yet Self with a capital S is an innate embodied presence dreamed into being fulfilled through Your willpower.

Every single human being carries this conditioning. Isn't that a sobering thought? We are taught to look outside of ourselves and to seek comfort in consumerism. It's blind leading the blind. We are indeed living in the Age of Ignorance.

We all carry so much pain within for the lost and forgotten chapters of childhood adventures, trials, tribulations, and initiations we never got to journey through. Our collective Inner Child left dwindling in time and space like a corrupted snapshot of the soul dislodged into a despairing timeless void, guarded by the tyrant of unconscious fear based programs. The exile lands. The shadow. Centralised culture has stripped us of any conscious ritualised Rites of Passage. Some seek this Rites of Passage through the teachings of the Indigenous, and through shamanic practices and Medicine Ceremonies such as Ayahuasca or Iboga. We have become victims of the mask.

However many people are just numb to their feelings and fully dive into and identify with their Matrix identity resulting in a stress so unfathomable and a weariness so unconceivable. They lack hope and see no other way. Some people get addicted to drugs and alcohol, and they live a half life where they can only experience refuge when high or drunk, sometimes overdosing and dying. Some seek salvation through their romantic relationships, the cradle of the next generations to come. The unresolved karma only to be passed on to the baby. Some people just break down as the internal inclosing walls become too much for their fragile minds to cope with resulting in suicide.

We all develop coping mechanisms through our childhoods which were developed from a place of desperation, survivalism and trauma. But they can only last for so long. Plus why would they need to exist any longer than necessary. The shimmering inevitability within is stronger than any attachment mechanism. The Universe wants us to shine so bright for all the World to see. Lights activating lights. A mycelium network of lightworkers uniting. This is why we were incarnated into these times. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Our collective frequency is increasing as we move through this ascension pathway. It will continue to bring up many traumas, pains, traumatic memories, angers, and sorrows to be witnessed, honoured, and then purged. What is left at the end of the storm as the seas start to calm and the heavenly skies start to crack open is yet another aspect of your soul shining like a star in the glittery night sky, once covered up by psychosis, now ready to be integrated back into your heart centred wholeness, embodied.

We are all survivalists of mass psychotic indoctrination and we're all walking around with crutches. But similarly as with a broken leg, once it is healed, we do not need the crutches anymore. Slowly and gently letting go of our coping mechanisms, like stretching for the first time after awakening from the long, long night of womb like hibernation as our souls awaken and rise together, purging out the Matrix one heart beat at a time.

So "sit with your pain, cradle it close, lean in and listen, take it slow, and when you're ready let it go." - Fia

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