Finding The Inner Child Within You

Throughout the course of our lives we develop a lot of baggage from the various environments that we encounter. We come into this world as pure souls with a clean slate and as we grow we adopt various beliefs and idiosyncrasies from our culture, which eventually manifest as our personal identities. Whether it is race, class, occupation or belief structure, people identify with cultural labels and use those labels to build their personal model of reality. A child sees the natural world with a clearer perspective because their perception is not clouded with cultural conventions and other prejudices. This is why concepts like money, time and authority make no sense at all to children and rightfully so, these are all manmade cultural abstractions that really don’t make any sense if you actually think about it from a human perspective.

It is typical for authoritarian societies to condemn their youth because they have not yet been corrupted and molded into an obedient, mechanized citizen. If the youth of any oppressive nation were able to freely grow without being indoctrinated into the cultural control system, then the whole system would be radically changed within one single generation. The establishment knows that their stranglehold on the human race is unnatural, immoral and insane, which is why their ideals are always met with resistance by the youth culture. The ruling class knows that their only hope to maintain political dominance is to vilify their citizens until they have been indoctrinated into the system, or in other words until they “grow up”.

However, the human mind is resilient and many of us are able to slip into adulthood with minimal psychological corruption. This growing portion of society may not be popular, but they are very often the source of most of the positive progress that has taken place throughout history. Some of the greatest minds to have walked the earth have recognized that the idea of “growing up” and “fitting in” places people in invisible cultural prisons and corrupts their natural personal philosophies. One of the most brilliant thinkers of the last century, Albert Einstein was one of these people. He himself said that imagination is way more important than knowledge and that “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” [1]

He was well aware of the cultural games that were being played with people’s minds. When he was 16 years old, one of his schoolteachers told him that he would never amount to anything because of his rebellious, unorthodox attitude. So he did what any free thinking revolutionary would do, he dropped out of school and pursued his education on his own. He went on to become one of the greatest scientists ever, and maintained his rebellious attitude all throughout his entire life. Einstein was against war, elitism and any kind of authority whatsoever. If it was not for his incredible contributions to science he surely would have been considered insane or an enemy of the state by the establishment.

When someone makes it out of childhood without being corrupted they are usually called naive and told that their unorthodox point of view isn’t welcome in their society. Many creative and rebellious people who are in touch with their inner child typically receive such negative feedback from family and peers that they actually knowingly submit to a culture which makes no sense to them. This is exactly why you have to be a certain age in order to vote or run for political office. The system makes sure to give people enough time to submit to the established cultural model of reality before they are able to have any impact at all on the direction of the society.

There are many cases where we do have much to learn from our elders and it is true that skills which we depend upon for survival have been passed down through the generations. However, when it comes to a government setting cultural norms, there is always an ulterior motive when information is passed down. That motive is always the same, to maintain control of the population and to defend the power of the established institutions, so they endure the next generation. It is very important to learn and mature and it is possible to do so without “growing up” and limiting yourself with cultural prejudices. Being responsible, respectful and peaceful is what makes you a mature adult, it has nothing to do with fitting in to the established culture.

This was from my book Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance: https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Timeless-Renaissance-John-Vibes/dp/1518828612

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John Vibes is an author and researcher who organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference. He also has a publishing company where he offers a censorship free platform for both fiction and non-fiction writers. John just won a 3-year-long battle with cancer, and will be working to help others through his experience, if you wish to contribute to his medical bills consider subscribing to his podcast to support at https://www.patreon.com/johnvibes