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Post by fortharris on Jan 15, 2020 8:31:27 GMT
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Post by Invisibilis on Jan 30, 2020 20:51:03 GMT
The mind of a child, usually before 2 years old when ego starts to manifest, is (in-no-sense) of the world it walks through.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 30, 2020 21:17:44 GMT
The mind of a child, usually before 2 years old when ego starts to manifest, is (in-no-sense) of the world it walks through. Why do you think the ego is set to kick in before age 2? Why not later?
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Post by Invisibilis on Jan 31, 2020 0:01:28 GMT
I meant to say not before 2 years of age. Will try and edit this in after this post.
Why the 2 year mark. It is about this time where a child discovers their own story about their life. They start using the words "I, me, my, mine, and you, yours, (etc). In the first two years the mind was trying to make sense of the bodily senses of taste, sight, sounds, smell, and touch. The brain was still developing and so was the mind. Then around the second year the mind realizes it cannot sense itself. The reason is that even though the brain is full of neurons, there are none for its brain. Side-note: brain surgery often requires feedback from the conscious patient. The patient does not feel the probing, but experiences the outcome, or changes, of mind/sensing.
So, the mind can make sense of other sensors, but not of itself. So, to compensate, it starts using memories of what the body and mind has imagined, achieved, etc., to make an identity story for itself, hence the so-called Ego. However, the mind knows that the story is invalid, but denies that, so it won't feel that it might lose its mind if admitting its own truth. The Ego fears its own truth of invalidity, and to compensate, it continues to claim whatever it can for itself as being valid: "look at me", "I know . . .", "I have . . . " etc. It's quite self-centered. Because it fears its own truth, it also becomes suspicious of other truths, especially if that truth may eventually point to itself as invalid. It fears exposure and vulnerability, and sometimes will defend its own fabricated validity to death, even murder and/or suicide,so not to be 'found out'. It can be scary to think that, in our denial, we have never been true to our self, or to others _ many have spent a whole lifetime for nothing real.
The world we walk through is full of people in denial of their own truth. They are always seeking, wanting, and needing something to feel real again, like when they were a child, but have denied/ignored what that was like. The funny thing about denial, or ignorance, is that we have to know what we are about to deny, or ignore, before we deny or ignore it. In other words, we all know what the truth is when we hear it. I often hear someone say, when they hear the truth, supposedly for the first time: "I always knew that".
The child, before two years of age is usually innocent, because it has not tried to change what is, though they may have trouble accepting it.
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Post by Invisibilis on Jan 31, 2020 0:03:29 GMT
The mind of a child, usually before 2 years old when ego starts to manifest, is (in-no-sense) of the world it walks through. Wish to edit this to read:
The mind of a child, usually not before 2 years old when ego starts to manifest, is (in-no-sense) of the world it walks through.
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