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%DESIRE FOR SECURE CONTEXT CHILDHOOD HOME+790728
%SANCTUARY LOVE PARENT GOD MEMORIES 790728
As adults we may often yearn for the simplicity and
the security of our childhood home as a sanctuary from the
ambiguities and threats of life. We may seek the
affirmation which we knew as infants and rarely know as
adults. Perhaps we project our memories upon the universe
as visions of the ultimate nature of reality---and so work
to realize our childhood experiences in our adult
universe. The love we knew as infants may become our
adult ideal in non-cognitive ways which we can not
capture in verbal statements. Yet, such a memorable
vision may motivate our whole life, and be the basis for
its integrity. There is no objective way to decide how
real may be the vision. Its reality may be in our
realization, rather than in any being independent of us.
As adults we need to have that which we can trust and
in which we may feel secure. We need a safe context, even
as do infants. Our competitive world does not excel in
providing contexts which are fail-safe. It is difficult
to imagine new ways because competition promotes conformal
behavior, rather than divergent behavior. Because we are
contestants in earnest adult "games", we find it difficult
to imagine new ways of living which would provide the
sanctuaries for imagination, creativity, initiatives---
communication freedoms. We become perverted and turn even
love into a competitive game with winners and losers. All
the while we are trying to regain the sense of wholeness
and security which we dimly remember from our infancy, and
lost through the socialization process of our competitive
culture.
Our visions of heaven may be rooted in the security
of our infancy. Yet, they may also be expressions of
learned systematic notions about ideal living. We may mix
our ideals and our fond memories and create a harsh vision
of heaven, which lacks integrity. It is difficult for us
to sort out the sources of our visions, and difficult to
know which visions merit realization. This is a domain in
which traditional objective analysis and prediction is
impotent. Only transcendent insight and love can point
the way to recover that which can make us whole.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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