Self-determination

I read once that so much of our Earthly existence is shaped by wanting to return to the womb (The One). Prior to birth, we are in a state of bliss still freshly incarnated.

Then, we experience the trauma of birth. Our immediate reaction is to do whatever it takes to get back to the Oneness. But being a powerless infant, we engage in strategies to achieve some form of comfort (e.g., Complain, Demand, Please, Obey. Morph, or Blame).

These strategies are ultimately just tactics for soliciting external assistance for short term relief. Until we learn that we can comfort ourselves, we are trapped in counter-productive patterns of behavior. Every parent remembers the first night the new baby figures out she can put the pacifier back in her own mouth. What a break through! Soon the child begins to actively participate in achieving her own balance.

Taken to it's limit, the child grows into a grown woman who takes full responsibility for her being and expands her experience beyond the 3D duality into which she was born. Her return is her own. Perfect and complete.

I believe this is where we are as a species. Some of us are still crying about being separated from Oneness. Some of us are still caught up in short term strategies for collecting comfort from external sources. Others have figured out that they are The One and experiencing their Oneness is the only thing they need to do. Most of us are somewhere in between.

I know I am.