Interestingly, psychology tells us that a person's basic personality is solidified at about the age of 5.

Our entire modern world is set up to school people in the science of being followers. We sit at desks for most of our young life, learning things that hopefully will help us when we are adults. We learn how to stand in lines and keep schedules. Which is not to say that those things are not important; they are. But schools do not help us with spiritual matters. They can't, at least not in the United States. Such efforts would be branded as a violation of the separation between church and state.

When we learn the things we are supposed to know as adults, we are being taught things that are distinctly "left-brain." Things like reading, writing, and arithmetic; things that require logical analysis and logical thinking. When we go out into the working world, we use primarily analytical capabilities unless we are in a creative profession. This puts us at odds with spiritual matters, which are primarily creative in nature.

Those of us that become very good at our profession understand that the creativity that flows from our minds is what makes us highly productive. Therefore we seek out those techniques and conditions that facilitate this creativity. Yet we still rely primarily on the manipulation of visible symbols and physical things to get our work done.

In short, we no longer have a palpable spiritual connection because we have forgotten how to connect.

Which is not to say that we are not spiritually connected. We are always connected to source energy. It's how we accomplish. But sometimes that connection can get "dirty," because we focus on things that are not spiritually affirming.

Unfortunately after the age of five we let our environment,and the people in it, influence us to an extent that they get to determine where we go and what we do in life. As young children we are totally dependent on our parents, as we grow through each stage of life we learn to become independent. However depending on how conscious the adults in our life are, we sometimes can get stuck in a certain stage of development because we have been traumatized in some way and cannot move on to the next stage. As little kids we are naturally open and trusting to all that is and only when this trust has been violated in some way, either by a traumatic event or continual degrading (because the adults in our life don't know any better), do we close ourselves off and feel we have lost that connection to the Whole and are here battling it alone.

Young children are still connected more spiritually to their Home.. that is why they have 'invisible' friends and see things others do not see. They are not fully disconnected from what came before.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

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The first six years of a child's life, their brain waves are lower and more receptive to learning and downloading information from their environment. Part of their environment is unseen with our eyes, unheard with our ears, unidentified with our awareness, but still there. Children are still connected to all that is, where they recently came from. The higher our brain wave frequency, the less connected we would become.

young children live in an almost entirely emotional world and their logical possibilities

are not yet fully developed . they spend a lot of time happily playing imaginary games ...

this is what being spiritually connected is all about .

our physical bodies need oxygen , proteins , vitamins etc . our spiritual bodies thrive on

thoughts , ideas , emotions , dreams , imagination ...

My memory of my early years goes back further than most people. I can only share what I remember from that time as evidence that young children are, indeed, closely connected to the "heaven" from which they came...

When I was very small, I left my body at will and flew around, going through walls and ceilings, and thoroughly enjoying myself. I did this just before I awoke in the morning, and I distinctly remember when the angels told me that I was getting too old for such "flights"...I remember feeling very upset, and as much as I tried, could not leave my body after that point.

I then turned to "Playing church", and quickly grasped reading music at about age six...I used a Lutheran Hymnal as my "Ministerial Liturgy" and sang from it every Sunday we did not attend church. There was no time when God did not exist for me...I remember my concept of Jesus was very strong and personal. I had no doubts at all about spiritual matters, and angels were a regular part of my life.

I do not think that I was anything special at all...I just think that I hung onto something that most children disregard at a younger age than I did.

Blessings, (and now you know why I say this...),Jai

well they have just arrive in this world. so they did not get programmed yet to be like every one else and to believe in what every one else believes and to fit in society. and have people tell them stop telling lie or its is all in your mind it does not exist. so they experiance and enjoy.

maybe because they ARE,they see nature around them as it is,
without preconcieved expectations,
taking in every new percieved stimuli,
and they seem to show an insatiable appetite to gain knowledge