Return to Innocence: The Deprogramming Starts Here

When we are young, life is a never-ending adventure. We take risks, throwing caution to the wind, as we seek fun in every experience. As we grow up and assume our adult personas, we tend to be more cynical and “practical,” constantly worrying about the future (which we cannot control), perseverating on the past (which we cannot change, hold onto or recreate.)

As children, we lived each moment, in the moment, always in the present. We looked at the world with eyes wide open with wonder… opportunity revealed itself in every experience as we explored and discovered our environment, our bodies, nature, creatures, objects. We embraced adventure and stimulation in our frivolous pursuit of fun.

We were precocious, idealistic, naiive, trusting, fearless, innocent, unconditioned… however, over time each of us lost these child-like qualities in one way or another, at one time or another, through our experiences and social conditioning.

Born into this world with a clean slate, devoid of precognitions and prejudices, each of us gradually developed a personality and habits as each assimilated experience was etched into the once blank slate with perceptual data in the form of mental and emotional memories.

These imprinted mental and emotional schemas were received into our malleable young minds, while the data was encoded and embedded in our subconscious, a process facilitated through social programming and systematic indoctrination of ideas. After years of…