we pass through 5 stages as we incarnate on earth - Infant, Baby, Young,
Mature and Old. By having a deeper understanding of the stage we are in,
we can focus more on what it is we are here to do i.e., our Life Purpose,
and gain a deeper understanding of what might drive some of our actions
and beliefs. There is also a doctrine which holds that, within the 5 stages of
soul evolution, there are 35 steps (7 per stage) in the reincarnation
process.
In Part 2, we discussed the first of these five stages, the Infant Stage, and
saw that during this stage we focus on issues of survival such as shelter,
life and death, learning how to control impulses. Infant Souls often live on
the fringes of society. They tend to react violently to perceived threats and
lash out physically and may even be deemed to be psychopathic or have
some sort of developmental disorder. They are naïve and impulsive, acting
on impulse or habit with little or no thought for consequences. Because
they lack both social understanding and self-inhibition, they are capable of
committing antisocial or immoral acts without any sense of wrongdoing.
Here in Part 3, I’d like to examine the second of these five stages, the
Baby Stage. Think black and white here! Wrong is wrong; right is right;
and, “never the twain shall meet”! After the helter-skelter, wild, wild, West,
no holds barred experiences of the Infant Stage, where we are so free with
our actions and have no understanding of right and wrong, we then leap to
the other extreme in the Baby Stage.
Here we might become the proverbial “stuffed shirt”, focused on
conservative views and tradition. We find ourselves obsessed with
structure and order, as well as safety and security. It's almost as if we’re
trying to make up for what may have gone down in the Infant Stage (where
our focus was more on trying to feel safer) with behaviour and a rigid belief
system based on a specific code of ethics and morals (as they perceive
them to be) whether this is a religious code or a legal code.
Both their beliefs and their actions are largely rule-bound, so they are often
ultra-conservative, traditionalist, orthodox, upright, moralistic,
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