The Inner Life of our Children and the Crisis of Imagination / by Maré Hieronimus

When I look at our world today and the terribly misguided ways in which children are being indoctrinated into a culture that is fundamentally devoid of imagination and meaning, I am filled with a deep sorrow for their beautiful and wild souls. There was much that was profoundly difficult about my own childhood, but I feel an immense gratitude for certain aspects of my early life, in which I was encouraged to grow imagination, connection to the inner worlds, personal experience, and intuition. This profound gift has allowed me to come into ever greater relationship to me own living soul, and the deeper feelings of purpose and calling which have directed my life.

Children today live in a constant state of overstimulation and ongoing poisoning on every single level, whether it be physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual. From the time of their birth they are poked, injected, prodded and cut. It has only been very recently, and in part through the incredible guidance of women’s health pioneer Dr Christian Northrup, that women were even encouraged to be with their newborn infants in those precious vital hours and weeks after birth.

Of course, Dr Northrup, like all independent thinkers who dare question the dogma of the day, has now been cast out of the inner sanctum of allopathic medicine for speaking against the propaganda we bear witness to. She no longer is in service to the functions of the system, and so they have attempted to entirely slander her name and person. This is the system which so many adhere to.

These children are often taken from their mothers arms, now masked, forced to sleep through the night prematurely, separated at the earliest of ages from their parents prematurely and given over to strangers prematurely, so that we as a culture of manic adults can move on with our meaningless lives. All this in the face of what is one of the most profound and important experiences of adulthood, the birth of ones own baby. We as parents bow far too easily to the ways of this world, without the slightest of questioning, so that we might fit into the insanity of this civilization, whose demands have become increasingly dangerous and wildly inhumane.

As soon as the child is old enough, a screen is shoved into their hand. This practice is completely normalized. These incredibly open, vulnerable and developing minds are now at the mercy of the quick fix and over-stimulation that is represented by the electronic device, which teaches them absolutely nothing, accept to live life through adrenaline. Immediately thrown into a culture of addiction, drowning themselves in dopamine hits, these beautiful children barely have a chance to know themselves.

There is no development into the expansion of the wild beauty and terrain of the deep imagination, whose very gateway is boredom.

When we are allowed to sit in the quiet discomfort of the unknown, it is our own being that rises up to meet us. It is the infinite expanse of our own spirit that we come to truly know through time, exploration and experience.

This beauty cannot be known in the world that our children are made to inhabit now.

They are forced to read prematurely, forced to follow orders prematurely, forced to fit in and obey, all prematurely. Many are now largely being taught on computers, by computers, and there are those who think this is magnificent. This is not a path into liberation, this is not a path into soul knowing, this is not a path into joy and the every growing mystery of life, this is a path directly into one’s own imprisonment. We are walking our children into the claws of the beast, and most remain blissfully unaware.

Yes, we stand by, and believe that this is good.

We stand by and do not dare question this obscene logic. And now, we have the audacity to place the weight of the world on their small shoulders because we are not strong enough to bear it ourselves, we are not strong enough to simply say no. We dare to tell them that they are responsible for the deaths of others if they do not obey, if they do not comply. We dare to rob them of their innocence and beauty and force them into a cold and lifeless room, and in this way, we insure their captivity. We insure that they live a life in which they never know their own sacred being.

This fear, this horror, this imprisonment will be with them forever. All because we don’t have the strength to simply love and protect them in the ways that they need now.

We make excuses for ourselves and say children are resilient.

No, children are vulnerable.

Children need the love and support of human hands.

Children need to know that they are safe.

Children need a song and the woods and friends to explore with.

Children need to run, to feel the expanse of the land, and to be allowed the secret beauty of their own unique visionary life.

This is how a soul is supported.

This is how the life of the soul grows.

This is how visionaries are born, this is how we step into our inner destinies.

But we have been conditioned.

We have been prepared to give our children over at the earliest of ages to a system that does not care for their true spiritual growth.

Too many are now entirely willing to allow the lives of their children to be sacrificed at the altar of this dark civilization.

And this is the most tragic part of all.

It is long past time for the mothers and the fathers to step forward and stand between the state and their precious little ones.

It is past time for us to feel into our own ancestral, genetic and cosmic memory, our very human inheritance, and to remember how to protect our young.

When this most natural, innate response is reawakened, there will be nothing that can stop us from creating a world which is worthy of their beauty, a world where they are encouraged to sing the song of the soul, and to listen to the spirit riding in on the wind.