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As we advance along our Spiritual path, through our physical incarnations, we carry within us and demonstrate all the major developmental stages that we have passed thus far, both individually and collectively as part of the group consciousness.

Within every one of us, is the entire map of our growth through consciousness through the ages and this is re-enacted emotionally and behaviourally over and over during our physical development from infancy and childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Some things are just "inbuilt" and instinctual and an example of this is the stage in male children where their play activities revolve around weapons and mock battles to the death wherein sticks or anything else available will be used to represent a weapon. Battles can be anything from a one on one confrontation to a heirarchical "war" and this is a healthy expression of a normal stage of development, basically recapping the evolution of physical courage in the human race and occuring in male children particularly, regardless of their upbringing or other environmental factors.

Even the most peace loving adult males pass through this natural stage of childhood, but not every person matures into someone capable of expressing humanities highest attainments. That capacity depends on several factors including the individuals own stage of conscious evolution attained through their completed lifetimes, the strengths and limitations of the present physical, astral/emotional and mental bodies; and determining factors of the chosen present life environment including the individuals family, the overall social group and the general population. Each of these factors will either encourage or inhibit the complete expression of what the individual has achieved at a soul level and this will in turn shape further development.

Every incarnation presents greater or lesser degrees of challenge, all of which serve to transform our spirits constantly. Low impulse control, lack of judgement and capacity for reckless violence may be attributed to a chaotic childhood, however in many of these cases, it is likely that the soul of that person is at an early point on the outward path away from the Universal Consciousness and as such is as a toddler; not knowing any better in relation to how they should behave in any given situation, instead having to learn by experiencing the "wrong" way and being guided towards what is right via punishment for wrong doings or being mentored by someone who has already

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