I was a child. I didn’t know you could go beyond the first level of self-awareness. I was an only child. I didn’t have a mother. I didn’t have a father. I didn’t have siblings. I had no one to talk to. I had no friends. I had no one to speak to. I had no ideas of my own.
In one way, it’s almost like any one of these children has experienced something traumatic. A huge part of their lives is spent avoiding self-awareness. But in another way it’s like we’re all born with an innate ability to self-awareness. It’s in our DNA; it’s in our nature. As a result, it just takes some practice so we can break out of the programming.