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The Sacred Self
Created in God's Image?
Avoiding our sacred nature by having children
An opportunity in remaining childless
The sacred self
At the core of every human is a true and sacred self. No matter what traumas
we have endured during our childhood, even during our troubled days in the womb,
or collectively from our violent ancestral history, our core remains inviolate, sacred,
and pure.
At our conception, we are immaculate.
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We are all made in the image of God -- our origin is perfect. No matter what
subsequent traumas we endure, our core remains connected to truth.
Yet, until we differentiate from our parents and their limits and live out of our
sacred selves, the statement “made in the image of God” remains an empty platitude,
its meaning unknowable. Until we become our own person, and live consonant with
our true and sacred selves, we are not made in God’s image at all, but in the image
of our limited parents and their fears.
If we remain subject to the damning, fearful, and coercive parental introjects,
the negative voices of mother and father that were instilled in childhood and if
denied, continue to fester in our psyches, we are not made in the image of a
dynamic God, but in the image of our troubled parents, haunted and controlled
by their damning voices and distorted ancestral values. To embrace the truth that
we are made in God’s image, we must break from mother and father,
individuate, and become our own person, our true self.
When we belong to our sacred nature, we also belong to God and are made
in God’s image. Alignment with God fills us with the vitality of the life-force, and
the urge to evolve.
It’s cultural blasphemy to assert, but having children is the surest way
to avoid giving birth to the transcendent child within, our true selves, our sacred
nature and in Christian terms, the Christ.
As we watch young parents with their newborns hanging in packs off their
fronts, the image is telling -- the denied and emotionally traumatized inner-child
of these moms and dads, who they would not venture to meet within themselves,
is now externalized. A surrogate child carries the neglected hopes and dreams
of the wounded child that remains abandoned within these parents.
If we wish to remain unconscious, we will always find others to carry our
psychic baggage. And if we have children, they are the most likely candidates.
Our helpless children, living under our authority, will do our bidding to preserve our
love and care, even carry our psychic baggage, our unresolved issues from the
past. We readily, if unconsciously, thrust our baggage onto them. Secretly we
hope this vital, new life will rescue our own deadened life-force with its new-born
vitality. Unfortunately, we deaden our children, as we were deadened by our parents,
for we unconsciously transmit what was done to us and what remains
unresolved.
An opportunity in remaining childless
Anyone who remains childless has a golden opportunity not afforded the norm who
readily has children -- to address the child within, and heal this wounded little-one
into his or her full potential.
As we heal the wounds inflicted by our primary caregivers, our parents, instead of
passing them on to the next generation, our own inner-child can come to life. And the
spark of the divine that rests in his or her heart and soul can burn brightly.
As we remove the encrusted layers of trauma that encase the inner-child in
despair, the babe born into the world is the child of wonder -- the Christ child.
The Christ child is the best in all of us -- and the best in all of us, once born, will
redeem the world.