Childhood: The Ancient Ruins of The Human Psyche

A memoir from Corey…

I often during meditation find myself observing echos of my childhood and find myself marvelling at how different my perception was during this period of my life. For instance, childhood makes up such a small fraction of our human experience and existence, yet it feels so much more substantial to us in meaning.

We speak on how time seemingly speeds up over time as adults, yet as children we mostly perceived time to move along its course at a much slower rate. As adults we often suffer from a lack of creativity struggling to think laterally at the best of times. Children seem to instinctively and intuitively express creativity in every activity they engage in, not neglecting their imagination and with no requirement for logical or rational reasoning (at least from an adult perspective).

Whilst writing this, I even acknowledge my own challenge in trying to creatively articulate and illustrate my thoughts towards this topic. As a career engineer, my occupational journey started from a highly conscious young child full of imagination. I often tap into my (Child-Self) when I feel devoid of ideas and inspiration. As a human collective, we often attempt to tap in to our ancestry for the same purpose.

We observe the majesty of that which they have created and manifested, most of which modern science technology and engineering cannot replicate, yet the mainstream narrative of a linear conscious progressive human species, is still largely unquestioned and held as valid.

The crux of my expression here, is the correlation between how we perceive childhood and ancient civilisations. We assume that we are superior as adults compared to our infancy as humans, in the same way that today as a collective, we typically assume to be a superior society in comparison to our ancient ancestors.

When you next think about your childhood, ask yourself this question… “Can I still build pyramids? Or am I destined to only observe the ancient ruins of my psyche?”

Thank you for taking the time to marinade into a snippet of my mind.

With honour, always,

Corey

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