Often in development to maturation we surrender our innocence believing that it’s necessary in order to gain life experience. We turn away from our little one, the innocent of us.

We prioritize life’s experience that tells us we need to stay low, under the radar. If we stay low enough maybe we won’t appear on the screen of life. We hope the universe won’t see us.

Partially believing this might protect us - that we won’t get hurt anymore, maybe we’ll have immunity. We won’t feel grief or make mistakes. When things confront us, scare us and shake our fragile identity we just toss into the shadow. Eventually, we get so good at it, we aren’t even aware of doing it. The subconscious takes over. As soon as fear comes up, it disappears into the unconscious. This is mainly a survival strategy - one that is modelled very well in contemporary western culture.