Infinite Infant
by Charles D.J. Deppner
2001 Inner-Space Odysseys
Children are resilient. They’re built to survive. The term “bouncing baby” is more than a myth. The bodies of small children freeze entirely at a faster rate, thus increasing their chances of resuscitation. And only the resilience of a child can still manage to love a parent even when they’ve been abused physically, verbally, and/or otherwise.
A child’s survival instincts grant them an ability to see the world with an enviable purity. It is only as adults that we are plagued with indecision,inhibition, guilt, politics, and a foreboding sense of mortality. The irony being that it is when our bodies are most vulnerable that our thoughts are most pure, and once our bodies acquire a sense of coordination and control,it’s our minds which become bogged down in clutter.
It is certainly no wonder so many religious beliefs center around the rite of being “reborn,” granting the true believer with the ability to reformat their capacity to see things in a simplistic, binary, and childlike (vs. childish) manner: right and wrong, good and evil, fair and unfair. (This can even be translated in a new agist direction with beliefs in offworldly, small, rotund-headed aliens.)
People constantly seek out means to be “born again” and regain the ability to rise above the chaos of their consciousness and see the world again anew.
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