In Search of the Balanced Adult | Steve Beckow

In Search of the Balanced Adult

March 13, 2020
by Steve Beckow



My work with the three consciousness states (parent, adult, child) is bringing one insight after another.

I see that my parent and child, locked in conflict, have created all the rubble and guilt that I carry around with me.

And they … OK, I … create more rubble and guilt every new day.

Only now the pain from perpetrating as a parent or child is nearly unbearable. And it’s instantaneous. This declining ability to stand my own vasanas is what propels me in my search of the balanced adult, if I may coin a phrase.

I have to keep reminding myself: I know that the human being is pure and innocent in their original, created state (the soul, Christ, Atman). The balanced adult is a reflection of the pure and innocent Self. Why is it hard for me to imagine?

The critical parent and wounded child are not facets of the pure and innocent Self. They are misconstructions of the human mind. They can go. And the fact that they do go reveals them as not eternal and thus not of the Self.

After World War III between the critical parent and wounded child has ended, what is left standing is the balanced adult.

And WWIII doesn’t even have to end. I just have to step outside it and observe it. Change the channel. Turn off the inner TV. Fake news.

The real news is with the balanced adult.

Source: Golden Age of Gaia