
Journey into Consciousness with the Insights of The Little PrinceWhen we have grown up in an unconscious state, so that we haven't really been present in our life, it can feel strange to awaken.Consciousness is our most natural state, inherent in us as a species. But when we have spent most of our lifetime in a learned unconscious state, it can even feel like we are going astray when we start to pursue a conscious path.Unaccustomed to being present in our life as we are, to begin to awaken initially feels alien.If presence asks us to pursue a particular path that's not how we usually do things, we are likely to balk.We may get a "gut feeling" that we are doing the wrong thing. Or we see what we interpret as a "red flag." Then we turn away from the path of presence, imagining it to be the wrong path for us.When the pilot in the story of the Little Prince was a young boy, he was initially present-as children generally are unless there's something to cause them not to be, such as trauma in the womb, during birth, or in the early period of their childhood.By age six, the
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