Consciousness Equates with Naturalness - The Little Prince Series
Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
by David Robert Ord
Namaste Publishing.com
Showing his drawing of the boa constrictor digesting an elephant whole to adults, the little boy of six asked if the picture frightened them.
Their response was to ask why anyone would be frightened by a drawing of a hat.
The grownups couldn’t understand the little boy’s picture of the boa constrictor because they were all victims of the boa constrictor.
That’s the problem with unconscious behavior. We do things that are utterly unenlightened, and yet we have no real sense we are acting in ways that are contrary to our authentic self.
Unconscious living— conformed, constricted living—is contrary to the natural flow of our being. Yet because we got squeezed into it at a very young age—the little boy in the story is only six years old—it’s all we know.
Jesus said a strange thing to a group of adults who were trying to keep the children out of his way. He said they should allow the children to flock around him because “of such is the kingdom of heaven."
Children in their uncontrived naturalness show us what it’s like to participate in divine consciousness.
Society asks us to alter ourselves in all kinds of ways to fit in with its needs. Most forms of spirituality also ask us to alter ourselves, mimicking the conformity and constriction symbolized by the boa constrictor.
Could it be that so much of what we think of as being on a spiritual journey is actually just a copy of the way society molds us into someone inauthentic?
Jesus certainly thought so. We know this because he said that unless adults “convert and become like a little child," they won’t experience the kingdom of God.
How interesting that the little boy of six in Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s story of The Little Prince could see that adults were blind— unconscious when it comes to what really matters in life.
Again and again in this story we’ll see that adults, who are always trying to control their children and make them conform, are the ones who have betrayed their inherently divine essence. They are in the grip of the boa constrictor.
It’s the children who “get it," because they are just natural. They are real, authentic, just themselves—until society strangles them in its boa constrictor grip.
Tomorrow I'll tell you how the boa constrictor affected me personally. It might remind you of someone you know.
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