Today’s passage, “Intimidation is mental coercion." So many children are taught fear-based threats and intimidation by the very people closest to them who are supposed to be their protectors.

Well-meaning parents believe that they are doing a service for their children and society by using the fear of the consequences in order to compel the child to submit themselves to their control. It’s archaic, yet so few of us question this.

As a result, children learn the way to adapt in this world is to lose themselves meaning they must develop what we call a personality or what I call a façade or a mask, because children who conceal themselves in order to keep their parents happy are rewarded. They learn to not push back, question rules and regulations and comply. So what they’re really doing is pretending. It’s similar to how a chameleon changes shades to blend in with their environment in order to protect themselves from predators.

I was reading this from Knowledge of Self  by Supreme Understanding.  He writes, “Threats do not compel mentally grown people into action. We must break the rope of arbitrary, irrational and emotional action.”

Just telling our children to obey because we said so, is a massive disservice for them. It is similar to saying because Jesus says so, the Bible told me so. We aren’t teaching children critical thinking skills, we’re teaching obedience to authority.

And we wonder why cult fringe groups like Q-Anon and gain so many followers.  Cults are comprised of people who don’t know themselves at all.  People who are searching for meaning and purpose in a world that rejected them from the start.

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