The main function of the prefrontal lobes is to integrate all the other brain regions that develop in a specific sequence over the years of human maturation. What is important here is that though this part of the brain is involved in all stages of development, it doesn’t start to fully develop until around age of 15 and continues until around age 21.

This time between 15 and 21 is supposed to be the most dramatic growth spurt in becoming an adult that even surpasses in scope and affect the developmental stages we go through from birth up to mid-adolescence. Everything in the developmental process points to this being the most transcendent period in our lives as we come into full maturation as an Adult.

As Pearce described it, “…Logically we could expect that on the completion and maturation of nature’s latest, largest, and highest brain at age twenty-one, we would possess capacities more dramatically different from and more powerful than anything previously experienced… In fact, the development of these new prefrontal additions should ideally result in a mind that is so remarkably different from the one we operated with before that it would present to us in full the biological possibility of transcendence.”(Emphasis added) “The Biology of Transcendence,” pg. 51

But, as the Apollo 13 mission said,  “Houston, we have a problem.”  It turns out that for most of us on this planet we didn’t make it through this  most crucial stage.  As Pearce sadly notes, “… in fact, nothing much happens at all.”

We “flatline” developmentally and pretty much stay in “Arrested Development” for the rest of our lives, unless we undertake a major “hero’s journey” to finish this stage of development. Take a look around, (including a good, honest look at yourself), and you’ll see that the majority of “Adults”, though “grown up” physically, are still operating out of unresolved childhood and adolescent traumas and their corresponding limited belief systems.  We have not put away our “childish things.”

How is it working for you being an “Adult” right now? Here’s a little “test”.

• What’s your body response to your image of yourself as an Adult? Do you  feel magnificent, pretty good, so-so, or overall, is being an Adult  not all that it was cracked up to be?

• How often have you said, or heard someone else say to you in the heat of an argument, “Why don’t you just grow up?”

• Was, or is,  Peter Pan  one of your favorite characters? Is “I’ll never grow up, I don’t want to go to school” one of your favorite mantras?

• As a man, do you often hear the adage “Boys will be boys” and really relate to that personally? Is the term “Arrested Development” secretly a badge of honor for you?

• As a woman, are you still complaining to your girlfriends about men, still looking for “Daddy” to recognize you in all the men you meet?

• Do you still throw “temper tantrums” at work or in your relationships?

• Do you take your life very personally?

• Are you rather reactive in your responses to life situations?

• Are you easily “triggered” and live a life mostly of complaints?

• Do you wish that someone or something whether that be a person, a guru,  ET’s, the government, food, drugs, or sex, would come along and take care of you,  rescue you, or recognize you?

• Spiritually, do you see yourself and others as a “child of God” and find solace in this description? Do you feel “separated” from God and consider yourself a seeker, looking for Oneness, or Enlightenment from Mother/Father God?

Any of these sound familiar? Maybe a little toooo familiar?

If you see a good chunk of yourself in this “test”, then congratulations! You’ve made the grade of “Mugglehood,” which is just my way of saying you’ve not finished your birthright of natural maturation. You’re truly in “Arrested Development” and really don’t know what it is to be an Awakened, Integrated, Actualized, Embodied Human Being – which is what we would be had we naturally matured in to what all of us are meant to be.

In Part II I will go more into these stages of development, how they have been interfered with, and the consequences of this interference. In Part III I will share some of my own journey into Adulthood and what Life is starting to look like from this perspective.

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Will the real Adult please stand up? Part I

This is not a baby boomer’s angst about slowing down aging, or a fear of death sort of thinking. (As Woody Allen put it, “I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be around when it happens.”)

For the muggle mind set of the world,  Life IS a terminal illness. But that isn’t necessarily how it has to be. Just because billions of people believe something to be true, doesn’t mean it’s the Truth. People used to believe the Sun moved around the Earth. The proof was that every day the sun rose in the East and set in the West. Obvious, everyone can see that. It was plain as day!

Even though we now know this isn’t so, our language still describes the false belief of the Sun “rising” in the East and “setting” in the West.

For instance, when someone asks us, “How old are you?” we usually answer in a way where we equate our age to the number of years we’ve been alive, as in “I’m 24 years old.”  Well, what are we referring to that is allegedly this age?

Our body right?

NOT!

It’s a total falsehood. Nothing in your body is any older than 3 years at the most. Everything is being replaced much faster than you might suspect. For instance: your bones are replaced @ every 3 years, your skin @28 days, your liver: 6 weeks, your stomach lining: 5 days, and so on.

Not done yet! If you go down to the atomic level it’s been estimated that 98% of your body is replaced within one year!

There’s more! If you take it down to the quantum level, your so-called solid body is blinking in and out of reality trillions of times a second!

Get it?

We appear to age because we have a deep seated agreement lodged in our collective subconscious mind that this is the way it is. We are born, age, and then die. All life around us does this, and so must we.

What if we are “dead” wrong about this whole subject?

What if  we could actually live in full vitality as long as we choose?

Notice how these ideas feel in your body.

And consider this idea for starting to release your subconscious agreement with aging:

Dissolve the idea that the years you have lived in this life equals your age.

I use the idea of  “laps around the sun” to mark my years here. Explore this thought and notice what and how you feel in your body when you think this. If you find it invigorating, inspiring, or joyful, then that’s what I call your Truthsense speaking to you, and you’re starting to think and live more like Homo Spiritus.

Stay tuned for Part II where I’ll discuss why we age and more on how to release the aging agreement I mentioned at the beginning of this blog.

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Busting Loose from Aging – Part I