Human Adults and Human Children

My greatest aspiration in life is to become what Jed McKenna calls a “Human Adult.” He asserts that the world is comprised mostly of “Human Children” mainly because we don’t understand that there is anything such as a Human Adult to which we can aspire. In the coming days I will be talking a lot about this topic because it is THE subject of intense focus of my life and weaves perfectly into my goal of this blog, which is to help people at the individual level to effect change in their lives. The change I speak of is based on the awareness and transcendence of fear.

In his book, Spiritual Warfare, McKenna explains that the human race lives life kind of like a grasshopper that has been caught by a spider. The grasshopper is still alive, but wrapped in layers of the web. Alive, but not alive.  Thoreau suggests, at the end of Walden, “only that day dawns to which we are awake.”  In fact, I would go as far as to say that Thoreau is giving perhaps one of the first, most detailed accounts of what life as a Human Adult is like. Thoreau’s “mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation” are the Human Children who are sleeping through an unsatisfying existence.

As an introduction, I will note the traits of Human Adults and Human Children.

­Human Children

Fear-based, worrying, selfish, believe in reality of past and future, asleep, addicted, seeking  to be controlled, controlling, blaming, questioning, unknowingly ignorant, petty, dishonest, believe in imperfection, materialistic

Human Adults

Gratitude-based, surrendering, in the moment, awake, unencumbered, selfless, certain, appreciating, knowingly ignorant, magnanimous, honest, accepting of perfection, content, manifesting authentic desires, simple, finding of true calling