for better and for worse. interesting to hear coming from you man, as you have written some of the most important biographies of the last part of history.
it comes back to your parents. what's interesting to me about this with what i know, and what we all know, is that it should be obvious, but it's still not.
if you read stan grof* (or gabor matte) most of his work doing 5000-7000 psychedelic sits with patients, almost everything his patients were dealing with pointed to early childhood development or prenatal care. to have these two great psychiatric minds point to the exact same thing through very different but powerful lenses should be enough for people to get it and yet we are still in the dark.
parents are everything. they are your first karma.
your body; male ,female, looks, intelligence, ect, is your second karma. but your parents are your first, because even before you are born, your parents are impacting you in the womb.
if your father is beating your mother, for instance, that is going to impact you. if your father is deeply in love with your mother while you are in the womb, that is going to impact you. if your mother doesn't want to have a baby but she feels forced to do so, that is going to impact you—you are already receiving the signals of what to expect while you are still in the womb. and it makes a huge difference and impact on the child and the human being they become.
i still think we are underestimating the early life of a child and what it means and what the impact is. even with everything we know, we are underestimating the importance of early life, from conception to puberty, when we actually become grown adults.
the aging process of human beings is also really strange. nothing on this planet takes as long as we do to mature, and i think that is also very telling, that we are not really like anything else on this planet—if we needed more proof of that. lol.
* doorway to the numinous is one of the best books ever written on human psychology. where freud and jung left off, grof picked up through his work with LSD. and it's been overlooked because of the stigma around psychedelics, but it needs to be reevaluated. it needs to be reevaluated.
