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CENTER OF BRILLIANCE
HUMAN CONDITION: Nature vs. Nurture
By Deborah Sue Pomeroy
We define our Human Condition. We want a happy life, life is happy. We are miserable,
life is miserable. Life is perspective. The Ancients speak to life reflecting insight and
awareness for growth. The New Ager’s believe change our thoughts and life will change.
Current Culture says work hard and follow the path.
Are we naturally unhappy, violent, mean people or does our culture drive us in this direction? Going deeper, we come
from the Alpha and Omega. The individual definition of the Elephant beyond the veil. We fight over whether it’s a
leg, truck or tail. We come from this elephant to our culture creating our beliefs and assumptions as the foundation for
life. Challenges are opportunity to grow. The driving force is happiness. We are lost in what all that means. The
inward path is realizing the sacred contracts of our souls to grow through experience. The freedom of choice allows
this growth or splits us from ourself.
We have drifted from understanding our Sacred Path and embracing our Holy Grail. We are missing stepping into a
better version of our self by facing fears, limitations and challenges. We work to work. We accept life is hard and
people are bad. We let others decide the fate and direction of the future. We stay out of the way.
Personal Responsibility is the first step. Awareness from a broader perspective is the second. Stepping into the right
and best step for ourselves is the third. Our culture is counter intuitive doing everything opposite of what is the
natural flow of life. Instead of raw foods, we eat synthetic foods. Instead of living life, we watch real TV. Instead of
community, we use social networks. We hunger, yet the simulacra does not fortify. We disconnect from ourselves as
we falsely plug into pseudo reality.
We believe everyone is bad and life is just going to fail. We carve out a pseudo happiness and success. We keep our
head down letting others care for the big problems.
Are we the plague naturally or have we been nurtured into malignant creatures?
To find answers, we have to shake of previous notions
looking with new eyes. The first five years sets the
foundation as a sponge soaking everything up. From six
until puberty we are mastering our world excelling. Between
puberty and mid-twenties we are challenging everything
trying to define our new world that has exploded from family
to all else. From mid-thirties to mid-forties we feel the
mastery of life as successful or fall into crisis.
Imagine raising happy, conscious, successful children that
grew up into happy, conscious, successful adults. Imagine
supporting dreams, growth and self-discovery instead of
keeping heads down and being quiet.
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it
up. Because if you pick it up it
dies and it ceases to be what
you love. So if you love a
flower, let it be. Love is
not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.
–– Osho