Children Evolving Past their Parents
Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings during a
“Shifting into your New Consciousness” group experience 6-11-09
(Names are changed to protect privacy)
(To Manning) “I know that you don’t like to hurt anyone, and you perceived that if you said your point-of-view that was different than your parents, you would hurt them. I’ve heard you say this many times. But this does not hurt your parents. It may butt up against their defense systems. It butts up against a dysfunctional view of reality that their defense system is holding in place. It may make them uncomfortable, but it is not harming them. It may be challenging their perception of things, but that’s how evolution occurs. Children are generally more evolved than their parents. So you probably see things more accurately then they do. And it is important that you do, and it’s important that you allow your perception of reality to express itself. When children reach adolescence, they start rebelling against their parents. They start saying ‘I don’t believe what you believe. I don’t think what you think. And I don’t want what you want.’ And either a parent is open-minded enough to allow that to happen — and this can be hard for the parent, a big challenge — or they’re not, in which case the relationship between them becomes very painful. But it has to happen. You have to be able to separate yourself. You didn’t do that. That’s the problem. And you are mistaken in thinking that this is actually harming your parents. This is what’s holding you back.”
