CHAPTER 1 SELF-KNOWLEDGE

I would like to reflect on the Key step by step, together with you.
I start with a fundamental aspect, the first two lines:

LIFE IS ABOUT SELF-KNOWLEDGE
UNCOVERING WHAT YOU REALLY ARE

This includes so much.
Most people do not know what I am talking about. What I am now that is what I am this cannot change. Oh yeah, I’ve learned in school, I have received some education from my parents. That is what I am.

No, mostly then you have lost yourself, who you really are.
Certainly it is true that there are many people who have never been in touch with who they really are. They have other life-lessons to learn.

That is ok. But at some point there will come oppertunities to apply the Key.
Then you can start to discover who you really are.

BIRTH

The Key could be used from birth.
What is inherited when a child is born?
Almost always the experiences of the parents, what the parents inherited. What they learned from their parents. What they inherited from the culture in which they lived and live.
Longer time ago this was much more influenced by religion.
No room to discover who you really are.

Almost always the parents do not know themselves.
Almost always there are vicious circles. This is how it is because this is what is taught to me.
But often what is taught is distorted.

These are all clichés. But clichés are many times truth.
“I’ve never gotten the chance to do what I wanted so I give my children the oppertunity the education to do it”.
Many times frustrations, traumas are passed on.

But almost always unconsciously, not knowing any better.
There is no other way to do it, this is life.
This is because real Consciousness is not integrated in the world. There are very few examples where there is room for this. So everything goes on as it is.

It is not about self-knowledge in the world, within the society, it is about completely different things.
Very different things are given. Much more in the sense of: You must be like this, don’t show to much who you really are, what you really feel, be normal. Be like everybody else.

And what if everybody is crazy.
When everybody is crazy this doesn’t become visible.

CRAZY

Actually I see the world as a little bit crazy. But this doesn’t show, because everyone is crazy. Because it is told, how it is now, where life revolves around now, this is it, this is not crazy. So everyone is doing his best to be like that.

But all this is totally relative and no one has that in mind. Because an alternative is barely visible.
Wherever it is a bit visible, they say: “They are crazy, you should not take them too seriously. Those are in the clouds boasting about spirituality and self-discovery. Maybe a nice hobby, but then back to the order of the day.

In such a world a child is born.

NEWBORN

There it is a new citizen of the earth. Whether it is a clean slate with which the child is born, the opinions are divided. But anyway, the baby was initially very pure and very open and very vulnerable. It is said that the first five years of a child determine the rest of its life.

And what is given to this child?
Of course, it will be coddled. “Oooh sweet child, he can already say mom, dad, what a sweetheart. He looks exactly like his father, mother, his grandfather”.
In a reasonable harmonious family, the child is completely pampered.

But even then, everything has a big influence. The child can’t talk the first years, but feels a lot, sees a lot, although it cannot analyse yet what all this is. It feels the energy in the air, feels the unspoken things.
Therefore, there can be a lot of confusion, dependency.

And what do we give that child in his early life so short on this earth?