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Early childhood (the Nest) forms the foundation for later soul discovery through the preservation of our original innocence and our innate relational intelligence and through the development of a healthy culture-rooted ego. The transition of Naming celebrates the appearance of this conscious self. Middle childhood (the Garden) affords us the opportunity to learn the enchantment of the natural world as well as the intricate cultural ways of our people — requirements, too, for Soul Initiation.18 P
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The hero . . . is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normally human forms. Such a one's visions, ideas, and inspirations come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought. Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.13
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