Development of respect (and ego) through soul ages

The soul age levels are an interesting field of spiritual study, because it gives us surprising results on what emotions are readily available to all of us, and which take life times to develop. Love is often hailed as the most developed emotion, but it is surprisingly easily attainable emotion on most soul age levels, including animal incarnations. Love is already highly developed on Infant level 3, but there is one emotion that takes the entire chart to master properly; respect. We do not need to learn how to love, we need to learn how to control it! Love is the most innate feeling we have, but we need to learn to love from a distance, without interfering into our loved one’s business and that’s where respect comes in. Keep the chart open for reference.

The development of respect starts as early as we are first incarnated. At first, it comes as a fear response: if I do this, I get slapped in the face. Better not do that. Simple as that. There are plenty of things that you get slapped for, and the more you learn about what not to do, the more ways you’ll find to do new things that you weren’t supposed to be doing. (First your soul learns to not hit people. If you hit people, you get hit back, and usually by someone much larger than you, eventually, anyway. Once you learn not to hit others, you are getting more freedom to move closer to people, and then you get taught not to steal, not to kill, not to hurt, then not to invite yourself into others homes, not to park your ass onto strangers laps and so forth – the list is endless, a list that to a developed soul seems quite simple, doesn’t it? You gotta love those level 3 infants… As infuriating as they are. Anyway, moving on.)

The respect in it’s true sense starts on Infant soul phase 5 with the development of admiration towards others. On this soul age phase, the soul is still unable to tell the complete difference between my achievement and the achievements of others, but they do see what they would like to be associated with and they strive towards it. They have learned through earlier phases to keep their distance from others, because others will “bite” if you get too close uninvited. (Same as adult dogs who teach puppies to keep their paws of others’ bones and quit pushing themselves into other’s private business! So some animals do know a thing or two about respect, too.) At this stage, and the following level 6 Infant, their biggest crime against respect is the need to be loved without any question by whomever they demand love from and on what grounds. They have feelings of entitlement towards other’s love. The Infant soul age level is dedicated to closing up the over-active Heart chakra.

Level 7 Infant learns the first steps of true self-respect through their achievement with running a business, but on Child 1 they get their first blow to their ego (self-respect): Others are still laughing although they have done well! Now, the soul needs to start collecting the pieces of their shattered ego, their injured self-respect that was based on outward achievement alone and with very little realism involved. The entire Child soul age level is directed to learning the right to feel safe in terms of your physical existence (root chakra): securing a salary, maintaining a home in a safe environment and creating a safety distance from all dangers, imagined and real. (Just like children, the Child Souls have an over-active imagination in terms of potential dangers, and they fear everything imaginable, difference and “deviance” being at the very top of the list!)

The Teen soul age level is designed to learn autonomy – the right to self-govern; your right and my right. When Child Souls still try to decide for others what they should do, the Teens are learning to decide for themselves from a wider range of options. They still work very much within the accepted boundaries from Child souls, but they decide what a dream job would be like rather than accept any old job. The Child soul is still looking to others to tell them what to do and what is the right way to do it in order to feel safe, and Teens are here to provide those rules of what is safe and what it  means to be human. Teens respect authority and want to be seen as one as they age.

The Adult soul age level is difficult to discus in terms of respect. It is united in with the Old Soul levels, where individual choice becomes more and more important and respected, but Adults focus on the individual’s right to a family (really with very little consideration to the child’s right to decent parents; the most important thing is the parent’s right to be a parent, the child’s rights often come second served). The Old Souls grow in respect of individuals right to individual choices, and by Ancient level this is all old news. Now we are running out of scale (maybe I have to redo this too) but Ancients are learning the next level of respect, and this is starting to get tricky:

The Ancients respect people’s right to make their own choices even in case they may hurt them and get them killed. They go into a complete “hands off” mode, where you may offer guidance but after that you let people make their own decisions, no matter how dumb. Ancients respect people’s right to stupidity and self-destruction. They also believe other’s right to try and hurt others, but also in their right own to attempt to stop that. The Ancients will develop a high understanding of the value of each and every experience in life; they believe people have the right to do anything they want – even stop people from doing whatever they want. Sexy little paradox, isn’t it?

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