A lot of our teenagers express that very same confusion of not being able to make an overall associative connection between their world and themselves. Why?  Again because of failure to nurture in that very earliest period, and the failure of being carried and movement and the cerebellum and all of these things that are involved with true nurturing of our infants and breastfeeding, etc., and those that are abandoned early.  And as Maria Montessori said they then become their own greatest threat to survival.  And Lord knows it’s worldwide.

They took four and five year olds, boys and girls, and were viewing them from camera as they were looking at a screen and moving right in front of them. And they began to really identify with what was going on on that screen, as children will do, and all the sudden this great monster appears on the screen gobbling up the little children. It’s coming right at them just like this.  All the little girls got very quiet and shriveled back in their seat and didn’t move a muscle.  All the little boys jumped in their seat.  This clinched wedding their britches, streaming down, but ready to do battle.  Now that also is part of our heritage, part of our background and can’t be dismissed.  The male designed by nature to protect his female.  And the tragedy of the whole thing is only through nurturing will he respond in this way to his female and take care of her as designed by nature and nature did in deed give him overall a large body, more musculature and so forth.  But that’s part of this whole average male.  I  spoke one time about having some chickens and a little tiny bantam rooster, half the size of those hens, and how one day a great hawk came in and settled on the fence post looking over the fowl yard, the chicken yard.  The minute that hawk came into sight every hen simply disappeared.  You couldn’t see them anywhere.  I wondered as I watched what happened to them.  Well they had all simply disappeared.  But the little rooster had plucked out every feather, made himself as big as humanly possible and rushed at the fence post ready to do battle.  I thought it was one of the most beautiful and incredible stories in itself of the poor male and the flight he’s in.  And of  course he won.  The great hawk finally stood up on the post and then took off and left.  So that is inherent within us and it’s right.  We’re here to protect our children and their mothers, but on the other hand that will not come to fruition without the higher intelligences of nurturing.  So there you’ve got an ambiguity, it’s got a conflict.

Well that is but un-nurtured the whole world is a threat always.  It’s a constant continual threat because I have no home base.  There again the child who is nurtured and bonded and given that safe space from the earliest developmental period can move away from the safe space carrying that same state of mind with him and is ready to move on into the higher realms of human possibility.  Whereas the majority of us lacking that safe space never move on.  We try to repair or build for ourselves the safe space to be.  It’s a safe space that we either carry with us and are or not at all, but yet we are trained to believe we can create the safe space by following all the appropriate cultural directives and every cultural directive drives us into an ever increasing unsafe position and we feel more and more threatened by the world.  Right now the average citizen, the people I talk with, feel overwhelmingly threatened by events.  A great anxiety has swept over us.  Now as Prescott points out, the failure to establish at the very beginning we then search for it and we can’t truly associate the various events as they’re happening around us.  We become dis-associative.  When my friend Ann Marson found that her teenage boys in prison had no associative processes, they couldn’t associate one event with another.  They just lived in this series of accidental events happening to them which made no sense.  And a lot of our teenagers express that very same confusion of not being able to make an overall associative connection between their world and themselves. Why?  Again because of failure to nurture in that very earliest period, and the failure of being carried and movement and the cerebellum and all of these things that are involved with true nurturing of our infants and breastfeeding, etc., and those that are abandoned early.  And as Maria Montessori said they then become their own greatest threat to survival.  And Lord knows it’s worldwide.  If it were just the United States but it really is worldwide, that growing threat of destruction that people feel.