Nature’s agenda is to take and unfold, each of these magnificent processes, unlock in their respective order. You don’t try to unlock the highest cortical systems if the lowest are all still lying in effect dormant and undeveloped. It’s just that simple.

Nature’s agenda, I’ve always called it, nature’s plan for our development of intelligence, simply follows the whole evolutionary structure of the development of intelligence to begin with. Here again, we get to the observation by our brightest brain people today that the lower structures of the brain, the more primitive or ancient structures of the brain, must be established and functional in order for the higher brain structures to open up and become functional because they are the foundation for it. You look at the sensory motor system of the basal brain system and what Paul MacLean calls the reptilian brain and that whole system must be activated first in order to bring in the signals from the environment for the upper intelligences to have. Unless the child can first bring in and make sense of his environment and his models, then there’s no way to activate the higher structures. So it’s simply following the natural build up of this natural thing called the evolutionary mind or evolutionary brain. That’s nature’s agenda.

To take it and unfold, each of these magnificent processes unlock in their respective order. You don’t try to unlock the highest cortical systems if the lowest are all still lying in effect dormant and undeveloped. It’s just that simple. Even though they’re intimate, direct, instantaneous and automatic by default, interaction between the three, even in-utero, all there are always involved. The brain operates as an intrical unit but development of each and the ability of the child to move the self-system or personality or awareness from one structure to the next as we can do as an adult, of course this is not there yet. But the brain still is operating as integral unit.  We know that.  But now from the standpoint of development.  So you start with your foundation, put up your walls, then you can put on your roof and do the rest of it. But if you try to do the top part first without anything for it to go on, it’s disaster. It’s just that simple.

Again I’ve used the analogy of what would happen if wisdom teeth and the twelve year molars and all the eye teeth and all that should suddenly pop into the mouth as a nursing infant, momma would be in trouble and so would the infant. Nature takes it step by step and each step is equally beautiful and great and magnificent. The three year old is never an incomplete five year old. The three year old is a perfectly and complete. As Witman said, the simple co-hog in its shell were enough. Should that little life ever move beyond that it wouldn’t be a tragedy, it would be a magnificent three year experience.  The five year old is not an incomplete seven year old and so on. 

In our meeting the needs and giving a complete and perfect child we have the complete and perfect foundation for later on. But to consider the child simply an undeveloped adult who must be brought to adult practices very quickly is a disaster. The only way you will ever have a functional adult it to have a functional child. It’s a very simple following, Nature’s agenda. And this intellectual interference that we’ve started, not just with the mother, not just with child birth, but then with interference of the child’s natural intelligence with our whole schooling, our whole behavioral modification and all of these are intellect interfering with the natural intelligence. The results of the disaster are piling up sky high around us.