![]() A Infant soul is "a babe in the woods" when it comes to dealing with our complex society. They cannot easily cope with more than this. They are rarely interested in the greater overview of life, but instead are wrapped up in their own little arena of events. If they have a worldview at all, it can be said that Infant souls have a simplistic perspective based on a superficial understanding of life. Everyone, even if they do not understand psychological maturity, expresses the desire that they would "grow up", "quit being silly", "stop being foolish", and "quit being childish". Older soul adults may avoid them and demean them. ![]() Older soul children may make fun of them and taunt them. For this reason, Infant souls are usually shunned by older souls. They don't fit in with the mainstream of society, which is predominantly Young and Mature at this stage in history. They are strangers in the world, and they find the world strange. Consequently, they are generally considered unusual and strange. Infant souls only make up about one percent of the population. Infant souls are at one extreme of the range of Maturation - the lower end of the scale. However, at their very best, they are innocent and simple, even as children are. They often lack sophistication in dress and manner, just as small children who are simply not yet aware of these things. They can be deficient in "taste" and "class". ![]() In the worse instances, they can be uncouth and lacking in social grace. Like children, Infant souls are not well socialized. One solution to their lack of understanding is to get settled in a life station where someone, an older soul, tells them what to do and takes care of them, much like a child has to be taken care of by adults. But children grow up and usually learn to handle the situations of life, whereas Infant souls do not: they are immature all their lives. So it is with Infant souls in their attempts to cope in a complex world. They often hurt themselves with their clumsiness and ignorance. They do not know the value of things they encounter and may break them. Children may knock things over as they try to navigate the environment. Like a toddler learning to take its first steps, Infant souls are in need of holding the hand of an elder as they learn to walk. Like children, Infant souls are weak in understanding, and they are often in need of guidance. ![]() Their needs and drives are both primitive and elementary. Infant souls also like the company of children - they are so much alike in temperament and perception. The shallowness of the Infant soul shows in the lack of depth in the look in their eyes. In a psychological sense, Infant souls are new to the world, and consequently they do not know very much about what is going on. Children are new to the world in a physical sense. Even as children are learning to walk and talk, so Infant souls are learning the basics of getting around in the world. The Infant soul age is to the soul as the first decade of a life is to a person. So much that can be said about Infant souls is the same as can be said about infants and children. ![]()
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