Once-Born:
- Do not stray from familiar territory of who they think they are and what they think is expected of them.
- If pushed to the edge (of Dante's dark woods) where the straight way is lost.
- Don't want to learn something new from life's darkest lessons.
- Stay with what feels safe and what is expected/acceptable to their family and society
- Stick to what they already know -even if they don't necessarily want it or like it.
- May go their whole life and never know what lies beyond the woods.
- May question later, "Is this all there is to life?"
- Lives as if the soul was a figment of a flighty imagination.
- Leads to confusion, numbness, sadness, depression, anger.
- Avoid, deny or bitterly accept the unpredictable changes of real life.
- Always pays attention to the soul poking it's head through a half-lived life.
- Whether through choice or calamity- goes into the woods, loses the straight way, confronts that which needs to change within himself in order to live a more genuine and radiant life.
- The journey into the woods of change and transformation is an inner one.
- The most ordinary-looking lives are often being lived by the most extraordinary spiritual warriors; people who have chosen the road less traveled, of self-reflection.
- Uses adversity for awakening.
- Trade the safety of the known for the power of the unknown
- Something calls them into the woods (betrayal, illness, divorce, loss, death), where the straight path vanishes, and there is no turning back, only going through.
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