The Fall

Going through the topic of innocent, I realized that it is about stages of development. The innocent stage is where every one of us has to go through it. We are told stories of heroes to help us grow with faith and build character within us. As we grow older we, find the stories and myths are not as they appear to be and we start analyzing what we heard as children and what the real world is teaching us. Overcoming our unconscious mind through conscious mind is the toughest process of growing up. The fortunate fall is one of the necessary tools of human beings for self-development. Psychoanalysts believe that our personality and behavior is a product of our childhood memory with the help of our unconscious mind. What had happened in our childhood affects us positively or negatively in life. According to psychologists and therapists, negative development can be overcome by bringing internal, deep, and sometimes uncomfortable realities of childhood into the surface. Like the “Fall” in Pearson’s book, people have to face their worst fear in order to get better. I believe that our innocent archetype is not to be removed and replaced by another archetype in our development, but something lives and functions with us at different stages of awareness level. Our innocence is the soul of our humanity that needs to be developed and nurtured by extending the capability of the unconscious mind capacity with our conscious mind.