Wow - thanks for sharing AuntyAngel. You paint a graphic picture that I can (painfully) feel into. Yes, I've had direct experiences of the world seeing such sensitive individuals as dysfunctional - and witnessed the kind of fear you talk about concerning how they'll possibly fit in and make any kind of headway in life. We're in a world of profound transition - they're not meant to fit in! They're meant to shake it up. And I'm absolutely confident they will.

But it needs awakened people to help them in a way society has tended not to help the young: to be open and understanding. Not to project our objectives, desires, needs and fears onto them; to trust that their light will shine a path, even if we can't immediately see it; to encourage, to motivate, to support and above all, hold the space for. This is the most powerful thing we can do for these kids.

I recall speaking to an awakened mother sometime ago who was speaking of her drug addicted son. You could feel the desperation in her field, the sense of fear about his future and her responsibility for him was literally oozing from her pores. Yet she was a loving and kind person. Her approach - a spiritual mainstream one - was to project love and light at him, as much as she could. But I ask you, what effect does that really have?

Firstly, projecting love and light is a judgment. It's saying "I can't accept you as you really are". In effect, subconsciously, it's saying "You're not good enough as you are". In fact this 'love' is very conditional love and not love at all. It's making him feel worthless because he senses he'll never match that which is projecting the feeling. It's an impossible mountain he can't climb (because it's fake and put on anyway).

What this guy really needs is someone to come into his space and truly empathise with him; to feel his pain, to honour it, and to help him know it's okay to be in that pain and to express it; that we all face such inner demons and no one is perfect. That gives him permission to look at the issue and why he needs the drugs; to ask the question (over time) "why am I using these things?" "What am I not getting in my life that I really need (unconditional love!), and ultimately, "Do the drugs really serve my higher good?" When we make someone wrong, it tends to set up an internal fight mechanism where they react to the outer by protecting the inner. They become a bit like a hedgehog - prickly and aggressive on the outside, but very soft and vulnerable on the inside. The trouble is, they never get into the soft vulnerable side whilst they're fighting with the outer world. They need to know you've got their best interests at heart; they need to know they can trust you with their darkest secrets, their screaming inner pain. They need to be helped to surrender into it and express it, so that they can really retrieve those buried nuggets of soul gold. Then over time, stand back and marvel at the gifts they reveal. Open