The indigenous self is the self we are born with. According to “Energy Prescription” : “All infants experience unimpeded access to vital energy that sustains them. They live in primal contact with nature through their feelings, impulses, perceptions, and relationships. he infant’s marvelous vital intensity and the joyous, uninhibited play of young children demonstrate the incredible life energy that is meant to flow through us all. Children live in the flow as long as their ital needs are met, their natural life expressions are accepted, and they are loved, respected, cared for, and are protected from danger, pain and trauma.”

So what went wrong How come our pathways to spirituality have become difficult?

Grouds and Childe wrote: “From infancy on, each of us undergoes a process of systemic indoctrination that turns us into socialized personalities.”

“We must integrate these two [the indigenous and socialized selves] in order to fulfill our human potential and our evolutionary purpose.”

Somehow I suspect this explains Original Sin which ancient people had no words to explain – the split between our God self and the lower socialized self/nature. Neither Psychology nor Philosophy existed as yet.