The First Three Stages of Life

Serving the Right, True, and Free Development of Children and Young People and Completing the Human

The First Three Stages of Life contains Avatar Adi Da’s profound Wisdom about the universal requirements of the human developmental process in the first three stages of life—including the conscious rearing of our children, as well as the ongoing growth challenges still facing most of us as adults.

Presenting Avatar Adi Da’s detailed Instruction about the foundation process of human development—the “individuation, socialization, and integration” of the human personality, The First Three Stages of Life invites the reader to engage the human process of “growth and out-growing” as a form of participation in the Divine Reality.

Through this book, children (and people of all ages) can learn: a healthy sense of autonomy and physical mastery; sensitivity to the energies of nature, self, and others; discriminative intelligence and a will to go beyond limitations; to feel the Great Mystery of existence through meditation and devotional practice; intimacy as the healing principle; to go beyond “Oedipal” sufferings, or unconscious emotional patterning in response to their parents and others; to live as “I love you” and become sensitive to the dramatization of “you do not love me”; and discipline, as an act of love.