Understanding Beliefs Vs Doubt: Developmentally in power consciousness between the age of two and seven beliefs are a virtue and doubt is a sin. Later in the developmental stage between puberty and young adulthood associated with science beliefs are a sin and doubt is a virtue. Why is this true? Why does truth vary between developmental stages at the individual level and the stages of consciousness at the collective level?

This has to do with Piaget’s brilliant insight that intelligence is qualitatively not quantitatively different in the different developmental stages. Between the age of two and seven children have representational and conceptual thinking but lack reason and logic. Without reason and logic this is not the appropriate stage to question authority and/or rebell. It is the stage of consciousness one needs to learn discipline and follow orders.

Not until puberty and young adulthood do children have both inductive and deductive reasoning and concrete and abstract logic to question their beliefs. Not until puberty can children rebel. Even then unless a child is civilized between two and seven and socialized between seven and puberty a child can only be antisocial. Depending on the culture a significant number of people get stuck developmentally in the ego-centric developmental stage between the age of two and seven associated with patriarchal power consciousness. As adults they continue to lack inductive reasoning to connect the dots to change their beliefs. This is why beliefs are a virtue both at the developmental level as children and the collective level as adults. In America it appears that almost half the population are stuck in patriarchal power consciousness. In more shame-based patriarchal countries it s significantly more and in more guilt-based egalitarian countries significantly less.

I have spent over 30 years studying child psychology. Over half of that time it has been a full time endeavor. The initial twelve years were spent as a child therapist specializing in keeping children off of psychiatric medications and/or tapering children children off of various psychiatric meds in my private practice. This was done under the supervision of my medical director for legal and ethical purposes. I closed down my private practice over fifteen years to write the definitive parenting model. The parenting model will soon be available on Amazon! Subscribe to our Newsletter to get updates.