The Inborn Archetypal Programme

Anthropologists say children are innately programmed to learn the rules of their culture. Peer play is terribly important a preparation for adult life, he says. Next to very important thing is story - in tha all children adore stories. In cultures, they are told stories, and these too are a wonderful preparation. Then puberty initiation. All cultures, it seems, do it for boys. Not so many do it for girls, but quite a number do. And thena mating courting, mating marriage, parenthood,. advanced maturity, when the cultural contribution tends to be made. Old age and the preparation for death and death itself, all that is built in to the life side. Now that