The Dangers of Young Spiritual Experiences

I was quite spiritually inclined as a young one. Up until around age seven I was conscious throughout deep dreamless sleep and I’m certain that I consciously reincarnated...

          It was at age 12 (I’m 22 now) when I had my ‘experience’ of One Taste. We moved houses for the first time. I believe it was triggered from some of the anxious excitement of moving to a new place. A re-orienting of who I am without all the familiar surroundings and people. It was my first night in the new house. I was lying on a mattress on the floor in my new room. Everything felt a very dark, purple-ish color (Indigo aura, maybe.) I remember lucid dreaming and feeling a very divine/silly order to everything. That next morning I was sitting on the floor in the family room when all of a sudden I passed through "the gateless gate.” I was the mountains and sky and everything. It was the most normal and simple and obvious thing. But apparently some difficulties can come along when you are not able to differentiate or frame or interpret things like this:

•     No frame of reference

    -   Maybe I assumed others very having similar experiences. Maybe I didn’t even think anything of it and it just got conditioned away. Either way, I didn’t have a good idea of where I sat in the Kosmos.

•     Impedes healthy boundary and moral development

  -    We need secure boundaries to function in and navigate through this world. Especially during the formative years. Being one with everything makes one reluctant to form healthy little boundaries.

  -    Experience of the Absolute can result in a very loose sense/grasp of the rights and wrongs of the relative. A dangerous sense of invulnerability develops (well more than is normal during adolescence.) Recklessness follows.

additions:

-  Being that intouch/highly sensitive w/ the divine at such a young age can lead to extreme emotion repression. I remember feeling the most intense emotions for what other people wouldn't consider a very big deal. ("the smallest insult is equal to the greatest") I felt I had to stuff these feelings of infinity wanting to pour through me and the consequnce was always stuffing/dissociating more and more until I had my episode.  

I marked out on the Wilber-Combs Lattice around where I think I was for those peak experiences.

             I finally started recalling these early experiences when I moved away for college. Another reorienting time, but this one being disastrously disorienting--What does Ken mean when he says if you try to raise a kid integrally you could mess them up in all quadrants, all lines, all states, etc.?--Well, I think that’s what happened with me. Currently still recouping from a psychotic episode/spiritual emergency, a bipolar diagnosis, and a crippled body-mind. But I’m cleaning up well and starting to enjoy where I’m at now. More lost = more fun when you wake up, will probably prove to be true.

I know you interpret whatever experience you have from the stage you’re at, but how should a kid interpret One Taste? How should I interpret that experience now?

How could we identify and accommodate these kids that could have similar experiences, more efficiently? Or should we even try? Maybe disaster's good for them long-run. 

Your thoughts and comments welcomed

Chris