Peace and Rich, everyone.

As you know, I am Michael B. Beckwith, founder of the Agapa International Spiritual Center and the host of Take Back Your Mind.

And to Take Back Your Mind, Life Question of the Week, where I have the opportunity to dig in to a degree and answer the questions that are emailed to me throughout the course of the week and throughout the

course of the month. And so today I have a question from Will, and Will is writing from Atlanta, Georgia,

where Will says, I want to ask you about the concept of sin. We are taught at a young age in faith

communities that we are all sinful beings, that we must constantly repent for thoughts and deeds that society deems unworthy.

My wife and I have a young daughter, and I am very hesitant to fill her spirit with fear of constant wrongdoing and sinfulness.

What advice do you have about right and wrong?

And how do they relate to our place in heaven as being present with the source at the end of our human experience?

Brother Will, this is an insightful and beautiful and wonderful question, because as you've

indicated, there are many people that have been brought up, and some people, even in this

particular age, are still being brought up with the concept of sin or being born in sin.

Of course, not every spiritual community

has that as a dimension of their spiritual practice.

In the ageless wisdom communities,

that's not a part of the canon of or the teachings.

As a matter of fact, what we teach is that we're not born into sin. First of all, let's break down the word sin, where it came from.

The word sin came from an archery term that meant missing the mark. So when people were doing

archery, if they missed the target, they sinned. They actually missed the bullseye or they missed the target.

And so that particular archery term then found its way into religiosity

and then found its way into the dogma of primarily fundamentalism, Christianity

that speaks about one being born into sin.

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