In childhood, before our character and individuality is thought to have fully developed we have our most complete experiences of willing, capricious, unstable and not yet separated from wishing as they may be; an adult's will is no match for that of a child, although his power is very much greater. In the same way the child's experience of himself as a complete individual forms the ideal which the adult mind, still bleeding from its narcissistic wounds, from the annexation of a theory of mind, seeks to reconstitute in a sublated and sublimated way through art, science and other gratifications. In addition there is an absolute of feeling in the form of sympathetic feeling, entirely devoid of empathy, feeling which is projected so that the child's world is pantheistic, or more accurately non-dual, in that his intimacy with all things is unquestioned. It is extraordinary that none of our hard-acquired wisdom can ever undermine the depth of this infantile metaphysics, if has gone far enough then it rather seeks to devour itself so as better to know this earliest world for the first time. The mode of sensitive perception in our most valued experiences in which distinctions melt into a dancing play of subject and object is a trace, more or less direct, of that infantile pantheism.