Spiritual thought

A question that showed eagerness to find out the ‘kind’ of earliest ‘spiritual’ thought, seemed quite interesting to me!
Please see, we do not have many thoughts, which we can recall, belonging to our early childhood. We do have lots of memories of ‘experiences’. It is later on that we unconsciously attribute a thought, and corrupt such beautiful experiences, and keep recalling it as a futile effort. But it is not a ‘fault’ in the strict sense. This is our basic nature, once we are ‘armed’ with those instincts of self-preservation and survival.
Fortunate few people just happen to preserve some ‘experience’ in its raw basic form, and relive the experience within, recalling it from memory.
All this would seem quite confusing, and even a bit meaningless.
But, if we look at a child, and try to observe it quite keenly, with an open mind, we can see the ‘spiritual’ eagerness struggling to sprout too often. We are in a hurry to teach the child our ways, and so, we quite inadvertently happen to push down this subtle urge. Did we not happen to see a baby laugh lavishly for no apparent reason? As if somebody is tickling the child to evoke that uncontrollable laughter? It is a humble evidence of such ‘experience’ happening. Let medical science try and investigate the cause of such laughter! The child is yet to get a hold on ‘concepts’ the way we do. And even among we adults, not all of us grasp a joke with the same speed. It is the abstract concept that enables us to laugh at the funny side of life. When logic gets tamed under emotion, it paves the way for a hearty laugh. Otherwise, with bare logic, we just reason it out and close the matter like a robot. We find no reason to respond. A child is yet to form concepts, abstract concepts, etc. So, by elimination, we may, for the time being look at a possibility that it could be some spiritual experience. Now, if there was that self-awareness, this child would have been able to retain this experience in its conscious memory.
The idea of this narrative is to merely persuade a person to look at the possibility that, we humans are subjected to a spiritual experience, right from “Inception”. Usually, as adults, we brush aside the idea of spiritual pursuit as a futile exercise, irrelevant to normal life. There are several supporting theories that would substantiate the possibility of such spiritual quest in a child, but the narrative would become too tiring in its elaboration. I would prefer to leave it here with that mystic tickle.

Psn(20th September, 2010)
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100919091103AAzOSo9
What was your earliest spiritual thought?
When I was maybe four or five, I can recall having the thought that there had been a time when I had no name, when I was content and not involved with interaction with human beings.The thought seemed like truth to me, a statement of actual fact. I was not a child who told lies to myself.When you were that age, did you have beliefs that had not come from your parents?

My answer:
In my opinion, we could have spiritual experience, and then, about that, we have thoughts, recalling from memory that we had some experience. Still, such thoughts do not, by itself re-create an experience. That is the whole problem! If we insist, we might end up creating illusions, hallucinations etc. We can have ideas or 'thoughts "about" spirituality, but the thought itself being spiritual, ... not quite sure.
Yes, we do have experiences. But we seldom notice it. Early childhood is 'blessed' with many such. But it all happens in innocence and not in full conscious awareness. That makes a tremendous difference. In the ancient Indian way of looking at things, there is a tradition to initiate a child as early as at 7 years of age, into that possibility of conscious spiritual experience. The child, soon after the ceremony is called a 'dwija' (sanskrit word for "twice-born"), just to signify that, the first time the child was born out of its mother's womb, it was unawares, and now he takes a conscious birth to experience life 'afresh' in full awareness! Unfortunately, it is reduced to a mere ritual now(exceptions are very rare), with neither party having experiential awareness of its importance or significance!