In this metaphor, the 36-year-olds represent the oldest and deepest parts of your brain/nervous system. The medulla, the basal ganglia, and such. Those very deep parts that are intimately mingled with survival and with what we think of as ‘instinct’.
This is the part of the brain that developed first, historically, and which has had the longest period of time to be around.
The 16-year-olds are the mammalian brain, the middle brain, the ‘limbic system’. It has also been around for a very, very long time and is the basis of our interdependent relationships, our interpersonal attachment, and our social survival strategies.
The 6-year-olds are, of course, the youngest. They talk a hell of a lot, but they haven’t really had many experiences. They’re extremely clever . But at this point, until they’ve gained some more wisdom and ‘flight time’, they’re causing more problems than they’re solving.
This is the cerebral cortex, which is the seat of our powers of conscious, intentional analysis. We like to think of the cerebral functions as ‘running the show’, but in truth, they’re quite new on the evolutionary scene and are basically the 6-year-olds in the car. We tend to identify, egoically, with the cortex.
The part of your brain/mind that is most natural, powerful, and skilled at manifesting is the survival level. The deepest level. From the perspective of our sense of “me”, that basal brain seems terribly primitive and old-fashioned. It can’t even read a book for goodness sakes!
well, that may be true. but it can beat a heart. it can breathe a lung. it protects and keeps safe.
Imagine your undisciplined cerebral cortex being responsible for breathing, blood circulation, heart beat 24 hours a day. It would get bored after a few minutes. Complain that it needs to take a break to do something ‘more important’. and then we’d drop dead.
Manifestation happens more effectively when the 6-year-old learns enough humility to communicate with the adult who is driving the car.
Manifestation happens more smoothly when our ego-driven ideas and analyses learn to respect the older parts of our mind, to consult them for their wisdom, and to pay the f*ck attention to what they have to say.
Which, by the way, happens to coincide pretty much precisely with good ol’ Med’tatin’.
(Good Ol’ Meditatin’)

(which part of the brain do you think most closely controls the 1000 coordinated mental processes involved in taking one solid, well-balanced step?)
now,
(which part of the brain do you think is blabbing away all day about ‘fixing the world’ and ‘achieving my dreams’, but would pretty much suck if it had to take one simple step on its own?)

In conclusion…
Humble the Intellect and respect the genius of the so-called ‘primitive’ deep mind.
and then…
Manifestation flows effortlessly.
