Glossary · Term

Innocent

In our culture, a person free of guilt. In this context, the innocent person is someone who lacks information and, therefore, does not know.

In the Foundation's Topics

The innocent mind becomes filled with limitations because it accepts all the information that reaches it as true.
From the topic Learning to Transcend Fears
We need to reach a verdict, and there are only two possibilities for each person: either they are innocent or they are guilty—in our terms, since the guilty party does not exist, we will say that they are “not innocent” or that they need to take on the result they are accused of.
From the topic Learning to Respect Without Judging
When consciousness first enters the human field, it is at the first level of development and is practically empty of human information; in other words, it is innocent.
From the topic The Evolution of Consciousness

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