Your step-daughter (is that the right term?) sounds very typical, actually!
I think it may be all you can expect that she is at least receptive to hearing about the LOO. That's huge! Rejoice in that!
How wonderful that you have 2 very young children who can be brought up with LOO teachings! And it's wonderful that your wife is receptive. My husband is not into the LOO directly, though I've shared much with him. And he is into much other esoteric info. For example, since you mentioned Yogananda's book...he read that to our son when he was around age 12.
We were both raised Catholic and left organized religion upon adulthood, so we made a conscious decision to not subject our child to rigid dogma. We exposed him to a wide variety of esoteric teachings from an early age. We took him to various spiritual services, including Christian churches, Pagan gatherings, New Age meditations, etc.
My only regret is that perhaps we didn't provide him with enough of a foundation regarding prayer and meditation. I had envisioned teaching him to meditate at an early age, but the truth is that he was such a active child that he never responded well to doing any kind of inner work until he was a teenager, at which time I took him to classes on psychic healing and the like. So, while he did get much value from those, I do regret that I didn't teach him more about personal faith. Now a college student, he is questioning what he believes, whether there even is a God, whether any of the psychic phenomena etc. has any basis in reality, and currently rejecting a lot if "Mom's crazy Law of One stuff." But that's pretty typical at this age. So that's ok. I trust that he will find his way to what is appropriate for him.
I think it may be all you can expect that she is at least receptive to hearing about the LOO. That's huge! Rejoice in that!
How wonderful that you have 2 very young children who can be brought up with LOO teachings! And it's wonderful that your wife is receptive. My husband is not into the LOO directly, though I've shared much with him. And he is into much other esoteric info. For example, since you mentioned Yogananda's book...he read that to our son when he was around age 12.
We were both raised Catholic and left organized religion upon adulthood, so we made a conscious decision to not subject our child to rigid dogma. We exposed him to a wide variety of esoteric teachings from an early age. We took him to various spiritual services, including Christian churches, Pagan gatherings, New Age meditations, etc.
My only regret is that perhaps we didn't provide him with enough of a foundation regarding prayer and meditation. I had envisioned teaching him to meditate at an early age, but the truth is that he was such a active child that he never responded well to doing any kind of inner work until he was a teenager, at which time I took him to classes on psychic healing and the like. So, while he did get much value from those, I do regret that I didn't teach him more about personal faith. Now a college student, he is questioning what he believes, whether there even is a God, whether any of the psychic phenomena etc. has any basis in reality, and currently rejecting a lot if "Mom's crazy Law of One stuff." But that's pretty typical at this age. So that's ok. I trust that he will find his way to what is appropriate for him.