what are the ways in which we avoid catalyst?

[Diana]

I've been avoiding catalyst successfully since I began working from home a long time ago, and became a cave-dwelling recluse.

However, I think it may be just the opposite. That young people have the innate sense of immortality, and through conditioning discard this knowing for the "safer" belief in mortality.

Any comments on this theory?

Possible. For me there may have been an unconscious knowledge that nothing could harm me. While we can choose to harm ourselves, it does not appear that we can end our incarnations out of free will. If the lessons can still be learned with an amount of damage or suffering, then we are allowed to cause our own suffering. I am finding that for some the body itself needs to be kept fully viable and so is not allowed to be permanently damaged.

I agree the body not only needs to be kept viable within the context of the life plan, but also respected as a life-form. I had an experience of becoming almost transparent once, and my car looking as though it was inside another car, when someone would have hit me in an intersection. I just (slowly in a trance-like state) drove through the car and away. This suggested to me that I was kept from harm, just as you said.