Blake was right again. Many adults experience this and an accompanying mental passivity that reflects a limited, limiting attitude toward life, often related to a desire to control and use others. What he called “the mind-forg’d manacles”.
Two ways to transcend this mode are 1) to associate with Innocence, (re)learning from it and/or 2) to activate one’s own Inner Child in a fulfilling, unblind way, releasing one’s repressed desires from fear and shame. We are, each of us, responsible for our own spiritual freedom and liberation from spiritual captivity. No one else.