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How to explain the existence of child prodigies?
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On
focusing
upon
this
theme,
the
magazine
Superinteressante
commits
a new
mistake
with a
covering
text
full of
ironies
and
speculations
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Unfortunately,
the magazine
Superinteressante
has committed
another mistake.
The first one
was in relation
to the reporting
text with the
title "An
investigation:
Chico Xavier",
published in the
27th
edition, of
April 2010, in
which Chico
Xavier was
called of an
impostor, as it
printed that the
medium, upon
receiving
letters from
dead relatives
who communicated
with their
families, sent
his advisers to
talk to people
beforehand,
noting down
information in
order to give
authenticity to
the letters. Of
course, if this
were true, Chico
would need to be
a prodigy to
quickly read all
information,
dates, names,
etc., and insert
them into the
context of each
message, of each
Spirit, always
cheating.
Throughout the
contents of the
reporting text
there is a lack
of journalistic
ethics, and it
demonstrates a
total absence of
research with
the aim of
slandering the
unparalleled
personality of
the medium.
The second
occurred three
months later, in
the report
entitled
"Success and
failure," of
the July 2010
edition, in
which the
magazine reveals
itself to be
anti-scientific
when it tries to
explain the
cause of child
prodigies using
baseless
arguments and
not based on
science, as we
read in the
following text:
"It's difficult
to get used to
the idea that we
are all born
with the same
chances to
shine.
Especially when
we look at those
people who seem
to have
supernatural
abilities –
those that make
you remember
your limitation
on a daily
basis: child
prodigies, for
example. the
most well known
of all children
prodigies was
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (compared
to him, the girl
called Maysa is
an amateur). At
3 years of age,
the Austrian boy
began playing
the piano. At 5
years of age he
was already
composing. At 6
years of age he
performed
blindfolded to
the King of
Bavaria. At 12
years of age he
finished his
first opera. For
centuries, he
has been cited
as absolute
proof that
talent is
something that
comes from birth
to some chosen
children ... ".
Initially, we
must clarify
that
reincarnation,
before being a
mere
philosophical
question for
Spiritism;
relies on the
verification of
the
reincarnation
phenomenon
through
scientific
research, today
under broad
public domain.
There are two
arguments
whereby academic
science has
sought to
explain the
existence of
gifted children
The Indian
parapsychologist
Hamendra
Banerjee has
researched over
1,200 cases of
people who had
sharp memories
of who they were
in previous
lives; from the
place where they
had lived, names
of relatives, to
their own names,
nicknames and
events which
happened to
them. The data
has been duly
checked by
Banerjee,
proving
reincarnation,
although he
admitted that it
is possible for
someone to
recall other
lives through
extra-cerebral
memory. However,
for us
spiritists, this
memory that
survives the
death of the
physical body
and returns to
exist in another
carnal clothing,
is called
reincarnated
Spirit.
Due to the
increasing
number of
children with an
above-average
degree of
intelligence,
research into
the likely
origins of this
phenomenon has
been much
developed. On
the subject,
there are two
theses whereby
academic science
has sought to
explain the
existence of
gifted children.
The first one is
to do with
genetic
inheritance,
i.e. that
super-intelligent
parents would
generate
super-intelligent
children. The
second thesis
assigns the
phenomenon to
cerebral
hypoxaemia:
children born
through
difficult
deliveries would
have as a
result, their
brain cells
stimulated, and
this would
result in a
higher
intelligence
quotient.
Both have a
materialistic
imprint and none
goes to the
bottom of the
question. None
has the courage
to examine the
problem in the
light of a
philosophy which
considers man as
something
transcendent of
matter.
Only the theory
of reincarnation
can open to
Science safer
paths for an
efficient
research about
this and other
similar
phenomena. With
his millennial
wisdom, Socrates
stated that "to
learn is to
recall".
We want to
highlight from
the text
"Success and
Failure" the
unfortunate
comparison
between Mozart,
and the girl
named Maysa,
from the TV
programmes of
Raul Gil and
Silvio Santos,
because it is to
do with
comparing
geniuses with a
lively
intelligence, a
high degree of
sensitivity and
with public
entertainment.
Eugénie Colombe,
then two years
and eleven
months old,
already knew how
to read and
write perfectly
Now we see that
Superinteressante
magazine
invented a
theory which has
no scientific
basis, to
explain Mozart´s
intelligence,
who played piano
at three years
of age, and who
at four years of
age played a
sonata.
Let the readers
be amazed!
According to the
magazine, he
would have
trained a lot to
have this
ability.
But when did he practice?
According to the
theory invented
by magazine,
that is, by
Hypothesis of
Training, it
happened between
the age of 1
and, totalled
3,500 hours of
training or
teaching, in
between baby
bottles and
dummies.
His musical
ability
developed so
quickly that at
11 years of age
he composed two
small operas;
besides playing
the piano at the
age of three,
where did he
train his
"inspiration"
and his
"sensitivity" to
compose? And
from where did
he take this
predisposition,
at such young
age, to devote
himself to
exhaustive and
complex musical
studies? In
truth, the
theory proposed
by the Magazine
leans more
towards the
absurd than to
the scientific.
A musician, in
fact, must
practice a lot
in order to
obtain
perfection.
Hours of
practice are
needed, on a
relentless quest
for the best
form of
interpretation.
But what
explains the
sensitivity and
the aptitude for
music? How can
we explain that
fingers which
are still in
formation and
growth are able
to achieve with
perfection, the
keys of the
piano?
Where did Jesus
get so much
wisdom to
answer, at
twelve years of
age all
questions posed
by doctors of
the Law, to the
point of causing
them to be
surprised and
puzzled at the
wisdom of boy,
the son of a
Carpenter? Well,
without
reincarnation,
there is no way
to explain the
musical
precocity of
Mozart and of so
many other
children related
by the
researcher
Gabriel Delanne,
as well as wise
men, painters,
poets and
literati. Since
childhood,
Pascal showed
the taste for
study,
especially of
geometry. At
thirteen years
of age, he
discovered the
first 32
propositions of
Euclid and
published a work
on conical
sections.
How to fit into
the new theory
of
Superinteressante,
that is, the
"Hypothesis of
Training", the
fact mentioned
by Allan Kardec
in the Journal
of Psychological
Studies
(Spiritist
Magazine),
February 1867,
the precocity of
Eugénie Colombe,
reported by
newspapers in
Toulon. The
girl, then two
years and eleven
months of age,
already knew how
to read and
write perfectly.
Furthermore, she
was able to
sustain a more
serious
examination of
the principles
of the Christian
religion, French
grammar,
geography, the
history of
France and the
four arithmetic
operations.
The one who was
called the God
of music, that
is Beethoven, at
ten years of age
already differed
himself
for his
remarkable
talent
Eugénie Colombe
knew the rose of
the winds and
was able to
perfectly
maintain a
scientific
discussion on
all these
subjects. She
started talking
very distinctly
when four months
old. Eugénie
Colombe was
presented in the
halls of the
town council of
the maritime
city of Toulon.
She was endowed
with a charming
facial
appearance and
obtained
"admirable"
success. As for
geography, the
girl cited the
five parts of
the world, the
capitals of
countries,
various capitals
of the
Departments of
France. She also
responded
perfectly on the
first notions of
French grammar
and the metric
system. The girl
gave all those
answers
unhesitatingly
whilst having
fun with toys
that she had to
hand. Her mother
then said that
she knew how to
read since the
age of two and a
half and
guaranteed that
the girl was
able to respond
similarly to
more than five
hundred
questions.
In the history
of music, we
find a series of
child prodigies,
called gifted
children.
Besides Mozart,
Gabriel Delanee,
in the book
The
Reincarnation,
cites a list of
them.
Here are some of
the cases
mentioned by the
French writer:
The one who was
called the God
of music,
Beethoven, at
the age of ten
had already
distinguished
himself for his
remarkable
talent as a
performer. And,
in another
genre, the
precocity of the
great violinist
Paganini was
such that, at
the age of nine,
he was already
being applauded
at a concert in
Genoa.
At the age of
six, Meyerbeer
had enough
talent to give
concerts which
were greatly
appreciated.
Liszt, a
wonderful
virtuoso since
early childhood,
wrote, at the
age of fourteen,
an opera in one
Act, "D. Sancho"
or the "Castle
of Love".
Rubinstein,
brought from
Russia to Paris
at the age of
eleven, had
universal
admiration for
the beauty of
his playing of
the piano.
Sarasate, at the
age of eleven,
already showed
the qualities of
pure sound and
style which made
him the greatest
violinist of his
time.
Saint-Saëns, a
precocious
virtuoso at the
age of eleven
gave his first
piano concert,
and was only
sixteen years
old when he
completed his
first Symphony.
Gabriel Delanne
also points out
that he had the
pleasure of
watching the
young Pepito
Ariola at a
Congress of
Psychology in
1900, who at the
age of three and
a half played
and improvised
several Arias.
Professor
Charles Richet,
also known as
the father of
Metaphysics
published one of
his cases study,
which said that
Ariola played,
before the King
and Queen of
Spain, six
compositions of
own his
creation,
without knowing
the notes, or
knowing how to
either read or
write.
The Spirit
exchanges
clothing
throughout
successive
reincarnations,
but it never
loses its
acquired
knowledge
One can observe
that the origin
of extraordinary
faculties of an
individual,
without
preliminary
study, is an
attribute of the
Spirit that
holds memories
of the past.
This occurs
because of
earlier acquired
progress in the
fields of
painting,
literature,
poetry and in
other branches
of art and
science.
But, where does
the knowledge of
aptitude and
musical
sensibility, as
in the cases of
Mozart and of
other geniuses
mentioned here,
come from? The
answer is
simple, and we
already have
commented upon
it. The Spirit
exchanges its
physical
clothing
(appearance)
through
successive
reincarnations,
but it never
loses its
immortal
individuality or
its moral and
intellectual
knowledge
acquired along
its experiences,
in the course of
its spiritual
evolution, to
conquer the
condition of
pure Spirit, the
same obtained by
Christ.
Still on the
subject,
Spiritist
Doctrine, as a
spiritualist
philosophy,
proves with
irrefutable
evidence, that
intelligence is
independent of
the body,
because it is an
attribute of the
Spirit, since
the high degree
of intellectual
activity can
show itself
among those
whose age has
not reached full
physical
maturity, as in
the several
examples we
mentioned.
In question 203
of The Book of
Spirits, the
Spiritual
Benefactors, in
response to
Allan Kardec,
clarified that
the parents do
not transmit to
their children
plots of their
own souls,
because the soul
is indivisible.
They just give
them animal
life, that is,
genetic
resources,
transmitting to
their children
physical
heredity such as
the color of
hair and eyes,
the shape and
size of certain
parts of the
face or body.
Still on the
same issue, the
Benefactors have
said that an
obtuse father,
i.e., an
ignorant one,
can have a smart
son and vice
versa, and that
there are
several examples
in the history
of people.
The puzzle that
scientists have
to show is
incomplete.
They will never
understand the
role of DNA
while not
placing the
Spirit and the
perispirit in
that context.
They will,
therefore, carry
on looking at
the effects as
an explanation
for everything,
as if we were
only an organic
machine.
It is therefore
surprising that
a magazine such
as
Superinteressante,
which is seen as
a cutting edge
scientific
publication,
publishes a text
full of somewhat
ironic
¨speculations,
summarily
dismissing the
thesis of
reincarnation,
which is already
widely studied
by renowned
scientists from
several
universities and
research
centers, such as
the doctor
psychiatrist Jim
Tucker, who has
been giving
continuity to
the research on
the subject held
by renowned
researcher Ian
Stevenson, who
has recently
passed away,
author of Twenty
Cases suggestive
of
Reincarnation.
Author's note:
Click on this
link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeGkIzjxODY&NR=1
and see what the
doctor
psychiatrist
American Jim
Tucker said on
the subject of
reincarnation on
the TV Globo
program
Fantastico shown
on 8/8/2010.
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