Jorge Hessen

The highest level gifted kids before the palingenesia

Gregory Robert Smith is an American whose genius surprises the world, even when compared to other prodigies. He could have been an ordinary pre-teen, if it was not for the huge potential of his intelligence exceeding, and with a big difference, the average presented by the "intelligence quotient" of other young people of his age. He was only one year and two months old when he already solved simple problems of algebra and, at 13 he graduated in mathematics, by the Randolp-Marcon College in Washington. He is the president of a foundation, the Youth Advocates, dedicated to the defense of needy youths; he has already met with major world leaders, discussing the future of Mankind and, in 2002, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

For Dr. Barbara Clark, of the University of California, two individuals with approximately the same genetic ability to develop intelligence can be considered potentially gifted or educable retarded, depending on the environment in which they interact. To understand how some individuals become gifted and others do not, we need to familiarize ourselves with the basic structure and function of the human brain.

At birth, according to Clark Barbara, the human brain has about 100 to 200 billion cells. Each cell has its place and is ready to be developed and to be used, and deliver the highest levels of human potential. "Although we do not develop neural cells, it is not necessary, because we already have them; if used, they would allow us to process several trillion of information during our lives. We use an estimated 5% less of this capacity. The way we use this complex system is crucial to the development of the intelligence and personality, and the very quality of life we ​​experience as we grow". [1]

For some researchers, the genes are the physiological and behavior agents; phenotype [2] is the result of the interaction of the environment with the genotype. Thus, genes determine the limits of the capabilities and potential of the body of any learning, and must take place necessarily within the limits given by genotypes that will suffer influence of the environment, which will give the ultimate expression of the characteristics.

Many children are creative, and creativity is the highlight in the activity of producing what is both unusual and useful. A direct implication of one’s own intellectual giftedness is that the gifted, by definition, interact with the world in a significantly different way from the way other people do. By the way, Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences proposes that the human mind is multifaceted, and there are several different capabilities that can receive the name of "intelligence." 

The gifted children 

Cases of forwarded children always call attention. The Academy of Science does not have a vigorous explanation of the subject; it assigns a "miraculous" biogenetic predisposition (!?), powered by external stimuli. Another enormous difficulty encountered by the doctors of the Academy is the non-agreement on the definition of "giftedness". Some researchers distinguish gifted [3] from talented, the first being considered as the individual high intellectual ability, or academic, and the second as having superior skills in the arts, music, and theater". [4]

The gifted, for example, can perceive more of the environment than most people. Therefore, this type of person tends to be seen as exaggerated or overly sensitive. Usually, it is more receptive to the emotional state of mind, to joy and pain, both his and others', and is most affected by shortcomings, injustices and frustrations. His doubts and convictions are more intensely lived, acquiring, for him, the amount of essential goals.

The little genius has intelligence, imagination, boldness and a certain inner self-reliance, traits that come in opposition to the more usual attitudes of dependence or imitation. Several experts agree that gifted students have psychological and behavioral peculiarities substantially different from those of the general population. It is a fact with important implications both for the identification and for the interaction with this type of individual. 

Kids who disturb materialistic science

The Brazilian Maiko Silva Pinheiro read at 4 years of age. He learned to make accounts at 5 and at 9 he was reprimanded by the teacher because he made divisions using his own logic, different from the method taught in school. Another Brazilian, Ricardo Tadeu Soares Cabral, began reading at 3 years of age; at 9 he wrote a book. When he became 12 years old, while attending the 8th grade of elementary school, he got the first place in the entrance exam to Law, at a private school of Rio de Janeiro. Ricardo became the youngest Brazilian in a university. Four years later, he entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest lawyer in the world. At 18 he completed his Masters in Law at the famous American Harvard University, one of the largest concentrations of gifted on the planet.

The famous French mathematician, Henri Poincare, who passed away in 1912, believed that the mathematics geniuses bring an inborn talent, that is, "they already come ready", which subtly enshrines the multiplicity of lives. The young Carlos Matheus Silva Santos, from the Brazilian State of Sergipe, now 32 years old, a poor student in a public school, achieved an unprecedented fact in one of the best training centers in Latin America, the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, where he obtained his doctorate when he was 19 years old. 

History gives space to some junior geniuses

Gabriel Delanne - in his book Reincarnation, in Chapter VII - deals with the "experiences of the renewal of memory", quoting Allan Kardec, and speaks of the perispirit that "survives death" and memorizes all experiences in other lives. [5] A Spirit that for centuries dedicated itself particularly to the study of mathematics brings, as emphasized by Poincare, this "inborn talent", the natural impulse to practice the activities that he likes most.

We find these same trends in exceptional musicians such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who from 2 to 3 years of age he already performed with ease, several piano pieces; he mastered three languages ​​(German, French and Latin); he played harmonious sounds on a violin at the age of 4; he played in public and composed minuets when he was 5 years old; and wrote his first opera, La Finta Semplice, in 1768, when he became 12. Paganini gave concerts at age of 9 in Genoa, Italy. Within the world literature, the phenomenon Victor Hugo is unique. When he was only 13, he was awarded the coveted prize of the city of Tolosa. Goethe knew how to write in different languages, before the age of 10.

We also quote Victor Hugo, the greatest genius of France, who wrote his first book at the age of 15. Pascal, 12 years old, with no books and no teachers showed thirty-two geometry propositions of Book I of Euclid; at 16, he wrote the "Treatise on Conic" and, just after that he wrote works of Physics and Mathematics. Michelangelo, at the age of 8 years, was released from the sculpture classes by his teacher, there was nothing more to teach him.

Allan Kardec, examining the question of genius, asked the Benefactors: - How to understand this phenomenon? They then said they were "past memories, previous progress of the soul (...)". [6] 

One must be born again

Dr. Richard Wolman of Harvard incorporated the concept of the Spiritual Intelligence to other theories in vogue. This concept is the human capacity to make fundamental questions about the meaning of life and to experience both the perfect connection between each of us and the world we live in. Not exactly what defines the Doctrine, but it's a step in the full understanding of the individual. Researchers like Ian Stevenson, Brian L. Weiss, H. N. Banerjee, Erlendur Haraldsson, Hellen Wanbach, Edit Fiore and others brought remarkable results on the reincarnation thesis.

Only a plurality of stocks may explain the diversity of characters, the variety of skills, the disproportion of moral qualities, in short, all the inequalities that our eye can see. Out of this law, it would be useless to ask why certain men have talent, noble feelings, lofty aspirations, while many others only manifest passions and coarse instincts. The influence of the environment, heredity and educational differences are not enough, obviously, to explain these phenomena. We see members of the same family, related through blood, through the genetic background, and educated in the same moral principles, being totally different as people.

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Do not marvel [Nicodemus] with what I told you: Ye must be born again" (Jesus) [7]. The doctrine of reincarnation is the one that fills the emptiness of the human soul seeking clarification about oneself. In our case, we ask: Who is gifted? What does he do on this Earth? What is his future? These questions are only answered (we repeat) having the plurality of existences as a natural answer mechanism. Without palingenesia there is no way to conceive the evolution or the human progress. About our physical life on the planet, what do a few years of life in a single existence represent? 

Conclusion 

To the Nicodemus of today we warn that "the wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but cannot tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit"[8] and man is the Wayfaring Man of Grief of the Universe and within eternity he receives resources and skills, develops capabilities, until he reaches the position of an archangel. [9]

References: 

[1]     Available in http://www.oconsolador.com.br/ano9/426/jorge_hessen.html  accessed on 09/14/2016.

[2] = Phenotype = Set of characters that appear visibly in an individual and express the reactions of its genotype (i.e., complete heritable genetic identity), given the particular circumstances of its development and in the face of its environment.

[3] The word "gifted" is used to identify a child that stands above the average, a general or specific skill, within its performance.

[4] Hessen, Jorge. Reincarnationist Thesis, article published in the Reformador/ FEB/ January 2005

[5] Delanne, Gabriel. Reincarnation, Rio de Janeiro: Publisher: FEB, 1987, Chapter VII

[6] Kardec, Allan. The Book of Spirits, Rio de Janeiro: Publisher: FEB, 2001, Question no. 219

[7] John 3:6, 7

[8] John 3:8

[9] Kardec, Allan. The Book of Spirits, Rio de Janeiro: Publisher: FEB, 2002, Question no. 540.