Despite being born in 1993, Brooke Greenberg did not grow; she could not eat, and could not walk alone or talk. She had the size and mental capacity of a child. Oddly enough, she still had the same teeth as when he was, in fact, a baby. She was never diagnosed as having any known genetic syndrome or chromosomal anomaly that might help explain why she did not grow. Even a study of her DNA was not able to specify why she remained with the body and appearance of a child until she disembodied in 2013.

Some experts try to discover an explanation for her not-aging. For Richard Walker of the University of South Florida's School of Medicine in Tampa, Brooke's body did not have a coordinated development. It's like as if she is out of synchrony. Proof of this was her bone age when she disembodied, estimated at 10 years. In her first six years of life, Brooke went through a series of medical emergencies and survived them all. She had seven stomach ulcers, a brain convulsion that was diagnosed as a stroke, with no apparent damage. At 4 years of age, Brooke fell into a lethargy that led her to sleep for 14 days. Doctors then diagnosed a brain tumor. Brooke attended a school for children with special needs and remained as if frozen in the most absolute childhood.

Similar case is that of Suraya Brown, known as "the girl who refuses to grow". Over ten years of age, she weighs 7 kilos today, which would be normal for a 3 year child. Bone x-rays revealed abnormalities, but a genetic test for a rare dwarf disease, called Silver-Russell Syndrome, turned out to be negative, as well as other forms of dwarfism that were also ruled out.

Brooke and Brown are extremely rare cases. The facts lead us to think about the functional structure of the perispirit, the Law of Cause and Effect, reincarnation, suicide, among other topics that the Spiritist Doctrine explains prudently.

By the way, on the reincarnations thesis

The World Christian Encyclopediastates that the "500 researchers and 121 consultants, after visiting 212 countries, have concluded in 100 reports that in the year 2000 the population of the Earth would reach over 6 billion inhabitants and that 2/3 of this population, i.e., about 4 billion people, would have an idea about reincarnation”.⁽¹⁾

Regarding the issue of the plurality of existences, strictly speaking, before we reincarnate, examining our own needs for moral improvement, we often ask for a physical limitation on our new bodily experience, so that this condition induces us to elevate our feelings. We ask the Benefactors for a physical disability capable of educating our impulses; this or that physical injury that will make us work our discipline; a specific mutilation that will inhibit us of an exaggerated aggressiveness; the psychological complex that removes from us inferior ideas, and so on.

It is the consistency of justice before the Law of Reincarnation and the Principle of Cause and Effect. In fact, we have lived on Earth or on other orbs countless times and we have recorded in the subtle tissue of the psych soma the records of our previous acquisitions and follies, which are energetic fulcrums in potentiation nuclei, and, at the moment of the connection of the perispirit to the zygote, we reflect, in this cellular body, the coefficient of our moral stage. Therefore, our moral state is what will determine rebirths, with congenital anomalies or not.

Congenital malformations are extremely variable in both type and causal mechanism, but all arise from a development disorder during fetal life. There are biochemical anomalies that manifest at birth or in the neonatal period and are considered as birth defects, although they are not associated with a current malformation. A child may be malformed because its genetic programming was imperfect, or because environmental factors altered the training work, or even by the simultaneous existence of both.

For this reason, the malformations are classified into three major groups: genetic causes, environmental causes and multifactorial causes. The former are hereditary and can be repeated in the family; the second occur sporadically, and the latter are like an intermediate situation between the two.

Perispirit, Headquarters of Diseases

The roots of any pathology have their bases in the perispirit structure. Even if it is apparently healthy, a person can bring into their vital centers the latent dysfunctions acquired in this or other lives which will sooner or later come to the surface in the physical body in the form of various more or less serious syndromes, according to the extent of the injury and the mental position of the debtor.

We are heirs to our past actions, both good and bad. The account of destiny, created by ourselves, is imprinted on the psychosomatic body. These records flow into the physical body and culminate in determining the balance or imbalance of vital fields.

Only the academic recognition, in the future, of the primacy of the Spirit over matter, associated with the reincarnations principle, i.e., the integration of spiritual inheritance with genetic heredity, commanded by the Spirit via perispirit, governed by the Law of Cause and Effect, is what will allow the true causes of the imbalances that hatch in the physical body under aspects of various syndromes, including psychological disorders, to be identified in the immortal Spirit.

Free will and compulsory law

Question 335 of The Book of Spiritsstates that the Spirit can choose the kind of life he wants as a test; in addition, he can also choose his body, because the imperfections of the body are tests that will help his progress, if he indeed overcomes the obstacles. ⁽²⁾ However, the choice does not always depend on him. When the Spirit is in deficit, morally, or unfit to make a wise choice, God imposes upon him experiences as an instrument of atonement.

The Law of Cause and Effect regulates our deeds, our actions and our thoughts. It is through the plurality of existences that Spiritism teaches us that the evils and afflictions suffered by us are tests or atonement, and we suffer in our present life the consequences of the faults we committed in a previous life.

Thus, until we have removed the last debt of our imperfections with our own consciousness, we will go on living in the sequence of our reincarnations, life after life, on Earth or in another world, in order to reach the fullness of light. "All our actions are subject to the Laws of God; there is not one of our actions, no matter how insignificant they may appear to us, that cannot be a violation of these laws. If we suffer the consequences of this violation, we should complain only of ourselves, because we are the architects of our happiness or our future unhappiness". ⁽³⁾ 

By the Law of Cause and Effect which is recorded in one's own conscience, man can understand the cause of his sufferings and all the evil that afflicts mankind, and above all he can know and love a just and rational God within, who gives each according to his works.

 

References:

(1) The World Christian Encyclopedia, from the Anglican Church of England, edited by the University of Oxford (Time-Life no. 18).

(2) KARDEC, Allan. The Book of Spirits, RJ: Ed. FEB, 1992, Question 335.

(3) Ibid, Question 964.