(Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar) – Eugênia, in a magazine of general circulation, it was said about the “revolution of the seniors”. Populations, ageing, are achieving parity between the number of the elderly and the young, as never happened in the history of mankind. Would you have anything to say about the subject?
(Spirit Eugênia) – We are not interested in the socioeconomic and political aspects involved in a true paradigmatic and structural revolution in the organization of societies – this will soon be a challenge for the modernity, as the issues of Social Security systems and concepts of what work, retirement and disability are. We could call attention here to the symbolic, psychological and spiritual aspects involved in this curious revolution. And the first is that the human being is not body, basically, but spirit, since youth is just a beginning for old age. Youngsters are seeds of the elderly. Unless one dies before, one gets old. Despite the best techniques to prolong human health, vitality and longevity, one becomes older. Ironically, the advances of medicine are favoring the individuals, in terms of quality of life and life expectancy, precisely at the stage we could call as old age. The old people are living longer. This suggests that the human being cannot rely on their physical structure, one should not identify with it, or establish safety criteria or life goals, values or meanings, based on an evanescent and fragile structure as the physical body.
(BTA) – And what would you say to confront what you just told us with the concepts of youth culture?
(SE) – Simply childish. Who identifies with the body and a youthful appearance, as their greatest value, already reveals little depth of ideas and feelings. No comments.
(BTA) – Primitive cultures value the elderly as much as the most developed ones. What could you tell us about this line of reasoning?
(SE) – It is right. The more enlightened a population, the more it appreciates its full age elements, because they represent its more experienced and wiser stratum. Command posts and positions of responsibility thus will be increasingly entrusted to older people, though we can make exceptions to those who are qualified to occupy such prominent positions, even if they belong to age groups closer to the base of the population pyramid – by the way, increasingly less pyramidal1.
(BTA) – You touched on a reason that would be relevant to some of our readers. For us, who believe in reincarnation, would not be a contradiction to agree with this line of thought, since an older spirit can be in a younger body and vice versa?
(SE) – It is foolish to assume that a raw brain, less trained, is also able to receive complex information and to process intricate data the same way a more experienced brain is. Remember that the greatest wise men of the past, starting with Buddha and Jesus, waited to reach maturity body to act with great accuracy and safety. Today, neurosciences have advanced enough on earth to endorse the notes provided here. Neuronal corridors completely new arise from the exercise of intellection, so that more experienced brains see more clearly, with greater wideness and depth. On the other hand, it is important to consider symbolic and archetypal matters involved in the process of aging body. The mind is stimulated to be more thoughtful and serene, the individual lives the “role” of elder (or one is exhorted to this), each time that their body ages, in an incarnation. Forgetting other past lives asks exactly this total dive into the “situation” of the physical condition, and, obviously, such immersion has a powerful influence over states of mind and ways of feeling and understanding the world. Since the endocrine and neurophysiological systems until issues related to social functions and responsibilities for interpersonal relationships (in the condition of “grandpa” or “the most experienced man in the company”), everything encourages the spirit to exercise and live wisdom.
(BTA) – Very interesting. Would you have anything else to add to this matter?
(SE) – No. What matters most is to say that.
(Mediumistic dialogue held on August 19, 2004.)