This young fellow has only been on the planet a little more than 3,285 days. And yet, he already sounds wiser and more insightful than many adults I’ve met in the 20,000-30,000 day range. Watch.
Video by Zia Hassan, ziahassan.com
He matter-of-factly stated, “the earth is just one planet in the galaxy.” That little gem of truth alone puts him in a universe-conscious citizen bracket decades ahead of many contemporary adults.
When asked if there was life on these other planets:
“I think there probably are many different kinds of life forms, thousand[s of] organisms; some may not be visible, some may not have been discovered, and some may be on places we can’t go…
He elaborated:
“You never really know for sure if there really is anything in the search; It’s just— it’s an endless quest, without knowing what your quest is … You have no proof that there’s anything out there; the only proof is yourself— and where you are in the universe— you can only make theories; you can never know the truth.”
“The only proof is your self.” He already grasps, it seems, the reality validating power of personal experience. And someday this bright child will come to realize you can know the truth, if only relatively. But he still gets high marks now for apparently understanding the pursuit of truth is indeed, an endless quest, and one that he may someday know— and personally experience— as the endless exploration of the Infinite.
When asked what is the meaning of our lives:
“That’s one of the hardest questions there is.
Priceless.
…I would say what the meaning of your life is, is what you make it; what you think— what you want your life to be; nobody can decide what you will do except for you; you have control over yourself; you may not be lucky enough, and the odds may be against you, but there’s never a definite ‘no’ that you cannot do this…”
What marvelous strength of character and unfettered optimism!
And he did not hesitate to get in the deep water:
Q: Are the events in life predestined?
It may be predestined, but you can change that destiny; … I might be wrong, it might be just, ‘scheduled,’ like some ‘play’ or something, and you act it, not knowing that you’re part of it, but, all the same, maybe destiny is just telling you, maybe you just ‘know it,’ and that’s what destiny is; destiny is a guess— a guess of what it knows about you— and what it knows you would do; but, then again, I might be wrong; and destiny might be totally in control of you.”
Not every nine year old even knows what predestination is, let alone is able to spontaneously speculate about it’s role in fashioning human destiny. But it should be clear to anyone this lad is no ordinary nine year old. And it’s not only what he says that’s so impressive, but how he expresses himself— still nine, yes, but with a charming sense of humility (“I could be wrong”…), a vibrant vocabulary, and a budding sense of cosmic consciousness; it makes me excited for his entire generation.
It is inevitable that someday Urantia will be entirely populated with the sort of minds that intuitively grasp the unlimited boundaries of universe citizenship, that are eager to explore cosmic consciousness and willingly construct their own cosmology. But to see it and hear it come out of the mouth of a babe is a remarkable thing.
