The Very Old and Very Young: Seeing the Illusion
Very young children and very old people share something. Both of these groups see the illusion. Children under seven retain their sense of wonder and their connection to the realm their soul inhabited before coming to earth. Their imagination is magical and nothing is impossible. It is only after this age that the world of infinite potential fades, and the child begins to learn to copy the adult world of limited thinking. The imagination dulls because adults are fond of discouraging that fertile imagination in children. Children believe they are more than the body they inhabit, and so they can become anything they wish to become, and they do not know the word ‘can’t’, until adults tell them they can’t do something.
Very old people will tell you that while the body ages and runs down like an old clock, the spirit, the real identity within does not age. Many of them have the wisdom to also see the illusion, that there is more to themselves than the body they inhabit. Once young and strong and beautiful in form, now they have been taught by time, that while the outside withers, the inside grows more beautiful and is of lasting value. In the end, curly hair means less than character. A dimple turns to a wrinkle, and those who have not learned this, grasp on to the illusion that they are the body.
A child does not care if its hair is combed or its shirt is on inside out, that child is only after the adventure of discovery. The old person at some point turns the attention away from the physical world of illusion and finally perceives life, aging and death, as just the opportunity to continue the adventure they left as children.
The old, are getting ready to go back home where they came from. The body was created just for their journey into the physical world, and hopefully they are leaving wiser than when they entered, as souls plunge over and over again into the dense illusionary material world, to learn these lessons which only flesh can teach.
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