Haha, nice Bets. I'm not a father myself, but I noticed babies are different from each other. With some it's almost spooky. Although very very young and small, some do focus me with their eyes even from a wider distance, and either smile and laugh, or keep staring at me seemingly lost in thoughts. You just can't help yourself but to feel they somehow connect to you.

Spooky

Dave

I can't seem to find any more information about this Gladys McCrary person. Is it possible there is another spelling of her name? Can you tell me where she works? Does she work in secret? This is very strange.

Thanks.

I recall when an infant that it was nearly impossible to get a grasp on the world because there were too many people hanging around poking me and saying stupid things. It's difficult to make sense out of something when everyone is dangling objects, and poking and jostling and fooling about to distract what little focus of attention there is.

The biggest problem children have is not lack of ability, but lack of experience. I think that were we to carefully train our kids to focus on a topic, then to understand how to express themselves, we'd start with a much wiser bunch of youngsters, and probably adults. There is good reason to feel that infants have a fairly good grasp of words and ideas long before they have been able to form the sounds of language. The point of this is that there is nothing wrong with the infant's brain except sufficient time to get it programmed to the everyday world.

Interestingly, if we look at a newborn, we can see essentially the same collection of abilities as we can expect to carry with us into the afterlife, except here we see them being brought back in a rebirth. The internal aspects are fully operational, yet they relate very badly to the everyday world because they lack the experiential basis for function.

d

[quote author=Alfred link=1205334892/15#18 date=1208116667]Hallo All!
Hi Albert, my comments in italics,...gordon....

Just carrying on Roger's thoughts.... do all babies carry on their development in the Afterlife?
Yes they do !  Topic covered in detail in my first book Eternal Life And How To Enjoy It.

if we accept that a soul has "decided" to incarnate into a baby's physical body, then presumably its intentions for doing so (development in the Earth Life System) are thwarted when that body dies prematurely. Would that soul not wish to reincarnate quickly if its original  desire was still to benefit from the ELS? How would developing through the stages of a non-physical baby's body in the afterlife help it - wouldn't it be wasting "time", so to speak?
Or is that baby's passing pre-ordained in some way - i.e. has the soul itself decided to call time, and "blow the whistle" early in the game?
Both types of case occur Albert; i know this from my own research and from reading the available literature.  Mostly "premature death" as arranged beforehand to either spiritually benefit the incarnating soul or its parents; but there are some cases where physiological/biological
crises are unforeseen or underestimated, and the baby body gives out.  In those cases the soul very often reincarnates quickly, very often to the same parents.
(topic covered in both my books)

best wishes, gordon

Roger,

Gordon was quoting from an earlier post of mine - so he's not responsible!

I was thinking out loud, and asking largely rhetorical questions. At the end of my post, I speculated along just the lines you mention - i.e. the possibility of pre-ordainment in this.

Best wishes,

Alfred