Randy, a child prodigy, was 7 years old when he abruptly announced the following:
“Truth is the word of being. People who are questioned by the being word must be answered. People who do not answer by the being word are afraid of their death. People who do say the being word open a new life. Truth is the word of being.”
When asked by his mom whether he‘d remembered this passage from a book he might have been reading, Randy said no, that he’d not read it anywhere. Puzzled and astonished, his mother wrote down the passage word for word. Tufts University researcher David Henry Feldman recounted this case in his illuminating extended study of six child prodigies, titled “Nature’s Gambit.”
Another “out of the blue” discourse was delivered to psychologist Joseph Chilton Pearce by his 5-year-old son. Pearce was teaching humanities at college, engrossed in theology and the psychology of Carl Jung. One morning, as he was preparing at home for an early class, his son came into his room, sat down on the edge of the bed, and launched into a 20-minute lecture of his own about the nature of God and man. His son, Pearce recollects, “...spoke in perfect, publishable sentences, without pause or haste, and in a flat monotone.”
