Child Prodigy

But for this occurrence, or even the ‘sighting’ of ‘child prodigies’, people would never even need to take a second look at the possibility of some kind of ‘carry-forward’ from the period before birth!

Without a heavy compromise of restricting our arguments to the sensory perceptional levels, there is no way to ‘appeal’ to the logical minds. Without that appeal, where is the scope for motivation, inspiration, persuasion, etc?

Despite my ‘guarded’ attempts to refrain from looking at questions which instantly require us to peek into intangible areas, I did ‘trip/slip’ this time too. While I least expected the answer to find any appeal, the comments made me further inquisitive about any such others who would concur with it! (Otherwise, prodigies are never a bother for us, and often, they seldom make it big later on too! The added advantages are often got lost, with we people around!)

Psn(30th August, 2010)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100828101056AAAPfht
How come child prodigies are born ?is it because of purva punyam ?
Taking another birth or accepting another body is very subtle. Senses are higher than the dull matter, mind is higher than the senses and intelligence is still higher than the mind and soul is still subtler than the intelligence. Soul being subtler than the intelligence, mind, senses does not require transfer of genes.source;-mr.nitai gaura

My answer:
Almost a decade ago, there was a news that the algae, the largest producers of oxygen-for-human-inhalation(largest, because of the low heights too), some where in Russia, had to reprogram its children through cell-modification, to survive. The mills nearby a river started polluting the water, causing survival threat to these algae. Over a few generations, these algae started releasing some toxins which would withstand any boiling or any filtration. And these toxins were lethal during intake of this water by humans. The newspaper caption warned "respect nature, or else perish". The newspapers added that if nothing was done, this threat would overtake even HIV problem in magnitude. (Within algae, the latest child-algae is a child prodigy!). If we are prepared to keep an open mind and look at collective will over generations, many factors contribute towards this factor of 'child-prodigy'. And what we value presently, also goes into 'branding' it as prodigy. For instance, a child who can write beautifully some years ago, gets better recognition. Computers have taken away the need for good handwriting. A child who happens to sing well does not get any recognition amidst a deaf-group.

Traditionally, in ancient days, importance used to be given for highest possibility of human birth. Therefore, prodigies were also recognised, mostly for that aspect. That gave rise to the concept of generations of carefully 'arranged' off-springs. When this highest aspect faded out due to other pressing priorities of life, this concept got disregarded.
(There was a technique, which now looks like a myth/blind belief. We used to 'invoke' potential person into a womb through rituals). But we still use this technique with milch animals like cows/buffaloes, with edible grains like rice-varieties, etc, where we consciously do not mix up breeds, strains. That is because we use people and love things. Earlier they loved people and used things.