“How do such people come into this life with so much talent from an early age? His answer; ‘they attend various regions in the after life where they are trained to work on something of that nature’ to paraphrase him. So I would suppose that it would take many incarnations of work and experience as well as some degree of good karma to even be able to be able to go to those regions of the astral realm. Not to mention the infinite temptations of worldly life and fame that would hack away at their talent to express such innovative expression, once they were given the script. Such people are very complex and have many good and some challenging aspects to their persona. Through them we are often able to learn about ourselves as well, since everything we witness is part of our consciousness. Just as we have seen unkind words others have thrown at us as barbs, they also have had many unkind thoughts about one another yet there have been moments of understanding as well, and appreciation for all our life’s experiences.
That's an astounding concept. So talent wouldn't be just the fruit of the experience of previous lives, but something far beyond, targeted development of those abilities to superhuman levels. And it would be valid for different areas, such as the sciences, and mathematics and so on...
I have something to add to your considerations above, a couple of things actually.
First, talent is not a universal gift. More clearly, it is not universally accepted by everyone on earth, just by a large number of people. For example, I never liked the music of the Beatles, to me they are not the manifestation of a particular musical talent. The same I'm sure would apply to many people. Notwithstanding, I'm aware that they are recognized as the absolute founders of pop music and loved by tens of millions, maybe hundreds.
My point is that if talented ones become too proud, they would do better to notice that many people do not care at all of their gifts.
Last, we see that very often such extremely talented people lose their mental balance, this is often because they do not recognize their talent as an expression of God, but rather as an expression of their ego.
Mccoy thanks for your additional reasoning and diplomacy, which like usual are a developed ability and ‘gift’ you’ve been given to navigate through the treacherous worldly realm of excess; too much sex, drugs, alcohol, social intrusion and proudness that accompanies all earthly attainments and therefore delusions. Most likely the attainments of such success for such salient individuals will be in historical accounts for perhaps a few hundred years at most, and then become footnotes in historical remembrance before disappearing altogether. I agree there are without much doubt many places of higher learning after this life just as we have some here in the material realm. The music of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Rodrigo have been an inspiration for many pop stars of our generation and some of it transcends time much more than some variations we have heard today. But as we move upward in the Dwapara Yuga most likely people like Amma, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Alexei Navalny will be remembered even more for helping eliminate human suffering from the planet and standing up for the cause of truth and who showed the strength of their spirit, despite all the suffering they endured.
The writings, poetry and plays of Shakespeare, Herman Hesse, Yogananda and Kahil Gibran will most likely still be read far beyond the achievements of today. And the science of Einstein and Tesla will still be looked at when other passing phenomena are only a memory. Jazz and other forms of improvisation as well as music from remote places of the globe and cosmos will no doubt be influential in the future. Not many musicians or scientists had a universal enough perspective to get beyond the quagmire of the small lives they lived…the consciousness they were circumscribed into and the identity they succumbed to from their fans adoration.
