Death and Wisdom part 2.

I received an objection by a member of a philosophical forum that I contribute towards, regarding the subject of Death and Wisdom and my claim that only Age can bring true wisdom

Her objection is quoted below.

I think it's very self-misleading to suppose wisdomness just because of your age. This makes people very narrow minded and closed to alternative views on things in general, but stubbornness can be overcome by a willingness to listen to other peoples ideas even though they might be right.

Hopefully my response provides increased clarification.

Of course everybody is born with a degree of wisdomness and keeps improving upon it as they grow up. Most people do not realize that we all experience seven distinct stages of wisdom as we age.

1. Infancy 0 - 4years
2. Childhood 4 - 11 years
3. Puberty 11 - 14 years
4. Teenhood 14 - 21 years
5. Stewardship 21 - 42 years
6. Mastership 42 - 63 years
7. Sagehood. 63 - 84 years.

None of those time periods are set in stone of course, but they give a reasonably close approximation of graduated development. In normal circumstances every graduation leads to increasing states of self and social awareness. What is vitally important and the criteria I use by which to value wisdom, is that each stage of growth is closely linked to our perceptions of the relativity of the Space/Time consortium.

For example: An infant lives in a naive state of relativity. For them everything exists in the moment. After weaning, from about four years onwards, we begin to increasingly artificialize the here and now as we start to factor past and future states of expectation into our consciousness. This sense of separation from the here and now cycles outwards and peaks at menopause before it begins to shrink back again. Ideally, in sagehood, a state of sagacious perception of the relativity of space and time becomes part of the consciousness. (IE, all distances are very far if you are old and tired and times passes quickly if you are having fun)

At extreme age, Past; Present and Future begin to accelerate the fuse towards a singularity, which is experienced during the Death Moment, when the here and now is starkly present and fully loaded with everything that ever happened and everything that ever will. If the psyche has freed itself of guilt, this timeless moment is the ultimate state of wisdom (enlightenment if you will) and is the fruit of human evolution.