Just as knowledge of the world must be passed down and learnedin humans, so must the spiritual experience. . . . Based on a rather constant ratio in mammals of the time to reach sexual maturity as a percent of average life span, the human natural life span is around
120 years. Just as by middle age we should have a knowledge of the physical
world and the skills to thrive in it and be ready to pass that along, in all
likelihood it takes until the age of 100 or more to have the spiritual knowledge
we need to pass along. . . . This, says I, is what one's middle years are all
about: the ability for great bouts of physical work and also times of wending
one's way through life a bit more dreamily.
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