What Makes Someone a Sage?

Why would you want to be a Sage?

As an Anthropologist, from all the research I have done around shamans and healers, Most of the research shows that people do not want to be a Sage. there are a lot of consequences, challenges and tribulations that come with the role of Sage. There is a lot to hold and a lot of responsibility to that role, so most people do not chose it. This role is usually assigned or the person "rises up" into.

Usually a person "has to be a Sage" or they will "die". The Force and life is usually moving this person to this role to the point that if they resist it - something bad will happen to them.

As an example, when Edger Casey took some time off form his work, I read that he got really sick and his life started to get disrupted. His only "cure" was to return to his path of Sage.

Edger Casey was a sage?

Rickie The Grey wrote: What makes someone a Sage?
How do you become one?
Why would you want to be a Sage?

Sage wisdom I guess is about saying what the other person 'really' needs to hear, which might not be the same thing as what they want to hear.... and for someone to call someone a Sage means I guess that then the information turns a key to realize the experience of things like curiosity and understanding to some deeper resonance. It would seem a complex thing to integrate into anothers worldview, visualize/access relevant solutions, elucidate in such a way to actualize some transformation in the recipient of this 'sage wisdom', made easier perhaps by sharing some empathy but I'm not sure if it requires empathy.. perhaps it does though I'd like to think it can be a consciously driven mental computation handled by the subconscious. I approach the concept of developing wisdom through both avenues of exercising functional empathy and trying to connect to more brain grunt. I aint no Sage by a long shot but it wouldn't hurt to be able to help people more in the domains of thought, decision making and even perhaps mental health... so I might as well try (not to be a Sage, but to be more wise).