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Rating: It is essential, in order to continue reading this writing, to undertake a small inner revolution, small because it's for fun as I am asking you to do, otherwise it would be a task that would require the constant effort of an entire life. This revolution consists in restoring everything that the church has removed from our ancient culture, everything that is called superstition, magic, occultism, esotericism and mediumship. If we were to trace these elements, without going too far back in time, we could be content to go back to the period before the Counter-Reformation and the consequent annihilation of all spiritual forces different from the established canons, in a period we should remember in which despicable beings bought papal titles from cardinals, and among loads of whores and sodomy, they burned for amusement true saints, like Jan Hus for example.
Remember! It is these people who have dried the root of Western spirituality and left a void that can no longer be filled except by the search for truth. Truth that has nothing to do with scientific demonstrations, because science for now is not allowed to explain spiritual phenomena. The search for truth is a continuous walk among intersecting paths, in which the search becomes the same mutant and subjective truth, and the walking itself is the goal.
One truth is that man has in himself potentialities of understanding and sensitivity that go beyond the material way. One of these capabilities, although in this case it would be better defined as a gift, is the ability to communicate with spirits (by spirit is meant a being devoid of a physical body, by soul an incarnated spirit); in certain people it is as if a small sensory breach opens to perceive "the other dimension". This can happen visually, perceiving with various degrees of intensity figures like wandering spirits for example, many of whom find it difficult to leave the material plane, often too attached to their own belongings. It can be auditory, as in hearing voices or through automatic writing or psychography, a method by which numerous books have been written and published.
But mediumship in its most drastic and incisive form is manifested in the phenomenon of incorporation, that is when a spirit binds to an incarnated being and uses the body to communicate with the material world, an aspect that Kardec will further explore in his second book dedicated precisely to mediums.
The Book of Spirits instead was the first to be published, and offers a general overview of the spiritual world, Kardec is as well known in Brazil as he is relegated to oblivion by the old continent for the reasons mentioned above and certainly not because his publications are based on very limited scientific knowledge, after all in the mid-nineteenth century electromagnetic phenomena were still being investigated, nor because in the end Kardec was not such a brilliant mind to be able to conduct his investigation with the utmost effectiveness.
Brazil, on the other hand, offers a crossroads of cultures very open to the natural acceptance of certain themes; three peoples united by violence in a mosaic that barely stands; the Africans with their ancestral cults and the natives with shamanism, still keep the irrational alive, which the third faction, the European one, tries even today to repress, stronger than ever with Protestant fanaticism.
In this context, the "doctrine espirita" has taken root, which today boasts about twenty million followers, capable of offering a space of coexistence between Christian and mediumistic principles. For this reason, spiritism is also defined as Christian rationalism, since the basic research of the doctrine, those carried out by Allan Kardec, exclusively reports information collected and written in the form of interviews, carried out with various spirits of a certain degree of evolution, through mediums who at that time manifested in France abundantly.
The concepts at the base of spiritism are quite simple and often rough in relation to other disciplines that make use of complex theories and methods or the language of myth, however, this ensures that everything has an understanding open to the general public.
The basic principle is reincarnation and the subsequent idea of the cyclicity of existences. We all are born in the form of raw spirits, which during their long existence will go through various phases of alternation between matter and spirit, in order to evolve and purify themselves. This is accomplished through work, study, devotion, and morality. We are all destined to evolve, no one regresses, at most one can remain stationary. This concept breathes new, light air, we no longer feel Beelzebub's breath on our neck, the idea of stagnation after death no longer exists, but many material and immaterial worlds with different degrees of evolution, in which we are destined to "incarnate" and ascend. The linear Christian concept is conceived against the natural laws; birth, life, death, final judgment. Terrifying and unforgiving.
The planet earth is defined as a world of trials and atonement, of medium-high material density, occupying a medium-low position in the evolutionary scale of worlds. We would therefore be sent to endure trials and atone for faults in order to regenerate and evolve. No one can change the world, wickedness and corruption are intrinsic characteristics of the humanity of our time.
This, therefore, is the most interesting aspect of the book, which somehow approaches universal truths still preserved in the context of Eastern religions and present in ancient pre-monotheistic cultures.
All conscious living beings in the cosmos have the same origin and the same destiny; gods, angels, extraterrestrials, men.
The idea of a spiritual macrocosm, of immaterial conscious beings, offers us the possibility of a reality much larger and more complex than what we often consider to be limited to our perceptions. This helps to also resize all our earthly events, to which we often attribute an importance and weight that they do not have, and which distract us from more important things that we do not even consider, always in the emphasis given to our senses, to our pleasures, to the material things with which we surround ourselves in the search for ephemeral satisfactions.
I attended a spiritism center in 2011 for an entire year, where they practice healing on patients and direct wandering spirits to spiritual colonies that welcome and instruct them.
Unfortunately, I encountered limitations in relation to methods and theories of self-evolution, spiritism is very centered in the practice of charity, I search for other paths of evolution in practice and study (I am not very inclined to devotion), therefore this new year I will begin with great enthusiasm the study of theosophy, and with many difficulties and doubts the practice, which also consists in the daily struggle against vices and bad habits, aimed at softening the influences of the sensory world, towards an extremely difficult goal like reuniting with one’s higher self, the one that is not found among fleeting and temporal things, but among everything that is eternal.
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