"(...) In profound psychic disorders, schizophrenia stands out
frightening, in view of the alienation it imposes on the patient". -
Joanna
de Angelis
In our
days, when the Spiritist movement in Brazil and in the world is attacked
by the antireligious “spiritualist” currents, generated by the arrogance
mingled with the mental limitation of these promoters, we hereby want to
prove, based on irrefutable statements of Allan Kardec, Andre Luiz and
Joanna de Angelis, how much religion - when expressing its religious
feeling, in partnership with medical science - is of vital importance
for our physical and mental health…
The
religious feeling rises – noble and outstanding - in the social context,
as the Encoder himself stated:
"the first effect caused by
Spiritism - and more generally – consists in developing the religious
feeling even in the one, who not being materialistic, looks with
absolute indifference to the spiritual matters”.
How can
we then omit the religious aspect of Spiritism without offending the
frankly transparent position of the Encoder in this step?!... If such an
absurd were feasible, as is the desire of the shadows of the Umbral
(lower zone) infiltrated in the Spiritist movement, Mankind would suffer
more than the damage caused by the class of the priests, who changed
Christianity with its crystalized medieval dogmas and its ceremonies of
emptiness, mixed with the rituals that make one sleep and are of a
torturing sameness. With Spiritism this will not happen!
The
Spiritist Doctrine, rich in noble contents, opens new horizons to the
understanding of the spiritual Being in its holistic aspect. Anchored in
its postulates, Mankind will achieve its spiritual freedom from the
slave regime of ancestral religious institutions, now weaken and
outdated...
After
this explanation, let us analyze the prophylactic action of the
religious feeling promoting physical and mental health before the
physio-psychic disorders.
The
great Encoder of Spiritism shows us
the dramatic saga of Antoine Bell that poisoned his rival... Such a
crime, although not punished by human justice, triggered a process of
schizophrenia in the murderer, a process that came out in his next
reincarnation, in which he was employed in a banking institution in
Canada. His situation aggravated increasingly and ended in his suicide.
This crime attached to his psyche and probably pursued by his victim –
now as his obsessor – his conscience made him feel guilty... Although he
was a competent professional, performing his function efficiently and
zealously, outside his work environment he was overcome by terrible
hallucinations: he could not sleep, he used to beat his own chest with
his fists… this happened every day from 4 in the afternoon to 9 in the
morning, when he went to work at the bank. A pharmacist who had known
him for twenty years was often approached by Mr. Bell, who imagined
having bought there the poison he used to kill his victim".
According to Joanna de Angelis82, among other factors, "(...)
one should include in the psychogenesis of schizophrenic disorder, the
guilty conscience of actions experienced in previous lives, when
delinquency signaled the development of the hedonistic and exploratory "Self",
who only used friends and acquaintances to exploit them, betraying
their trust or cowardly destroying their bodies in horrible crimes that
were not enforced, because they passed unknown or the legal
circumstances did not reach them ... Having not been released by the
reparation through the duties imposed by the Vigilant Law, they inserted
in the delicate vibrational weaves of the perispiritual body the unhappy
responsibility, which now reappears as a charging, a need for
reparation, an imposition of rebalancing, a social, familial, human
recomposition...
Here,
as in other psychopathological occurrences, the interference of
disincarnated beings, imposing their will to dominate over the one who
made him unhappy in a previous life, produces dystonia equivalent to
those that come from internal and external psychogenesis. Such frequent
and insidious psychic imposition affects the neurotransmitters, enabling
molecules, the neuropeptides, responsible for the balance of
communications, to disconnect producing alienation. The mind, which is
not physical, emits special waves that are picked up by other equivalent
waves that synchronize with the emissions that are directed to them.
And as
far as psychic affinities are concerned, vibrational tuning allows the
mental messages to be decoded by other brains that pick them up,
according to the fantastic parapsychological phenomena of telepathy,
clairvoyance, precognition, retro-cognition, and these experiences in
labs scientifically proved that they do exist and are real.
It is
natural, therefore, that without the destruction of the Self when
death or disincarnating of the human being occurs, the mind continues to
send its messages according to the emotional constructions of love or
anger, happiness or misery, which are captured by mental stations
or "psi" fields, giving inspiration, ennobling or disturbing
insights, giving rise to the harmful obsessions of calamitous effects.
The field of these spiritual intercurrences is much wider than can be
imagined, and it so often happens that it would be surprising not to
find them in neurotic or psychotic disorders of any kind.
Mental
health is only possible when the Self structured in noble ethical
values understands the primary purpose of human existence, directing
its feelings and knowledge in favor of order, progress and welfare of
the whole society. The liberation of the arbitrary ego, undressed from
the implements of the appearance that is externalized by the persona,
allows the integration of the being in life in fullness. All academic
therapies are valuable and timely, considering the immense variety of
preponderant and predisposing factors for schizophrenia care. Also,
fluid therapy is not to be disregarded, as well as the clarification of
the disturbing agent and the consequent socialization of the patient
through support groups, spiritual activities in their own nuclei where
he will find understanding, fraternity and human respect that will lead
him to meet the deep "Si" in a climate of peace.
The
spiritual activities in their own nuclei, referred to by the Lady Friend
Mentor, can unfold in the Spiritist Houses and there enters the
religious aspect as therapy. Such an aspect is so important that the
Highest One already made it available at the time of Moses, as we can
observe in the following teachings of Andre Luiz:
"Mission
of Moses - Moses is reincarnated as a missionary of renewal, to give
to the people the conception of the One Only God, transferring it from
the initial closed areas to the public square. Meanwhile, because the
evolution of religious principles always implies a lifting of customs,
with the elevation of the soul, the pathfinder faces terrible battles of
thought adapted to the circuits of tradition in which the classes
exploit each other, thus aggravating their own commitments, to finally
receive the foundations of the Law, at Sinai. Since then, religious
knowledge, based on Cosmic Justice, has become widespread in the heart
of the nations, since through the message of Moses the common man is
informed that, before God, the Lord of the Universe and Life, he is
obliged to respect the right of the like so that he is equally
respected, recognizing that he and the next are brothers among
themselves, children of a Single Father. Thus, in this way, religion
acts in the spiritual body for the Greater Life, through the education
of human habits to purify themselves in the crucible of the centuries,
preparing the arrival of the Christ, the Spiritual Governor of the
Earth.
The
Ten Commandments
- The Ten Commandments, received psychically by the Prophet, still shine
today as a foundation of Light in the construction of Law, within the
social order. The Upper Sphere, using its word, engraved the Law of
Cause and Effect for man, and solemnly warned him: Consecrate supreme
love to the Father of Eternal Kindness, in Him recognizing His divine
origin; be cautious against the mistakes of anthropomorphism, because to
standardize the absolute divine attributes by the narrow human
attributes is to fall into dangerous traps of vanity and pride; abstain
from engaging Divine Judgment in the narrowness of your judgments;
recall the imposition of meditation on your behalf and for the benefit
of those who serve you in the professional area, so that you can safely
assimilate the values of experience; remember that the debt to your
earthly parents is always unsolvable by its sublime nature; you will be
responsible for the lives that you deliberately extinguish; run away
from darkening or upsetting the feeling of others, because the criminal
calculation emits waves of a confused force that will come back to you;
avoid misappropriation so that you do not aggravate your own debts; keep
every wicked word far from your lips so that one day it does not change
into a tumbling block for your feet; beware of envy and spite,
discontent and jealousy, learning to gain joy and peace, at the price of
self-effort, because your thoughts precede you in the footsteps, shaping
today the path of your tomorrow.
Jesus and Religion
– Meanwhile, with Jesus, religion, as an educational system, reaches
unimaginable eminence: neither temples of stone nor rituals; nor
ephemeral hierarchies, nor advance to human power... The Master unlocks
the trunks of ennobled knowledge and distributes the treasures. He
addresses Himself to the simple men of the heart, bowed to the ground of
suffering, and lifts their shaking heads towards Heaven. He approaches
those who are unaware of the sublimity of their destiny and blows them
the Truth, poured out in love, so that the sun of hope reborn in the
being. Embrace the denied ones and tell them of Infinite Providence. It
gathers around its glory that humility hid, the old and the sick, the
tired and the sad, the poor and the oppressed, the suffering mothers and
the abandoned children, and gives them the heavenly beatitudes. It
teaches that happiness cannot be born from the ephemeral possessions
that are transferred from hand to hand, but from charity and
understanding, modesty and work, tolerance and forgiveness.
He
tells them that the House of God is made up of many abodes, in the
worlds that exist in the firmament, and that man must be born again to
progress in the direction of the Divine Wisdom. He proclaims that death
does not exist and that Creation is beauty and security, joy and victory
in full immortality. By the revelations that overcome superstition and
crime, violence and perversity, He pays on the cross the tax of extreme
sacrifice to human prejudices that do not forgive Him for His
sovereignty, but reappearing again, to the same Humanity that had mocked
and crucified Him, He reveals to it, in a new song of humility, the
grandiosity of Eternal Life.
Reviving of Christianity
- Since then, the Gospel has been established as a code of harmony,
inspiring devotion to the good of all, until voluntary sacrifice, living
fraternity, indefatigable service to others and unlimited forgiveness.
There are immense alterations all over the world: methodical cruelty
gives way to compassion; the bloody trophies of the war leave the
sanctuaries; the slavery of free men is shaken in the grounds to be
annulled once and for all; the woman rises from the condition of animal
to human dignity; philosophy and science admit charity in the government
of peoples; the ideal of pure solidarity begins to shine on the brow of
the world...
Moses
had installed the principle of justice, coordinating life and
influencing it from the outside. Jesus inaugurated the principle of love
on the Earth, to open it from the heart, from the inside out, tracing
the route to God.
And
this is how Christianity, simple and magnificent, now re-emerges in
Spiritism, inducing us to the sublimation of intimate life, so that
our soul may be freed from the shadow that encloses it, moving, renewed,
to the highest Light".
It is
in the religious feeling that we will find the immaterial and true
existential meaning, with which we will overcome the harmful internal
pressures of the Self and the varied adverse external
injunctions.
According to Mentor Joanna de Angelis,
"the discovery of the meaning of life is of great magnitude because it
gives meaning to the struggle and the challenges that often arise,
inviting the individual to advance and grow inwardly.
This
existential sense is a form of religiosity that must possess a high
motivating meaning so that the individual does not fail in the
evolutionary enterprises.
(...)
Anyone who does not cultivate a religious ideal is outside the
Generating Fulcrum of Life, and thus falls more easily. (...) The effort
to find the existential meaning must be continuous, because its lack,
its non-knowledge, can produce internal disorders that give rise to
psychoneurotic processes.
Intelligent people, lucid, stoic, well-placed financially, loved, when
they lose their sense of life and fall into this existential emptiness,
which religion always fulfills by offering transpersonal goals, feeling
useless, develop neurotic disorders that need to be overcome,
rediscovering reason to be of life, the usefulness of living, the
immense possibilities that are within reach to become happy and full.
They
are, therefore, subjective values, such as prayer, meditation,
reflection, calmness and work for personal renewal, which they can fill
emotionally, restructure the individual in relation to human existence.
This
silent journey is timeless, and cannot be accomplished in a certain
period of time, through immediate goals, but through psychic and
emotional experiences that transcend current consciousness, offering it
a safe goal later.
The
necessity of religion stands out for its profound significance, offering
compensation and balance after the carnal rest. Then the existential
meaning is incorporated into the present consciousness and stimulates
the functions of thought, which will go to work for the quality of life
and not only for the conquest of things that could presume the external
totality of the acquisitions.
(...) A
religious identification of the individual will work in favor of the
change of the unmeasured ambitions to the conquest of the necessary,
that which produces power and pleasure, but which does not become
neurotizing enjoyment of dire consequences.
The
human being must learn to be happy according to the circumstances,
introducing and living the understanding of his physical transience and
his spiritual Eternity".
It is likely that - because he reached the
highest illuminated peace, because he lived religiously in accordance
with healthy Christian habits, and based on the information passed by
Joanna de Angelis - Sanson,
after only two days after he disembodied, stated:
“live wisely, holy, practicing charity and
love, and you will have earned the impressions and delights that the
greatest poet could not describe".
-
KARDEC, Allan.
The Book of Spirits.
83th ed. Rio
[de Janeiro]: FEB, 2002, Conclusion – Volume VII.
- KARDEC,Allan. Heaven and Hell. 51st ed.
Rio
[de Janeiro]:FEB, 2003, 2nd Part, Chapter V.
- KARDEC,Allan. Heaven and Hell. 51st ed.
Rio [de
Janeiro]:FEB, 2003, 2nd part, Chapter I, item 8.