About Virtual Magnetic Passes

We believe that the proposition of Virtual Magnetic Passes
was made with the best intentions by our brothers
and sisters fromthe Andre Luiz Institute

It is being aired on the Internet a website where people can receive a virtual magnetic pass. This issue will generate a lot of discussion, acceptance, denial and controversy. First we want to make clear that our opinion is of help. We understand that Spiritualism brings within itself countless possibilities of contact with the spiritual world and that, through them; we can strengthen our ideal of promoting a better time for us and society as a whole. As the Consoler promised by Jesus, it undoubtedly brings to mankind an endless source of help and clarifications for the perfect adequacy of man to Divine Laws. I, particularly, am a follower of new trends. I am for the evolution of technical, scientific, philosophical, religious   resources, as well as electronic and virtual ones. As soon as I entered the virtual magnetic pass Site, set up by the Andre Luiz Institute. ⁽¹⁾ I allowed myself to read all the content made by their creators. Afterwards, I put myself at the disposal of the comforting pages that illustrate the virtual pass from that institution. Yes, it is comforting. It makes you think and promotes a reflection. The initiative has this great merit. As read on the website: “if the person uses the Internet for sexual reasons, if he or she seeks chat rooms or visits erotic or pornographic pages, obviously the Internet will be for him or her a place for the lowest form of sensuality and not a place where it is possible to receive sanctified energies”. It is certain that the Internet offer all kinds of option for its visitors. Therefore, sites that lead to peace, to the search for oneself, that differs from all the aberrations afore mentioned, are excellent for all of us.

On the notice board of that institute, we read dozens of opinions of people who have used the recourse of virtual pass, such as: “I’ve had the virtual pass and believe that everything is working out in my life… Thanks for everything, or dear Lord… Please take away the idea of suicide from me, Thank you very much”.

Another comment made us think: “I begged the Lord to guide me today and entered the page already saved on my favorites by accident; it was the Lord’s hand for sure. I’ll have a tough afternoon (divorce), I’ll go on with the protection of the Father and with lots of faith. Let peace be with you. Amen”

No one cannot measure up the size and the weight of someone’s pain

We noticed that the opinions above are of people experiencing extreme existential crisis and in need of spiritual help. That’s why we validate the site. Of course, we have to aid the ones who seek our help. No one can evaluate the range of tribulations that permeate human living, knowing that each one has their own toughness and, therefore, no one can measure up the size and the weight of someone’s pain. It is good when we count on with help like this and it comforts us.

I read attentively another post on that board: “I’ve received the magnetic pass for the second time now. I have faith I’ll be released from this depression. Thank you Lord, continue enlightening my life and my family’s, especially Pedro Henrique, I love you Lord…” Here we see a person lacking a lot of the therapy both medical and the one offered at Spiritualistic Centers. That’s when the question came up: - Would only through the help of a website our sister be able to overcome depression, in which she says she is entangled with? So, this is the issue surrounding the virtual pass.

Martins Peralva in the book “Studying Mediumship”, in chapter 2, states that: “Distance passes are an alternative that, in ideal conditions, may show results as good as the one received where the patient and the pass giver find themselves physically in the same room. Since those ideal conditions can hardly be found, their results are, in most cases, unsatisfactory”. From Martin Peralva’s notes, we start to think about the validity of a virtual pass as a therapy. I spoke closely with a healing medium from Juiz de For a, Dona Maria Geny Barbosa, 83 years old, seventy of those dedicated to mediumship. That lady receives hundreds of people weekly with extraordinary results, to the point that her work is being the theme of a PhD thesis of a scholar. Dona Geny told us calmly, and after a few moments of reflection: “Yes son, this work is really comforting, however, as a therapy that leads to cure, it falls short. The person must be present with the pass giver so that the combined fluids which are directed by the will of the medium and the Spirit that assists him may indeed help the person in solving his or her problems”.

Does a distance pass need a medium?

Probably our sister has never read the book by Martins Peralva and said the same thing our fellow who lived in Belo Horizonte. These clashes of ideas and opinions enable us an analysis free of denial or sarcasm. We are just analyzing. We would very much like to understand and find out that the virtual magnetic pass really heals and cures, but the experts, those who work directly with fluids, do not assert us of a full acceptance.

Dr. Cristovao Panconi, a family doctor, is an old worker of Spiritualistic centers, having in some of them occupied positions in the board. The doctor mentioned above is in charge today of a health unit here in Juiz de Fora (MG). He was emphatic in suggesting: “Why not gather requests over the Internet and do a distance irradiation. The gathering of mediums may help the action of Spirits conveyers of fluids”. You see that we are not refuting anything, just seeking opinions of people who deal in the area of physical and spiritual health. Furthermore, the doctor stated that at first it may sound preposterous by may even happen: “Won’t we, in the near future, invent domestic robots for the application of passes?”

I have also spoken with Dr. Ricardo Baesso, an orthopedist and well-known spiritualistic lecturer in this city and around, and founder of the Institute of Spiritualistic Diffusion of Juiz de For a. He said: “Distance healing is what we always call Irradiation, whose doctrinarian basis is in Kardec. I don’t recall the month/ year, but it in a piece from the Spiritualistic Magazine, Kardec, receives an orientation from St. Louis for this group of people gathered around daily at a predetermined time and prayed for this young woman who begged for help from the good Spirits. This is what we call Irradiation or distance pass”.

As we can see, opinions get crossed, becoming unanimous. Distance pass needs the action of mediums in league with spirituality. One needs to be very careful not to offer panaceas to our brothers who are suffering. I don’t mean to say that the virtual pass is a panacea; I just couldn’t find someone around here with good judgment to vehemently validate it.  

A fraternal discussion is needed about the theme

The subject generates discussions and its creators must be prepared for them. On the site it is written that “irony, mockery and threats would fall upon us like destructive thunderstorm”. They go on: “But if we didn’t expect to find such great and positive response from the Internet community, we didn’t expect the rage from some orthodox Spiritualists, who appear to have come more from the dark mobs of Gregory than from a ‘so-called’ civilized society, either”. Honestly, I found the tone very aggressive. I thought the attack was a defense mechanism. We cannot tell whether our brothers truly want an open discussion about the subject or are imposing their work as being absolutely correct, within their own convictions. This is no good. I wish to use the virtual pass. However, I want legal representatives to give opinions about it at a big discussion table. That’s how Jesus directed us when he said: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.  But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses”. (Quoted in Mathew, Chap.15 – 15 and 16).

We therefore conclude that our brothers, creators of distance help must be ready for a fraternal discussion about the theme, very controversial in itself (something they know well).

Kardec in The Genesis, Chap. 14, item 32 is mentioned on the site, saying: “The spiritual fluid, combined with human fluid, lends it the qualities that it lacks”. Our brothers comment about the impossibility of people to attend spiritual centers, sometimes because they live abroad, where there are no centers with passes, or are not available in small cities. In fact, all is true, hence we return to the hypothesis offered by Dr. Cristovao Panconi when speaking about the irradiations made through mediums and disincarnated Spirits around a table, in the light of prayer with a sincere wish to help.

Every good action generates comfort and can even cure

There’s still an unfortunate and ludicrous statement on the website, in our opinion, referring to a pass giving medium who, according to them, said: “People are naturally lazy, now with the virtual pass it’ll all go down the drain”. It was catalogues as a possible joke, deeming those words prejudicial. I believe that the subject is way too important to be treated this way. They pose, against the possibility of an open discussion, that: “If anyone dares to offer something new, that goes against what they think or escapes the futility and vulgarity that people see in it, the fight is on”. They admit that people: “do not see as a sublime means of exchange, knowledge and union between peoples and races, but as a stupid amusement park where fools and ill intended people thrive”. The level, indeed, is way below what Christian fraternity professes, needing a change in its content.

Ou brother Luiz Carlos M. Gurgel, in the book “The Spiritualistic Pass” FEB Edition from 2006, says with absolute property: “The pass is a donation, and one can only give what he or she posseses; therefore it is a must that the pass giver enjoys good health, in the physical body as well as the mind. When an organic or psychic imbalance is noticed, the service of passes must be interrupted immediately, mainly when it is about an obsessive process of any nature, an instance in which the pass giver should be put in the place of a patient”.

It is necessary to cool down tempers in order to talk assertively about such proficient process of cure, moreover when we are entering a new era where, certainly, passes will be more widespread and used by conventional medicine as seen in the works by Dr. Sergio Felipe de Oliveira, creator of ‘Unispirito’, in Sao Paulo, among others. Universities slowly adhere to psychic and mediumship studies and their possibilities.

Our observations serve only as a spice in this discussion. I believe that many will say yes and many other will oppose such initiative. It is very natural. And we shouldn’t only stick to comments made by people who don’t understand the subject deeply. Of course, every positive action generates comfort and can even cure people. What one cannot preach is that a certain isolated action can substitute the thousand year old works, which were even used by Jesus when he laid on his hands.

One must accept criticism with attention

In the book “Caminho, Verdade e Vida”, Emmanuel in Chap. 153 says that “passes, like transfusions of psychic forces, in which precious spiritual energies flow from the messengers of Christ to donors and beneficiaries, represent the continuity of the efforts of the Master to relieve the sufferings of the world”. It is clear that the presence of donors and beneficiaries is decisive in the process of therapeutic aid. I recall D. Geny when saying that as a relief it is valid, as a therapy, however, it may not be useful. Therefore, our brothers who created the site must accept criticism with attention.

There’s a testimony on the site’s Message Board that practically says the same thing. Let’s see what our sister who used the recourse of virtual pass wrote: “This site was recommended by a great friend. When accessing the virtual pass, I felt very comforted and relieved and thank very much for the blessing received. GOD, keep blessing us always!”

Yes, absolutely, every comfort brings relief. We know that relief is a reduction of the burden the weight, the fatigue, the anxiety; it promotes a rest, a break from the processes that bring physical and psychological discomforts. This is good, but that’s not all, it does not lead. We know that normally passes are given in rooms prepared beforehand, sanitized, where silence and reclusion are paramount, unless on visits to homes and hospitals as exceptions to the rule. Would it be the case that when we turn on the computer, after we enter such a polluted virtual network, after going through the news, etc. we achieve the same required predisposition to receive the sublime energies that come from above? It’s just a question I pose and not a criticism.

There are things that need to be clarified and today the Spiritualistic movement counts on many scholars, not always orthodox, who wish sincerely to contribute for the whole initiative to be fortunate and reaches the proposed objectives, as we believe to be best objectives that linger in the consciousness of our brothers and sisters from Instituto Andre Luiz.

(1)   To visit the virtual passes room click on

http://www.institutoandreluiz.org/passe_virtual.html