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other words, the parties are interested in political positions. There are those parties that submit their allegiance, to show the "pro life" flag, at festivals and in" protest parades", to recruit their voters' so that their leaders stay in the luxury of the high wages of congress. It is also seen, that in the unconscious of certain spiritualistic leaderships, there is a clear Vatican atavism, of the ones who are authors of the ultramontanism ideologies of "medieval beliefs or deaths." This is fanaticism! We can see a reductionist posture of the Medical-Spirit Association that is against the liberation of that research with ESC, since, at this moment, we cannot be sure if there is or is not a Spirit linked to the embryo, as they believe. However, common sense impels us to infer that in the process of artificial fecundation (in vitro), before being an embryo we are not that which characterizes a human being; for that purpose, it needs to be linked to a spiritual element. Without the spiritual connection, the obvious whispers us that we do not have a human life, but a vegetative life. In that case, the spiritualistic concepts make crystalline differentiation between vegetative life and spiritual life, connected to the issues raised in 25, 62 and 354, of The Spirits Book. (4) Therefore, there is no crime without the presence of the Spirit linked to the embryo, as well as there is no crime when we take cells from the body, for histopathologic study, in a biopsy. Also, there are no transgressions to the Laws of God when we despise extracted blood cells, in the bleeding method, from a patient that needs the process. Therefore, there is no translucent justification that fertilization in vitro (frozen embryos in laboratories of human reproduction) will produce discarded objects or be "dungeons for further reincarnations" which are destined for our brothers from the spiritual world that obviously have more yet to do. Although certain embryos, destroyed by the retreat of a stem cell, once had a spiritual entity, for whatever reason, linked to them, nevertheless, we have to consider: Where is there more cruelty? To maintain a spirit, indefinitely linked to the dungeons of useless cells in a laboratory or to free it for effective reincarnations, allowing its few cells to be used in favor of the thousands and thousands of spirits reincarnated to fight with their own difficulties? After all, do frozen human embryos have or not have a spirit linked to them? The question 356 of The Spirits Book explains that the gestation development without a spirit can be possible. (5) Andre Luiz elucidates the mechanism of this process, on the second part of the book Evolution in Two Worlds, considering "that the perispirit mold is the maternal, given by the mother's spiritual command that possesses a strong desire to have the child." (6) In this regard, the question 136-a of The Spirits Book, stresses again:" (...) Organic life can animate a body without a soul (...)" (7) this idea that lead us to consider about the possibility that
there are embryos without spirits linked to them. Furthermore, wouldn't we be committing a great misunderstanding in just expecting thousands of frozen (disposable) lives waiting for death? It is worth to meditate more deeply on this question! The theme is complex and many other observations can be made. The subject must and can be debated intelligently and freely from the impenetrable religious rancidity, which takes us to more satisfactory future conclusions. Radical positioning is no good, especially because in Brazil the scientific proposal is the use, in research, of spare embryos from the clinics of assisted reproduction. (8) The geneticist Oliver Smithies, 82 years-old, Nobel Prize of Medicine and Physiology in 2007, has been alerting others that our Country should accelerate the process of research in stem cells that has already began (thanks God!) with the approval of the Biosecurity Law by the Supreme Court of Brazil (STF). Otherwise, it will be back in the world scientific process. Smithies works with stem cells for more than 20 years and recently affirmed, in Sao Paulo, that "A country that does not take part in the researches with embryonic stem cells will lose the opportunity to offer its contribution to the humanity." With his experience of 60 years as a molecular biologist, he also said that "there is a lot of discussion on killing embryos. But, actually, it is concerned with preserving the life of the embryo." The scientist believes that "The beginning of any field of research is controversial but with the time the restrictions, including the religious ones, tend to decrease and disappear." (9) We have already seen this history before with the church striking against the scientific research and then science moving forward and the dogmas expiring. Following our argument about the physical body/spirit relationship, we have the question 356, in The Spirits Book, where they teach us that there are bodies to which some Spirit had never been destined; in other words, there are physical bodies that grow without the purpose of reincarnation. (10) If there is a reincarnatory planning with the cooperation of superior Spirits, why would these specialists of the other world designate a Spirit that has tasks to do, to a group of cells that will be only organic matter and that do not have the evolution of the gestation as their purpose? This is a situation, which is at the least, bizarre. It is here worth explaining that there is a difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells in a patient's treatment. The adult cells have a limited capacity of transforming themselves in tissues and the embryonic cells can originate in all the tissues of the human body. In the last months, several religious people and specialists are meeting in several different parts of the Globe to discuss the progress of science and their controverter ethical subjects. Some believe that this is an "abortion." We cannot disrespect that the spiritual Mentors, specialists in this area, are intelligent enough to know that this or that ovule will be, or not, destined to stem cells production
for therapeutic purposes, and therefore, that no spirit should be linked to it, magnetically. Otherwise, we will be enthroning the vigorous power of the unpredictability, of "chance." Will it be possible that today, those who opposed the scientific researches at issue, can be quite secure that in the future, they will not benefit themselves of that innovative proposal of human therapy? Before these subjects become controversial, it is necessary that society as a whole shows itself through it's legislators and defines what is socially acceptable in the use of human embryonic stem cells for medical purposes. It is unacceptable to prevent scientific progress, based on the premise that the use of the knowledge can infringe concepts ingrained in staunch, medieval, or moral dogmas that use the defense of the life. In fact, there are many fellows that are "intransigent defenders" of the festive parades for life and deny, systematically, a piece of bread or a plate of food to the miserable and abandoned child who begs and implores attention in the cold sidewalks of the great cities. We cannot remain in ignorance. Science has to reach the purpose that Providence assigned it. Kardec teaches that we instructed ourselves by the force of things. The moral revolutions, as the social revolutions, are infiltrated little by little by ideas; they germinate during centuries; then, all of a sudden they break out and produce the collapse of the old building of the past. Those that stopped being in harmony with new needs and aspirations. (11) For those who believe that researchers would be subverting the divine order when manipulating embryonic stem cells, it is important that they are moved before this great truth: transgression to the order of nature is in the undernourished child, bombed cities, terrorist actions, sick people without treatment and workers without jobs. (12) Let's think about it. Jorge Hessen E-Mail: jorgehessen@gmail.com Site: http://jorgehessen.net SOURCES: 1 Letter of Principles established in the V Medical-Spirit Congress (MEDNESP) - 05/28/2005 2 Kardec Allan. The Spirits Book, Rio de Janeiro: Ed FEB, 2002, question 344 3 Lygia da Veiga Pereira, from the Center of Human Genome Studies of Sao Paulo University - USP (Centro de Estudos do Genoma Humano da Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP - ). 4 Kardec Allan. The Spirits Book, Rio de Janeiro: Ed FEB, 2002 questions 25, 62 and 354 5 Kardec Allan. The Spirits Book, Rio de Janeiro: Ed FEB, 2002, question 356 6 Xavier, Francisco Candido. Evolucao em Dois Mundos (Evolution in Two Words), Dictated by the Spirit Andre Luiz. 5th Ed. 2nd part. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Ed FEB, 1972 7 Kardec Allan. The Spirits Book, RJ: Ed. FEB, 2003, question 136-a 8 Maybe are careful and necessary that the Government, through ANVISA, demands the register of the embryos not implanted. To establish a better regulation in the production and use of the embryos, in order to avoid abuses in the surpluses. It is obvious that it is important that the clinics of assisted reproduction should be supervised to restraint the crime of sale of ovule or
production of embryos for sale. However, if the problem is to radicalize, then why not to close the clinics of assisted reproduction? Thus, the problem of the stem cells would be solved. The surplus embryos would not be at the mercy of the ignorance of some people, or even, the spirits that, by chance, were linked to them, would not remain arrested to a useless life, frozen, waiting the death, as the ones that have other interests think. Then they said: To close the clinics would be an absurd! Why? This would constitute a great damage for the medical class? 9 Available in http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Brasil/0,,MUL344213-5598,00-USO+DE+CELULASTRONCO+PRESERVA+A+VIDA+DIZ+NOBEL.html access in 03/21/08 10 Kardec Allan. The Spirits Book, Rio de Janeiro: Ed FEB, 2001, question 356 11 Comment to question 783 of The Spirits Book 12 Simonetti Richard. Reincarnation: Tudo o que voce precisa Saber (Everything you need to Know) Bauru/SP ed. CEAC, 2003
Korea and Singapore.[x] In Confucianism, there are no priests or churches. The five essential virtues are: love, justice, follow the rules of conduct, auto conscience of the Will of Heaven and disinterested sincerity. Only those who respect others are able to carry out their social duties. Spiritism is a religious doctrine based on the belief of existence of the Spirit, regardless of the body, and its return to Earth for successive incarnations, until being perfect. Its main current is, for some, Kardecs, formulated in 1857, with The Spirits Book, by the French professor, Allan Kardec (1804-1869), pseudonym of Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail. Spiritism claims that reincarnations allow the constant evolution of the spirit to make up for their previous mistakes. All faults can be repaired. There is no worldwide statistic about the number of followers of Spiritism. In Brazil, according to IBGE, around 1.6 million people said they were Spiritist in 1991. According to a poll released in 1994, by Datafolha, this number gets to 5.5 million.[xi] Currently, nearly 20 million of Brazilians have some bond with Spiritism. The religions teach about the importance of beneficence. Spiritism says that Out of charity there is no salvation. The High Spirits warn us that without charity all religious faith is a useless worship; hope is nothing but a flower unable to bloom and philanthropy itself is a game of shiny words, in which the naked and hungry, the needy and sick used to perish uttering curses. Christ asks us cooperation for planting the Gospel that Spiritism teaches The Spirit Neio Lucio says, in the last chapter of his book JESUS AT HOME, the following excerpt: "(...) after the last domestic service at the house of Peter, at the eve of embarking to the city of Sidon, the Master opened the book of Isaiah and commented on it wisely, and after the prayer he said: - Lord, help those who are happy despite being poor, miserable and alone.(...)Rise those who fell under the excess of material comfort ".[xii] (our highlight). In a beautiful apologue, says Rabindranath Tagore that a farmer, homebound, with the days harvest, noticed that, on the other way, a beautiful carriage, covered with stars. Amazed, in awe, he saw it pulling over, and along with it, he recognized the presence of the Lord of the World, who asked him something, anything... What? he said, astonished the Lord of Life asking something from me, being a slave to the soil? Excited and silent, he went for his pocket and gave him a grain of his precious cargo. The Lord thanked and left. When, however, the poor man of the field realized, he noticed some glitter coming out of his pocket... The grain of wheat, from what he gifted the Lord, was back to the back, but in the shape of a grain of gold... Astonished, he said: -Fool of me!... Why didnt I give it all to the Lord of Life? [xiii].. Nowadays on Earth, when materialism compromises edifications of faith, in the way of men, we know that Christ asks us cooperation
for planting the Gospel that Spiritism teaches. And, proposing this humble article to the kindness of Jesus, I say it out: -Oh! Lord!... I understand the meaning of your requests and the greatness of your munificence, but forgive me for little I am, if I cant give you anything else! [xiv] The lesson is clear and expressive enough. Thats why, shall we reflect upon it, so that we dont remain in the shadow of egoism, in the form of religious practice, just for the sake of etiquette. [i] Cf. Almanaque Abril 98 [ii] idem [iii] The name protestant is attributed, at the time, to the backers of the Reform who protest against the Diet (assembly summoned up by the kings) of Speyer (1529). The Protestant Church, also known as Evangelical, claims the re-approximation of Church with the primitive Christianity. [iv] Cf. Almanaque Abril 98 [v] idem [vi] Selection of diverse transcendental revelations received by Muhammad from 610 to 632. [vii] Cf. Almanaque Abril 98 [viii] knowledge, in Sanskrit, set of sacred texts composed of hymns and rites [ix] State of soul in total peace and tranquility [x] Cf. Almanaque Abril 98 [xi] idem [xii] Xavier, Francisco Candido. Jesus at Home, Dictated by the Spirit Neio Lucio, RJ: Ed. FEB, 2002 [xiii] Dedicatory by Ismael Gomes Braga in the book Letters and Chronicles, psychographed by Chico Xavier, dictated by the Spirit Irmao X, RJ: ed. FEB, 1966. [xiv] Idem
Once, when talking to a spiritualistic leader from Brasilia, she commented on the buffoonery (1) of a certain speaker that had been invited to speak in the center she manages. She said that the invited lecturer grossly imitated the tribune, Divaldo Franco, with gestures, manners of verbal expression and decorating her talk with passages from him, as well as "incorporating" Bezerra after the lecture (!?). She also referred to another lecturer who insists on publicizing and selling his books and CDs of recorded lectures and whose income is supposedly for the "greater cause", vainly demanding the public's applause. My god, how ridiculous! These fellows, certainly, imagine themselves as being television celebrities or Hollywood stars, only failing in offering autographs for their idolatrous fans, who also regrettably exist,! There is nothing more sad! An imitating speaker does not have any sense of the ridiculous, since he takes possession of other people's identity without any embarrassment and this is an obsessive and/or psychopathologic attitude, because it is self created. When imitating someone, they forget that such an attitude is a farce and that, in this way, they lose their freedom of thinking and acting, always looking for the connecting source to continue in their assumed role. There are speakers who spend hours and hours in front of the mirror practicing the gestures or voice intonation of the mock person, who is always inevitably Divaldo Franco. As if the buffoonery and bizarre facts were not enough, we often observe vain speakers offering themselves to give lectures. They contact those who coordinate the schedule and dispose themselves, "kindly", to be designated to speak in the Spiritualistic Center, almost always in a date already previously, programmed for another speaker. It is insolence on their part, when traveling in transit to the city, they then take possession of the place of another speaker, already booked to attend to the Center. Coordinators that proceed like this demonstrate indiscipline, a lack of planning and above all, disrespect to he or she who was already scheduled. And the directors, who accept this disordered movement, prove that they are not competent to hold such responsibility. In other words, maintaining the balance of a Spiritualistic Center. Such a thing as this would only be justified if it was a nationally renowned speaker. To the lecturers, candidates for stardom in the spiritualistic movement urge that they do not memorize any texts of spiritualistic books and to simply recite them as parrotlike because the mechanical expression does not please those who listen to it and above all, God. It is necessary to build a mental map of what we intend to communicate to the public. Our responsibility is with the doctrinaire content, to the spiritualistic movement, the popularization of the spiritualistic principles. However, for this desideratum it is up us to build and own an original speech of the Spiritism, so that those who listen to us can capture the true sense of the Third Revelation. We cannot be mere divulgers of Spiritism. We need, above all, to have the spiritualistic message as one of
the instruments that can help the human being to be more fraternal and to live happier. The communication of the spiritualistic lecture is not in the human compendium. It is something personal. Thus, we have the obligation to never imitate, especially those speakers that give audience to an overcrowded Center. We need to imitate ourselves, our mental organization, our limitations, our understanding of the theme, to truly be ourselves. We must be without the masks of inexistent virtues, without dissembling attitudes of docility but coherent and wise with the Christian ideal. Therefore, I think that all directors have the duty of warning the imitating lecturers because imitation is a preposterousness concept. Quite so! To imitate is horrible because the imitation does not get to reproduce true talent. One can even imitate the style of the renowned speaker but never recreate the depth or beauty that characterize their productions or will it reappear in a way perfectly recognizable through legitimate oratory. The spiritualistic exhibitor is not a professional of the faith who needs to dramatize or use other resources to recruit followers. His task is to inform on this universe of new knowledge that is Spiritism. It is important we create our own style, simple and without exaggerations, remembering that a lecture in a Spiritual Center is more a conversation than a conference. We utilize simple language and of good taste, remembering that we are there working for Christ to explain and make the public understand the message of the Spiritism, not to exhibit culture. It is always possible to explain subjects, even the complex and deep, in a language accessible to a heterogeneous audience. The speaker should welcome, with respect and humility, all criticism that tries to carefully evaluate his/her work and with this, improve more to the task that fits him/her. He/she should react with all his/her energies against improper praise, so that the vanity does not come to cover him/her own action field and furthermore, he/she should never feel indispensable or privileged, creating demands or requesting special considerations. Of this; any similarity found with those who have already watched this film in Brasilia. Could it be mere coincidence? There are speakers that abuse their position by telling funny stories to make the audience laugh throughout the whole lecture. He/she uses the tribune as if it was a theater stage for humorists. Now, if the speaker has a talent for hilarity, then go to the theater and exercise the actor's profession. It is more worthy. Here are some capital sins of a spiritualistic lecture: artificiality; a lack of reasoning order with a beginning, middle and end of the proposed theme; the disregard of the audience characteristics and speaking as if all the listeners were the same; a lack of content and preparation; the defense of ideas that are against the interest of the listener and, MAINLY, to IMITATE OTHER SPEAKERS. We believe that the worse the speaker is, in being his/herself, then he/she will have no chance of success. If he/she imitates somebody, then the better the imitation is, the more
Rio de Janeiro: Ed. FEB, 2003. (3) Kardec, Allan. "O Evangelho Segundo o Espiritismo" ("The Gospel According to the Spiritism"), Rio de Janeiro: Ed. FEB, 2001, chapter XVII - item 4. (4) Franco, Divaldo Pereira, Reflexoes Espiritas (Spiritualistic reflections), dictated by the Spirit Vianna de Carvalho, Salvador: Ed. Leal, 1992. (5) Vieira, Waldo. Evolucao em Dois Mundos (Evolution in Two Words), Dictated by the Spirit Andre Luiz, RJ: Ed. FEB, 1998, acp 14.
is a call to the sick to accept their responsibility, suggesting them to an honest self-analysis, so that it can ultimately eliminate their incursions in the abyss of moral deviations. Let us try; therefore, by constant surveillance and praying to be free from the whip of obsessions, in the firm purpose of amendment of negative habits and attitudes, entering within the noble values of life for effective change in behaviour. Jorge Hessen E-Mail: jorgehessen@gmail.com Site: http://jorgehessen.net Bibliography: 1. Kardec, Allan. The Book of Mediums, Rio de Janeiro: Editora FEB, 2001 and Spiritist Magazine, February, March and June 1864. A couple of Marmande obsess. 2. The obsessive subjugation in general is individual, but when a phalanx of evil spirits is affecting on a group of people, it can have an epidemic character. It was a phenomenon of this kind that occurred at the time of Christ, only a powerful moral superiority could tame these evil beings, then appointed as demons and restore calm to their victims. [An similar epidemic punished the village of Haute-Savoie for several years, as reports the Spiritist Magazine, April and December 1862, January, February, April and May of 1863: The possessed of MORZINE] 3. Kardec, Alan. What is the Spirit, Chapter II, Choice of Mediums, Rio de Janeiro: Editora FEB, 2003. 4. Kardec, Allan. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Summary of the doctrine of Socrates and Plato, item XIX, Rio de Janeiro: Editora FEB, 2001 5. The so-called obsessing spirits, in most cases are in fact real victims of our past.