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TRANSITION The Spiritist Vision For a New Era
We begin now our program Transition, the Spiritist Vision For a New Era.
The theme of today's program is: The Influence of Spirits in Our Lives.
But you might think: "I don't believe in spirits.
They do not exist".
Or: "I'll think about it when it's time".
But many people don't know that the disembodied spirits,
in other words, the spirits that don't live in a physical body at the moment,
can also be among us, and influencing us.
Spirits' influence in our lives is greater than we suppose.
This is even a question in The Spirits' Book.
Kardec questions whether spirits influence us
and act on people's daily lives or not.
Even from incarnate to incarnate, and from disembodied to incarnate
this influence is constant.
They can even lead people's lives
being an additional personality,
or as a process in which these people don't recognize themselves at all,
because they're going through a constant influence process.
This interaction exists because there is an affinity between the spirits and us.
So, if they are watching us, if they are following us,
it's because there is this connection.
Who are they? They are people like us,
who left the physical body through death and,
because of the unawareness of their own spirituality and transcendent life,
they still have their habits
and express their interests, emotions, etc.
We have to keep in mind that we are part of a single humanity.
Humanity of the incarnate and humanity of the disembodied.
But in fact, we are all spirits.
Therefore, the good ones come closer to benefit,
and the bad ones, the resentful ones and the haters
approach themselves to get revenge, to damage.
And this influence happens through thinking.
It's fundamental what we consider to be a desire,
our mental priority.
So, it makes the sympathetic spirits to approach us.
There is something we hear in Spiritism works that says:
the spirits and us are crowding togetherr. And this is true.
Spirits are like radio waves:
we tune in, they get into our minds,
thereafter, a tuning process begins.
This tune makes room for them to interfere in each other's psyché.
That's how someone suggests me an idea
and I'm mobilized by that idea of doing something,
or not doing something,
having some kind of thought, or not.
This procedure always happens through mental syntony.
The spirits know our thoughts,
specially because of the images we put into circulation,
and not so much because of what they hear,
since they don't need that.
They are able to connect with us through thinking.
They always influence us through emotions.
The bridge they have to access our feelings is our thoughts,
our mental syntony and vibration,
which is the way we express what we feel.
Good thoughts connect us with good spirits,
and bad thoughts connect us with bad spirits.
That's way, many times, people change their minds out of the blue,
in situations when we think "why did he change his mind?".
Or, as we say, "why did that person have an inspiration",
maybe an artist or a singer, "and the other didn't"?
Or even, "why does an idea emerge suddenly in many places around the world
at the same time or at different times.
Why does it happen?
There's a connection in each thought.
That's how the universal network is formed.
This applies to both the disembodied and the incarnated spirits.
We are also linked to other people through our thoughts.
So the net is established
and the acquaintance is mutual.
We are not only influenced by the spirits,
but we can also influence them.
It's really like a network. We live in a network of thoughts and feelings,
where the influence of the spirits is only a single part.
However, for us it's the most important part in our relationships.
The whole process is psychic, through waves, from mind to mind.
The spirit does not get inside the body,
even though many people accept that theory.
There is a joining process that is completely subjective
and immaterial.
The spirit can be close to you, or far away,
and, tuned in, it can interfere in a person's mind.
So, it doesn't have to be either next to the person,
or inside the person.
This idea of entering the body is very narrow-minded, primitive,
and it does not happen.
It's like the light that goes through the glass window,
by a penetration process.
The spirits, even in consecrated trances,
don't get inside the body.
They often juxtapose themselves and
take advantage of the syntony process to mobilize the cerebral gears,
so they will be able to do a ostensible mediumship trance.
But the subtle influence happens from a distance,
near or far away.
And then, they start introducing new motivations, new ideas.
Sometimes you give in, sometimes you don't.
The choice is ours,
and it's very important to keep that in mind.
Spirits are only connected with us
through a tuning process.
So, thoughts of hatred engender more thoughts of hatred,
the same way that thoughts of love attract spirits
that already find themselves in this love zone.
Why?
Because our thinking has a basic and fundamental feature:
it persuades.
It has what we call mental persuasion.
We can persuade others according to our thoughts.
So, the first impulse come from ourselves.
The choice is ours.
We engender these thoughts and persuade other people.
Some people think that only the ostensible mediums, in other words,
those who receive clear and unveiled manifestations of spirits,
are under this influence
that I mentioned about, from The Spirits' Book.
No, everybody.
Because if there is ostensible mediumship,
there is also generalized mediumship.
How can we ascertain whether a suggested thought
comes from a good spirit or from an evil one?
"Good spirits give only good counsels.
It is for you to distinguish between the good and the bad."
The Spirits' Book
After the break we'll learn more about this fascinating metal network
that connects everybody, whether incarnated or in the spirit-state.
Are we also able to influence spirits?
And more, is our thinking so powerful that we can
mentally connect with other people, even among living beings?
We'll be right back.
TRANSITION The Spiritist Vision For a New Era
TRANSITION The Spiritist Vision For a New Era
We already know that spirits can influence us through mental tuning.
But can we also act upon them?
What happens when someone close to us is freed from matter?
Can we still be connected to this person?
We often suffer beneficial spiritual influences,
through our relatives and loved ones,
who passed away before us and went to the spirit-world.
What is the mission of a spirit-protector?
"That of a father towards his children -
to lead the object of his protection into the right road,
to aid him with his counsels, to console him in his afflictions,
and to sustain his courage under the trials of his earthly life."
The Spirits' Book
These people who passed away before us,
and loved us, helped us, sympathized with us,
they are still wishing us well, in the same way,
they still want our spiritual progress.
Therefore, they can come close to us.
We can influence the spirits that are in the spiritual world,
for example, our loved ones that are freed from the body,
every time we focus on them.
Attachment is always a process that produces imprisonment,
it shackles.
In the name of love, that is often demonstrated as attachment
rather than love that sets free,
we sometimes prevent a child to move forward.
And when you miss the one who is absent from our physical world,
we seek , we invoke, and we focus on this idea of invocation,
and we often hold on to this loved one, who many times has no evolutive titles
and is not developed enough to leave us.
Spiritism is clear when it says that
many haven't yet realized that they're freed from matter.
So, they are rooted in humans' existential problems,
and that is why this influence becomes more and more powerful.
Sometimes this happens,
we are able to hold on to one spirit
on the basis of our thoughts of love or hatred.
We hate someone so much who, for example, caused any harm to our child.
And the spirit that are freed from the body,
for example, in a police incident,
we have so much hate in our hearts that we attract that spirit
and we connect with it through this negative mental network
that we manifest when relating to the spiritual world.
Love as much as hatred create bonds.
We ask for the influence of the spirits.
When we say a prayer, we are asking them to influence our lives,
and to interfere somehow.
So, this influence does exist!
But it can be positive or negative.
The positive influence will never control someone.
It will strengthen, give directions.
Emmanuel said that prayer doesn't spare us from the obstacles on the way,
it doesn't prevent us from walking the path.
But the prayer light up the way.
And then you see what you need to see and direct your own steps.
From this concept of mental network,
we can assume there's mental connection among living creatures as well.
But is it really possible to act upon someone from a distance?
As we are all spirits, the incarnated ones can influence each other.
I remember a young lady
who was enduring an emotional drama in her love life.
She was separated from her partner for two years,
and they were nearly two thousand miles away.
As she was dealing with her drama and pain,
she was surprised when, after her psycho-therapeutic session,
she was checking her phone and saw a missed call from her ex-partner.
She was astonished because she wasn't talking to him on the phone
and they were apart for two years.
She even married someone else, but there was still sorrow.
Her effort was so strong, that she acted upon him from a distance,
and he rang her.
Someone might say: "but this is just coincidence".
However, two week later,
dealing with the same drama, but on a deeper level,
when the therapeutic session was finished
there was another missed call, around 11 am,
from her ex-partner.
Therefore, it shows that we are in a psychic network,
and we influence others from a distance.
That is work prayers work.
When we pray for someone, we magnetically interfere in them.
From the modern physics point of view
we observe that everything is connected.
It's the big web of life.
When you think about someone you love, you're acting upon this person.
If there is hatred in your thoughts,
and this person is in harmony with your hatred, sorrow and guilt,
a reverberation can happen, and the other person will also be distressed.
Therefore, we are responsible for our thoughts,
either good or bad,
when we direct towards someone.
Our thought have a powerful strength.
With them we can either attract or repel.
We can push spirits away through our thoughts.
And if someone is not careful, the spirit interferes so much
that it can, through suggestions,
act upon someone's life until this person becomes ill,
because of the spirit's actions
and because of their suggestions.
I remember when a young lady was dealing with emotional troubles,
that were caused during her mother's pregnancy.
That is, during the state of intrauterine trance,
when she was in her mother's womb.
And that was a painful trance, because her mother got pregnant
in inappropriate circumstances.
And her mother was trying an abortion.
This was a very intense and painful process,
and it made such a deep impression on her that now, even grown up,
she still endures the consequences from her mother's abortion thoughts.
Just around that time between 6:30 and 7:30 pm
when she was in trance,
her mother began to feel uterine pains.
That was in perfect harmony with her regressive trance
because of the intrauterine life.
Therefore, we are all interconnected with each other.
And our remembrance, our memories,
they are not inactive,
but when evoked, they put a field into action.
In this field, they can reach people who disconnected,
either in a positive or negative way.
And this impacts not only the mind of the person who was remembered,
but it also has physiological effects.
Sometimes it can cause evident symptoms,
notwithstanding, from the physical point of view,
the person had no pathological changes.
How to protect ourselves from negative influences?
Do spells really exist?
Does macumba works?
We will learn about it after the break.
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TRANSITION The Spiritist Vision For a New Era
Can we free ourselves from the influence of the spirits who incite us to evil?
"Yes; for they only attach themselves to those who attract them
by the evil nature of their thoughts and desires."
The Spirits' Book
There is much uncertainty concerning the power of spells,
the tasks commissioned to spirits,
and the famous macumba.
But do they actually exist?
And can they harm us?
I often hear people say:
"So-and-so is very laden.
He must have received a witchcraft,
those ones from cemeteries and crossroads."
And people often ask: "does it really exist?"
It does, indeed.
These influences can happen.
Perhaps this person is being controlled by obsessing spirits
that are working for those who are casting the spell.
And this is an ongoing process.
Effectively, people manipulate spirits
that agree with their intentions.
They make the offerings,
expel psychological and spiritual commands,
so the spirits will exert this or that.
These people will attrack only spirits from the same vibratory level.
Spirits that are willing to harm,
or devote themselves to the service of evil.
It still happens, indeed, in our world.
Therefore, spirits willing to do evil
and with purposes to harm someone,
will interfere, through spells or witchcraft,
these are only symbolic representations,
but the spirits of rudimentary degrees will take action.
And these kind of thoughts are loaded with intense negativity.
The higher is the spirit,
the bigger is its capacity to act upon someone's mind.
The lower is the degree of development,
the greater its difficulty to penetrate someone's mental privacy.
The spirit only registers what is in its mental scope.
"Tell me what you think, and I will tell you who your friends are",
says Emmanuel.
In fact, those whose thoughts are negative,
obscure, without hope for anything,
and also focused on a life without rules and full of bad habits,
these people become vulnerable,
and those spirits and Macumba can, in fact, reach them.
If the person is not in syntony, the spirit won't have access to the mind.
And if someone is in a vulnerable state without deserving it,
the higher spirits protect this person,
so there will be no interference.
This is a subject we have to understand.
We are mentally connected with the spirits all the time.
But, the frequency that make us tuned in a positive syntony,
that is a personal conquest.
It's our own victory.
If we manage to keep balanced in a certain frequency,
we will be connected with the spirits that are in the same frequency.
But we should not be afraid.
We have to be apprehensive about the evil inside us,
because this is what makes us evil.
When and how can we free ourselves from the influence of the bad spirits?
Because I want to have positive influences all the time.
So, I want to repel influences from the bad spirits.
The Spiritist Doctrine explains, teaches, orients, suggests
that we improve the quality of our thoughts.
If we improve the quality of our thoughts,
we can also improve the quality of the spiritual influences.
When I improve my syntony, my behavior becomes more ethical,
I believe more in life,
my interests become higher,
which doesn't mean I'll be alienated from society.
But I'll develop interests that are in accordance with my progress.
Therefore, it is necessary to do good actions,
to cultivate the habit of prayer,
to have a disciplined and reasonable life,
to seek solidarity and to love our neighbor.
And the most important is doing good.
Of course it's important to keep meditating, praying.
It's important to read,
to have positive lessons to think about.
Nevertheless, our good actions and gestures
produce in us an armour.
They create a shelter for us,
so we can be more protected
from receiving bad vibrations.
However, they will certainly happen,
because our thoughts are very powerful.
So these negative thoughts can come to us.
And they normally do.
However, we have to neutralize them.
We have the capacity to discern the differences of our thoughts.
This can be very difficult, but it's possible.
When we comprehend ourselves,
we are able to understand that some ideas do not belong to us,
or they are not common for us.
For example,
a non-drinking man has an impulse to go to the bar for a drink.
He is under a strong spiritual suggestion,
and he gets surprised with such thought that is uncommon to him.
Or a thought of doing something cruel,
considering he is a calm person and normally peaceable.
He realizes those thoughts do not come from him.
This is self-knowledge,
and identifying what our mental outputs are.
What are our interests?
What are we seeking?
What kind of actions do we perform?
If we are truthful, honest and loyal to ourselves,
we will figure out what is inside that makes
malevolent spirits be attracted to us.
When we study and understand the Spiritist Doctrine,
we learn as time goes by
to identify if the spirits around us are good or evil.
If you are willing to go to a Spiritist Center,
you will be gladly welcomed.
And the Spiritist Center can also offer you
some other important elements
that can protect human beings.
For example, fluidotherapy, passes, fluidized water,
and also lectures that are often given at the Spiritist Centers,
aimed at improving people's spirituality.
All activities and therapies offered by Spiritist Centers
are available and free of charge to everyone.
We invite you to visit one of them and attend the services offered.
In our website www.programatransicao.tv.br
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TRANSITION The Spiritist Vision For a New Era