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Interview Portuguese Spanish    
Year 10 - N° 474 - July 17, 2016
GUARACI DE LIMA SILVEIRA
guaracisilveira@gmail.com
Juiz de Fora, MG (Brasil)
 
Translation
Leonardo Rocha - l.rocha1989@gmail.com

 
Raomi Zarec:

“You will only find salvation
by doing charity”

A Spiritist since childhook, the well-known Spiritist speaker
shares with our readers his experiences in the Spiritist Movement

Raomi Zarec (photo), from the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, lives in the nearby mountain city of Teresópolis, where has his own business. He became a Spiritist when he was a child. He is a very experienced and enthusiastic member of the Spiritist Movement, having studied the Teachings profoundly. In this interview, he speaks about his

experiences and his efforts to put the Spiritist Teachings into practice. 


When and how did you first come in contact with Spiritism? 

In this incarnation, my first memory of any contact with Spiritism was through the hands of my grandfather, when I was still in my early childhood. Some years later, when I was 13, I made new contact with Spiritism, this time moved by the need to understand mediunimic phenomena I saw around me. 

Mediumship is an important tool. How did you become aware of your mediumship and what have you already been able to achieve through it? 

When I was a child, still very young, I used to go out a lot with my mother and I frequently mentioned to her that wherever we went the rooms were packed with people. She used to contradict me, saying that “only such ad such lady was there.” And that kept happening again and again. And that is why my grandfather began taking me Spiritist Centres. When I was nine, I became scared of the phenomena I could see around me, because of the misleading explanations I had for them. As a result, my mother was admitted to a psychiatric ward in Rio, where she stayed for many years. It was a very painful experience. Natural, spontaneous mediumship does not bring about any problems for mediums, we must understand. And because of the phenomena so many people end up seeking a religious, as they seek an explanation. That may become a good opportunity to awaken the mediunimic capacities of other family members, but that must be done under the strict principles of the Gospel, which is an important tool for moral regeneration. 

What worries you the most about the Brazilian Spiritist Movement at the moment? 

I wouldn’t call it a worry as such, as I continue to trust the Spiritist Movement, but we all need to do more to avoid the cult of personalities. We cannot afford to repeat the errors of the past because of inflated egos. 

What are your suggestions for the improvement of the Spiritist Movement? 

That we pay more attention to the five basic books of Allan Kardec. All forms of dissemination of the Teachings anchored on those core principles are laudable.  

Based on your formation as a Spiritist, what do you think is the best way for us to put into practice consistently the Gospel of Jesus? 

You will only find salvation by doing charity. And the best way of achieving that, which should be our ultimate goal, is if we practice the Gospel in the Home. 

It is inevitable that new ideas will keep being added to such a vast philosophy as Spiritism. How do you think Spiritists should deal with that? 

I prefer to quote Kardec when he very appropriately said that if science one day proved that the Spiritist theory was wrong he would abandon his theory straight away and follow science instead. 

In your public talks, what issues do you prefer to address and why? 

The Gospel of Jesus, as I am fully convinced of its need. In any circumstance we face in life, this is the indispensable nourishment, the spiritual food that Our Master Jesus taught us that we should ask for in our prayers. 

What is your Spiritist bedside table book and why? 

The Gospel According to Spiritism. The passages registered by the evangelists slow down the pace of our troubled hearts, anguished by the pain, the violence and other such things from our daily lives. Kardec’s interpretations lead us into a new vision of the lessons, widening considerably our understanding, which is enlightened by the instructions of the spirits.  

We know how much you value the formation of free and enlightened individuals. How can Spiritist Centres contribute towards that? 

If you give people different tasks, provided they are versatile, but bearing in mind that we need to stick to the remits of the Spiritist guidelines. So many people say that we need more volunteers to work in the Spiritist Movement. What happens, however, is that many directors of Spiritist Centres in Brazil are still prisoners of the old religious ideas of the past. They struggle to set themselves free. Many prefer to follow fellow Christians rather than following Christ as he expected us to do. We need, therefore, to review principles and attitudes so that we can shed the light to those looking for new proposals within the Gospel of Jesus instead of blocking the light with our presence. 

What have the most remarkable facts of your life so far? 

(Laughter…) That is the type of question we ask to self-centered people. Without false modesty, which is often a call for yet more praise, I really cannot mention anything I have done that can be set as an example. I have tried had to follow the examples of Jesus, through the clear message found in Spiritism. I thank God for every minute I spend as an incarnate on earth. This is an opportunity for each one of us to renew our feelings with the help of the Gospel and to put into practice a little bit of what we have learned. 

Thank you and please leave us with your final thoughts. 

The great Spiritual Benefactor, Emmanuel, said through Chico Xavier that we are more in need of truth than money, of light then bread. I thank you for this opportunity of making a modest contribution to the dialogue and I would like to finish by saying: we need to behave properly.
 


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