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José Passini |
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Analysis of the
book
“Life Travels on
Light”
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Title of the
book: A
Vida Viaja na
Luz
Author:
Inacio Ferreira
Medium:
Carlos A.
Baccelli
Publisher:
LEEPP
Throughout this
analysis, we
should place
quotation marks
on the names of
the Spirits
mentioned,
because their
words and
attitudes do not
convince us they
are who they say
they are.
However, we did
not do this to
make the reading
easier. |
The texts of the
books are copied
in bold,
the pages in
parentheses.
This Spirit, who
impersonates Dr.
Inacio Ferreira,
after
dishonoring
mediumship,
attacking the
Spiritists,
inventing
materializing
from ectoplasm
drawn from a
drunken corpse,
also inventing
reincarnation in
the Spiritual
World, and using
a language
absolutely
incompatible
with sobriety,
dignity and the
nobility of the
Doctrine, now
appears, in a
much more
moderate
language, as a
defender of
Chico Xavier,
forgetting that
in the previous
book "Chico
Xavier Answers"
he placed in the
mouth of the
disembodied
medium a clear
defense of
abortion.
If that Spirit
was indeed the
famous Dr.
Inacio Ferreira,
he should
enhance the work
of the medium
Chico Xavier,
through the
study and
development of
the points of
view of Andre
Luiz, as a
complement to
the
Codification.
But in an
attempt to value
the misleading
work of the
psychic that
serves him as an
instrument, he
first defends
the thesis that
Chico Xavier was
Kardec, and now
presents
Baccelli, the
psychic, as a
medium of Chico,
therefore, of
Kardec himself,
who would be
returning to
complete the
Codification.
- But no one may
want to silence
Chico! – His
faithful friend
exclaimed
angrily.
- It is an
attempt to
discredit all
his messages,
via psychic.
Note that some
of his
psychographic
books are
challenged, with
the apparent
purpose of not
qualifying them
for the
completion of
the
Codification...
(22)
When studying
the work of
Andre Luiz, one
has a clear
vision of how
life is
organized in the
Spiritual World.
Dr. Inacio never
mentions the
lovely community
organization
outlined in "Our
Home" and other
colonies, in
which spiritual
values,
evangelical
experience,
order,
seriousness,
merit, and
obedience are
stressed.
- The next day,
very early, in
the company of
Modesta and
Manoel Roberto,
I went to see,
close to the
Hospital, a farm
that we could
have on loan to
make an old
dream come true.
(25)
- The Hospital
of Mediums, from
a legal point of
view, would be
the supporting
institution of
"Francis of
Assisi" Animal
Protection
Society!
- An Animal
Protection
Society in the
Beyond!
(27)
- The Hospital
of Mediums, from
a legal point of
view, would be
responsible for
the "Francis of
Assisi" Society.
(30)
In his office
and on his desk
Dr. Inacio found
a
confidential
letter written
by Chico Xavier,
as if in that
place there was
a postal
service. (33/35)
This is one of
his several
attempts to make
the spiritual
life there
similar to the
one on Earth, in
a clear attempt
to minimize the
revelations of
Andre Luiz. Then
he receives a
man, who had
been sentenced
to 200 years in
prison in the
Spiritual World,
and was granted
permission by
the judge to go
for a medical
appointment:
- I could never
imagine that, in
after death
life, justice
worked as on
Earth. As soon
as I saw myself
outside the
body, I was
arrested and
went to a
prison, where I
awaited to be
sentenced.
(49)
Note how the
story of the
disembodied
lumberman goes
on:
- As I told you,
as soon as I
left my body, I
had the
opportunity to
see my
motionless body,
lying in the
bathroom of one
of my
properties, and
two detectives
approached and
asked me if I
was the owner of
those properties
and the sawmill.
- The detectives
said my full
name. In other
circumstances,
since I had run
away many times,
I would have
done the same,
but… I had many
contacts in the
Police, Doctor!
(50)
- As I told you,
they said I was
under arrest and
handcuffed me.
- And you were
handcuffed?
- Taken in the
vehicle?
- They took me
to the prison.
They took the
handcuffs off,
and a doctor
examined me and
prescribed some
medicines. I
must have slept
four or five
days in a row
...
(51)
The story
continues,
giving us the
impression
that Dr. Inacio
became a
novelist...
Further, he says
he went to
Uberaba (city in
the state of
Minas Gerais in
Brazil) and
having
materialized one
ear and one eye
(was this
needed?), he
heard some
Spiritist
talking and
witnessed some
trivial scenes,
the description
of which, like
many others,
serves only to
fill pages of
books. (58)
Teaching good
manners, he says
he read in the
papers (sic) of
the place, where
he lives:
- Did you read
in the
newspapers, the
law that was
passed recently?
– If you are
caught throwing
paper on the
floor, or if you
spit, besides
being fined, you
will be
sentenced to a
month of
community
service!
(60)
It is hard to
make a comment
on his the
statement about
the possibility
of drowning
resulting in
death in the
colony "Our
Home". After the
death, follows
the burial, or
cremation.
- Could it be
that if one of
us, not knowing
how to swim,
fell in the
waters of the
Blue River,
would drown and
die? Doctor, if
the spiritual
body has a lung
system, if we
continue to pump
oxygen into the
lungs, the
answer is
logical: yes,
you can drown
and die!
(87)
And not only
does it die,
but it is buried
or cremated...
- Dies and is
buried! Goes to
the cemetery,
or, as it is
more common in
this Other Side,
it goes to the
crematorium!
(119)
But how can
there be
disembodiment if
there is no
flesh, no body?
Despite the
absurd, Dr.
Inacio continues
his fallacious
reasoning,
taking the
opportunity to
reaffirm his
reincarnation
thesis in the
Spiritual World
based on a
fallacy created
by him:
- Guys, think
with me. If on
this
side, one
dies, i.e.,
disembodies,
what prevents us
from
reincarnating
too?
Paul, in his
First Letter to
the Corinthians
(15: 40), makes
no distinction
between the
human body and
the spiritual
body, thus
showing that it
survives death:
“And there are
celestial bodies
and earthly
bodies (…)”. But
Dr. Inacio
mentions the
passage by half,
trying to
mislead the
reader:
- "... There are
also celestial
bodies!"
(121)
Continuing in
his campaign to
spread
discontentment
within the
Spiritist
Movement, he
makes
accusations, as
if there were
any censor body:
- Yes, on the
pretext, for
example, of
doctrinal purity
replacing
fraternity,
intolerance has
been adopted. We
are almost
repeating the
mistakes made by
the Church
regarding
censorship to
new ideas with
the restriction
of freedom of
expression.
(133)
Next, Dr. Odilon
states
otherwise, or is
it his mea
culpa on
behalf of Dr.
Inacio and
warning his
psychic?
- It is
extremely
unpleasant to
talk, but the
mediums,
especially those
that
psychograph,
should be more
restrained. Not
every medium was
born to write
under the
inspiration of
Spirits.
Consequently,
pressured by the
publishers,
mediums lose all
their evaluation
criteria as to
what concerns
the
appropriateness
or not to
publish this or
that work of his
co-authorship.
(137)
In chapter 19,
Dr. Inacio makes
an odd
interpretation
of the Parable
of the Prodigal
Son, in which he
adventures as a
theologian and
produces
statements like
this, in which
he denies
incarnation as
an evolutionary
necessity, when
he says that
only after the
child has left
the parental
home is that he
required the
reincarnation
(is this a new
version of
"Angels Fall"?):
- In a
metaphysical
translation,
leaving the
Ethereal Plane,
he reincarnates!
Dives in the
experience of
reincarnation!
Until then, he
had no karma, he
was free!
(158)
Note how the
spiritual plane
in which Dr.
Inacio stands is
so “earthly”:
- My dear, where
have you been? –
I asked Cassio.
- Out there,
Doc.
- What are you
doing now?
- Teaching and
taking care of
the clinic.
- You opened a
clinic here?
(178)
In the book "Our
Home" there is a
note of Lisias
to Andre Luiz,
in order to
avoid comments
that are not
constructive. In
the book
"Emmanuel
Foundation," Dr.
Inacio refers to
a newspaper
entitled
"Review", which
circulated in
the region, with
comments made on
Earth. When he
acknowledges
some of the
unpleasant
opinions
disagreeing with
his thesis, Dr.
Inacio shows the
middle finger to
these Spiritists.
In the book
under study,
there is a
mistaken
assumption,
stating the
existence of the
press in the
colony "Our
Home", which is
not true:
- Altiva’s
observation is
interesting,
Inacio - said
Modesta - the
people who read
the book "Our
Home" do not
comment about
the Press in the
Spiritual World.
(179)
Dr. Inacio,
always
diminishing the
Spiritists, and
making himself
worthy...
- Lately, many
newly
disembodied
Spiritists make
an appointment
with me. Not
that they are
ill, but they
wish to adjust
certain ideas in
conflict with
life’s reality,
which they face
in their life
after death.
(184)
This Spirit, who
says he is Dr.
Inacio, has
somewhat
moderated his
attacks on
Spiritists, as
well as the
jokes he did in
his previous
books, but did
not stop them
completely, as
we can see in
these dialogues,
which he claims
to have had with
a newly
disembodied
Spiritist:
- You could not:
smile was
against
doctrinal
purity! In fact,
for many
Spiritists,
smoking is more
against the
purity of the
Doctrine than
against the
purity of the
lungs!
The friend now
started to laugh
loudly.
I myself, Doctor
– he considered
– have already
fought the habit
of eating
meat... I come
to this Other
Side and realize
that certain
Spirits...
- Spirits,
no - men! – I
corrected.
- You are right.
I realize that
many men are
gradually
getting out of
the habit
gradually...
(189)
Continuing the
conversation, he
started to
interview the
Spirit:
- Are you
Spiritist?
- Yes, over 40
years...
- You died, and?
- Absolutely
nothing
happened. I am
the same.
- You did not
hover?
- I barely
dragged myself
and I'm dragging
myself...
- Do you eat and
sleep?
- And I drink
water!
- Do you have
sex?
- I do!
- With what?
- Doctor, you
are crazy!
- Answer.
- With things!
- Are you a
vampire Spirit?
- No, I'm
normal.
- So you have
sex with the
disembodied?
- Yes! What
crossed your
mind? I am not a
ghost…*
(* Translator’s
note: Also means
demon, or bad
dream)
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Do you have
orgasm...?
Well,
excuse me,
but the
rest of the
interview
is banned
for minors and
I
do not want to
pollute
the head of our
pious people,
who consider
that to have an
orgasm is a sin
in one dimension
of life, imagine
if we consider
the Two
dimensions!
(190/191)
In an interview
given to a
newspaper
(sic)
of the spiritual
community
where he was,
Dr.
Inacio
declares
something
unusual,
such as
the fact that a
disembodied
Spirit
usually
does
not remember
his last
incarnation:
-
If we are
coming
from Earth
– more
materialized -
why then do we
not
remember?
-
For the same
reason that when
he reincarnates
the Spirit
does not
remember
where he comes
from!
(202)
Let us imagine
the confusion
that it causes
on
someone
who
is starting
in Spiritism,
to
be aware that
one Spirit,
said to be a
doctor and
who
guides
spiritual groups,
has a cold and a
runny nose:
Realizing that I
was with a runny
nose, my mate
asked me:
- Do you have a
cold?
- I do not know
- I said - if it
is the "swine
flu", with which
people down
there are so
concerned, my
nose is blocked,
my head is
heavy, and I
feel difficulty
in breathing...
(209)
In all the work
of Andre Luiz
there is no
mention of a
disease among
the Good Spirits
workers.
Dr. Inacio
presents this
novelty.
- Early in the
morning of that
Thursday, after
having been away
from my
consulting room
for three
consecutive days
to recover from
a bad cold,
Nelson turned up
for one more
appointment.
(227)
The information
below is wrong,
for "Our Home"
is just one of
thousands of
spiritual
cities. Indeed,
one cannot make
a parallel with
the burlesque
presented in the
work:
- The said
colony is a
sui generis
organization!
There is no
parallel
regarding this
issue in any
other work of
spiritual
nature,
transmitted to
Earth
psychically.
(213)
Chapter 28 is
devoted to
criticize the
Unified
Spiritist
Movement and the
Spiritists in
general. After
much complaining
about the work
he does as a
Medical Director
at the Hospital,
he refuses to
join a unified
entity in the
Spiritual World.
His
interlocutor,
seeking to
approach Dr.
Inacio, declares
that he is also
a Mason (sic).
Imagining that
he was talking
about an action
regarding the
Hospital, Dr.
Inacio, did not
miss the
opportunity for
bravado:
- I do not fear,
because first
you would have
to pass over me.
While I'm in the
direction of
this Hospital,
except for Jesus
and the Major
Spirits that
guide us, no one
intrudes here.
In this sense,
if it were the
case, I would
not hesitate to
look for the
legal services
of a good
lawyer!
(240)
It seems that
Dr. Inacio wants
to materialize
the Spiritual
World in such a
way that it
becomes
unlikely...
Finally, after
much talk, Dr.
Inacio comes out
with this, as if
money circulated
in the Spiritual
World:
- You can count
on us,
including, if
appropriate,
with money for
promotions on
the agenda, but
we will not join
you.
(243)
And he goes on
with his attacks
on Unification:
- I almost
ventured to say
that in the
manner that it
is being
conducted the
Unification
Movement is more
harmful than
helpful to
Spiritism.
(244)
Then he uses the
whole chapter 29
to describe an
informal chat
with the cook of
the sanatorium,
which gives the
reader the idea
that the
hospital is on
the physical
plane...
Moreover, he
says the cook
arrived with the
child by the
hand, hungry!
This is not what
we learnt from
Andre Luiz,
notably in the
works "Between
Earth and
Heaven" and
"Liberation",
regarding
disembodied
children.
- Do you
remember how I
got here,
bringing
Benedito by the
hand? I was
afraid and timid
like a scared
little female
dog... You
looked at me,
joked with
Benedito, asked
if we were
hungry and just
brought us here
to the Kitchen –
you, yourself,
prepared a plate
for Benedito...
- ... Who ate
like a lion!
- We were
hungry, Doctor.
Most people do
not know what it
is to starve and
arrive here
after being
kicked out of
the world ...
(260)
Something that
has no
explanation in
the book is the
fact that Dr.
Inacio receives
letters from the
embodied and
disembodied,
like the one he
answers below:
"I confess that
your works have
greatly helped
me to understand
what Andre Luiz
wrote through
Chico Xavier.
(...) And you
are the only
Spirit that
defends the
psychic work of
Chico Xavier –
in general the
majority does
not say a single
word, except to
praise
themselves! A
hug and kick the
ball forward!"
(264/265)
Still answering
the mentioned
letter, he
attacks the
mediums and the
Unifying
Movement:
- Spiritism, my
friend, for many
people, today
has turned into
a means of
subsistence. The
inquisition that
the "cardinals"
of the movement
have been doing
to the new
mediums is only
the struggle for
power and -
amazingly
enough! – for
money! Many of
them without
knowing are
being used by
wolves disguised
in sheep...
(268)
Next, and still
in response to
the same
"letter" he had
received, he
defends the
psychic work of
Chico Xavier, as
if the one he
received when he
was incarnate,
as medium, was
being
challenged. But
the defense he
makes of these
works is
supposedly
attributed to
Chico
disembodied,
received by
Baccelli, and
materialized in
freaks as "Chico
Xavier Answers":
- But before the
end, I need to
tell you one
more thing: do
not doubt that
in the very
Spiritist
Movement there
is a conspiracy
against Chico
Xavier’s
mediumship
works!
(270)
At the end of
his answer, he
goes back to
that creepy
language he used
in his first
books:
- Be yourself
and, as I said,
"kick the ball
forward"! Let me
just pluralize
the word "ball",
urging you to be
a worthy
representative
of those who,
without being
machos, are
machos enough to
say what they
think.
PS: With regard
to the courage
of testimony and
true love for
the Cause, I
must acknowledge
that considering
the ovaries,
many women have
more "balls"
than many men!
(271)
After speaking
in other works
about
reincarnation in
the Spiritual
World, Dr.
Inacio now tries
to soften the
thesis, mixing
reincarnation
with
materialization,
discussing what
is reported by
Andre Luiz in
"Our Home" and
"Liberation":
- In its bases
the phenomenon
is the same;
what differs is
the process...
hence, en
passant, we
can think about
reincarnation in
different
spiritual planes
of Life, without
having to,
therefore,
consider sex
competing in the
patterns that it
competes on
Earth, other
worlds and
dimensions .
(287)
In chapter 36,
there is a
curious letter,
which Chico,
disembodied,
would have
addressed to Dr.
Inacio. Dr.
Inacio is always
trying to
“materialize”
the Spiritual
World. (314)
Always attacking
and diminishing
the Spiritists
who study and
who follow a
moral line:
- The orthodox
in the field of
the Spiritist
Philosophy are
preventing our
people to think
– they are
committing a
crime! This
group of
reincarnated
clerics, who
grew tired of
kneeling, but
not of having
others kneeling
before them,
thinks that the
Law of Cause and
Effect works by
itself! If so,
the
Reincarnation
Law would also
work like this -
there would be
no need to have
sex! The sperm -
I do not know
through which
hole - would
departure alone
wondering around
and asking at
every corner: -
"Have you seen
an egg going
around
somewhere…?" Oh,
do not make fun
of my so already
small
intelligence…
- Spiritists do
need to update
their view of
life after
death! (318/319)
In another
attempt to
"materialize"
the Spiritual
Life, he
mentions the
Police Force in
after death life
that would come
to Earth to
imprison
Spirits:
- We will go,
but I'll get in
touch with Dr.
Elpidio, my
friend and Chief
of Police, to
provide a police
detachment.
Those entities
need to be
arrested!
(319)
- As agreed,
Odilon came to
meet me at the
hospital, and in
Elpidio’s
company,
previously
contacted by me
and three other
detectives under
his command we
set off toward
the Crust
(324)
- While we
"descended", we
were naturally
integrating in
the environment
in such a way as
to be identified
as newly
disembodied
entities.
Inhaling less
rarefied fluids
in the Earth's
atmosphere, we
caused a
relative
condensation in
our spiritual
bodies and so we
were mistaken
for passers of
the city we
visited.
(324)
"We were
mistaken for
passers."
Then they
materialized, as
told in the work
"Love of the
Ideal",
referring to
Edgar Allan Poe,
which would have
materialized
himself through
the ectoplasm of
a drunken corpse
and would have
walked the
streets of
Uberaba, in
order to make a
consult as if he
were an
incarnated
patient. If it
is like Dr.
Inacio says, it
is difficult to
know if we are
seeing a Spirit
incarnated or a
disembodied
materialized!
After all, this
is a rough work
coming from a
Spirit who
intends to
inform
mistakenly those
who are
interested in
Spiritism, and
he counts with
the carelessness
of those who,
knowing the
Doctrine, do
nothing to curb
his harmful
action.
With the word
are mainly those
who are
responsible for
Spiritist
Centers,
bookstores and
Spiritist Book
Clubs
responsible for
the promotion of
books like this
one.
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