Obsessive Fascination and Subjugation: the dangerous feelings that glorify the alleged mediums

OBSESSIVE FASCINATION - DANGEROUS PRACTICE GLORIFY THE ALLEGED SPIRITIST MEDIUMS LIKE DIVALDO FRANCO AND CHICO XAVIER, ASSOCIATED THEM TO HEAVENLY SKIES AND FLOWERFUL LANDSCAPES.

Reading the essential book for Kardec's literature, The Mediums' Book, there's a great opportunity to undo illusions about the worship to brazilian alleged mediums.

It's notorious and known by everybody the passionated reverence to Chico Xavier and Divaldo Franco, or everyone else so similar, by their followers and supporters.

But it's a dangerous feeling, although it's sustained by alleged paradigms about charity, love, peace and dedication to the poor and suffers.

The extreme adoration to alleged mediums happens due to two obsessive processes mentioned by Allan Kardec's book.

The Mediums' Book, in Chapter 23, From The Obsession, mentions some main types of obsession but we will draft two of them, and the most dangerous of them.

The two of some obsessions are "obsessive fascination" (or simply "fascination") and "subjugation".

Kardec describes this problem using as a example a relation between a medium and a ghost, but it can be used to think about the relations about the humankind at all and the alleged spiritist mediums, specially in Brazil.

In the item 239, the first paragraph is very clear about the "fascination":

"The fascination has too much serious consequences. It's an illusion directly created by the Spirit in the medium's thoughts and which paralyses somehow the medium's capacity to judge the communications. The fascinated medium does not consider deceived. The Spirit got to inspire him the blind confiance, preventing to recognize the mistifying and to understand the writing absurd words, even if this absurd is very clear to anybody. The illusion can reach the point to make the medium to consider as sublime the most ridiculous message. The people who think that this illusion can reach only the simple, ignorant and senseless persons are very wrong. Even the sagacious men (and women), very instructed and intelligent in other sense, are not free from that illusion, what proves it's an aberrance worked for a strange cause, which influence subjugates them".

Kardec wrote about the medium and Spirit contacts.

But it's exactly what we see about the humankind and the alleged mediums Chico Xavier and Divaldo Franco, two of the most well-celebrated religious idols from Brazil.

Kardec also wrote that the spirits who inspire obsessive fascination can be so clever and deeply false.

Another paragraph in the item 239 explains that:

"Great words as charity, humility and Love to God works as a trust attest. But throught all of these words the clever spirit makes pass his inferiority signs, which only the fascinated person doesn't perceive; for this reason, he fears, above anything, the people who see things with clarity. His strategy is always to inspire to his representative the distance to everyone who can open the medium's eyes. Avoiding, by that way, any contradiction, the clever spirit can be sure to being quite so right".

Chico Xavier is usually nicknamed as "A Man Called Love", taking to extreme consequences the obsessive fascination which makes his followers and supporters slaves to his religious myth.

Divaldo Franco, in his own way, is usually recognized as a pretending pacifist, as a mockery of social activist and humanist, allegedly compared to real activists like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.

The two alleged brazilian mediums seduce people through the well-made images of would-be philanthropists, making a skillful eloquence about messages as "let's be so fraternal", "let's bring the peace to the world" and "let's help the poor and forgive the evil".

Chico and Divaldo made an extensive crowd to support and glorify them, and the two alleged mediums are wrongly seem as great symbols of Wisdom, Knowledge, Consolation and Hope.

The subjugation is more dangerous than the obsessive fascination.

It's almost the same feeling, but the fascination keeps people which relative awareness of their acts and opinions, and the subjugation doesn't.

In the subjugation, the victim can't have his own will, being strongly dominated by clever spirits influence.

Kardec mentioned, in the item 240, warning us to the difference of the moral subjugation (almost like the fascination) and the bodily subjugation, even more dangerous:

"The bodily subjugation goes sometimes so far, being able to push a victim to make the most ridiculous acts. We know a men who, being not a handsome or a young man, was dominated by an obsession of its nature, and he was constrained by and irresistible power to fall on his own knees in front of a young woman who never inspired his interests and ask her to marry him. In other times, he felt in his backside and his legs curves a strong pressure that forced him, despite his resistance, to kneel and kiss the public places grounds, in front of the multitude. To his near people, this man seemed as a crazy guy, but we're convinced that he absolutedly were not, but he had full conscience about how the ridiculous acts he made against his will and how he suffered terribly with it".

Brazilian Justice always had a subjugation relationship to Chico Xavier's affairs, and the College researchers too.

Judges, lawyers, academics and intelectuals are affraid to confront the alleged medium's reputation and prefere to work mockups of investigation that always absolve him at the end.

The Humberto de Campos' affair is a typical example about the irregular brazilian Justice, which currently has doubtful judges and attorneys as Sergio Moro and Deltan Dallagnol, both from the famous Operation Car Wash.

In 1944, Chico Xavier was absolved, by draw, for the petition moved by Campos' heirs, and the alleged medium felt to be so free to use Humberto's name, although masked by Irmao X (Brother X) pseudonym.

Inside the brazilian spiritism houses, the Humberto de Campos' name is scot-free and abusively used as if Chico Xavier were the owner of the late writer and Brazilian Academy of Letters member.

The Justice absolved Xavier moved by the judges spiritual subjugation.

The alleged Humberto de Campos' spiritual books are reportedly fake, because the style of its texts are so different and very inferior than the original books Campos wrote in life.

But the brazilian Justice in 1944, despite the claims of the literacy comunity, ignored it.

And the surrealistic result is that the Humberto de Campos' name survives not by his original work, but with fake books brought by Chico Xavier.

Obsession is a serious thing, both fascination and subjugation.