Fake News: Brazilian spiritist invented that Chico Xavier discovered life on Mars

Surely, fake texts can't be authentic for just bringing "fraternal" messages.

A false message containing scraps like "let's be so fraternal for Jesus Christ" cannot be true for it.

And the pioneer of fake literature, the alleged brazilian medium Francisco Candido Xavier, aka Chico Xavier, had his name posthumously involved to fake news created by a brazilian spiritist member.

The late Gerson Simões Monteiro, writer and speaker, formerly director of Radio Rio de Janeiro and a member of Brazilian Spitirist movement, was invented the following fake news:

"CHICO XAVIER WAS DISCOVERED, IN A PIONEER WAY, LIFE ON MARS, ALMOST 70 YEARS BEFORE RECENT NASA RESEARCHS".

The alleged books mentioned were Cartas de uma Morta (My Dead Mom's Letters), attributed to the spirit of Chico's mother Maria João de Deus, published in 1935, and Novas Mensagens (New Messages), attributed to the spirit of writer Humberto de Campos, published in 1939.

In both books, the signs of river traces indicated presence of human civilizations on Mars.

But that hypothesis were very known by Science since the middle 19th century. In the late 1930s, it was very obvious to the point of being worked in science fiction since a long time before that time.


GERSON MONTEIRO INVENTED THE FAKE NEWS ABOUT CHICO XAVIER.

Gerson, who passed away in 2016, being 80 years-old, invented the fake news about Chico Xavier to the intention to reinforce the idolatry to the alleged brazilian medium.

The idea is to associate Chico Xavier to the pretense pioneerism to discover life on Mars, increasing the glorified reputation of him.

Although Gerson Monteiro mentioned, so vainly, the real pioneers, italian scientist and astronomist Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835-1910) and american and also scientist and astronomist Percival Lowell (1855-1816), the brazilian speaker insisted to attribute the pioneerism to Chico Xavier.

The idea of ​​the existence of intelligent aliens began to gain strength and brought the imaginary of the general populace and of science fiction writers in particular from observations made by the astronomist Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877 from a newly constructed telescope. Schiaparelli noted that the surface of the red planet was marked by intricate lines and furrows, which he called channels.

Still in the 19th century, the American astronomist Percival Lowell took up the idea of ​​the Martian channels - he came to create a center to study them - popularizing it. Such channels, Lowell maintained, could only have been built by a superior intelligence. It reached such a point that he came to locate the region where it would be the capital of Mars, at a confluence of canals. "


Percival Lowell was a major promoter of Mars channels, working in a private observatory built on a mountain near Flagstaff, California, and equipped with a 24-inch refractor telescope capable of raising Mars about 600 times, he mapped Mars from 1896 to 1916. Despite the great opening of the telescope, the images of the planet were diffuse.

Although Gerson recognized the Schiaparelli and Lowell's works, even mentioning the science fiction culture, he insisted to attribute the "confirmation" to Chico Xavier alleged spirits - his mom, Maria João de Deus, and the pretense Humberto de Campos - , about advanced people and sophisticated civilizations.

Chico Xavier never confirmed it. He hitschkiked to the obvious knowledges about life on Mars. Let's see excerpts from the two mentioned books he allegedly psychographed:

"I saw myself in front of a wonderful lake, near to a city, formed by buildings that are so deeply analogue as the Earth ones (...) I saw men who are more and less similar to our fraternal pals on Earth, but they have in their organisms so notable differences. Beyond the arms, they have along the shoulders slight protrusions in the wings, which liberalized them to interesting volitionl facilities. (...) The air is so very soft: they know the deep enigmas about electricity, which they uses with wisdom; the buildings is similar to Earth; life on Mars is so aerial - powerful machines; although there's oceans, there's few water; systems of canalization; so few mountains.

The unveiled spiritual mentor ensured me that the Mars humankind evoluted so more quickly than Earth and since the preambles of the formation of the social nucleus it never meant to need to destruct to be living, far from the terrestrial men's conceptions which lives don't follow without death and which stomaches are very full of visceras and virtuals from other living beings from the Creation".

(MY DEAD MOM'S LETTERS, 1935)

"All the big centers of this planet (Mars), clarified our friend and spiritual mentor, feel so troubled about the wicket influences from Earth, the only orb with unhappy aura, in its near neighbourhoods, and, since so much years ago they send messages to terrestrial globe, through the lightful waves, which of them are confused to the cosmic rays which presence, in the world, is registred by the radio equipments' generality.

Some time ago, the California Institute of Technology inaugurated the full period of experiences, to check the procedence of those misterious messages to the man on Earth, marked with so much violence by stratospheric baloons, according to the demonstrations got by doctor Robert Millikan, in his scientific experiences.

So I have the wish to contemplate the inhabitants of our neighbour planet, which physical organization is very different to the typical framework that we work in our terrestrial experiences. I noted, in the same way, that the men from Mars don't show the psychologic experiences of unrest that our fellows from the Earth's big cities do. A deep calm aura involves them. Explained our mentor that accompanied us that the martians had solved the problems from their environment and lived their experiments from animal life and its grotesque phases. They don't know the war phenomena and any social plague is, to them, an unbelievable happening.

Mars has fantastic cities defined for its amazing beauty: large and extensive avenues, being with similar constructions to the Earth ones; the vegetation, with red tone, is more exuberant than the terrestrial ones. Mars is the 'older sigling and very experient in life; its inhabitants always pray to the Lord of the Universe, in benefit to the Earth humanity; inhabitants has physical structure with something different than the Earth; food: through the atmospheric energies".

"Marte tem cidades fantásticas pela sua beleza inaudita: avenidas extensas e amplas, sendo as construções análogas às da Terra; a vegetação, de tonalidade vermelha, é muito mais exuberante do que a terrena. Marte é ‘um irmão mais velho e mais experimentado na vida; seus habitantes sempre oram ao Senhor do Universo, em benefício da humanidade terrena’; habitantes têm arcabouço físico algo diferente do terrestre; alimentação: através das forças atmosféricas".

(NEW MESSAGES, 1939)

The both texts are not very scientific. Chico Xavier never brought scientific reports, and the texts show the very obvious ideas doubly found to the science fiction or the very known scientific documents very diffused by mainstream media or specialized magazines.

Therefore, the alleged Chico Xavier predictions about life on Mars are never a demonstration of pioneerism, but an oportunist task to increase sensationalism to make the brazilian alleged medium as a religious idol with pretense skills of intelectuality and scientific knowledges.