Brazilian Spiritism and the "mediums owners of the dead"

In the USA, alleged messages attributed to the late actress Brittany Murphy - one of the Clueless movie stars - were published.

They're reportedly false, because the content was submitted to the sensationalist sight about her tragedy and made her a prisioner and hostage of her own death, ocurred in 20th december 2009.

The content mention an alleged Brittany Murphy that should be only a "girl who just died" and attached to her routine with her husband, british screenwriter and producer Simon Monjack, dead some months after her.

Alleged psychographies are made everywhere, being fake spiritual messages produced to cause sensationalism and call attention by the people.

But in Brazil it has a surrealistic component.

The alleged brazilian mediums works as they're wishing to be the "owners of the dead".

There's an specific "medium" to a dead personality.

The brazilian rocker Raul Seixas, for example, is "owned" by alleged medium and radio speaker Nelson Moraes, who put the "Zilio" codename to avoid law problems.

Zilio is a character that supposedly send two books: Um Roqueiro no Além (A Rocker After Death) and Há Dez Mil Anos (In Ten Thousand Years Ago).

Zilio doesn't remind the original Raul Seixas' personality, specially in his late years.

Raul Seixas left behind his mysticism, and became to be a ceptic man about the course was taken to Brazil in the end of 1980s.

It's not hard to understand.

Let's listen "Rock'n'Roll" song, co-written and performed with Marcelo Nova, singer and musician famous to be the Camisa de Venus frontman.

Raul was very ironic in that song, showing his corrosive humor against Bossa Nova, hippies and punks and comparing brazilian forro singer Genival Lacerda to Jerry Lee Lewis.

The "spirit" is very different, under the Zilio's codename.

Zilio is a silly regretful rocker that's excessive moralist and brings strange advices like "fight the enemy inside yourself", that Raul Seixas would never say or write.

There's other examples, and Francisco Candido Xavier (aka Chico Xavier) was a pioneer.

Chico Xavier was the pretense "owner" of Humberto de Campos legacy, although the alleged medium should have to adopt the codename "Irmao X" (Brother X) to avoid law complications.

Chico "owned" other authors like the originally non-famous Irma de Castro Rocha - a prematurely dead woman known by her codename "Meimei" - and Jair Present (an also early died engineer and college student), and also the ficticional Andre Luiz.

After Chico Xavier, Zibia Gasparetto "owned" the famous dramaturgist and TV presenter Silveira Sampaio, a popular star from the early-1960's brazilian television.

Divaldo Franco "owned" Joana Angelica, using the codename "Joanna de Angelis". Evidences prove that Joana Angelica's spirit had not worked to Divaldo, and "Joanna" would be the spirit of his obsessor, known just for the name "Mascara de Ferro" (Iron Mask).

A lot of examples used the common names from "non-famous spirits", to avoid law complications for the reason that the alleged mediums had not too popular as Chico Xavier.

The "owner of the dead" tendence goes against the teachings brought by Allan Kardec's legacy.

In The Gospel According to Spiritism, Kardec published, in its first pages, the Universal Control of the Teachings of the Spirits.

The UCTS recommend to check every message allegedly brought by post-grave spirits.

First, the messages must to be given by different mediums, without any relation between themselves and living so far one to others.

The following step is to check that the different messages have the content that would never show a simple contradiction.

The similarity from the messages is not enough, having a small difference that ruined any evidence of probable authenticity.

The extreme mysticism of Zilio is a strong contradiction about the alleged psychography attributed to Raul Seixas.

And the similarity is very grotesque: it reminds to an old mysticism Raul had in the 1970s and make him famous for the songs about it, like "Gita", "Tente Outra Vez", "Há Dez Mil Anos Atrás", "Sociedade Alternativa" and "Prelúdio".

In all the 1980s, Raul Seixas left behind his mysticism, and tried to retake his rock'n'roll roots.

To recognize spiritual messages is very complicated and hard, but in Brazil it became the spree of living people pretending to write messages from the dead.

People accepted comfortably and without questionate every message alleged to a spirit of the dead.

If it brought christian messages - like "Let's pray and unite to the peace with Jesus" - , everybody accepts submissively and without a little bit of mistrust.

It's horrible. People ignored that the original spirits cannot communicate to us, and living people is that really are playing of the dead.

Chico Xavier started the spree, with his self-minded "psychographies".

And that's sad and worrisome that everybody thinks that Spiritism is correctly followed in Brazil. The mistakes are too serious and clear, but nobody is afraid to denunciate it.