What’s happening to the world? A brief overview of shocking events in the light of Spiritism

In the past few years we have been exposed to a number of hideous events in the news around the world, including mass murders, wars, economic trade disputes, and televised shootings transmitted on live TV to the homes of many families. At the same time, intolerance and barbaric pseudo-religious groups grow and taking the lives of so many and posting on social media. A superficial analysis of these recent events will lead to the wrong conclusion that we are not evolving but may actually be regressing as a society. What is happening to the world? Allan Kardec addressed this topic in the Spirit’s book (1) “humankind perversity is very severe. Doesn’t it seem they are regressing instead of progressing, at least from a moral point of view?

You’re mistaken. Observe the while closely and you will see that they are advancing, because they understand better what is evil and day by day they reform their abuses. The excess of evil will make them understand the need for good and reforms.”

Spiritism teaches us in a very clear way that we are always progressing even if the steps are not readily visible during our short incarnations in this planet (2).

Humanity can slow down the march of progress but can never make it stop. To better comprehend these teachings, let us go back in time and revisit some historical facts. Let us start with the Roman Empire, around 100 BC-100 AD. What started as a religious, sports and political celebration changed into horror and death celebration in large festivities in the Circus, including the practice of damnatio ad bestias in which animals were used to murder humans (3). Religious intolerance is not new to humankind, in the early 1200 AD in Europe, exercising religious freedom would lead to immediate death by fire in a system called inquisition (4). Let us now travel back only 150 years and revive what happened during slavery, where millions were tortured and killed not because of faith, gender or political reasons but due to their color of skin, which is only regulated by a few genes in our DNA (5). Finally, less than 100 year ago, a movement that started in Germany ended up creating the Nazism, which caused the death of millions, including the genocide of over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. All these events were institutionalized mass killings that were proposed and approved by the ruling governments at the time but touch very deep in our souls today by exposing how we still carry so much hate and selfishness.

Several things changed since these events, particularly the way humanity reacted, from a cheerful supportive attitude during the Roman Empire, to passive support and resistance during slavery to outright resistance and fight during the Second World War. We know well that every action generates a proportional reaction in any system and fortunately for us, the recent hideous events have echoed in our hearts and generated waves of solidarity and support to everyone involved including their families. From 100 BC to 2015 AD, which is not a long time in the road of evolution, we were able to distance our thoughts from malicious ideas to more loving and caring vibrations. Another factor that significantly changed over this period is our connection through multiple channels including social media and Internet. What used to be isolated facts in remote areas in the world are now happening live on our TVs and smartphones and getting us more connected to shocking events.

The question is: what happened to us? The answer is we evolved! Not much yet, but enough to distance ourselves from the crude hate and selfishness that fuel violent crimes. The next question is why do we still see this happening?

Spiritism explains to us that many less evolved spirits may incarnate in our planet to continue their own pathway of evolution while others move on to more advanced worlds. In times of transition, when the entire planet is evolving, we may see the last opportunity for many spirits to achieve their goals in evolution and continue incarnating on earth. Unfortunately many of them also fail their opportunities and may be responsible for violent crimes, corruption, among other hideous behaviours.

As Manoel Philomeno also reports through the mediumship of Divaldo Franco, we may go through some turbulent times in the planet before the process of transition is completed (6). This may include a spike in certain crimes and natural disasters mixed with more examples of true love and charity.

But what should we do in such situations? First, we must not connect to the same type of vibrations that are motivating the crime. Let us cross from our minds the idea of revenge or capital punishment since we will be lowering our mental vibrations to a similar state of barbarity. Justice will always prevail even if we do not see in this lifetime! The divine laws are perfect and we will always face the consequences of our actions. Second, we should stop our instantaneous judgment of the situation. We certainly do not know exactly what is happening from a spiritual perspective and we should not propagate gossip or negative thoughts since they may be used to fuel more evil actions. Let us remember that God is always just and good and will not let any victim discarnate without the appropriate support from the Spirituality. Finally and most importantly, let us always pray and send good vibrations to all involved, especially the individuals who committed the offence, since they are likely the ones who needs the most help considering our eternal spiritual existence.

By Marco Magalhães and Joyce Magalhaes.

Toronto Spiritist Society

References:

1. Allan Kardec, Spirit’s book, question 785. International spiritist council, 2006.

2. Allan Kardec, Spirit’s book, question 781. International spiritist council, 2006.

3. From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_ad_bestias

4. From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition

5. Richard A. Sturm. Molecular genetics of human pigmentation diversity Hum. Mol. Genet. (2009) 18 (R1): R9-R17 doi:10.1093/hmg/ddp003

6. Divaldo Franco, by spirit Manoel Philomeno de Miranda, Planetary transition.