| Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar by the Spirit Eugênia (Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar) – Dear Eugênia, do you have anything to say to our Internet readers? (Spirit Eugênia) – Yes, I do. May they have patience with their limits, but be not condescending with the limitations in their lives. For example: that they be at peace with the fact that they are not as intelligent as they would like to be, but do not content themselves with the level of culture and knowledge they have. May they be indulgent with the level of love they feel – always seen as deficient by those truly awakened for the Spiritual Light – but be not complacent with the lack of courtesy and solidarity they perceive in their behaviour. (BTA) – It is very interesting this comparison between external and internal, between being self-indulgent but not complacent. Do you have anything else to say about it? (SE) – No, about another matter. May they not postpone the love they can feel today – and show it. May they not delay the study of another language, the new course or the initiative for a new project at work, which they have been putting off for a long time. May they not ignore the need to start today, to exercise and care for their bodies. May they never neglect the spiritual disciplines of daily prayer, engage in volunteer services and attend a religious service. In short, may they not procrastinate anything in their lives, which they already see as correct and necessary. (BTA) -Would you like to propose anything else to our readers? (SE) – No, I would not. I just want to say that life is wonderful for those who know it and want to see it as it is: a magnificent journey of learning, growth and achievement. It can also become a hell, though, if we omit ourselves in the chapter of the essential – what we already know we should do and be. And, thus, may they start their days, listening to their own intuition, to the suggestions of their consciousness, to the claims of their own hearts, making use of all techniques that they feel are appropriate, in order to align themselves with their own Core: prayers, meditations, visualizations, and, thereby, set guidelines for the day, always making sure to follow them, as much as possible. (Dialogue happened on April 1, 2003.)
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar by the Spirit Eugênia Would you go to a biologist to address particle physics issues? Would you seek advice from a renowned magistrate about your general health? Very well: this is what is frequently happening among those who declare themselves atheists – they belong to disciplines of knowledge or listen to opinions of authors or speakers who are not prepared to talk about the highly complex, dense and extremely profound theme of the “Existence of Existence” (excuse me the pleonasm, but it is just to give an idea of the absurdity of not accepting the Origin of Everything). If you are not a person of limited intelligence or do not have a more serious mental disorder, and you call yourself an atheist, you probably suffer from a flaw of concept or information. It is probable (I repeat: if you are a person of average intelligence and mentally sane) that you suffer from a fair reaction against the clergy and dogmatism, due to the abuses committed by organized religions of all cultures and times, even those of today. In counterpart to the denial of the existence of a Supreme Being, let me object: a very outmoded reply (it remind us of the Enlightenment of the 18th century and not of the multifaceted and immeasurable brightness of the human knowledge of the 21st century), neurotheologians, modern physicists internationally renowned, large factions of depth psychology, such as the transpersonal, the archetypical and the classic analytical psychology, as well as scholars of comparative religion; a significant contingent of parapsychologists and respectable anthropologists and ethnologists, not to mention a good portion of the medical community, specially oncologists and urgent and intensive care unit staff (who deal more closely with the phenomenon of death), millions of critic, clever and highly informed minds, are massively convinced that not only God and the Forces that represent Him/Her exist, as we ourselves are immortal creatures on the way to higher experiences of consciousness, outside the experience of the more condensed matter of our physical bodies. However, if you prefer to stick with the opinion of the fireman speaking about electricity – which is not very different from historians and sociologists examining atomic physics or nurses treating of civil engineering, the choice, really, is yours, but be sure, nevertheless, that you give a very unpleasant impression of arrogance, ignorance and incoherence, to those who are more lucid, educated and intelligent than you. Aracaju, morning of January 07, 2012 Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar by the Spirit Eugênia Let us study the child: he/she has a pure heart, but an immature mind1. Let us observe the adult: he/she often brings a corrupted soul, even though he/she has a trained and conscious intellect. Where would the ideal condition be? Obviously, neither in one nor in other circumstance. In fact, separately, neither the heart can be properly pure, nor the mind has resources to be completely lucid. Feeling without reason is an open door to every sort of folly, as well as reason without feeling becomes an egotistic calculator of benefits and advantages, becoming not only inapt of intuiting values, but also incapable of catching a glimpse of great insights into the meaning, scope and purpose of things. Seek, dear friend, the excellence of the intellect, but develop also, the field of your emotions. Start by becoming aware of what is going on in your heart, listening more to what your feelings tell you. They will teach you more than you can now imagine, they will keep you away from great dangers, they will warn you about fantastic opportunities of work, realization, love and happiness, and they will also make you a more alive, more present, more satisfied, healthier… complete person. Of course you should take care of your mind, but this you have already been doing, haven’t you? And if you do not do it yet, you know how to start. The education you received offers you all the ways to expand and enrich your mental values. Now, it is time to activate the other side of your soul, equally or more important than knowing and understanding: feeling, comprehending and experiencing. By the way, what does living mean? Could we not replace the verb “live” with “feel”? Listen to your heart, feed your spirit, love and intuit, enjoy life and delight yourself in every moment of your existence. Appreciate a landscape, dive into the listener’s universe while talking, surrender yourself to God when praying sincerely and fervently, dedicate yourself to poetry, to meditation, to prayer, to good music. Activate your brain’s right hemisphere. Wake your psyche to the greatness of asleep potentials that it lies within it waiting to bud. Feeling is living. Feeling conscientiously is becoming greater. Feeling sublimely is to become divine. Message received on April 10, 2002. Benjamin de Aguiar by the Spirit Eustáquio When you find yourself overwhelmed with sadness, remember that not every day is a day of joy, although it does not mean it is not a day of learning that, in turn, brings higher levels of happiness. So, when assuming you have no more alternatives, review your postulations of truth, question old values, reevaluate old paradigms, and, thus, ready yourself for the new possibilities tomorrow presents to you. Do not lower the guard to despair, for any reason, because there are no reasons for what has none. Despair, quite the contrary, leads to all sort of mistake, and, thus, it is the only wrong way to the rehabilitation of those who allowed themselves to stray from the course. You may have seen yourself in the mystical mirror of profound self-knowledge and gotten scared of what you have seen. You may have found flaws in the character or personality of loved ones, and that might have really let you down. Stand up, however, on your own feet, and moving on, absorb the lessons you find in your way, exactly in the creases of the mistakes you have made or of the pain you suffered interacting with your brothers in humanity. Keeping yourself busy, under the light of hope, while working for the general good You will be in the best path for the total renovation of your soul, no matter the size of the problem that stuns you. Message received on February, 4 2004. Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar by the Spirit Eugênia You felt butterflies in the stomach, shivered, scrambled the words, you got short of breath and your heartbeat accelerated in the chest full of energy, feeling reconnected with life, you tell yourself: this is what I needed! Easy, though, my friend, with your conclusions.You have gotten in touch with an experience of awakening of the libido and of the powerful psychic energy that makes one recapture one’s own vitality. However, if you remain only with the libido, with no serious infrastructure of feelings and values, everything breaks down and collapses devastatingly, sooner or later. Learning to differentiate the expressions of feeling is of capital importance,to avoid a dangerous existential bifurcation and destroyng one’s own life. Between the authentic conjugal love and the pure and simple eros, in their initial manifestations, there is not much difference. Physical attraction has more to do with the “Chemistry of senses” – instinctual elements, often with evolutionary purposes, implicit in the genetic program of the body. But often the genuine love also hides behind the first flurry of sensations of the initial moment of an encounter. How to differentiate: one is only sensory and emotional, the other wakes up high moral expressions of the soul. If someone makes you a better human being, more useful, more centered, more in control of yourself helping you develop potentials, as well as overcome limitations, you will be standing before love. It will not be love, though, if you cannot devote trust, tenderness, feelings of friendship and dedication to the person who is the object of your attention. Feeling disgust, shame, fear or distress, next to the source of attraction, is also a warning sign. No one feels aversion to what will really do one good and to what one has a nuclear connection through the spirit. Nip the evil in the bud, my friend, if you realize that what you feel is just a torrid and charring physical attraction to someone – this order of passion is dangerous. However, if you notice other factors promoter of psychological integration, transcendence and wholeness arising, between the folds of feeling, go ahead, invest heavily and bet on your happiness. Message received on September 23, 2000. | |
