A guide for disobsession VIII

1 - Upon waking up, say to yourself: God grants me an additional day of experiences and learning. It is in trying that one learns. I will make good use of it. God helps me. (Repeat this several times, seeking to maintain these words in your mind. Repeat them again during the day).

2 - Understand that obsession is a state of tuning your mind to unbalanced minds. Cut out this tuning and connect yourself to good and happy thoughts. Repel the negative and inferior ideas. Understand that you were born to be good and normal. The inferior ideas and the inferior inclinations exist so that you can overcome them. Never give in to them.

3 – Change your way of viewing your fellow beings. In essence, we are all the same. If he is irritated, do not tune into his irritation. Help him to regain control over himself by treating him with kindness. Irritation is attunement with the obsession. Do not allow yourself to become involved with the obsession of others. Do not consider the other aggressive. Certainly he has been attacked and has been reacting incorrectly towards others. Assist him and you will be helped in return.

4 – Watch over your feelings, your thoughts and your words in your relationships with others. What you reap is what you will sow.

5 - Do not consider yourself as a victim. You can be acting as executioner without realizing it. Think about it constantly, in order to improve your relationship with others. To live is to exchange. Examine what you are exchanging with others.

6 - When you are feeling upset, do not aggravate this situation. It will be difficult for you to disassociate yourself from it. Remember that you are alive, strong, and healthy, and thank God for all of that. The vicissitudes of life are temporary, but if you keep feeding them they will last a longer period. It is you who sustain your difficulties. Be aware of this.

7 – Be assiduous in the spiritist institution with which you feel comfortable. Do not keep changing from one to the other. He who is not constant obtains nothing.

8 - If you hear voices, do not pay attention to them. Simply answer: “I do not have time to waste. Try to improve yourselves while there is time. You are on the road toward an abyss. Watch out.” And pray in thought to the Good Spirits in behalf of these spirits.

9 - If you feel that you are touched by fingers or by electrical discharges, repel these mocking spirits in the same manner, and mentally pray for them. Do not pay attention to them or feel afraid by these physical effect manifestations. Read daily, in the morning or at night, before going to sleep a passage from “The Gospel According to Spiritism” and meditate over what you read. Open up the book at random and do not think that the lesson applies only to you. It is usually for the obsessors, but you can also benefit from it. In the case of second-sight or clairvoyance, the procedures to be followed are the same. Never be frightened. It is precisely what they want to achieve, because in this manner they amuse themselves. These poor spirits cannot go beyond that, unless you allow them to play with you, which will end up increasing the degree of your obsession. Cut the links that they wish to establish by using your will power. If they pretend to be one of your discarnate friends or relatives do not be carried away by this information. Friends and relatives communicate at regular mediumship meetings; they do not wish to be disturbing.

10 - Read Allan Kardec’s book, “The Spiritist Initiation,” but the original by Kardec, not others from diverse authors, who could be confusing. Study the Spiritist Doctrine in the other works of Kardec’s Codification.

11 – Do not be attracted by so-called witchcraft or other forms of religious syncretism, such as the mixture of African religions with other popular beliefs. Do not believe that someone can remove the obsession with their bare hands. The “passes”2 have as a purpose the fluidic transmission of vital and spiritual energies to strengthen your resistance. Do not believe in the passes applied with excessive

gesticulation and other theatrics. The pass is simply the imposition of hands as taught by Jesus and practiced by Him. It is a humble donation and not a motive for drama, dances or gymnastics. Do not carry with you any type of amulet or miraculous necklaces. This is only a product of superstition that has their origin in

the primitive religions of the savages. You are not a savage; you are a civilized person capable of reasoning and only admitting to a rational faith. Study Spiritism and do not be carried away by nonsense. Dedicate yourself to it, but do not try to leap from apprentice to master, because the mastership Spiritism is only achieved in the spiritual world. On Earth we are all apprentices, with a greater or lesser degree of knowledge and experience.

References

Translator’s note: PASSES - (“pass,” laying on of hands). The donation of spiritual energies or

vital fluids from a medium and/or spiritic source to a patient. Spiritist divides passes into three types: (1) magnetic, in which the energy source is the medium; (2) spiritual, in which the energy source is the spirit; and (3) mixed, in which the source is both. Spiritists believe that, in practice, most passes are of the third type. (David J. Hess – “Spirits and Scientists – Ideology, Spiritism and Brazilian Culture” 1991 The Pennsylvania State University)Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary - Pass: “A moving of the hands over or along something. ”Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary - Pass: to serve as a medium of exchange.

(Extracted from The book "Obsession" by J. Herculano Pires. Translated by Jussara Korngold & Marie Levinson)