Planet Earth, a home under renovation

Our planet has reached its extreme limits in every way. There is greater economic inequality, violence and gender violence; discrimination; pollution and, notably, a widespread expression of existential emptiness.

People seek to fill this void in different ways. Through the acquisition of goods, worldly pleasures, or by engaging in various spiritual practices that lean more toward the mystical than toward self-responsibility for transformation, because some religions have fallen behind the needs of the human soul as a result of dogma. 

But we can also witness the emergence of group or individual activism by people who are pushing to build a more equitable economic, political, social, and environmental development for all, prioritizing essential values over material ones, to which the consumer industry reacts with very diverse strategies. 

Let us remember Jesus saying: “These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” And it is not only Spiritist Philosophy that works with detachment, but many other spiritual practices as well.

There has been a fortunate transformation of the religious concept into the spiritual, which is much more general and in which we all fit, and where guilt as a norm has ceased to have the power that dominated the human mind for centuries.

In these turbulent times, the world, and we ourselves, have been pushed to the limit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and everything has been brought to a standstill by a microorganism. Political, economic, and military power have been surrendered, revealing their paradoxical weakness. 

The Spiritist philosophy is a vast spiritual path that offers us the tools to understand these events and not only navigate them, but also appreciate them as a divine and loving transformative process, as well as an opportunity to transform our consciousness, based on recognizing ourselves as immortal spirits whose goal is divine consciousness.

In his Sermon on the Mount, according to Matthew 5:5, Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” The conjugation in all translations of the New Testament, as well as in The Gospel According to Spiritism, is in the future tense.

Christ was referring to the continuity of the earth and that it would be renewed, so that it would become solely an inheritance for souls who had managed to build virtues such as gentleness.

Meekness should not be understood as subordination to power or renunciation of conscience, but rather as the understanding that comes only from knowing that everything that happens comes from our own planning and is for our greater good. 

Without the concept of reincarnation and the transience of physical life, it is not possible to understand these lofty concepts.

So, Jesus was already announcing a land in transition and describing the spiritual characteristics of its future inhabitants. A world where virtues would guide the actions of everyone. Have we achieved this? Is the pandemic the Great Reflection?

In the Genesis book, in the chapter “The Times Have Come,” Allan Kardec explains that the transformation of the world is brought about not only by the spirits incarnated in it, but also by the participation of the discarnate spirits “who populate it.”

Kardec is very clear in this chapter when he states that the replacement of incarnated generations takes place in order to bring about changes in ways of thinking and, therefore, in ways of acting.

That is why he speaks of two types of transformation. One is slow and gradual, and the other is rapid, involving sudden changes, “each of which corresponds to an upward movement.

The planetary transition is one of the pillars of the teachings of the spirits through Kardec, who also warns us that progressive movement is sometimes partial, “limited to one race or one nation, and other times it is general.”

However, Kardec warned us that humanity still has a long way to go: “to ensure that charity, fraternity, and solidarity reign among them, which will guarantee their moral well-being.”.

It should be clear to everyone that, in accordance with Jesus and Kardec, the work is within. Spiritism cannot be merely a bibliographical reference, but rather a spiritual path that must be practiced every day, through thought, word, and action.

For any of these, we commit our future life, but also through them we can access higher levels of consciousness. The depth of our practice depends on us, in order to first achieve something that Jesus insisted on so much and that we still understand little about: peace of mind. 

Each person reforms their mental home, their inner home, which is nothing more than the kingdom of heaven that Jesus referred to. Only through this change can we help the planetary transition, through a process of trial and error.