Recife, Brazil. January 11, 1985. The last soap opera of the night had just finished, and my paternal great-aunt, Julieta (deceased in 1997), whose house I was staying for a few weeks, during the summer holidays early that year, went to talk to her neighbors, in that old-fashioned habit of placing chairs in front of the houses for a bit of “chitchat”.
I stood there, feeling strange, eyes fixed on the turned-off TV. I rarely watched soaps, but, in my grand-aunt’s house, with that deep-rooted custom, as a good retired Brazilian spinster that she was, it was customary (as a religious thing) to sit in front of the television to watch one soap after another, until the end of the broadcast. The screen dimly reflected the room around. A young man, who lived in the neighborhood (I recall he was 26 years old at the time), passed, without a shirt, in front of the living room window where I was. He was walking in the middle of the road, shouting something to someone… Shortly after, a teenage girl around 11 or 12 years of age (a little younger than I was those days – I had just turned 14)… then… wham!… I got into a trance, the most spectacular trance of my life, perhaps not in phenomenological terms but in the sense of implications for my future, a mystical experience so important that up to this day I consider it to be visceral, like a second birthday, which I celebrate, alone – and with God and His-Her Representatives.
20 years have now passed… I usually scribble these autobiographical narratives at the date these events happened in my past. Now, however, as requested by Eugênia-Aspásia, the dear Spiritual Guide, here I am, detailing particularities that are very dear to my heart, before the multitude, two months before the actual celebration of that day’s anniversary. There are purposes in Eugênia’s request that are unknown to me, but, as I have already said before, I understand that an autobiographical narrative is one of the most persuasive and impactful, for being more complete, reliable and concrete. And, as for this particular experience, it is something very precious and confidential to me, since it deals with my own issues, regarding a distant future, which concerns only me and the good spirits by whom I am guarded.
In October of the previous year (1984), only three months before (exactly three months), I had written a text named “I” (which I wrote about in the article: “Encounter with the Shadow”, available in the texts archive of the Quantum Leap Institute’s Portuguese language website), which triggered a powerful process of self-knowledge, which, I understand today, would lead to this January 11, 1985 (the essay “I” was finished on October 10, 1984).
There, paralyzed, with glassy eyes looking at the turned-off TV, in a fraction of a second, my sense of identity of a Brazilian teenager of the 1980s simply disappeared, like mist in the wind, while it was shown to me, two centuries in advance, what was going to happen in a very distant future. Totally overtaken by the vision, I grabbed pen and paper, and, in very brief lines, I wrote down on an A4 paper sheet (which I keep to this day), what I deduced from that experience, preoccupied to record that seminal event, finishing writing after having signed it at 9:25 p.m.
Two months later, I went back to school to carry on with my studies. I was on the 8th grade of Middle School at the time. Some more observant classmates asked me, “What happened to you? You have changed!” To which I used to answer, with no interest in opening myself, as I still do regarding that very intimate moment for my soul: “It’s just your impression…”. The teen who was fun and “the leader of the classroom”, gave way to a “serious old man” in a youngster’s body, which took so long “to leave me,” as it took me years to digest the weight of information and responsibility that had been passed on to me.
A part of what was shown to me has already begun to happen, and this now distant January 11, remains an extraordinary milestone for me. I don’t like very much to remember the content of that experience. It overwhelms me, and it almost completely takes from me the joy of living. Even when I tell friends about it (without revealing what was shown to me, of course), I approach the memory of what really happened in a way that is similar to the mechanism of psychological repression, in which entire memories are suppressed, in order to protect the sense of comfort and stability of the ego and its identity. And, in the face of what was revealed to me, I still feel like that same frightened teenager I was 20 years ago — although I am now infinitely more mature and lucid, in rational terms.
2005 “has arrived”. It seemed it would never come from the perspective of that boy who used to listen to “Material Girl” and “A Piece of Sky” (*) and loved Joseph Murphy’s books. Back then, I made a pact with a friend (I will protect her identity, but I hope this page gets to her). She was 22 years old and I was 14 (I only turned 15 at the end of the year). We used to talk for a long time, sometimes for successive hours, often accompanied by my sister Marilia. I asked her to look for me, to see if I had become who I, in a few words, (obviously I didn’t tell her everything: I never did), told her I would become (I got a few details wrong and she got others right). She answered me, confidently, “In twenty years, I will see you potbellied and holding a glass of beer, just like all normal men.”
I’m not exactly potbellied, but obese (though, in the last three months, I started to lose weight – please don’t laugh: 4kg). But as for the beer, and all the implications of its absence in my hand… well… that’s where she got it really wrong and I got it right… I mean: They were right, including the precise detail that I had to make clear to her, by declaring, solemnly and emphatically: “So-and-so really promise me, because I know we are going to go separate ways, but I also know that I will be a public figure, and, therefore, you will have to take the initiative to look for me, since you will be able to find me, whereas I will not be able to find you. Are you going to look for me?” She promised me she would. Frankly, I do not believe she will keep her promise… Am I being too pessimistic? Anyhow, shortly afterward, we did go our separate ways and, today, I am indeed a public figure. Where are you, old friend?
I know that the course of that revelation has dissipated itself, almost stealthily. But my intention was not that surreptitious nor was there any intention to conceal this wish to contour this revelation: it simply cannot be made public. However, here it is registered an encouragement for all of us to follow the voice of the heart, even if adapting it to the context of the reality that was given to us to live, and, especially, separating it from the gross burden of egoic passions and the whimsical dreams of neurotic adolescence, full of neediness and endless sorrows. You may not have a great mediumistic revelation record in your past, but you can recall today an inspiring humanitarian ideal that may be shelved in the dustiest chest of your psyche.
Today, I am 34 years old. A lot of water has passed under the bridge of my conscience. I can now say that I really am a mature soul or, at least, an adult one. If the Divine Providence allows me to, I know that I will be even better in ten, twenty years, or who knows (?): in thirty years. I dream of the day when I will answer anyone who asks about my age: “Sixty-five years old, at your service”. That is it (!), the age of “grown-up people”! And I have been saying that in public for ten years. Until then, we are, in relative measures, varying from person and circumstance, immature for incumbencies of higher responsibility.
I got “older”, psychologically, in a curious phenomenon of psychic engrafting, in a space of a few seconds, on that day when I was 14 years old. The “senex” archetype, as Jung would say, the “wise old man”, came to live, more expressively, in the routine of my mental life. Today, as an active medium at the service of teachers from the Higher Dimension of Life, I feel myself maturing five to ten years every year, due to the daily psychic interaction with the great-disembodied mentors, in particular with the lovely Eugênia-Aspásia. But I never think it is enough to become wiser and more experienced… because, before us, to the infinite… there are impressive Suns of knowledge and sentiment!… Obviously, that has nothing to do with the loss of joy or joviality, because, as I said, when I became serious in my adolescence, I was “immature” in that “maturity”, without paradox. True wisdom does not show off, it is not grumpy, nor it presents itself as pretentious. It is simple, almost childlike (in the connotation of spontaneous and pure), but mainly it is serene, lucid and creative.
Are you 20 and afraid to get to 30? Are you 30 and think that you are preparing to “shut down the factory”? Are you 40 and thinking of retirement? Are you 50 and getting yourself ready for death? Review your points of view! Thank God, today I am far beyond adolescence (!) — a period of life in which turbulent uncertainties and conflicts are mixed with very rare joys and few points of reference to go on with. And how anxiously I productively wait for my mature years! – really productively: I fully live my age, as my personality feels necessary. In them, I will be able to fully be myself, as my precarious level of evolution allows me to manifest myself. Then, my brain will already be properly sharpened to express with clarity and depth what I desire, the ideas that I have been working on for years (or centuries?). This will be the year 2035. If Our Lord authorizes me to be still incarnate, I will be, on October 26th, turning 65 years old, and based on today’s conceptual models, I will be entering the “old age”: the last and fullest age, in which we are no longer slaves of our instincts, and in which the spirit manifests itself more freely and consciously. Having a long and productive old age, offering wisdom, serenity, comprehensive and enlightening insights to young people, it is the best a human being can bequeath to humankind. At this age, love is less ego-centered, ideals are less riddled with self-interest, passions become serene and may well be more properly channeled for the good.
2035… 2045… 2055… There I will be – if I continue to enjoy the blessing of being incarnate – at 85 years old! Wow! One should be proud to say: “I am 85 years old, young man/woman!” That is: “To what extent are you able to measure yourself with the polished tool of a brain with 85 years of experience and a millennia-old spirit behind it, operating the wonderful biochemical machine of thought?” Meanwhile, some 45-year-olds want to look like 20. Poor little things! So much age-related childishness stuns their thoughts and, especially, their feelings! They may be beautiful and fit, but please: what an embarrassment! – Wanting to look younger? One must be a very “young” spirit (in the negative sense of it: of a very young spiritual age, a less experienced spirit in the evolutionary path) to wish something of the sort. The assurance, tranquility, clarity about what we are, what we want, where we are going, and about how and when to expect what and from who; a wider, deeper and more certain view about people, events and phenomena of Life!… These are some of the many benefits that age brings to those who have a minimum of discernment. Something as phenomenal as it is sweet, which, in the fullest sense of the word, is indescribable!
You want me to wish you a long life, but you forget that this perhaps means many years in middle and old age. And, quite frankly, I can tell it right now: this is the best part of the deal! And I long to be part of the lucky ones who enjoy a very long
and creative life of service and utility to the common good. Perhaps the Divine Providence deliberates to make me “return home soon,” and, from there, I will be envying those who are becoming old in the physical body. But if I am deserving of any merit, I would like to be around here, even if suffering from back pain or weak legs, but guiding younger ones and comforting more hearts, seizing, until the end, the time that has been offered to me, because only God knows when we will be able to enjoy a new opportunity in the school of the material plane of life, where everything is difficult for the achievements of the Spirit… where we are continually tested and challenged to show our better, nobler, more human and, consequently, happier side!…
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar
(Text written at the dawn of November 9, 2004)
(*) the Americans singers Madonna and Barbra Streisand, respectively.
As an organization in special status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), since 2018, the Instituto Salto Quântico (Sociedade Filantrópica Maria de Nazaré) has been invited once again1 to submit a written statement, in the preparatory preambles of CSW65 — The sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women —, to be held in March 2021.
Therefore, the Spirit Eugênia-Aspásia informed us that the Sublime Mother of our orb wanted to transmit the solemn document that will constitute our participation in the prestigious world congress.
Below is the English translation of the Message of Mary Christ — originally received in Brazilian Portuguese, according to the mediumistic interpretation of the illustrious spiritual counselor —, which will be forwarded to the reputable international organization this week.
“In women, feeling and intuition better unite with reason and action.
In girls, sweetness and tenderness already show, as care for their fellows, due to their maternal instincts, even if they never become, as adults, biological or adoptive mothers.
In the feminine approach to critical global problems, it is easier to find the urgent resolutive directives that humanity, in this time of apocalyptic contours, so desperately needs:
- respect for the ecosystems, in an organic view and in a participatory attitude with the planetary biosphere;
- cooperation between disparate peoples and cultures, in the search for solutions of mutual benefit and universal fraternity;
- harmonization between social segments and dignification of minority groups, within nations;
- consensus and integration in interpersonal relationships and among conflicting psychological aspects, within each creature…
In short, in all senses, from family squabbles to international disputes, such as the serious and urgent environmental, political, economic, social, psychological and spiritual emergencies of today, it will be under the inspiration of the feminine conceptual matrixes of welcoming, of acceptance and understanding of the differences, of empathy and of a more humanitarian purpose, that humankind will perceive the seemingly non-existent way out to the successful journey through the multifaceted and ultra-complex crisis of survival that the civilization and the human species now face, as they have never faced and may never face again another one so dangerous, profound and intricate… ”
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
and Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
in the Name of Mary Christ
Bethel, CT, metropolitan region of New York, USA
October 9, 2020
1. See the written statement submitted by the Instituto Salto Quântico to the sixty-fourth session of the “Commission on the Status of Women” (CSW64): “The Message that Mary Christ asked to be sent to the UN Economic and Social Council: ‘Much more than women’s right to gender equality’”, Eugênia-Aspásia and Matheus-Anacleto (Spirits), Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium), November 2019.
(https://undocs.org/E/CN.6/2020/NGO/158)
Free will without discernment constitutes a wide-open door to the loss of one’s own freedom.
Only with a spirit of judicious reflection, with a refined critical and self-critical sense, with a clear notion of ethical principles and humanitarian values, can human beings make more conscious choices, better fitting their own and the common good.
The passion to satisfy one’s own will resembles the bestial impulse, in the jungle, or the spoiled whim of a child, in the heart of a so-called advanced civilization.
Freedom, in its deepest sense, is inexorably intertwined with the focus of the matured responsibility, in the crucible of the criterion of improvement of individuals and collectivities, showing not only respect for traditions, in what they have of timeless content, but also a courageous openness to change, according to the evolutionary flows of divine origin.
Those who allow themselves to do or refrain from doing something, following the shallow currents of egoic and momentary interest, without any consideration for the feelings
and needs of others, believe they are benefiting themselves, but are only surrendering to the exact mental pattern that attunes them with the forces of disaggregation, which will throw them, now or later, in an unpredictable manner, into the precipice of unimaginable sufferings for themselves and for those who are in their sphere of personal influence.
Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
in the Name of Mary Christ Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Bethel, CT, metropolitan region of New York, USA
June, 11 2020
May each sincere devotee promote the rupture of the walls of his/her own ego, to favor the rapture of his/her Spirit to the Kingdom of Heavens, within his/herself.
For this, it is essential to be sure to detect the voice of the conscience, which does not condone norms of castrating moralism, conditioned to circumstantial and arbitrary cultural systems of time and place, often disagreeing with the universal principles of good, of justice, of love.
The attunement that one manages to maintain with the timeless ideas and values of benevolence – that, indeed, constitutes the reverberation of the Divine Will in one’s heart, invariably indicating the highest coefficient of peace and happiness that one can achieve, in one’s present evolutionary moment, inside or outside dense matter.
It is relevant to highlight, however, that the peace and the happiness to which we refer to do not correspond to the concepts of tranquility and joy of the physical domain of today’s Earth.
Peace, in its deep sense, of alignment of the individual with his/her most authentic axis of being, knowing and feeling, inexorably generates strong internal and/or external conflicts, because it does not accommodate to personal conveniences nor to social conventions.
And happiness, in its true fundaments, has nothing to do with the euphoria of the ephemeral satisfaction of sensorial or egoic passions. Contrarily, it very often implies renouncing worldly desires and whims, although it does not necessarily contradict the physiological functions of the body or the healthy aspects of personal dignity.
Bliss, state of grace and self-actualization concern directly to the fulfillment of one’s duties, in a level of vocational and devotional essence that, unfortunately, only a minority of the earthly humanity is willing to experience, given the narrow path of unappealable and refined disciplines of sentiment and conduct, well beyond the set of precepts established by dogmatic religions or by legislation and customs in effect in the material plane of existence.
When dealing with a theme as complex as essential, we face an obvious and almost insurmountable obstacle: the human creatures of today in the orb, even those considered decent, have an extremely low degree of self-knowledge. For this reason, the psychological scourge and the social horrors persist, as a result of so much contradiction, hypocrisy and spiritual bankruptcy, in all areas of civilization.
With this lack of knowing oneself in-depth, the overwhelming majority of the earthly population goes through life with two parallel and often conflictive agendas: one conscious and the other unconscious.
May each legitimate seeker of the Light strive to identify the moral infirmities and deformities that he/she does not see in him/herself, despite finding them, somewhat easily, in others.
Supplied with greater lucidity and courage to see him/herself as sinful and limited, as he/she actually is, he/she will then be able to dig the secret land of the soul, so as to find the hidden treasure of the angel in seed that awaits the opportunity to germinate and offer fruits to the world, even if in modest measure and poor quality.
This is how authentic spiritual awakening happens. As taught by the Christ Jesus, the Kingdom of Heaven is similar to a minuscule grain of mustard seed that, sprouting and thriving, becomes a leafy and fruitful tree, on whose branches the “birds of the Sky” (the Angels of God) make their nests: the metaphorical home of the prolific “communion of the saints”, the synergic psychospiritual relationship between Beings of higher levels of consciousness and those who receive, with a genuine and eager willingness to serve, Their inspiration in favor of the common good.
Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
in the Name of Mary Christ Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Bethel, CT, metropolitan region of New York, USA
June 25, 2020
For successive centuries, it was believed, as an unquestionable axiom, that women could not take positions considered to be of greater responsibility, because they would be inept to play roles that were regarded as exclusively meant for the modus operandi of men, for the masculine way of perceiving and thinking the world.
In the early decades of the modern feminist movement, great benefactors of humanity have bravely postulated that women were fully capable of performing any task executed by their counterparts of the opposite gender. The two great world wars of the twentieth century made this potential very clear, with the immersion, in mass, of millions of women in industrial and battlefield support activities.
For most of the past century, countless legions of sisters of our species then made the effort to psychologically cross-dress, acting, speaking and even interpreting existence from a male perspective, so that they could be respected as competent professionals and academics.
As the end of the last century approached, however, it began to sprout, in professional women of various fields, the willingness to imprint into the workplace their feminine prism of seeing, feeling and acting, adding significant value to the efficiency of business, research and achievements, in all areas of human action and knowledge. It became obvious, hence, that women could not only do everything that men could, but they could do it differently and, very often, better.
In the universe of science, of the arts, of public administration, of media, among others, bloomed the realization that the feminine presence brings, in every sense, an extraordinary complementation of productivity and of quality in services, creations and deliberations, within institutions, companies, human groupings. Still to this day, women’s contribution is barely dimensioned. Nonetheless, they have broadened angles of observation, opened previously undetected possibilities of solution to old problems, integrated apparently divergent perspectives. They also have carried sensitivity, intuition, beauty to the contexts they take part in, although many of their contributions are not even measurable or immediately profitable.
The results, however, in the course of the last decades, of this movement of insertion of women in all sectors of social life, becoming more and more powerful in culture, in politics, in entrepreneurship each day, have not yet been clearly recognized and are often understood as consequences of a natural evolution of civilization. Yes, there is this development, coupled to a revolution of paradigms; yes, there is an expansion of the potential to grasp the reality, a greater lucidity and shrewdness in the interpretation of events, a more accurate intuition in the pursuit of purposes and creative solutions to problems. But all this can be perfectly attributed, without any exaggeration in the association of cause and effect, to the progressive and massive participation of women in the concert of societies.
Finally, at the turn of the century, it was already clear enough, in more enlightened environments, that women’s influence was of paramount importance to the broader and more effective success of any enterprise, to the point that their male colleagues began to realize the need to acquire certain skills more peculiar to the feminine psyche, such as empathy, tolerance for difference, the power to endure contradictory and indeterminately unresolvable situations.
Even leadership, so valued in our ultra-competitive culture, has been much better understood and exercised by women, in accordance with contemporary principles of respect for difference of opinion, for free will, for discernment, for the personal choices of others. And so, men more attentive to the evolutionary trend lines of the culture and of the “collective organism” began to realize the need to compensate themselves for their limitations in many of these so relevant cognitive and social abilities that women have and that almost spontaneously sprout from their complex and subjective feminine minds, such as the greater propensity to multitasking and to the spirit of coordination and cooperation in work teams.
Today, women are seen as more appropriate options for many positions of action and command that before were entirely dominated by the masculine gender, just as more feminine men or even gay men, in various professional settings, end up being privileged, exactly for having an experience of better integration of the two complementary psychic poles (feminine and masculine) of human consciousness.
On the other hand, in considering the historical crisis of survival we are experiencing on a world scale, especially in regards to environmental issues, to fratricidal clashes between cultures and civilizations and to progressive nuclear arms race between nations, it becomes evident that the feminine worldview and their inclusive and conciliatory approaches are urgently needed.
Therefore, we are of the opinion that, with the utmost urgency and in the greatest quantity possible, women must be placed in prominent positions – in the heart of communities, countries and organizations –, to heal the dangerous imbalance generated by the exacerbated masculinity and to reverse the risk of extinction of our species on the globe and the devastation of the entire planetary biosphere.
We understand, therefore, that it is not simply a women’s right to gender equality, but a moral duty for all of us (men and women), a crying need for humanity: to honor femininity, in order to foster, by all the means and resources available to us, the ascension of women to positions in the upper echelons and preferably of direct leadership, in the fabric of society, in as many and as broad battlefronts as possible.
Eugênia-Aspásia and Matheus-Anacleto (Spirits)
in the Name of Mary Christ Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
October 11, 2019
