Credulity is bad. Faith is essential.
Perhaps you associate every expression of faith with the psychological primitivism of those who rely on popular beliefs, cheap superstitions or anachronistic fanaticism.
Be assured, however, that between true faith and vulgar religiosity, there is a distance as abyssal as that between savage drumming and the beauty of a great symphony.
If you value reason and logic, cold reasoning and critical thinking, that is great! Keep it up: you will be more lucid and less likely to make serious mistakes.
However, do not imagine that in order to be mature, intelligent and wise, at levels of excellence, you can disregard the exercise of your own spirituality, because it constitutes the crowning of the most advanced perceptions of the human being.
Spiritual convictions are the result of a complex construction of the magnificent power of abstraction of the most developed minds, capable of seeing what underlies appearances and concluding beyond the most obvious premises.
Think of God and your brain will work better. Create a relationship with the Supreme Being and your chances of reaching plenitude will increase a hundredfold. Ignore the Spirit, and you will be doomed to unhappiness…
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
July 27th, 2004