Why is studying good?

Reading and studying continuously are important actions in our life, because it enriches knowledge we have conquered and it offers us better conditions to perform our work in different areas of activity we execute.

That is not different when working in spirit midst.

There are many reasons which justify that thought.

The first fact is that in general we forget part of what we read or studied in the past. Study persistence and good works reading neutralize this forgetfulness and it even helps to avoid it.

The second reason is when a book is read and it sees points before ignored. A 16-young man who reads The Spirit’s Book won’t see in it suggestions or approaches which he would elicit for sure when rereading it at 40 years old. The same phenomenon will happen when he reads it back the same work at 60.

The third reason concerns to circumstances in many different subjects that time from time new works with information and analyse which are not found in old publication. It is possible to see it in spirit midst in the books written by the mediation of Divaldo P. Franco medium by the spirit Manoel Philomeno de Miranda, which enrich in a notorious way what was known so far about mediumship, obsession and psychic disorders themes.

According to research released by the National Endowment for the Arts, an American foundation dedicated to the promotion of culture, those who read regularly for pleasure have a much more active and successful life than those who prefer to spend time watching TV or devoting themselves to activities that do not require reasoning. For those who cultivate the habit of reading - concluded the research - life is a succession of new experiences and broadening horizons.

Professor of the University of Virginia and author of Why Read, Mark Edmundson states that reading is the second opportunity that life offers for our personal growth. During childhood and adolescence, he says, we go through a process of socialization and learn how to act in accordance with common sense. Then it is the reading that allows us to develop our own ideas, concepts and values.

Another research carried out by a team of psychologists at York University in Canada brought new evidence to the importance of reading and studying for personal improvement. One of the consequences of the habit of reading and studying is, according to the research's conclusion, delaying the effects of aging on the brain, a fact that confirms something that medical experts have been teaching for some time, that is, that exercising the mind by reading helps to prevent Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative disease that especially affects the elderly.

In the spirit milieu is known the lesson transmitted by Emmanuel in the issue in 204 of the work The Comforter, psychographed by the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier:

"Feeling and wisdom are the two wings with which the soul will rise to infinite perfection. In the narrow circle of the earth orb, both are classified as moral advancement and intellectual advancement, but as we are examining the values of the world in particular, we must recognize that both are indispensable to progress, but it is fair to consider the superiority of the first on the second, since the intellectual part without morality can offer numerous perspectives of fall, in the repetition of the experiences, whereas the moral advance will never be excessive, representing the most important nucleus of the evolutionary energies."

Note that wisdom is not acquired without the habit of reading and studying. Moreover, the knowledge that we acquire composes the luggage that constitutes the true property of the human being, as Pascal (Spirit) clarifies in the text below extracted from a message that he wrote on the subject in focus:

"Man only possesses in property what he can take from this world. From what he finds when he arrives and leaves when departs he enjoys it while here he remains. Forced, however, he is to abandon all this, it does not have of his riches the real possession, but, simply, the usufruct. What then does he possess? Nothing that is of use of the body; all that is of use of the soul: the intelligence, the knowledge, the moral qualities. This is what he brings and carries with him, which no one can take from him, which will be of more use to him in the next world than in this world." (The Gospel according to Spiritism, chapter XVI, item 9.)

Francine Prado - francine.cassia@hotmail.com