The death and the idol 

The commotion caused by the decease of Michael Jackson, the pop music biggest star, was something that we have not seen for a long time.

The crowds cried for the early end of a man who has been remarkable as a singer, a composer and a dancer, to the point of making many specialists affirm after his disincarnation that will be very difficult to appear someone to supplant him in talent and success in our planet.

Dead at 50, Michael Jackson followed the steps of two other genial artists who also left our plan early – Elvis Presley, dead at 42, and John Lennon, at 40.

Every time that someone so young disincarnates, we wonder why life in this planet frequently presents surprises of this nature to us – while some very old people suffer in a bed of pain, others depart prematurely.

Existing in this world since around 150 years ago, the Spiritist Doctrine brought to us the information necessary to comprehend such facts.

Firstly, it showed that nobody dies and death does not exist in the way we usually understand it, given that it is much similar to a travel in which someone who departs is missed by all but will meet the beloved ones someday.

The certainty of this understanding hasn’t come neither from hypothesis nor from ideas machinated in councils or conferences. I came by the mediation of the spirits themselves, authorized by the powers that rule the planet, which departed from here and brought us news from the world where they live since the end of their corporeal existence.

Thus, death should be faced like a simple completion of a circle, the end of an existence, but not the extinction of a person, who has already been living even before the birth of its body and who continues to live after its loss.

The disincarnation of a famous and admired person, like the pop-star who left us last week, brings us an idea that we shouldn’t ignore, which is the transition of corporeal existences, that are successive and interconnected and whose the objective is much more significant than simply to reach the success or to accumulate belongings.

It cannot be ignored that someday everyone will return to the spiritual world.

We also know that the things acquired will stay over here.

So, it is only necessary to understand that Michael Jackson, Elvis and Lennon have not disappeared, but keep alive and, therefore, their immense talents have not been lost, since the resourcefulness and intelligence, like other virtues, constitute inalienable properties of the immortal Spirit, which the rust cannot erode and the bookworms cannot consume.