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Special aspects of the spiritist teaching for
children by Rita Foelker
To reach its goal of transforming souls, the
Spiritist Education needs proper (an appropriate)
methodology. One of the biggest mistakes that
frequently happen in educational activities
promoted by Spiritist Centers is not considering
the spiritist methodology when dealing with
spiritist subjects. The Spiritism is a doctrine
that appeals to reason, a vision of world and
life based on a rational philosophy whose
consequences might be experienced and proved.
When the principles that the Doctrine teaches us
confirm things we saw and lived, these
experiments include not only observing external
facts, but also feelings and memories. Teaching
and learning Spiritism to children are different
from religious teaching and learning. It is not
about children learning rules, principles, and
text explanations, but about developing a
consciousness of themselves and the meaning of
life that allows the necessary judgment in
several situations. The religious teaching is
usually imposed and asks us to accept "truths"
shared by the group without analysis or
contestation. 1For example, we learn that we will
be considered sons of God only if we perform some
ceremonies. We do not have any other options if
we really want to become a member. On the other
hand, the spiritist children are not supposed to
believe in God or immortality because Spiritism
says that, but because they reflected, compared
with logic and facts, felt in their hearts,
recognized by their own experiences that is
impossible not to be in this way, and
incorporated this concept to their vision of
life. For that very reason, the Spiritist
Education goes beyond all things the educator
could verbally explain as his or her knowledge.
It requires creating strategies and opportunities
to each pupil build his or her own hypotheses,
question, and come to his or her own conclusions.
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Special aspects of the spiritist teaching for
children by Rita Foelker
For that very reason, the Spiritist Education
goes beyond all things the educator could
verbally explain as his or her knowledge. It
requires creating strategies and opportunities to
each pupil build his or her own hypotheses,
question, and come to his or her own
conclusions. For that very reason, it requires
world, scientific, and societal facts that give
evidences of the laws' universality that the
Spiritist Doctrine comes to reveal. In fact, we
cannot provide the understanding or application
of spiritist principles if they appear remotely
or divorced from the reality they help to
understand and deal with. The spiritist teaching
is meant to be spiritual enlightening, not the
diffusion of any religious or devotional
practice. This clearness is possible through
individual and collective experimentations by
reflecting and interiorizing principles whose
truthfulness can be understood by everyone always
in proportion to the moral and intellectual
development. We are applying the philosophical
teaching as a very better alternative by Rita
Foelker www.seedshome.com
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