Forjados nas estrelas: educação e doutrina espírita através de vidas em (trans)formação

Abstract

The fine line that separates Education and the Spiritist Doctrine, expressed in its environment, inside the proposal of self-knowledge made possible by experiencing being a medium, by cultural exchanges established in the internationalization of concepts and practices, and, especially, by the study of its genesis, in Brazilian territory, through the Spiritist Doctrine’s Systematic Study, paving the way to a spiritual transformation here denominated educational, for it presumes a continuous education from the participants in various activities promoted by the movement in analysis. Such activities (gatherings; regional, national and international congresses, public lectures, charity work, group study and medium education) are here analyzed as important tools to ground the aforementioned transformation, through living life as exemplified by Carlos Roberto Campetti. The life of Brazilian Spiritist Federation’s current director – whose medium symptoms and first rudiments of spiritist doctrine were acquired during childhood; his experience since his teenage years in spreading the Spiritist Doctrine, its internationalization to over twenty visited countries (Latin America, United States and Europe), and his participation in the consolidation of the Spititist Doctrine’s doctrinary study, as the National Spiritism Studies Coordinator – was chosen for didactically congregating important aspects that fundament the spiritual transformation subsidized by an education that, therefore, extends itself from one’s personal life to the study environments and practices promoted by the spiritist movement, which structures itself around Education. It is proposed, therefore, as a general objective on this investigation, an analysis on the existent approximation between Education and the Spiritist Doctrine as a fundament of a spiritual transformation, through Carlos Roberto Campetti’s life. It was found in the mechanisms of Life Story and Oral History (BOSI, 1994; MARTINHO RODRIGUES, 2007, 2013; TUCHMAN, 1995; VEYNE, 2014) the methodological support for this research, which, besides the main character’s life, counted with the participation of nine other subjects, invited to interconnect the main life story with their own experiences, enriching the collected data with their involvement in the many areas of expertise the Spiritist Doctrine offers. This research was theoretically backed up, based on the introduction of discussion and analyses, the pedagogy of Comenius (2010, 2011a, 2011b, 2014, 2015), the doctrinary conceptions of Kardec (2007, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2009, 2013) and, as a secondary support, Denis (2006, 2013, 2014), Pires (2008) and Colombo/Incontri (2001, 2010, 2012). The subjects’ life stories are fully displayed inside the following categories’ universe of Self-knowledge, Internationalization and Universal Education of the Spirit. It is concluded that spirituality can be a cultural experience, subsidized by a spiritual transformation with educative traits continued through an education and a recycling that establishes itself in the pedagogical experiences made possible by the doctrinary environment, freely chosen by the subject. The main life’s narrative along with the others reveal that the subjects’ personal experience, as well as their professional education, are highlighted and valued in a religious environment with educative undertones, concerning the doctrinary education, as well as concerning the process of self-knowledge. Such characteristics of religious experiences generate positive educational impacts in the consulted subjects’ personal life, thus one could infer that such realities can be conducted to their experiences outside of the religious environment where they transform, which implies an important educational phenomena if taken into consideration the contribution of this transformation to life in society.