“Rancho Alegre” spiritual colony for animals

Much has been said on this topic. Many teach that animals, after death, go to a beautiful spiritual colony, called Rancho Alegre, where the animals would stay together, enjoying the natural beauty of places in the world of Spirits. It sounds beautiful, but it is important to remember that Spiritism cannot be based on ideas that have not been validated by the necessary scientific methodology, because, otherwise, false ideas can generate mistakes, errors and attachments in our minds.

What spiritual science says

Kardec, in The Spirits' Book, presents important concepts about animals:

597. Since animals have an intelligence that gives them a certain freedom of action, is there in them any principle independent of matter?

“There is, and that survives the body.”

The) - Is this principle a soul like that of man?

“It is also a soul, if you will, depending on the meaning given to this word. It is, however, inferior to that of man. There is between the soul of animals and that of man a distance equivalent to that between the soul of man and God.”

598. After death, does the soul of animals retain its individuality and self-consciousness?

“Keep your individuality; about the awareness of your I, no. Intelligent life remains in a latent state.”

599. Is the soul of animals given to choose the animal in which to incarnate?

“No, since he has no free will.”

Animals, therefore, have a soul, or spirit. However, this Spirit, despite not being a machine, still has no consciousness of your own “I”. It does not, therefore, have free will, for it comes with the awareness of God's laws:

621. Where is the law of God written?

“In conscience.”

It is when man acquires conscience that, with it, he acquires free will. Rather, he is ruled by instincts: hunger calls him to eat, fear calls him to protect himself, anger serves to defend himself. By acquiring free will, you have free choice, from which mistakes and successes are born. From mistakes, learning or passion can be born, which is when the individual choose use instinct to strengthen a bad habit that causes you some sort of rejoicing. From this, an imperfection is born, which will be difficult to overcome through incarnations.

Animals have no moral suffering, nor need to reflect on them

The animal, however, is not at that evolutionary level, yet. When the lion kills the zebra, he is not committing evil, but rather good, as he is acting according to God's laws. The animal, therefore, has no guilt, no regret, in short, no moral suffering (although some animals learn, in contact with humans, to show similar reactions). It comes from there the Spirit living the animal phase does not need the period between lives to learn and reflect, because their learning, for now, takes place directly in contact with matter, living under instinct and under some capacity of will that, however, does not represent free will, which puts down the idea of a spiritual colony Rancho Alegre .

600. Surviving the body in which it inhabited, does the soul of the animal find itself, after death, in a state of erraticity, like that of man?

“It remains in a kind of erraticity, since it is no longer united with the body, but it is not a wandering spirit. The Wandering Spirit is a being who thinks and works of his own free will.. The animals do not have the same faculty. Self-awareness is what constitutes the main attribute of the Spirit. The animal's, after death, is classified by the Spirits who are responsible for this task and used almost immediately; he is not given time to enter into relations with other creatures.”

For the human spirit, the period of erraticity, between one incarnation and another, is necessary for its advancement and learning:

227. How are wandering spirits instructed? Right, don't they do it the same way we do?

“They study their past and look for ways to elevate themselves. They see, they observe what happens in the places where they go; they listen to the discourses of enlightened men and the advice of the highest spirits, and all this instills in them ideas that they did not have before.”

We need to return to Kardec

Therefore, friends, let us reflect on the doctrine forgotten by the Brazilian Spiritist Movement. Kardec's books were not created by him, but through the dedicated, organized and methodological study of the universality of the teachings of the Spirits. In the Spiritist Doctrine, there is a construction, where each point is firmly established on another, previously established, by the same process. It is necessary, therefore, to be very careful with the “new people” of Spiritism, almost always speaking of their own opinions. It is important to remember that what people see in a state of sleep or somnambulism (unfolding) does not always represent the truth, and may be altered by personal ideas and beliefs.

Kardec has always highlighted the need to judge everything, in the face of reason and science, something that the Spiritist Movement has not done. This same Movement, voluntarily forgetting this, began to accept spiritual communications and the opinions of prominent mediums as if they were something unquestionable... Which is a huge mistake, since the role of any medium is to transmit the communication, and it is up to others to judge it in terms of its acceptance or not, and it is not up to the medium to be offended by this.

This article, in short, is practically a cry, a plea: let's study Kardec, let's study his works, because the base of the spiritist science, that same base of the reasoned faith, the one that, according to the professor, "... is only the one that can face the reason face to face, in all the epochs of Humanity", is founded there. In short: no, the animals don't go to the Rancho Alegre Spiritual Colony, because they don't need it. In truth, even we, more evolved Spirits, do not need it: it is a myth that, when we die, our Spirits will go to any spiritual colonies, have soup and rest, because the Spirit does not need any of that.