Carolina's Memories: the encounter with transcendence in Spiritism and the revealing of self-education
Autobiography, Self-education, Spiritism, Transcendence.
The work seeks to analyze how the encounter with transcendence reveals self-education as a possibility. “Memories of Carolina: the encounter with transcendence in Spiritism and the revealing of self-education” is an autobiographical narrative in which the author expresses how relevant the finding with divinity was, in this specific case, Kardecist Spiritism, which enabled self-knowledge and self-education. In this way, he reframed his practice and his interaction with others. It is an autobiography because the path followed was aggregated by acquired and formative experiences in its trajectory from the trilogy art, life and knowledge added to the influences of spirituality and revealing the possibility of reflections and reconstructions as guiding threads in decision making and practices. The choice for the theme is based on three important events in this investigation: the first was her trajectory and the academic journey that brought her to graduate school and revealed her as a researcher. The second event occurs at a time when, through pain, he became aware of the shock with spirituality in spiritism, which brought self-knowledge through interactions and learning. And, the third event, is Spiritist Pedagogy as a possibility of building knowledge, education of being and the possible results found in this observation work and its consequences. In order to support this dissertation with bibliographic support, authors such as Allan Kardec, Dora Incontri, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Martin Heidegger, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paulo Freire, Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, will be present in this dialogue. Taking this investigation through the phenomenological method was necessary, as it refers to the experience of consciousness. Choosing letter writing was believing that it would reach readers beyond the academy, readers who are committed to education or not, but who see through it possible ways to reframe their praxis in life. We know that we cannot go back and make a new beginning but we can start over and make a new end.