Reincarnations, the infinite.

Chapter IV - Answers

Eduardo rushed out of the meeting room, startled by his current "psychological" state. He left without saying a word to anyone in the office and pressed the elevator buttons on the floor where he was. Impatient, he decided to take the stairs. Countless thoughts raced through his mind. Thoughts like, "Am I going crazy? Is it some kind of nervous breakdown from overwork? Many said that one day this would happen to me if I kept working so much..."

However, the more Eddie thought, the worse it seemed. He had already found himself lost in his thoughts when he reached the street, and again, the blankness happened! He was traveling again... Each time his trips were becoming more frequent, and it scared the young man so much that he was already giving up. He wanted to quit and surrender his fate to God. This time Eduardo found himself in a large hall. He knew it was in the future from the environment. It was a kind of meeting, and the elder of his clan was giving a speech, saying:

– When I was young, approximately your age, I was reckless. I used drugs, committed crimes, and never cared about anyone. This was no different even when I entered college. Something I only managed because luckily, I had a wealthy uncle in my youth who could get me out of most of my problems, despite being directly from a poor family. Tired of meeting all the requests for favors from my parents, one day my uncle stopped. And I found myself alone. I was already completely failed in college and would be expelled when one fine day, in the philosophy class of my former professor Carlos, he talked about his end-of-the-world madness, and then, suddenly, I don't know if by magic or by inspiration from the angels, I began to pay attention to him. He said something I never forgot. Something simple and meaningless at that moment, but that settled in my brain like one of those songs that take a long time to forget. Well, senseless, until this moment. He spoke about ideas, their origins, and their ends. Today, we know that the wheel cannot be reinvented. We needed someone to say that the Earth was not round for us to have the courage to sail beyond the horizon. So, Edgard – at this point, the elder pointed his finger at the futuristic version of Eduardo. – So, tell Carlos that his student William, the "blind knot," succeeded. He finally understood that the apocalypse is change, not the end. We will win this war!

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Eduardo returned to the present just in time to see a middle-aged man starting a swearing process:

– You clown! You could have died! Learn to look at the street before crossing! Do you think you're in the countryside?

– Carlos... William asked me to tell you that he finally understood. From the future, I don't know how. He was already an old man, but he asked me to say that he saw that the apocalypse is not the end but only the beginning... – replied the young lawyer.

– What? What madness is this? Who are you? – Carlos was bewildered by all of this.

– William, the "blind knot." He said. Damn. I don't even know why I'm telling you this. I just felt like I should. Dude! I'm so crazy. Excuse me. Please, give me a ride to the nearest psychiatric hospital, and I'll pay for all the damage you had with my "hit and run." I'm going to check-in and ask them to fill me with medicine to cure this madness. Enough already!

Carlos put the young man in the car and drove. William was one of those students that the professor ignores in class because he has already discovered that there is no solution. During all the years of Carlos's experience, he realized that if the student doesn't want to cooperate, he simply won't learn, and that's it. But what that guy in a suit and tie said intrigued the philosopher. After all, there was no way William could have paid a guy like that to play such a prank. And what would be the point of all this? Carlos decided to play along and continued driving. Both didn't speak until the car parked in front of an old house with the words stamped at the entrance: "Chico Xavier's House of Paths."

Eduardo stared fixedly at those signs, looked at Carlos, and said:

– Man... I said I'm crazy, but not that much. I said to take me to the loony bin, not to a spiritist center! There are crazier people there than me! Dude, I don't believe this at all!

– My young man. I'm a scientist too. A social scientist, but a scientist. I missed a class at another university because of you because I believe in it. In the history of events considered "supernatural" in the past, the way people passed the first filter was: If this fact was perceived only by you, it was either a prank caused by your brain or a confusion of a still unexplained natural phenomenon. But if the same fact was perceived in the same way, without differences, by two or more people, then the only scientific theory that explains it is the collective unconscious. This is very rare and controversial. It needs a lot of other data to be investigated. So, using probability and statistics, your case has a great chance of being a "supernatural" case. Medicines will only disturb you even more...

– Damn! I already know where this William from the future learned to talk so much. My... I gave it to God. Hurry up then, Mr. Science. Bah! Says it's science and brings me to a spiritist house. Just laughing!

Carlos gave a slight smirk and went to the entrance of the center. In one thing Eduardo was correct. The professor wasn't a true believer in spiritism. But he always thought it was the most "scientific" religion of all he had studied and decided to take a chance. An old friend of Carlos welcomed the two, and after introductions, explanations, and more explanations, they decided to allow Eduardo to participate in the secret meeting that night, which was only allowed for active members of the house. After all, this was an unusual situation.

– How can someone see their future incarnation? – Marcelo said. Carlos's spiritist friend.

– Well, I don't know what this young man has, but at the time of the accident, I believe that a normal person would have been seriously injured, at the very least. I was indeed going slowly, but he dodged the car like a ninja. That part I omitted and forgot to mention. At least he has strong guardian angel protection! – Carlos replied.

Marcelo, measuring the young lawyer from top to bottom, continued:

– First of all, I want you to start reading Alan Kardec's Codification to understand the phenomena that happen to you. Start with The Spirits' Book, then we'll talk more about it. Taking advantage of the time, let's do a quick test! Eduardo, have you ever tried meditation? Get ready because we're going to expand your world.