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A new article has been added to the SKL repository: " On the Way to the Light: the Spiritist  Story of Earth as told by Emmanuel " by Brian Foster which is a review of F. C. Xavier book 'On the Way to the Light'  (see reference below for book availability). Abstract On the Way to the Light , by the spirit Emmanuel, psychographed by Francisco C. Xavier, was written in 1938, but first published in English in 2011. Emmanuel details how the Spirit world has managed and channeled the human race, from the conception of our planet to the present, on the road to a higher plateau. This book upends all we know about world history.   The article surveys the book and provides commentary on key events described by Emmanuel. It is intended to introduce the reader to a different aspect of Spiritism. Whereas most literature concentrates on our personal relationship to our own spiritual progress, O n the Way to the Light exposes the larger manipulation of the human race. ...

Physical effect are really able to impress the senses, but intelligent effects carry the traces that help to reconstruct the underlying author's personality with much more clarity. (E. Bomfim) A new article by Erico Bomfim, " Rosemary Brown and psychic art " has been posted in the SKL repository . The article briefly reviews the history of the remarkable British medium composer Rosemary Brown and analyses, from an initial musicologist point of view, her work. Article content. Introduction. Rosemary Brown versus Fritz Kreisler. Stories of the subconsious mind. Psychic art as evidence of survival. References. Some excerpts of Bomfim's manuscript are reproduced below. "Rosemary Brown was the greatest musical medium ever. In a time span of only six years, Rosemary Brown composed more than 400 music pieces. And not only music for piano, but also songs and parts of other quartets, concerts and symphonies, besides the beginning of an opera." ...

A new repository of spiritist articles can be accessed in the Spiritist Knowledge Letters   which is a static page incorporated as a tab at top of the Spiritist Knowledge blog (see above).   The aim of this space is to bring together spiritist information in the form of academic articles.  The present content of SKL contains the following titles which can be reached through Google Docs : SKL#01 A. Xavier. Pragmatics and intention in automatic writing compositions: the Chico Xavier case. SKL#02 A. Xavier. The Non-observable Universe and an Empirical Classification of Natural Phenomena. SKL#03 S. Chibeni. The Spiritist Paradigm. SKL#04 S. Chibeni. Spiritism: An experimental approach to the issue of personal post-mortem survival. In particular, we highlight the last artible by philosopher Silvio Chibeni, containing an interesting study about the question of post-mortem survival against the background of modern epistemology. Please, read the abstr...

Previous Post: 'The non-observable Universe V' Read the full article here (via SKL repository). Conclusions According to a well-known type of realist standpoint, entity realism (Losee, 1993; Harré,1986), we can divide the world in many ‘cognitive kingdoms’: realm I asserts the existence of fully observable entities of Definition 1.1; realm II corresponds to non-observable in the sense of Definition 1.2a and realm III is made up of entities in the sense of Definition 1.2b. Much of what exists in the Universe is and will always be non-observable, leading to the proposition of non-empirically accessible causes in realm III. Examples of such entities abound in statistical and quantum physics or in genetic biology to quote a few. By adopting such realist view of the world, modern science has definitely showed that the scope of scientific enquiry cannot be restricted to public available phenomena. Here we have extended such a view to include meta-observable occurrences th...

Previous Post: 'The non-observable Universe IV' Read the full article here (via SKL repository). We can then add a new branch in our previous entity-relationship diagram, increasing the number of phenomenological classes (as shown in Fig. 1 here). Since private phenomena can be reproducible, periodic etc, more 4 types ( f={13,…,16}) were added. These are private occurrence that can only be registered by specific group of individuals, those endowed with the meta-observable faculties . The full phenomenological set has now 16 elements and may be called G set (F Ì G). For example, an NDE event may belong f=14 or f=16 class. The adjectives ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ are only applied to non-observable events, since it is not possible to assert beyond any doubt that special devices could not be constructed to register meta-observables occurrences (Bender, 1972; Ellis, 1975; Baruss, 2001). In other words, it is not certain that meta-observables could be converted into in...

" If you see the numbers or letters in the circles, pat yourself on the back.  You’re an example of an advanced human ." ( llamas blog ). Tetrachromats are perfect examples of the emergence of meta-observable senses.  Previous Post: The non-observable Universe III' Read the full article here (via SKL repository). 4. Private phenomena So far, we have ventured to describe events that are publicly available. By this we mean events that are independent of anything except the investigator ordinary senses. For example, take  a f =9 occurrence. If its apprehension depends on a device capable of impressing some human sense, the observation result by no means will depend on the observer: no matter who observes, the result will be the same . Thus, the use of equipments does not change the ‘public’ character but gives rise to the definition of publicly available phenomena: Definition 6 Publicly available phenomena : the apprehension does not depend on any in...

Ball lighting . The rarity and lack of a natural paradigm for explaining ball lightnings made them a recurrent anomaly  (cortesy: commons.wikimedia.org). Previous Post: "The Non-Observable Universe II" Read the full article here (via SKL repository). 3. Scientific method and anomalies Fig. 3 is an entity-relationship model of 12 phenomenological classes, that is the set of classes F(f), for f={1,…,12}. In this way, a f=1 class contains reproducible, periodic and observable occurrences, the easiest ones for scientific investigation on the base of evidences gathered by the human common senses. Difficulty seems to increases as j increases. A f = 2 phenomenon is irreproducible, periodic and observable. Events of this type range from a simple sunrise to the change of seasons. Sound beatings in a loudspeaker of a radiotelescope pointing to a rotating star – a pulsar – (D’Amico, 1999) correspond to f=11. In fact, its confirmation is only possible if a sensible (and exp...

A rare lenticular cloud takes the shape of an UFO. by Ademir Xavier Read the full article here (via SKL repository). Previous Post: "The Non-Observable Universe I" . Any discussions about the periodicity of natural occurrences must also take into account the fact that events may not be reproducible. In fact, what is a reproducible event? Both periodic or sporadic event may be involved, observable or not. In summary: Definition 3 1. Reproducible phenomena: some information is known about their occurrence conditions so as to render them repeatable. E.g.: chemical reactions; 2. Irreproducible phenomena: events that cannot be reproduced at will either by knowing their occurrence conditions or because such conditions are themselves irreproducible. Ex.: E.g. climate or weather phenomena. It is easy to see that, in order to be reproducible, it is necessary (but not sufficient) to know certain conditions. Reproducibility is associated to the ability to control ...

by Ademir Xavier Read the full article here (via SKL repository). 1 Introduction The development of modern science, starting in the 16th century, (Shapin, 1996) led to a world view in which almost everything should be explained in terms of rational or so called ‘scientific’ concepts. According to this view, all knowledge, in order to be true, must be tested in the laboratory, and, therefore, must be publicly available (Chalmers, 1999). The scientific method was conceived as the need of exhaustive and repeatable testing, data analysis together with the postulation of simple explanations in face of a universe that was definitely proved to be rational in their underlying structure and organization. An ongoing debate was then established between a community that is regarded fully rational in their judgments and a large contingent of people who still lives in a world filled with supposedly unfounded, marginal or rejected beliefs. This debate closely follows the conflicts be...