Spiritist Knowledge

T he journal  Explore  (1) has recently published an article by Alexandre Caroli Rocha, Denise Paraná, Elizabeth Schmitt Freire, Francisco Lotufo Neto and Alexander Moreira-Almeida containing an interesting study about the mediumship of Chico Xavier. Entitled " Investigating the Fit and Accuracy of Alleged Mediumistic Writing: A Case Study of Chico Xavier’s Letters ", the work performed an analysis of 13 psychographic letters and searched for the degree of information accuracy in each of them against the chance of "normal" access by the medium to that information. The article abstract reads: We identified 99 items of verifiable information conveyed in these 13 letters; 98% of these items were rated as “Clear and Precise Fit” and no item was rated as “no Fit.” We concluded that normal explanations for accuracy of the information (i.e., fraud, chance, information leakage, and cold reading) were only remotely plausible. These results seem to provide empirical...

The Spiritist Magazine, February 1864, Spiritist dissertations. Spiritist Society of Paris, Medium: Mrs: A. C. Limits of reincarnation Reincarnation is necessary when matter dominates the spirit. But, from the moment the spirit has mastered matter and annulated its effects on moral, reincarnation has neither use nor reason to exist. In effect, the body serves the spirit in his progressive work, until he learns to manage the body, and project his will upon matter when the work is accomplished. Then another field of action is necessary for the spirit advancement toward the infinite way. Another circle of study is required, where gross matter of inferior spheres is unknown. Having purged and experimented all sensation on Earth or on similar worlds, the spirit is mature enough for a spiritual life and other studies. Having elevated himself above all bodily sensations, the spirit is free from all desires or necessities applicable to bodiliness: it is a spirit and lives only spiri...

"Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep." (Luke, VIII, 52) H umankind, to you I address these words! To you, who say lost, those who try to read you future! To you, annihilated by unbelief, frozen by skeptical selfishness, befogged by doubt! On you, poor daughter of Jairus, many exclaim: "No use calling, the girl is dead !!!" But the Master gets in the house and moving closer says: "Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep!" Humankind, near this deathbed, where passions bind you, the Master has deigned to approach and, followed by some of his dear ones, has extended to you his divine hands and said: "My child, get up and walk! Leave this lethargy, this apathy so common to those approaching death, get up and walk!" Get up Humankind and leave this deathbed of agony, the cause of your sufferings! Leave selfshness that restricts and smothers your noble passions; leave your pride, the thirst of gold erasing the ...

A s announced in the blog NWSpiritism , we can now read some historic editions of " La Revue Spirite" (originally published in French, 1 ) by Allan Kardec in English . The formal name of the work in English is " The Spiritist Magazine - Journal of Psychological Studies ". This achievement is just the beginning of a monumental translation work still under preparation by IPEAK (Allan Kardec Institute of Research) and carried out by Luiz A. V. Cheim. IPEAK website is a bilingual page (in Portuguese and French) which we hope will bring more content in English in the future. This is surely a relevant endeavor, since A. Kardec was one of the pioneers of the psychic research but he is widely unknown to English speaking people. There are several cases of hauntings and psychic communications analysed by Kardec as a first read through "The Spiritist Magazine" can reveal.  The Magazine also was a key tool in the beginning of Spiritism, since it contains m...

“We allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of the universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”  ― Charles Darwin, Notebooks O ur study here addresses the debate between "Creationists" and "Evolutionists" on regard to the origin of species and life. We notice that the conflict between "Darwin and God" is sometimes devoid of fair argumentation. It is somewhat fabricated by both a religious fundamentalist view of the world and the way science has established itself in opposition to traditional views of this same world. Today, the last vestiges of dogmatic theology are billeted around controversies on the evolution of life. If the life forms that we know today were not the product of several direct interventions of a man's made God then,  he at least possibly gave birth to these forms at a single time in the beginning.  So, we continue our study to get ...

“ It took less than an hour to make the atoms,  a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets,  but five billion years to make man! ” George Gamow, "The Creation of the Universe". T he present scientific image of creation - supported by modern cosmological theories and having as scope the material phenomena only - concedes that our Universe was created in a single instant in time, the so-called "Big Bang" (1).  The Big-Bang is associated with the origin of the material element . But matter is far from being the only ingredient that exists in the Universe - even from the academic of view. There are also "laws" and "principles" that help to organize matter and give the Universe its shape and structure. These principles regulate how matter interacts with itself and with other elements in order to produce everything we can see with our ordinary senses and mainly all that we can't see . Without the laws, the Universe woul...

B rian Forster has recently sent several contribution for the SKL directory . Now he became the founder of a new Spiritist Blog called Nwspiritism ( http://nwspiritism.com/ ) and also send us another contribution " Call for Opinions: analyze the Communication of a High Order Spirit to Nosso Lar " which is freely available in the SKL repository (see below). The article brings a challenge for readers of the book  Workers of the Life Eternal by Chico Xavier/André Luiz. Reference : SKL#08 -  Call for Opinions: analyze the Communication of a High Order Spirit to Nosso Lar . 

W e know that mediumship is a human faculty that allows us to get in contact with the Spirits (1). Mediumship is a neutral ability, that is, it is not attached to the "good" or the "evil" side or, putting in another way, it does not depend on the bad or good use we make of it. Moreover, it is not equally distributed among all people. Organic dispositions make it a gorgeous capacity of some people while , for the majority, it is almost imperceptible. In the past, mediums were highly regarded and persecuted. It is possible to identify traces of mediumship in many past personalities of the human history. In the Old Testament, prophets were consulted and called "Seers" (see, for example, Isaiah 30:10, Samuel I, 9:18 and 19). In ancient Greece, the Oracle of Delphi listened to all kinds of problems of private and public life. Religious dogmatism, however, in several times, also persecuted mediums who were regarded bearers of unknown and diabolical powers...

Für mich wird es eine erfreuliche Aufgabe sein, mit den Lesern mein Wissen teilen zu dürfen. Kommentare und Fragen sind herzlich willkommen, und werden mit Freude und Hingabe beantwortet, schließlich wird der Blog für die Leser gemacht, und ihre Teilnahme bereichert umso mehr den Inhalt.  Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion... das ist Spiritismus!  (1) (Adriana Sachs Vogel- Seele, Spiritistischen Gedanken) G erman speaking countries now have a new Spiritist blog in German. Adriana's blog: http://seelesg.wordpress.com/  [ Seele - Spiritistischen Gedanken,  blog über Spiritualität  " Soul - Spiritist thoughts, blog about spirituality "] - is a recently created web log with many interesting articles and texts in German language. Some examples of articles are: Kommerzialisierung der Medialität - an interesting article about mediumship and its use Ektoplasma Teil I.  first part of a presentation about ectoplasm Ektoplasma Teil II . Second par...

Death is a continuation. My glance penetrates  as deep as possible into this darkness where I can see,  from an extent that seems so fearful if it were not sublime,  the onset of the immense dawn of Eternity. W hat makes a man free? The soul. Who says free, says responsible as well. Is he responsible for all in this life? Definitely not, because there is anything more proved in this world than the possible and recurrent prosperity of bad men and the undeserved misfortune of the good ones during their passage on Earth. How many righteous men had only anguish and miseries until their last day? How many criminals had lived until old age in a peaceful and serene enjoyment of all goods of this world, including consideration and respect of all! Is man then responsible after this life? Evidently so, since he is not responsible during the present one. Something in him must survive to submit itself to this responsibility: the soul. The freedom of t...

A new article has been added to the SKL repository: " On the Way to the Light - Principles of Good Government as Implied by the Spirit World " by Brian Foster which is an analysis of the idea of good governemt in the context of the book ' On the Way to the Light ' by C. Xavier  (see reference below for book availability). Abstract The Spirit world is actively moving us to manage ourselves in a civilized manner. The book, On the Way to the Light , and other writings lay out the track for us to follow to improve the governments of whatever nations we reside.  Spiritism has existed over one hundred and fifty years, since Allan Kardec published The Spirits Book . The book states, in the conclusion section, "The development of these ideas present three distinct periods. The first is that of curiosity, excited by the strangeness of the phenomena produced; the second, that of reasoning and philosophy; the third, that of applications and co...