Spiritist Knowledge

This life is the crossing of a sea,  where we meet in the same narrow ship.  In death we reach the shore  and go to different worlds.   (R. Tagore, in Stray Birds,  1916 (4)) So I will sing and mine will be poems and songs of immortal kind.  (R. Tagore, psychography Divaldo Franco, Pássaros Livres , 1990 (5)). Certain things had happened to me  when alone in my room which convinced me  that there are spiritual intelligences  which can warn us and advise us.   William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). A ccording to A. Kardec, mediumship, as the faculty of "people who can serve as intermediaries between the spirits and men" (1), is not simply a hability to communicate and exchange information. Psychography in particular is the ability that mediums have to lend their minds so that spirits can use them for writing including for manifesting artistic content. In this process, the spirit mentally induces ideas and concep...

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...

"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 ...

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." ...

Fig. 1 Brazilian postage stamp released in 2010 in commemoration to Xavier´s birthday.    Read more about Chico Xavier mediumship by clicking here (access to SKL repository). Introduction Brazil has a spiritualist tradition that dates back to the beginning of Spiritualism. The Spiritualist movement in Brazil is known as Spiritism and started after several works on psychic phenomena that flourish around Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804-1869) in the third quarter of the XIX century in France. Allan Kardec, as Rivail was to be known later, introduced a set of Spiritualist principles (Kardec, 1985) encompassing not only the basic precepts of Spiritualism such as life after death, the possibility of communication between the material and the ‘invisible’ worlds, but alto the belief in reincarnation. Granted the stable existence of many Spiritist groups in Brazil, many mediums found a highly favorable environment for the development of their faculties starting with p...