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...

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...