Spiritist Knowledge

P ainter or drawer mediums are people who "paint or draw under the influence of the spirits" (1). They are rarer than other notable kinds of mediumship (as psychography, for example), however, their artistic works can be impressive, mainly if they paint or draw under very particular circumstances. We already presented here the mediumship of Luiz Antônio Gasparetto , however, other Brazilian mediums followed him and are presently active. An interesting case is Florêncio Anton (2). Florencio Anton was born in November 1973 in the city of Salvador (Bahia). Since his first childhood, he was in contact with spirits. One of this entities used to warn him on his misdoings and helped him as a family guide. When he was 14 he was initiated to Spiritism after a battle to understand the many phenomena that took place in his presence. He looked for answers to clairvoyance, out of the body experiences, physical effects and other occurrences he was associated with since they always...

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." ...

Mrs. Rosemary Brown (1916-2001), the famoust British medium to whom thousand music works atributed to several famous composers were dictated. A never performed work inpired by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) to the remarkable medium Rosemary Brown (1916-2001) has recently been recorded by Érico Bomfim in a special presentation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Below you may find two pieces: the first is a ' noctune in F minor ' (nowhere to be found)  and the second an ' étude in F sharp minor ' with significant complexity (already played before by Leslie Howard ). Both pieces have high degree of resemblance to Chopin compositions showing that this composer was very sucessuful in transmitting music though Mrs. Brown in the 80's. Érico Bomfim is a distinguished Brazilian pianist with only 21 years old with a strong interest in Mrs. Brown work.  The works were recorded at Francisco Mignone Hall in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro on last June 29 2012. Nocturne in F Minor (2...

A ballet dancer (*) by Degas through Luiz Gasparetto.  Painting and Drawing mediums: those who paint and draw under the influence of spirits. (A. Kardec, 1861," The Book on Mediums ", 2nd Part, Chapter XVI, 'Special Mediums'.) The literature of psychic phenomena has many colorful types of mediumship manifestations, of mediums with amplified human skills. These were the ancient wizards of primordial times, the prophets of the Biblical past. All types of human manifestations are, in fact, possible through mediumship including highly specialized abilities such as music composition, poetry and painting (rarely called psychopictography ). The most notorious example of music composition was Mrs. Rosemay Brown (1916-2001). In English speaking countries the poetic mediumship of Patience Worth (Braude, 2003) became very notorious. However, painting is also a registered feature of mediumship phenomenology. Although both kinds of 'artistic mediumship' are...