Spiritist Knowledge

If every effect has a cause, every intelligent effect  must have an intelligent cause.  (A. Kardec, "Spiritism in its simplest expression", History of Spiritism.) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed  about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight,  and the sin which doth so easily beset us,  and let us run with patience  the race that is set before us.  (Paul, Heb. 12:1,KJV) R ecent debates about the nature and cause of many psychic phenomena have been polarized between two antagonistic explanations. On one side, the so-called "super-psi" supporters seek to explain all events by hypothesizing the existence of yet unknown human "superpowers" which would be responsible for all events. On the other hand, proponents of human-spirit interaction explain many facts as an interplay between an unknown force of Nature - the Spirits - and the human mind. Moreover, the existence of Spirits is directly linked to ...

Both the spirit of the 'living' and the 'dead' are sensorially unobservables Every evidence of their existence is indirect, by means of an intelligent fingerprint exibited by any medium (body behavior, external symbols)... Therefore, both cases (of the spirit of the 'living' and the 'dead') are epistemologically identical (Chibeni, 2010). S. Chibeni has recently posted a presentation on GEEU webpage (Chibeni, 2010) about the scientific research of the spirit that has many points in common with the subject we have writen about here. His presentation is a set of elucidating slides about the scientific research of the spirit and survival of consciousness. Unfortunately, they are presented in Portuguese and here comment on 12 obstacles that Chibeni put forward as preventing the studies about survival of consciousness and the existence of the Spirit. After a brief introduction of the phenomenology associated to the substances 'matter' and ...