New article about Rosemary Brown in SKL (by Érico Bomfim)

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.

1. Introduction.
2. Rosemary Brown versus Fritz Kreisler.
3. Stories of the subconsious mind.
4. Psychic art as evidence of survival.
5. 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."

"To elaborate the musical material that Rosemary Brown brought to the world, it would be necessary a deep knowledge about a variety of different styles, in all their subtleties that distinguish them. The domination of composition techniques would also be required in order to build a well structured work from the formal point of view, what would probably be equally - or even more - difficult than simply knowing the styles. In short, to compose all Brown's musical pieces, knowledge from distinct musicologists plus the ability of a mature composer would be mandatory. But Rosemary Brown was not neither one person nor group of persons. Therefore the strength of her case."

"Psychic art, as a proof of survival, has a very peculiar value depending of the degree of sophistication and content. Since the spirit is the intelligent principle and true source, an intelligent effect (the very artwork) is an evidence of survival stronger than physical effects such as raps and other material phenomena. 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. Those who read an automatic letter or enjoy a work of art have the clear impression that the true author has survived and is doing well."

People cited in the article:

Fritz Kreisler (1865-1972)

Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900-1978)

See reference below for the full article.

Reference

SKL#05 E. Bomfim. Rosemary Brown and psychic art.(2013)

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Two compositions inspired by F. Chopin through Rosemary Brown (performed by Erico Bomfim).

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Spiritist Knowldege Letters.

Spiritist articles in PDF format: the release of the SKL repository

A new repository of spiritist articles can be accessed in the Spiritist Knowledge Letters which is a static page incorporated as a tab at top of the Spiritist Knowledge blog (see above). The aim of this space is to bring together spiritist information in the form of academic articles. 

The present content of SKL contains the following titles which can be reached through Google Docs:

SKL#01 A. Xavier. Pragmatics and intention in automatic writing compositions: the Chico Xavier case.

SKL#02 A. Xavier. The Non-observable Universe and an Empirical Classification of Natural Phenomena.

SKL#03 S. Chibeni. The Spiritist Paradigm.

SKL#04 S. Chibeni. Spiritism: An experimental approach to the issue of personal post-mortem survival.

In particular, we highlight the last artible by philosopher Silvio Chibeni, containing an interesting study about the question of post-mortem survival against the background of modern epistemology.

Please, read the abstracts and dowload the files of other articles in the SKL page.

SKL is also also open to contributions. If you have any interesting article in English on the subjects described on SKL page, do not hesitate to contact us. We will format the material to the style that was chosen for all SKL texts. 

It is important to emphasize that SKL is not an academic journal, but simply a repository of articles (similarly to arxiv.org) whose aim is to provide a place in the internet for modern texts of interest for spiritualist and spiritist people in general.