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The Spiritist Magazine by Allan Kardec in English

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A s announced in the blog NWSpiritism , we can now read some historic editions of " La Revue Spirite" (originally published in French, 1 ) by Allan Kardec in English . The formal name of the work in English is " The Spiritist Magazine - Journal of Psychological Studies ". This achievement is just the beginning of a monumental translation work still under preparation by IPEAK (Allan Kardec Institute of Research) and carried out by Luiz A. V. Cheim. IPEAK website is a bilingual page (in Portuguese and French) which we hope will bring more content in English in the future. This is surely a relevant endeavor, since A. Kardec was one of the pioneers of the psychic research but he is widely unknown to English speaking people. There are several cases of hauntings and psychic communications analysed by Kardec as a first read through "The Spiritist Magazine" can reveal.  The Magazine also was a key tool in the beginning of Spiritism, since it contains m...

God and his causes II - Primary and secondary causes

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“We allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of the universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”  ― Charles Darwin, Notebooks O ur study here addresses the debate between "Creationists" and "Evolutionists" on regard to the origin of species and life. We notice that the conflict between "Darwin and God" is sometimes devoid of fair argumentation. It is somewhat fabricated by both a religious fundamentalist view of the world and the way science has established itself in opposition to traditional views of this same world. Today, the last vestiges of dogmatic theology are billeted around controversies on the evolution of life. If the life forms that we know today were not the product of several direct interventions of a man's made God then,  he at least possibly gave birth to these forms at a single time in the beginning.  So, we continue our study to get ...