Spiritist Knowledge

Paranthropology , (Vol. 3, n. 4, p. 49-51) published (on last October 18/2012) our review about Samuel Magalhães book: " Anna Prado: a mulher que falava com os mortos ". To get a digital copy of this text, the following links are available: via Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/110398292/Paranthropology-Vol-3-No-4 via ISSUU: http://issuu.com/paranthropology/docs/paranth_vol_3_no_4 via Box: https://www.box.com/s/t38nnrdew0s7tvf48hu8 via Paranthropology: http://paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com/free-pdf.html There has been an international revival of the interest in phenomena of physical effects. The publication of Magalhães´ book is an important mark not only for the rescue of Anna Prado life and mediumship but also as a motivation for new studies. Paranthropology is a quarterly publication bringing many interesting research articles on the 'psi' aspects (therefore the prefix 'para') of anthropological experience...

Fig. 1 Brazilian postage stamp released in 2010 in commemoration to Xavier´s birthday.    Read more about Chico Xavier mediumship by clicking here (access to SKL repository). Introduction Brazil has a spiritualist tradition that dates back to the beginning of Spiritualism. The Spiritualist movement in Brazil is known as Spiritism and started after several works on psychic phenomena that flourish around Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804-1869) in the third quarter of the XIX century in France. Allan Kardec, as Rivail was to be known later, introduced a set of Spiritualist principles (Kardec, 1985) encompassing not only the basic precepts of Spiritualism such as life after death, the possibility of communication between the material and the ‘invisible’ worlds, but alto the belief in reincarnation. Granted the stable existence of many Spiritist groups in Brazil, many mediums found a highly favorable environment for the development of their faculties starting with p...