Spiritist Knowledge

" If you see the numbers or letters in the circles, pat yourself on the back.  You’re an example of an advanced human ." ( llamas blog ). Tetrachromats are perfect examples of the emergence of meta-observable senses.  Previous Post: The non-observable Universe III' Read the full article here (via SKL repository). 4. Private phenomena So far, we have ventured to describe events that are publicly available. By this we mean events that are independent of anything except the investigator ordinary senses. For example, take  a f =9 occurrence. If its apprehension depends on a device capable of impressing some human sense, the observation result by no means will depend on the observer: no matter who observes, the result will be the same . Thus, the use of equipments does not change the ‘public’ character but gives rise to the definition of publicly available phenomena: Definition 6 Publicly available phenomena : the apprehension does not depend on any in...

Ball lighting . The rarity and lack of a natural paradigm for explaining ball lightnings made them a recurrent anomaly  (cortesy: commons.wikimedia.org). Previous Post: "The Non-Observable Universe II" Read the full article here (via SKL repository). 3. Scientific method and anomalies Fig. 3 is an entity-relationship model of 12 phenomenological classes, that is the set of classes F(f), for f={1,…,12}. In this way, a f=1 class contains reproducible, periodic and observable occurrences, the easiest ones for scientific investigation on the base of evidences gathered by the human common senses. Difficulty seems to increases as j increases. A f = 2 phenomenon is irreproducible, periodic and observable. Events of this type range from a simple sunrise to the change of seasons. Sound beatings in a loudspeaker of a radiotelescope pointing to a rotating star – a pulsar – (D’Amico, 1999) correspond to f=11. In fact, its confirmation is only possible if a sensible (and exp...

A rare lenticular cloud takes the shape of an UFO. by Ademir Xavier Read the full article here (via SKL repository). Previous Post: "The Non-Observable Universe I" . Any discussions about the periodicity of natural occurrences must also take into account the fact that events may not be reproducible. In fact, what is a reproducible event? Both periodic or sporadic event may be involved, observable or not. In summary: Definition 3 1. Reproducible phenomena: some information is known about their occurrence conditions so as to render them repeatable. E.g.: chemical reactions; 2. Irreproducible phenomena: events that cannot be reproduced at will either by knowing their occurrence conditions or because such conditions are themselves irreproducible. Ex.: E.g. climate or weather phenomena. It is easy to see that, in order to be reproducible, it is necessary (but not sufficient) to know certain conditions. Reproducibility is associated to the ability to control ...

by Ademir Xavier Read the full article here (via SKL repository). 1 Introduction The development of modern science, starting in the 16th century, (Shapin, 1996) led to a world view in which almost everything should be explained in terms of rational or so called ‘scientific’ concepts. According to this view, all knowledge, in order to be true, must be tested in the laboratory, and, therefore, must be publicly available (Chalmers, 1999). The scientific method was conceived as the need of exhaustive and repeatable testing, data analysis together with the postulation of simple explanations in face of a universe that was definitely proved to be rational in their underlying structure and organization. An ongoing debate was then established between a community that is regarded fully rational in their judgments and a large contingent of people who still lives in a world filled with supposedly unfounded, marginal or rejected beliefs. This debate closely follows the conflicts be...

The possibility of Spirit influence is currently neglected by present day orthodox therapies that do not recognize the independent nature of human mind from its material counterpart. However, this does not preclude the existence of this phenomenon which is unfortunately widely spread in the population and can be considered as the origin of several mental disorders and leading to many hideous crimes. Already in 1861, Allan Kardec redefined obsession as the ' domain of some Spirits over certain people. An influence that is never exercised by good Spirits but rather only by those of inferior nature ' (1). If the human personality has its origin in a center of psychological forces known as 'Spirit' - which is by itself quite independent from matter - the phenomena of spirit obsession or attachment may be one of the leading causes of many tragedies in today's life, albeit rarely recognized as such. This happens because only part of the human nature dies in fact....

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...