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Spiritist articles in German (Seele, Spiritistischen Gedanken by Adriana Sachs Vogel)

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Für mich wird es eine erfreuliche Aufgabe sein, mit den Lesern mein Wissen teilen zu dürfen. Kommentare und Fragen sind herzlich willkommen, und werden mit Freude und Hingabe beantwortet, schließlich wird der Blog für die Leser gemacht, und ihre Teilnahme bereichert umso mehr den Inhalt.  Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion... das ist Spiritismus!  (1) (Adriana Sachs Vogel- Seele, Spiritistischen Gedanken) G erman speaking countries now have a new Spiritist blog in German. Adriana's blog: http://seelesg.wordpress.com/  [ Seele - Spiritistischen Gedanken,  blog über Spiritualität  " Soul - Spiritist thoughts, blog about spirituality "] - is a recently created web log with many interesting articles and texts in German language. Some examples of articles are: Kommerzialisierung der Medialität - an interesting article about mediumship and its use Ektoplasma Teil I.  first part of a presentation about ectoplasm Ektoplasma Teil II . Second par...

What is death? (Victor Hugo*)

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Death is a continuation. My glance penetrates  as deep as possible into this darkness where I can see,  from an extent that seems so fearful if it were not sublime,  the onset of the immense dawn of Eternity. W hat makes a man free? The soul. Who says free, says responsible as well. Is he responsible for all in this life? Definitely not, because there is anything more proved in this world than the possible and recurrent prosperity of bad men and the undeserved misfortune of the good ones during their passage on Earth. How many righteous men had only anguish and miseries until their last day? How many criminals had lived until old age in a peaceful and serene enjoyment of all goods of this world, including consideration and respect of all! Is man then responsible after this life? Evidently so, since he is not responsible during the present one. Something in him must survive to submit itself to this responsibility: the soul. The freedom of t...

Principles of good government according to the Spirit World (by Brian Foster)

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A new article has been added to the SKL repository: " On the Way to the Light - Principles of Good Government as Implied by the Spirit World " by Brian Foster which is an analysis of the idea of good governemt in the context of the book ' On the Way to the Light ' by C. Xavier  (see reference below for book availability). Abstract The Spirit world is actively moving us to manage ourselves in a civilized manner. The book, On the Way to the Light , and other writings lay out the track for us to follow to improve the governments of whatever nations we reside.  Spiritism has existed over one hundred and fifty years, since Allan Kardec published The Spirits Book . The book states, in the conclusion section, "The development of these ideas present three distinct periods. The first is that of curiosity, excited by the strangeness of the phenomena produced; the second, that of reasoning and philosophy; the third, that of applications and co...

A short history of the world as told by a spirit (by Brian Foster)

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A new article has been added to the SKL repository: " On the Way to the Light: the Spiritist  Story of Earth as told by Emmanuel " by Brian Foster which is a review of F. C. Xavier book 'On the Way to the Light'  (see reference below for book availability). Abstract On the Way to the Light , by the spirit Emmanuel, psychographed by Francisco C. Xavier, was written in 1938, but first published in English in 2011. Emmanuel details how the Spirit world has managed and channeled the human race, from the conception of our planet to the present, on the road to a higher plateau. This book upends all we know about world history.   The article surveys the book and provides commentary on key events described by Emmanuel. It is intended to introduce the reader to a different aspect of Spiritism. Whereas most literature concentrates on our personal relationship to our own spiritual progress, O n the Way to the Light exposes the larger manipulation of the human race. ...

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

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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. Introduction. Rosemary Brown versus Fritz Kreisler. Stories of the subconsious mind. Psychic art as evidence of survival. 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." ...

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

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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 abstr...

VI - The Non-observable Universe and a General Classification of Nature's Phenomena (End)

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Previous Post: 'The non-observable Universe V' Read the full article here (via SKL repository). Conclusions According to a well-known type of realist standpoint, entity realism (Losee, 1993; Harré,1986), we can divide the world in many ‘cognitive kingdoms’: realm I asserts the existence of fully observable entities of Definition 1.1; realm II corresponds to non-observable in the sense of Definition 1.2a and realm III is made up of entities in the sense of Definition 1.2b. Much of what exists in the Universe is and will always be non-observable, leading to the proposition of non-empirically accessible causes in realm III. Examples of such entities abound in statistical and quantum physics or in genetic biology to quote a few. By adopting such realist view of the world, modern science has definitely showed that the scope of scientific enquiry cannot be restricted to public available phenomena. Here we have extended such a view to include meta-observable occurrences th...