Spiritist Knowledge

It is not to be thought, however, that all suffering in this world denotes the existence of a determined shortcoming. Many times it is simply an ordeal requested by the Spirit, which will help it towards purification and active progress. So atonement is always a test,  but a test is not always an  atonement.  ( A. Kardec, "The  Gospel According to Spiritism", Chap. 5,  "Blessed are the afflicted", Paragraph 9, see ref. 1 ) A crisis always reveals the consequence of something not properly done in the past or an action erroneously undertaken. We suffer the effect of the past living in us because we are its product. We are informed by the spirits that our actions today have two goals: to solve life's problems and to act upon current events resulting in either moral gains or losses, just as to influence the future when we will sistematically reap gains or losses again.  As a result, if we fail to act today towards the future, we will hardly...

This life is the crossing of a sea,  where we meet in the same narrow ship.  In death we reach the shore  and go to different worlds.   (R. Tagore, in Stray Birds,  1916 (4)) So I will sing and mine will be poems and songs of immortal kind.  (R. Tagore, psychography Divaldo Franco, Pássaros Livres , 1990 (5)). Certain things had happened to me  when alone in my room which convinced me  that there are spiritual intelligences  which can warn us and advise us.   William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). A ccording to A. Kardec, mediumship, as the faculty of "people who can serve as intermediaries between the spirits and men" (1), is not simply a hability to communicate and exchange information. Psychography in particular is the ability that mediums have to lend their minds so that spirits can use them for writing including for manifesting artistic content. In this process, the spirit mentally induces ideas and concep...

"I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly  what I believe today, and I do not believe today  exactly  what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made,  some honest progress within every  succeeding twenty-four hours."   A. J. Davis   Beyond the Valley (1885) p. 134. A ndrew Jackson Davis (1826 – 1910) was a prominent American medium (1), regarded as "John the Baptist" of Spiritualism. We present an interesting text (2) by him below (extracted from his book "The Temple"), a report of his sights at the instant of death of a person. Obviously, his description below is not valid for every person and all types of deaths (he explains some conditions for this death in his text).  Even so, his vision transforms death into a glorious moment in the life of those who lived well to deserve it. Death is the word used to signify "the end of life", spoken by persons who see not that seeming death is really...

A n unintentional search on the web made me find someone on youtube who has recently posted "video music sheets"  by famous discarnated composers under the mediumship of Rosemary Brown. As many people might know, we have already posted a text on her medium (1) who can be safely regarded as the most relevant manifestation of musical mediumship ever, a strangely and extremely rare kind of psychic ability. These are the works I could find according to the spirit composer: 1) By Brahms: Waltz in b-moll ,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPlRGLqeHwY 2) By Rachmaninoff: Lyric in h-moll ,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxuRekN0b0 3) By Debussy: Danse Exotique in Fis-dur ,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpZ1gBAxFWY 4) By Chopin: Nocturne in As-dur ,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JqnJ5qgDZI Impromptu in f-moll,   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-CzCd4AJyQ Impromptu in Es-dur,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UT8dqabdf0 5) ...

The last one hundred and fifty years  has commenced a quiet revolution,  which is only beginning. The full extent has still  not been revealed. The material disseminated so far  is just the first push, to rebalance the equilibrium  between materialism and spiritualism. For English  speakers only a small percentage is yet translated.  Hence, as each books is translated, new facets  of spirit life and methods come to light . Brian Foster, "The Case for Reincarnation - your path to perfection", Chapter 28, "Last Words")   B rian Foster has just published his book " The Case for Reincarnation - your path to perfection " deserving some comments. Brian Foster is an American Spiritist who has been active in publishing several texts for the "Spiritist Knowledge" (1) blog, our repository of Spiritist articles . He is also the author of NWSpiritism (2) containing many illuminating articles about Spiritist books and fundamental ...

I n a series of previous posts, we saw that the Creation and the idea of God as described in " The Spirit's Book"  (1) is significantly distinct from the commonly accepted notion of a personal God (according to most religions). The Spiritist notion is an alternative for those ideas in which God is not necessary (Atheism, for example), since the notion of God as a person - which make him an image of the human nature -  is not accepted by Spiritism. We explored the meaning in the concept of "primary cause" that can be applied even to the simplest phenomenon. Very often, the scope of scientific theories is the treatment of causes directly linked to phenomena, but scientific development can also lead to the discovery of more fundamental causes that should be regarded as primary ones. The existence of a fundamentally distinct element in the Universe (the intelligent principle) has a complementary and paramount rule to play in the understanding of many phenom...

T he journal  Explore  (1) has recently published an article by Alexandre Caroli Rocha, Denise Paraná, Elizabeth Schmitt Freire, Francisco Lotufo Neto and Alexander Moreira-Almeida containing an interesting study about the mediumship of Chico Xavier. Entitled " Investigating the Fit and Accuracy of Alleged Mediumistic Writing: A Case Study of Chico Xavier’s Letters ", the work performed an analysis of 13 psychographic letters and searched for the degree of information accuracy in each of them against the chance of "normal" access by the medium to that information. The article abstract reads: We identified 99 items of verifiable information conveyed in these 13 letters; 98% of these items were rated as “Clear and Precise Fit” and no item was rated as “no Fit.” We concluded that normal explanations for accuracy of the information (i.e., fraud, chance, information leakage, and cold reading) were only remotely plausible. These results seem to provide empirical...