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The 11th U.S. Spiritist Symposium is a unique personal growth event that combines the insights of scientific research on spirituality, profound self-inquiry techniques information as well as a vast array of other spiritual related presentations.

The Spiritist Symposium provides an exceptional opportunity to take your life to a new level of self- awareness and purpose.

Get to know Spiritism and how it can contribute to these achievements. Visit the United States Spiritist Federation site at www.spiritist.us

In 2017, we will meet in the city of Orlando, FL on Saturday, May 06 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management located on 9907 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819. Join us!

(Organized by the United States Spiritist Federation)

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For the first time, in the 11th Spiritist Symposium, we will have a welcome station where selected volunteers will be able to provide a series of services, such as: 1. Information about Spiritist Events 2. Information about where to find a center near you 3. Book guidance 4. Fraternal conversation (maximum of fifteen minutes per person) 5. Overall information about Spiritism

At the end of the event we will also conduct a guided imagery/prayer so that the Spirit Benefactors may reach us and provide spiritual healing to all. —————————————————————————————————————————————— —————–

Lectures from the 10th U.S. Spiritist Symposium (April 23, 2016 – San Diego, CA)

10th U.S. Spiritist Symp: Love Changes Perception by Luiz Lima

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S P I R I T I S M

What it is

• “Spiritism is a science which deals with the nature, origin and destiny of Spirits, as well as their relationship with the corporeal world.”

• It is the set of principles, as revealed by the Superior Spirits, contained in Allan Kardec’s works, which constitute the Spiritist Fundamentals: The Spirits’ Book, The Mediums’ Book, The Gospel Explained by Spiritism, Heaven and Hell, and The Genesis.

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– Allan Kardec (Taken from Qu’est-ce que le Spiritisme? – Préambule) Translated from the original French

What it reveals

Furthermore, it reveals who we are; where we have come from; where we are going to; what is the objective of our existence; and what are the present and past causes of pain and suffering.

What it encompasses…continue reading

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Quotes

In what sense should we understand eternal life? “It is only the life of the spirit that is eternal; the life of the body is transitory and temporary. When the body dies, the soul returns to the eternal life.” -The Spirits’ Book, Q/A 153

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Highlights - Past Symposia

10th U.S. Spiritist Symposium San Diego, FL 2016 See all talks HERE

9th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Stamford, CT 2015 See all talks HERE

8th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Chicago, IL 2014 See all talks HERE

7th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Dallas, TX 2013 See all talks HERE

6th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Atlanta, GA 2012 See all talks HERE

5th U.S. Spiritist Symposium San Francisco, CA 2011 See VIDEO HIGHLIGHT

4th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Fort Lauderdale, FL 2010

3rd U.S. Spiritist Symposium Boston, MA 2009

2nd U.S. Spiritist Symposium New York, NY 2008

1st U.S. Spiritist Symposium Baltimore, MD 2007

10th U.S. Spiritist Symposium

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11TH U.S. SPIRITIST SYMPOSIUM

REINCARNATION – THE LOGIC BEHIND DIVINE JUSTICE

AUDITORIUM

9:00 Opening

Session One

9:10 Reincarnation Throughout Time – Jon Santos 9:40 Logic of Reincarnation in Spiritism – Edward Christie 10:10 Artistic Presentation

10:25 Spiritist Medical Association (SMA) Presentation – Sonia Doi

Session Two

10:30 Therapy of Past Lives – Vanessa Anseloni 11:00 How We Know Things We Never Learned – Julio Carvalho 11:30 Past Life Memories as Evidences of Reincarnation – Daniel Assisi http://www.spiritistsymposium.org/symp2017/program/[2/15/2019 9:02:32 PM] Program for 11th U.S. Spiritist Symposium

12:00 Lunch Break

Session Three

13:30 Roundtable:

Human Reproduction and the Impacts on Reincarnation Moderator: Al Turri

Fertility – Jussara Korngold Genetics – Sonia Doi Human Cloning – Nahur Fonseca

Session Four

14:30 The Role of Reincarnation in Human Evolution – Eduardo Haddad 15:00 Q&A (All sessions) Moderator: Peter Hayes

15:40 Afternoon Break With Poster Presentation

WORKSHOP A IN AUDITORIUM & WORKSHOP B IN CONFERENCE ROOM

16:00 WORKSHOP A: From the Intelligence Principle to the Perfected Spirit – Julio Padovan

WORKSHOP B: Spirit Release and Rescue (Disobssesion) – Elmo Deslandes and Joao Korngold

BACK IN AUDITORIUM A

17:30 Youth Education Presentation –

17:45 Invitation to 12th US Spiritist Symposium

18:00 Conclusion

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YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAM

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techniques information as well as a vast array of other spiritual related presentations.

The Symposium provides an exceptional opportunity to take your life to a new level of self-awareness and purpose. Get to know Spiritism and how it can contribute to these achievements.

Visit the United States Spiritist Council site at www.spiritist.us

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Speakers’ Bios

Al Turri resides in Orlando, FL, with his wife Christiane and three daughters: Gabriella (9), Julianna (8) and Cecila (8). Al is a worker at The Peace and Knowedge Spiritist Center of Orlando. Professionally, Dr. Turri is the Director of Audiology for The Vilages Health System.

Daniel T. Assisi, Ed.D., MPA, PMP, has spoken on Spirituality and Spiritism throughout the US and abroad. A founding member of The Spiritist Institute, Daniel has also been an active participant in the Spiritist movement in California for over 15 years. Passionate about education, Dr. Assisi works with public schools and education reform in California and holds a Doctorate degree in Education and a Masters in Public Administration with a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy from the University of Southern California. Daniel lives in San Diego with his wife Nicole and son David.

Eduardo Haddad, MBA, MSFM, has been an active participant in the spiritist movement in California, Florida and more recently in Texas for the past 16 years, as co-founder and active member of several spiritist centers. Mr. Haddad was formerly the Treasurer of the Spiritist Federation of Florida, and is currently the Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the US Spiritist Federation. As a worker in the spiritist movement, Mr. Haddad has focused on helping structure programs to disseminate Spiritistm in English, and has worked as a speaker and lecturer. Professionally, Mr. Haddad occupies an executive finance position in the technology industry and holds degrees in computer science, education, accounting

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& financial management, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Edward Christie has been involved with Spiritism for more than 20 years and is an active member of both SGNY and IESS. Edward is a classically trained pianist, has taught music in NYC schools as well as computer science courses at NYU. He enjoys learning and uses his love of teaching to share what he has learned with others.

Elmo Ferreira Deslandes was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has been in the US since mid 80’s, and began studying Spiritism in the 90’s. Mr Deslandes is a spiritist practitioner at the Spiritist Group New York in New York City. He graduated in 1998 at the Sophie Davis Physician Assistant Program New York City. Presently he works as a Physician Assistant in Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital. Elmo has been married for 23 years and has 2 children.

João Korngold is one of the founders and directors of the Spiritist Group of New York and the Spiritist Alliance for Books. He started studying Spiritism more than 20 years ago and has been one of the directors of the mediumship meeting for the past 15 years. He is also responsible for study groups at SGNY that focus on the basic books of Spiritism and on the Andre Luiz Collection. He has been giving lectures on Spiritism in Portuguese and English for the past 6 years. Joao Korngold is an Engineer and has been working as a banker for the past 20 years.

Jon Santos is a native of São Paulo, Brazil. He discovered Spiritism in the United States about 11 years ago and has been studying ever since. He has been lecturing and giving talks on Spiritism in both Portuguese and English for a few years and is an active member of the Renovation Spiritist Society (a.k.a. S.E.R.). As an active participant in the Spiritist Movement, Jon has volunteered and coordinated a few events for the Spiritist Conference of Georgia and serves as the Treasurer for this group. He is also a volunteer worker for the Spiritist Radio. Professionally, he is a consultant in the telecommunications industry. Jon lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Silvia.

Julio Carvalho first encountered the Spiritist Doctrine when he was about 14 years old. Since then, he has become an active participant in the United States Spiritist movement, has co-founded the Spiritist Center Divine Light in Newark, New Jersey which he coordinates with a group of friends and has become a prolific speaker, disseminating the Spiritist message not only in the Tri-State area but also in the Union County Jail where he works as a Mental Health Counselor.

Júlio Padovan was born in Brazil and holds Ph.D. degrees in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from the School of Medicine of São Paulo/University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has been working since 1996 at the Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry at The Rockefeller University in New York as both Senior Research Associate and Associate Director; he is also an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the City University of New York. Júlio Padovan has been studying Spiritism since the age of http://www.spiritistsymposium.org/symp2017/speakers-bios/[2/15/2019 9:06:00 PM] Speakers at the 11th U. S. Spiritist Symposium

15 and is currently a member of the Spiritist Group of New York, where he is responsible for the Sunday Study Group. He is also dedicated to translations of spiritist books from Brazilian Portuguese and French into English. Júlio has been teaching for over 30 years and he is both a lecturer for Spiritism and the general sciences.

Jussara Korngold, BS, MBA. Jussara is the founder and president of the Spiritist Alliance for Books (SAB), a non-profit organization, which has the aim to promote and disseminate Spiritism, in English, as codified by Allan Kardec. Mrs. Korngold is also one of the founders and president of the Spiritist Group of New York, located in Manhattan, New York City. She is a third generation Spiritist from Brazil, Mrs. Korngold is also a published author, and has been translating spiritist materials and books since 1993. Jussara Korngold is currently the President of the United States Spiritist Federation, Executive Director of the TriState Spiritist Federation, and Executive Director of the International Spiritist Federation. Mrs. Korngold is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. Mrs. Korngold has been working as a volunteer in the office of Brazil Child Health in New York, since it’s opening in 2000, as its main executive. In 2010

Nahur Fonseca has a PhD in Computer Science from Boston University. Dr. Fonseca migrated to the United States in 2002 to pursue his doctorate and has been an active contributor in the Allan Kardec Spiritist Society of Massachusetts, as well as the Spiritist movement in the USA ever since. In 2003, Mr. Fonseca with other spiritist educators organized the first meeting of youth spiritist educators of the North East, uniting a dozen spiritist centers. The next year, they organized the first Family Spiritist Retreat, an annual event that has brought more than 300 families together over the past twelve years. Dr. Fonseca has also collaborated with the Spiritist Magazine, the Kardec Radio, and many regional events, including the Third U.S. Spiritist Symposium, in 2009, in Boston, Mass.

Peter Hays is a very active member at the Spiritist Group Love and Light in Newark, New Jersey where he is on the teaching staff for the Education Department. He has done lectures on the Doctrine in Miami, Atlanta, the tri-state area, and the weekly Live Web Study Meetings via the United States Spiritist Council. Recently, he was involved with the editing staff on the new edition of The Spirits’ Book that is being published by the U.S. Spiritist Council. He has also helped to edit the very first publication by the Spiritist Group Love and Light, the English edition of Diary of a Counselor by Luiz Gonzaga Pinheiro, plus a second book, A Shipwrecked Life, written in English by the American spirit, Hercules, and channeled by the American medium, Jennifer Arlotta.

Sonia Doi is currently serving as President of the Allan Kardec Spiritist Society of Maryland, U.S. Spiritist Medical Association and the International Spiritist Medical Association. Professionally, MD, PhD,, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University, and Member of the Board of Directors of the National University of Natural Medicine.

Vanessa Anseloni, PsyD, PhD is a neuroscientist and psychologist. She worked for 18 years as faculty at the University of Maryland. She founded the School of Emotion. Fifth generation Spiritist, Dr. Anseloni is the founder and former president (1998-2012) of the Spiritist Society of Baltimore. Anseloni also founded and is the president of the Spiritist Society of Virginia and the Spiritist Group of Washington, DC. Vanessa http://www.spiritistsymposium.org/symp2017/speakers-bios/[2/15/2019 9:06:00 PM] Speakers at the 11th U. S. Spiritist Symposium

Anseloni is a Spiritist medium, fraternal counselor and coordinates spiritual treatments and workshops in the U.S. and worldwide. She is also the co-author of the book The New Generation with Divaldo Franco and the editor-in-chief of The Spiritist Magazine. Dr. Anseloni is the founder of Kardec Radio.

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Highlights - Past Symposia

10th U.S. Spiritist Symposium San Diego, FL 2016 See all talks HERE

9th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Stamford, CT 2015 See all talks HERE

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The address of the venue is 9907 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819 (UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management)

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From Main Campus

University Blvd. West to

417 South to

528 West

Exit 2 (Orangewood/Universal Blvd.)

Quarter of a mile on the right

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528 East

Exit 2 (Orangewood/Universal Blvd.)

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The event location is just approximately 12 miles from the Orlando International Airport 9907 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819

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We suggest that you stay at the Courtyard Orlando South/John Young Parkway located at 4120 Taft Vineland Rd. Orlando, FL 32837

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9th U.S. Spiritist Symposium Stamford, CT 2015 See all talks HERE

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http://www.spiritistsymposium.org/symp2017/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Poster_symp2017.jpeg[2/15/2019 9:24:36 PM] S P I R I T I S M “Spiritism is the Science that deals with the nature, the origin and the destiny of Spirits, as well as their relationship with the corporeal world.”

rd • Born on October 3 • Published many “To live a balanced life, 1804 in Lyon, France. books on the we need answers.” 1. Existence of God methodology of French 1019 Questions & Answers • Pen name of Hypolite grammar. • First Part: First Causes 2. Immortality of the Soul Leon Denizard Rivail. 1857 • Second Part: The Spirit World • Third Part: Moral Laws • Pedagogue and • Fourth Part: Hopes and Solaces 3. Reincarnation • Educated at the doctor in medicine. Institute of Pestalozzi The First and Most Complete 4. Multitude of the Inhabited Worlds at Yverdun, Switzerland. Scientific Treatise on • French linguist 5. Communicability of the Spirits (English, German, Mediumship • Married Amelie Boudet 1804 - 1869 1861 Italian and Spanish). 36 chapters in 1832. • First Part: Preliminary Observations • Second Part: Spirit-Manifestations

Explanations on the ethico- moral maxims of Christ and 1. Table turning forerunner of facts their application in various 2. There was an intelligent power expressed through the turning table movements 1864 circumstances in life. Prayer • The Spiritist practice is free of charge. 3. Yes/No answers to questions God at Home • There are no external forms of worship, 28 chapters 4. The ‘leg’ of tables in motion started striking on a succession of blows that Inner Transformation such as rituals or images. corresponded to the number of each letter of the alphabet Intelligent Sleep • There is neither hierarchy nor clergy. 5. Pencil fitted to a basket paper write Divine Justice According Charity • Spiritism does not impose its principles on anyone. 6. The presence of certain gifted persons would potentiate the movements (Mediums) to Spiritism Disobsession Passes Therapy • Spiritist mediumship is practiced in groups Caroline e Julie Boudin 1865 Fraternal Counseling under the guidelines of its foundation. Ruth Japhet • First Part: Doctrine 7. Mediums started to write • Second Part: Examples Spiritually Magnetized Water • Its main motto is “Without charity there is no Aline Carlotti Spiritism for Youth and Children salvation.” Ermance Dufaux 8. Other psychic means of communication: -Speaking, Hearing, Seeing, Touching, Writing Miracles and Predictions According to piritism 1868 • Character of the Spiritist Revelation • Genesis “Spiritism can contribute to progress by destroying materialism • Miracles and Predictions and thus make human beings understand where their true interest lies. • They are spread from pole to pole. It can eliminate doubts so that people will understand more • They are brought through many different mediums. clearly that they can insure the happiness of their future by • It does not depend on only one person. their action in the present. • There is no nationality. • It does not stem from any known religion. 1. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Introduction. By destroying the prejudices of religions, social classes and races, • No social class. 2. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Introduction. it teaches humanity the great lesson of solidarity that will, one • They are being given gradually by the enlightened Spirits. 3. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 799. day, unite them as brothers.”

“Spiritism is at the same time a Science of observation and a Philosophical doctrine.

It is also a Religion as of its moral consequences.” © U.S. Spiritist Symposium 1853: The ship Washington, departs from 1848: Fox sisters New York to the port of Breme, taking •Spoke German, English, Italian, Hydesville (NY) mediums, books, brochures and gazettes. and Spanish. The press announces for the first time the arrival Spiritism started from an American of the movement in Europe on April 1853. •Translated a variety of works movement called Modern Spiritualism La Table, le Livre et les Esprits,page 19 - Marion Aubree and François Laplantine on education 1854: Rivail was told for the first •Student from 1815 to 1824 time about the turning tables. “…but it can also be made to speak. Ask •Pedagogue from 1824 to 1848 it a question, and it replies.” (Fortier) Pestalozzi in Stans In 1815, Hipolyte Leon Denizard Rivail was Gemälde von Albert Anker 1870 It was there that I first saw the phenomenon of turning tables. sent to study in Yverdon, Switzerland at the •Founded in Paris an establishment similar to One night, his protector spirit, Zephiro, sent him a Institute created by Henri Pestalozzi. very personal message, saying that he had met in in the one of Yverdon - Institute Technique a previous life, as a Druid in Galia. He was then named Allan Kardec. An illustration of an examination of the Fox Henry Sausse •wrote books: grammar, arithmetic, higher Sisters by Dr. Austin Flint in 1851. pedagogical studies. “I will only believe it when it is proven to me that a table has a brain with which to think, nerves •taught courses: chemistry, physics, astronomy, with which to feel, and the ability to reach a state of somnambulism.” (PW) and comparative anatomy. (1835- 1840) •member of various scholarly and scientific societies.

“There exist no poetical instincts in me; (...)what I appreciate the most On April 18th, 1857, a Saturday during spring, The Spirits’ Book in others is the clarity, the limpidity, and Allan Kardec were for the ﬁrst time introduced to the public at the Dentu’s book store, the precision (...).” at 13 Galleria of Orleans, Palais- •Denizard was taken by Royal, Paris an unstoppable desire to Rivail dedicated his life to education, convinced that learn. One of the rare photographs only through it is possible of Allan Kardec presenting to improve the human The Spirits’ Book being.

“Kardec realizes that to prepare a The First Book •He woke up at 4:30 a.m. complete body of knowledge it was necessary to methodically prepare every morning to study. questions that would be addressed to the spirits every week. •At the age of fourteen, he started teaching his schoolmates.

1n 1823, Rivail became interested Kardec and Amélie in the studies of mesmerism. He started to participate in the Boudet got married on works of the Magnetism Society of February 1832. Paris, becoming a magnetizer.

Franz Anton Mesmer Allan Kardec died as Amélie spiritual strength (1733-1815) he lived: WORKING. and moral purity were precious allies to Kardecs mission, of codifying and disseminating Spiritism. He was handing an issue of The Spiritist Review to a book store clerk who had just bought it. He bent over and without pronouncing a single word, he died. Existence of God

“God is the Supreme Intelligence, the First Cause of all things” -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 1

What was the idea of God through human history? Spiritist view of God UNIVERSAL TRINITY

Primitive peoples of the Earth An axiom in science states “There is no effect without a -Belief in a superior being with superhuman power… cause”. Look for the cause of things which are not the work of human beings, and your reason will provide the answer. Ancient Greek, Egyptians and Romans - Believed in several gods that represented what they -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 4 thought was important. “It is not possible for man to sound the inmost nature of God. We still lack the inner knowledge of our own sense of being, which can only be acquired by means of a complete Anthropomorphic view of God purification of the spirit. Only then we will be able to SPIRITUAL MATERIAL -Revenge, punishments; other human characteristics comprehend God…” PRINCIPLE Universal PRINCIPLE “But if we cannot penetrate His essence, His existence Cosmic Fluid Thomas Aquinas (Middle ages) being given as a premise, we can, by the power of reason, arrive at the knowledge of His attributes…” The Spirits’ Book q. 27 -Believed in the “Uncaused Cause”, another name for God… by Allan Kardec -Genesis, Allan Kardec, Ch. 2

Albert Einstein believed that a “Supreme Intelligence” had Attributes of God created all what exists in the Universe… -"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of 1. Infinite and Eternal what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of 2. Unchangeable human beings." 3. Immaterial New York, April 24, 1921 4. Unique (no other gods) 5. All-powerful 6. Sovereignly Just and Good

Our Relationship with God “We judge the power of an intelligence by its works. Since no human being could have created the natural environment all around us, the First Cause must therefore be an intelligence superior to ours; and Prayer and Meditation “If the individual knew how to meditate and human intelligence must itself have a cause. The greatness of our how to concentrate… if he could see the intellectual achievements only emphasizes the extraordinary quality of bottom of his conscience and reason, there this cause, of which our intelligence is an effect. Whatever names we choose to give it, this Supreme Intelligence is the First Cause of all he would find the principles of an inner life things”. (…) a glimpse of the life that awaits him in -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 9 the higher worlds…”

“There is in each of us, a hidden God is the principle of love and solidarity, source out of which life, love, by which all individuals are virtue and power may flow. It is here, in this secret sanctuary, brothers and sisters. where God is to be found.

This picture represents the scientific findings of Dr. God is within us…” Andrew Newberg’s research on the neurobiological -Here and Hereafter, Leon Denis, Part II, Ch. 9 underpinnings of meditation and prayer.

1. What is the soul? 5. What is the destiny of spirits? 8. How do spirits make the transition back into the spirit realm? To progress! Spirits never regress!! Soul is an incarnate spirit.

-The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 134 PERFECT SPIRITS

No influence 2. What is the definition of spirit? GOOD SPIRITS of matter MORAL Influence of IMPERFECT SPIRITS Spirit over Matter

Influence of Spirits are the intelligent Matter over Spirit beings of Creation. INTELLECTUAL Extinction of Rupture of Separation of -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 76-77 Organic Life Fluidic Link soul and body -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 101, 107, 112 -Heaven and Hell, Allan Kardec, p. 206

• The existence of spirits has no end. 6. How do spirits progress? 9. What happens after death? • Spirits can be imagined as a flame, an ethereal spark. • Whenever an intent thought is, that is also where the spirit is. Through incarnation! • Each spirit is indivisible. • The spirit can extend its thoughts in all directions. Incarnation is the means through which spirits become perfect.

• It is a process of learning and purification 3. What is our composition? through the accumulation of experiences.

Incarnate Spirit • Incarnation allows spirits to perform their proper share in the work of Creation.

-The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 132-133 Physical Perispirit body “After death, we are what we made of ourselves in places Spirit Discarnate Spirit that are best-suited for recovery, and for opportunities of 7. How does incarnation happen? service we might prove capable of doing.” -“Nosso Lar: A Spiritual Home”, Andre Luiz/Francisco Xavier, Ch. 9 Perispirit SPIRIT Spirit 10. What is the spirit realm like? PERISPIRIT 4. What is perispirit? "The spirit-world is like IMMERSION OF a great city where PERISPIRIT IN THE GRADUAL individuals of all ranks It is a semi-material substance that envelops the spirit. VITAL FLUID MATERIALIZATION and conditions see and CONCEPTION • It connects matter and spirit. meet each other... As in a COMPLETE • It is derived from the cosmic fluid present in each planet. city, circles are formed by similarities in tastes, and • It can become visible and even palpable to us in dreams good and bad spirits share and even when we are awake. the same space without • It records all of our thoughts, feelings and actions. having to interact.“ -The Spirits’ Book by Allan Kardec & Genesis by Allan Kardec -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 93-94 -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 278 © U.S. Spiritist Symposium The return of a soul, or spirit, to physical life in another body that has been newly formed for it. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Ch. 4

In the Gospel Aim of Reincarnation • John the Baptist was Elijah returned

From the day of John the Baptist Raises the until now, the kingdom of heaven has sense of been forcefully advancing, and forceful renewal man lay hold of it. For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. And "Purification, to redress previous mistakes, if you are willing to accept, he is the and to effect human progress. Otherwise, Elijah who was to come. He who has there would be no justice. ears, let him hear. Strengthens Matthew 11:14; 17:10-13 family ties The Spirits Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 167

Evidence Reincarnation and Children Elongates The good and bad tendencies a child • Past-Life Readings time sense reveals early on have roots in previous • Hypnotic Regression lives. • Experience of Déjà Vu • Dreams and Nightmares The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Ch. 14 Engenders • Illnesses and Drugs universal • Meditation love The Importance of Educating Children • Strong Emotion DalaiDalai LamaLama A spirit is more maleable during • Spontaneous Flashes childhood, when the impressions it • Experiences of Young Children receives more easily mold its personality and its progress. SB, Allan Kardec, Q&A 383

- TThe Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Ch.4, items 18-23

To be born, to die, to be reborn yet again, and constantly progress. Allan Kardecs epitaph Introduction What is the purpose of the Universe? Categories of Inhabited Worlds We agreed in: There are over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. If you tried to count • Evolution of the them one by one, it would take you spirit reincarnation over 3,000 years!

Question: Cluster of Galaxies • Where is the spirit Our galaxy • “The characteristics of the many inhabited worlds supposed to is not particularly vary greatly depending on the spiritual evolution of reincarnate in order large. the individuals living on them.” to accomplish its • “Spirits who live their physical lives in a particular evolution? world are not attached to it indefinitely.”

-The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Ch. 3

Jesus said: The Spirits’ Book: Earth: Planet of Trials and Atonements “Do not let your hearts 55. Are all the globes spinning be troubled. Trust in through space inhabited? God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if It "Yes, and contrary to what they “The time has now been reached for one of these were not so, I would believe, earthlings are far from periodic transformations, which will move the Earth have told you.” being first in intelligence, goodness, upwards from a world of atonement to that of a regenerating planet where men will be happy -John,14:1–2 and perfection(...)” because God's laws will reign.” -Saint Augustine

-The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Ch. 3 • The ‘Father’s house’ Jesus speaks of is the UNIVERSE. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS: • The many places are • “God has populated all worlds with living beings.” the planets orbiting in • “There is nothing in the Earth’s position, volume, or composition that could reasonably space. support the notion that the exclusion of many thousands of similar worlds it alone has the privilege of being inhabited .” -The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 55.

• They are serious Spiritist meetings when incarnates gather • Spirits are nothing but the souls of human • Everyone who is in any degree influenced together to propel their own inner enlightenment, as they beings stripped of their physical body. by spirits is a medium. gain instruction from Good Spirits and, at the same time, • The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, item 2 • The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, item 159 become instruments in the rescue work of suffering and/or obsessing spirits. - The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, item 329

2. What happens after physical 6. What are the levels of 10. What is mediumship for? death? mediumship?

• We • 1. Subliminal God has given mediumship to man for a serious • keep thinking. • Exists or functions without an and useful purpose. • want to communicate with our loved apparent manifestation. ones. 1. Self-illumination • are able to visit them. • 2. Ostensible 2. Humankinds progress • can act upon matter through the • Evident to the medium who can 3. Develop virtues 4. Help others in both planes perispirit. either be conscious, semi-conscious • The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, Ch. 1 or unconscious during manifestation. - The Spirits Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 430

3. What are the mechanisms 7. What are the types of 11. What is the role of of spirit communication? mediumship? Spiritism in mediumship? • Mediumship of Physical Effects • We are spirits. We think continuously. • Those mediums who have power of Universal Spirit Continuous Thought obtaining physical manifestations. Cosmic Fluid • Healing, Rapping, Displacement and Suspensions, Musical, Apparitions • Mediumship of Intellectual Effects • Those mediums who are more especially apt for receiving and Spiritism has come as a framework to guide transmitting intelligent communications.s mediumship by disciplining and conducting it for the • Hearing, Speaking, Seeing, Writing, general good. We think…we communicate! Somnambulism In the Domain of Mediumship by Andre Luiz/Francisco Xavier The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, Ch. 25 Genesis by Allan Kardec & Reincarnation by Gabriel Dellane 12. Does the practice of 4. What is mediumship? 8. What is a good medium? mediumship foster progress?

• Mediumship is one of the incarnate human • Good mediums are those who • It helps both incarnates and discarnates. Incarnates beings attribute, which is used to understand they have a mission to are helped because the disciplined practice of fulfill, and they must be ready, to sacrificefi mediumship deepens self-awareness and mind control.rol communicate with discarnates. And the entities that are enlightened during these • Evolution in Two Worlds by Andre Luiz, psychographed by Francisco Xavier tastes, habits, and other worldly interests, Spiritist meetings will reincarnate in better moral and Waldo Vieira to the good of others. - The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, item 197 conditions and to count on strongerr inner resources.resources. - Getting to the light, Nilson Pereira

INTRODUCTION RESULTS FROM Spiritism Easily PROLEGOMENAPROLEGOMENAPROLEGOMENA Explained First Part: First Causes WhoWho What is Spiritism Whoaamm am I? I? Other Spiritist Books FIRST BOOK GOD Matter is the PRIMARY CAUSES God is the Supreme instrument that spirit WHAT DO I FEEL? Genesis Intelligence, the First SECOND BOOK Cause of all things. uses and upon which SPIRIT WORLD CREATION WhereWhWhere dod I THEE MEMEDIUMSDIUMS the spirit acts. Where do I WHY DO I SUFFER? The Mediums’ Book comecomefe from?from? BOOKBOOOOK God created two universal come from? THIRD BOOK SPIRIT MATTER Creation is the result of MORAL LAWS elements: spirit and matter. HOW TO BE A The Gospel According UNIVERSAL COSMIC FLUID the spirit action upon SPIRITIST? to Spiritism FOURTH BOOK Spirit is the intelligent 1st Chap.: God matter, according to HOPES AND CONSOLATIONS principle of the universe. 2nd Chap.: General Elements of the Universe divine law. WhereWhWheree WHY TO BE A Heaven and Hell Wheredod IIgdo ggo?o? I? go? SPIRITIST? 3rd Chap.: Creation CONCLUSION 4th Chap.: Vital Principle - The Spirits Book, Allan Kardec, Q&A 1,22,23, 63

Second Part: The Spirit World

SPIRITS interaction

Chap. 2 The Incarnation of Chap. 3 Return to Spirit Chap. 4 Plurality of Existences Chap. 1 Spirits Chap. 6 Spirit Life Spirits Life Chap. 5 Additional Considerations passage

MATERIAL SPIRITUAL WORLD WORLD

Spirits live either in the material or the spiritual worlds. They pass from the spiritual plane to the material one through birth. Their passage from the material plane to the Chap. 9 The Intervention Chap. 7 The Return to Chap. 8 The Emancipation Chap. 10 Occupations and Chap. 11 The Three of Spirits in the Corporeal spiritual one happens through death. There is constant interaction between spirits in Corporeal Life of the Soul Missions of Spirits Kingdoms the material and spiritual worlds. World Establish all the individuals duties:

God SPIRITS

Consequences of the fulfillment or not of the Laws Individual 1st MATERIAL 2nd SPIRITUAL WORLD WORLD Others 1st – Chap. I – Earthly Joys and Sorrows

2nd – Chap. II – Future Joys and Sorrows

The MediumsBook The first and most complete scientific treatise on mediumship ever published! INTERESTING Author: Allan Kardec (in collaboration with Mediumship: A natural ability anyone may possess to Key for Development FACTS mediums and manyyg enlightened Spirits) p) communicate with the Spiritual World.

First Published: Jan 15, 1861 “Calmness and concentration of thought, a strong desire and Place First Published: Paris, France FluidicFluidic Harmony determination to succeed are key for the development of a medium.” – Item 204 BOOK 36 Chapters Disincarnate Incarnate STRUCTURE FIRST PART: Preliminary Observations 4 Chapters Spirit World Medium Physical World Stumbling Block SECOND PART: Spirit-Manifestations 32 chapters - Simple Obsession - Fascination DID YOU KNOW? - Subjugation The term “medium”, as we use it nowadays, was first used for this purpose by Allan Kardec. Our moral imperfections bring us under the power of WE ARE ALL MEDIUMS! obsessing spirits, and that the surest method of getting rid TYPES OF MEDIUMSHIP: of them is to attract good spirits. “All human beings are mediums; all have Item 252 a spirit-guide who, if they listen to it, PHYSICAL EFFECTS INTELLECTUAL EFFECTS directs them in the right way.” HUMAN QUALITIES THAT ATTRACT GOOD SPIRITS HUMAN CONDITIONS THAT REPEL GOOD SPIRITS Channing (Spirit), item 10 Materialization --C CChChapterhaapteaptapptpptetteerr25r2 2525 Automatic Writing LOVE OF NEIGHBOR SELFISHNESS Mechanisms of Mediumship Healing Speaking KINDNESS PRIDE GOOD-WILL VANITY Pneumatography Seeing DETACHMENT JEALOUSY Musical Hearing DETERMINATION VICES Transport of objects Inspirational

DISINCARNATE = SPIRIT + PERISPIRIT INCARNATE = SPIRIT + PERISPIRIT + BODY Identity of Spirits Good Medium “Good mediums are those who understand that The language of spirits is always in the true medium has a mission to fulfill, and that accoaccordance with the degree of their he must be ready, when necessary, to sacrifice his elelevation.eva - Item 262 tastes, habits, pleasure, time, and even his worldly interests, to the good of others.” – Item 197 Francisco C. Xavier GoodGoo Spirits only prescribe what is good (1910-2002) The spirit has, as its instrument, and ccharitable. They are calm and gentle. its perispirit, just as a person has its body. Free Mediumship “Serious mediumship is N OT, and can N EVER be, made into This perispirit is semi-matter. The spirit has, as ImperfectImp Spirits excite animosity and profession. Mediumship is sacred and should be practiced in a its intermediary agent, the universal fluid; a distrust.distru - Item 266 saintly and devout manner.”- The Gospel According to Spiritism, sort of vehicle on which it acts, as we act upon Allan Kardec, Ch.26, items 9-10 the air, in order to produce certain effects. Item 58 Every Effect Has a Cause. Every Intelligent Effect Has an Intelligent Cause. Allan Kardec Published on April 15, 1864, this SOCRATESSO AND PLATOO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING OBJECTIVE book can be understood as the Forerunners of Christian moral component of the Spiritism. and Spiritist Ideas

TO SPIRITISM Compiled by Allan Kardec and structured in 28 chapters, this book contains The Spirits give important advice The occupation of the philosopher is to care for explanations of the moral maxims of Christ about our daily conduct as we face the soul less in regard to the present than to life in in accordance with Spiritism and their life’s difficulties and doubts. eternity. Since the soul is immortal, it would be application in various circumstances in life. wise to live our lives with this fact in mind. Source: Platos Phaedo

Whether the cause is in the Blessed are those who mourn, present or a previous life, our CAUSES OF for they will be comforted.– PRESENT AND misfortune can be traced back to SUFFERING Matthew, 5:4 PAST CAUSES a wrong done in the past. – Ch. 5, item 7

Some of the 48+ spirits who authored the book: Jesus Christ in the Spiritist View What is the most perfect type that God has offered to humankind as its guide and model? JESUS. Human Being - His superiority

Delphine de Girardin (1804– Samuel Hahnemann (1755- Saint Augustine (354-430) Paul of Tarsus (born c. 10, d. c. Joanna de AngelisA Spiritual François Fénelon (1651-1715) Master - He was not God over men was only of his 55) French writer 1843) - German physician who One of the most important 67), the Apostle of the Gentiles Friend was a French Roman Catholic spiritual nature, which founded homoeopathic figures in the development of was one of the most notable of theologian, poet and writer. himself, but an ambassador of medicine. Western Christianity. Early Christian missionaries. God … a divine Messiah. absolutely controlled matter, and Genesis by Allan Kardec, Ch. XIV, item 9 his perispirit (…). Genesis, Allan Kardec, Ch. XIV, item 9

Psychotherapist - "It is not the Medium - He was a medium of healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. God. Genesis, Allan Kardec, Ch. XIV, item 9 Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a Saint Louis (1214 – 1270) King John, the EvangelistOne of Emmanuel - Roman Senator at Saint Vincent de Paul The Spirit of Truth Matthew 9:12 French mathematician, of France Jesus disciples Jesus time. (1581-1660) French Priest physicist, and religious philosopher.

Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? PRAYER IS THOUGHT TRANSFER (…) For whoever does the will of my Father in GOOD PERSON Heaven is my brother, sister and mother. “Therefore I tell you, Mark 3:31-35 “Truly good people comply with the laws of justice, whatever you ask for in Spirit love, and charity in their purest form.” – Ch. 17 prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will Real family ties are based on empathy and the be yours.” - Mark, 11:24 affinity of ideas developed before, during and after incarnations. Continuous Universal FAMILY TIES FAMILY Cosmic Ch. 14, item 8 Prayer is an invocation. Thought T h r o u g h p r a y e r w e Fluid e s t a b l i s h a m e n t a l Frequency Will “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the relationship with the Intensity kingdom of God unless he is born of water and being we address. A prayer the spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh. The spirit Condensed thought may have three purposes: gives birth to spirit.” GOOD SPIRITIST John 3:1-12 “True spiritists can be recognized by their moral Saturation of the transformation and by the efforts they make to Ask perispiritual overcome their bad tendencies.” – Ch. 17 Water represents the essence of matter, just as P: 555.123.4568Give F: 555.123.4567 thanks molecules Spirit represents the essence of intelligence. 123 West Main Street, New York, www.rightcare.com | Ch. 4, item 8 Materialization REINCARNATION REINCARNATION NY Praise10001 Ch. 27, item 9 of those thoughts Unshakable faith is that which can stand face to face with reason in all epochs of humanity.Allan Kardec HeavenHeaven and HellHell The road to happiness is wide open to all, and all enjoy the same conditions to attain to it. HeavenHeaven and Hell, Allan Kardec, Chap.Chap. 7, item 3232

ANGELS Angels are human souls who have attained the DEMONS 1st Part - Doctrine degree of perfection of perfection that beings are capable of, enjoying promised bliss in all its fullness. According to Spiritism, demons are as-yet imperfect Heaven and Hell Chap. 8, item 13 spirits who are susceptible to regeneration and although located at the bottom of the scale they will nevertheless ascend it. Heaven and Hell Chap. 9, item 21

HEAVEN MULTITUDE OSCSOF EXISTENCES

Where is heaven? Everywhere. No HELL borders enclose it. Advanced worlds are the last stations leading to it; virtues facilitate the journey to it, while Since suffering depends on the amount PURGATORY vices hinder access. of imperfection, (), the soul bears within itself its own punishment Heaven and Hell Chap. 3, item 18 wherever it may be without having to Purgatory is not some vague and be in some circumscribed place. Hell is uncertain notion; it is a physical reality wherever there re suffering souls” that we can see, touch and endure. It is found on worlds of trials and Heaven and Hell Chap. 7, item 5 atonements, and Erath is one of them. On Earth people atone their past and 2nd Part - Examples present for the good of their future. Heaven and Hell Chap. 5, item 4

THE PASSAGE HAPPY SPIRITS AVERAGE SPIRITS SUFFERING SUICIDES REPENTANT HARDENED EARTHLY Extinction of Organic “My situation is quite “I often failed good SPIRITS “Am I dead? Me? No CRIMINALS SPIRITS EXPIATIONS Life happy, for I feel none of works. I didn't’t do all “My spirit, held to the I’m in my body You “I’m being punished “Crime! It’s just a word! “The sorrows of Earth my former pain. I am the things that an body by material bonds, don’t know how much because I realize my C r i m e h a p p e n s are a preparation for the r e c o v e r e d a n d a m honest person would had great difficulty in I ’ m s u f f e r i n g ! I ’ m wrong and I ask God for everywhere. I don’t want joys of heaven. Rupture of Fluidic Link renewed.” have done. I forgot God breaking free. I suffocating I ’ m forgiveness. I’m being to be pitied .. And I shall Suffering is nothing Mr. Sanson and that in turn drove searched for my body abandoned. I fled punished by the find out how to fight more than the peel of a me to other wrongs, suffering only to find Separation of Soul and but was both amazed remorse of having against this hateful delectable fruit that which, even though and terrified at finding torture.” delayed my progress by light.” yields courage and Body acceptable according to that I was lost in a The Suicide at the taking the false path Lapommeray resignation. I had asked human laws were whirlpool of shadows.” Samaritaine and for not listening to for suffering in order to offensive to God’s t h e c r y o f m y achieve my purification.” decrees.” against the Novel conscience telling me Marcel law of God.” that it was not by killing Joseph Bre that I would reach my objective.” Verger

1. Passes Pass-Giver Pass-Giver Donation of spiritual energies or is an instrument for the vital fluids from a pass-giver and/ transfusion of healthy or a spirit to a person. spiritual fluids, which are manipulated and David J. Hess - Spirits and Scientists - Ideology, Spiritism and offered by Spirit Brazilian Culture - 1991. The Pennsylvania State University MESMER ALLAN KARDEC Benefactors.

Animal Magnetism SPIRITISM Patient is the one who seeks assistance and 2. Facts guidance in regard to his/her

CHAKRAS We are a spiritual, mental, emotional, and/or PASSES: NOT a modern concept Crown physical conditions. 3-fold being Brow Throat PASSES: NOT a Spiritist ritual SPIRIT Three Types of Passes Cardiac

Navel PASSES: Used by many Spiritualists PERISPIRIT BODY Spleen Magnetic Passes are applied by the pass (including Christians) giver, who provides his/her own personal Basic magnetic fluids though the irradiation of his/her personal energy. 3. Purpose Our entire body is a big energy field. FLUID-THERAPY : Spiritual Passes are applied by Spirit Benefactors onto one or more persons at the therapeutic aid to all kinds of same time, with or without the direct conditions assistance of a pass giver.

RESTORES : Combined Passes is applied through the

the balance of spirit-perispirit- joint efforts of Spirit Benefactors and pass- body giver. It contains both magnetic and spiritual fluids. It is more common than the other …every person is the center of a fluidic wave that two types. extends according to his/her will power. 4. Passes and the Bible Jacob Melo Receptivity is key for healing

For thousands of years the Bible Important Requirements for Pass-Givers: described the laying on of hands Tranquility being performed on the sick to restore The patient must be receptive to

health. Habit of Prayer passes and well disposed to spiritual Good Health improvement. If the patient is

Therefore I remind you to stir up the Knowledge of Passes unwilling to collaborate in the general gift of God which is you through the process, the results may be laying on of my hands.(2 Tim.1:6) Discernment temporary. Service attitude Practical Guide for Magnetic and Spiritual Healing Passes are not simply a transfusion of psychic energies. It is the ideal tool to balance the mind, and an effective aid to all kinds of treatments. Andre Luiz (Spirit) – Francisco C. Xavier (medium) © U.S. Spiritist Symposium Thoughts and Words Water Change Water Crystals5 O H H

•It is an inorganic substance. •It is also the universal solvent. •Water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface. •Where there is water, there is life. Thank you! I will kill you! Spiritually Magnetized Water is a therapeutic element loaded with EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE spiritually-impregnated remedy that is used to Will Power and Faith EffectsVariation of spiritual of water pH magnetization following spiritually wateronto magnetization water pH UNIBEM ‐ Center for spiritist studies (Curitiba, PR ‐ Brazil) balance spirit-perispirit-physical body. 8.5 before after 8.45 4 •Due to its molecular Types of Magnetization 8.4 constitution, water 8.35 variation 8.3

absorbs and conducts pH bioenergy (magnetism).1 8.25 8.2 8.15

e r at •Under the action of will and faith, su ro s th re e p or od S lo water can be impregnated with B h ig bioenergy.2 H MAIN CONCLUSIONS 3 Combined Changes at Molecular Level Magnetizer Spirit Spiritual magnetization of water alters its characteristics; through Such changes are specific to each Psi-molecules (ae) type of disease; This water absorbs the specialized Prayer - Laying on of hands - Affirmations healthy fluids that are being transfused, becoming a true remedy.

General Recommendations References: 1. Loucura e Obsessao, Manoel P. Miranda / Divaldo Franco, chap. 3, p. 40. Before After 2. Magnetismo Espiritual, Michaelus, chapter 15, p. 140. 1. Water must potable. 3. O Passe, Jacob Melo, p. 259. Magnetization Magnetization 4. O Passe, Jacob Melo, p. 261. 2. Person must be receptive. 5. Messages from Water, Massaru Emoto. ©U.S. Spiritist Symposium

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5 PRAYER IS… QUALITY OF PRAYER DYNAMICS OF PRAYER

Thought 2 will power impulse transmission (thought current) answer according clear concise to God’s will sincere to praise The more fervent and sincere a prayer is, Our thoughts are like the tones of a bell, which make to thank 4 the more effect it will have . all the molecules of the ambient air vibrate6.

EFFECTS OF PRAYER The Lord’s Prayer explained7 to ask “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name” PAID PRAYERS - We recognize and praise the importance of God in our lives. “Thy kingdom come” - We accept God’s providence. Prayer is an act of charity, an ecstasy of the heart. To “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” charge someone for the prayers we direct to God in their name, is to transform oneself into a paid intermediary3. - We submit ourselves to the laws of God. “Give us this day our daily bread” - God provides us with both physical and spiritual We may pray… nourishment. “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass Anywhere at For ourselves For others For the world At any age any time against us” - It is vital to forgive ourselves and others. “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from all evil” - We recognize our limitations and the protection of God. “So be it”

Alone With family With friends In groups In any faith - We acknowledge and worship the wisdom of God.

1. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 27, item 23 2. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 27, item 9 3. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 26, item 4 4. The Mediums’ Book, Allan Kardec, item 132, question 8 References 5. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 27, item 10 6. Genesis, Allan Kardec, chapter 17, item 30 7. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Chapter 28, item 3 8. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 663

8 “Prayer calls to your help good spirits who give you strength to bear them with courage, so that they seem to you less severe . ©U.S. Spiritist Symposium INTELLIGENTINTELLIGENT SLEEPSLEEP The sleep state has a stronger influence on one’s life than one can imagine1.

What are What happens INTELLIGENT USE OF SLEEP dreams? during sleep? THERAPY SEEKING ADVICE

We can do all sorts of During sleep, Spirits therapy during sleep. In who have attained particular, we may use reasonable progress PHYSICALLY: our time in the spiritual often seek the company Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings realm to reconcile with of more advanced experienced while asleep, particularly strongly our enemies. While in Spirits, talk with them associated with rapid eye movement sleep. this state, the Spirit and receive their reveals its true identity, advice3. What occurs during REM: making it impossible to body perispirit Spirit -Stability of brain synapses conceal its feelings. All To achieve this level, we -Memory consolidation we need is strong will need to lead a balanced -Brain’s internal communication system and ask for our Spirit life during the day. Mentor’s guidance. SPIRITUALLY: Dreams are a product of the freeing of the soul, which We are Spirits. The Spirit is enveloped by a vaporous substance become more energetic as the activities of daily life are fine as a mist, which is called the perispirit. It connects us to our suspended. In the dream state the soul enjoys an all- physical body2. penetrating clairvoyance which extends to far away and unknown places, and even other realms of life. 3. PREPARING FOR THE HEALING THE PAST FUTURE TYPES OF DREAMS 6 : EMANCIPATION 1. Memory of the past The state of freedom REVELATIONS This type of dream While our body sleeps, we, Spirits, 2. Presentiment of the future during sleep may allows you to foresee enjoy other faculties we are unaware 3. Communication with other incarnated or discarnated produce recollection of the future. The dream of in the waking state. Our abilities spirits events from present may be a foresight of expand markedly. Sleep causes a 4. Sometimes they are the reflex of the confusion that and prior lives3. what will happen later in partial liberation of our souls from the accompanies our departure or our return mingled with this life, or even a future body. When we sleep, our body is, for vague memories of what we have done or of what Spontaneous life3. a time, in the same condition that we occupied our thoughts in our waking state. recollection of the past will confront after death2. 5. Prophetic Dreams: Joan of Arc, Bible, etc. through dreams may be In the Bible, we see very useful to those many prophetic dreams who suffer from preparing humanity for inexplicable problems. future events. During sleep the common mass of spirits seek the lower spheres, to which we are attracted by old affections or our own primitive inclinations; and once there, we Caution indulge in every sensual pleasure. On these visits, we also receive vile Why don’t we SPIRITUAL WORK COURSES AND TRAINING suggestions, often baser than we conceive of when awake3. recall our Andre Luiz’s books show According to Andre Luiz us many examples of in Missionários da Luz, work that we are invited the spiritual realm has “Watch and Pray” Matthew 26:41 dreams? to do in the spiritual also many rooms for realm. trainings and courses of all sorts, but very few 1. PREPARATION: 2. PRAYER (at bedtime): In what we call sleep, only the body rests. The Spirit Depending on the Spirit’s incarnate people attend is always in motion. During sleep, it recovers part of -Good thoughts -Direct your prayer to God advancement, it can help these lectures. There are its freedom and contacts those closest to it, on this in guiding others, in courses about any subject -Edifying books -A heartfelt prayer is an or other realms. But the body’s matter is heavy and mediumistic services, we are interested in. If we unfailing means of obtaining it is difficult for the spirit, on waking, to retain the lectures and courses for ask our spiritual mentors, spiritual assistance. impressions it received during sleep, since these did discarnate as well as we can attend courses to not come through its physical organs4. 3. SPIRITUALLY MAGNETIZED WATER: incarnate spirits. improve ourselves in all sorts of needs. -In the next Morning, drink a glass of water (left at bedside) that good Spirits have magnetized during the night to help However, as Spirit, we will remember the advices you rebalance your energies. received during sleep at the appropriate time.

REFERENCES 1. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 401 2. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 102 3. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 402 4. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 403 We can learn a lot about our true identity through our dreams. 5. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 410 ©U.S. Spiritist Symposium 6. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 404 FraternalFraternal CounselingCounseling

Good-willed and well trained Spiritist practitioners Empathy is founded in charity3. who fulfill the following requirements: •A social service that welcomes all who come to the Spiritist a) Good Moral/Ethical Standards Benevolence Indulgence to center and may be in need of towards others’ psychotherapeutic approach It attracts good and enlightened spirits. everyone imperfections due to physical, psychological Forgiveness and/or spiritual imbalance. Good people study their own imperfections and work unceasingly to for offenses combat them, using all their strength, so that tomorrow they will be able to say that they are just a little better than they were the day before.2

This includes: Listen with your heart everything that others tell you. Sincere Prayer Interest Emotional 1.Compassionate listening; Habit To Help Balance People 2.Freeing, respectful help; 3.Secure spiritual counseling; Do not promise any healing. 4.Does not create dependency; b) Knowledge of Spiritism It does not depend on you, but on God’s will and the individual’s merit. 5.Non-judgmental approach; Do not accept gratifications, gifts, special attention from patient. Give freely, what you have freely received. 6.Clear guidance. Kardec’s basic works are the Avoid giving your personal opinion. minimum requirement for a Spiritist Offer the Spiritist teachings instead Do not interfere with the patient’s medical treatment. counselor. Understanding about Instead, refer to competent health professionals whenever needed. spiritual progress, reincarnation Safeguard patient’s privacy Do to others what you would like others do to you. and interaction between spirit and Speak with kindness and simplicity. material planes are essential for an Make sure you are clear to the patient. Immortal individuals who present disturbances in one Do not tell the patient “You are obsessed”. efficient fraternal counseling. Patients may not understand it. If they do, they may get even more or more of the following areas of life: spiritual, distressed. emotional, social, mental, and physical. Do not counsel obsessing spirits during patient’s counseling. Instead call the patient to regain control of his/her own body. Give passes if c) Psychological knowledge and needed. Most common disturbances: experience Do not tell patients “You are a medium”. Receiving proper spiritual care and learning about Spiritism, patients may figure it out by themselves in the future. •Relationship Conflicts The understanding of the human •Mental Disturbances •‘Loss’of Loved One nature and a tactful approach are References 1. Atendimento Fraterno, Projeto Manoel P. Miranda. •Physical Diseases also key elements for an adequate 2. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Chapter 17, Item 3. 3. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 886. •Sexual Disturbances fraternal counseling. 4. Happy Life, Joanna de Angelis / Divaldo Franco. •Mediumistic Imbalances

3) How do we do it? D. Read an Inspirational Message Additional Tips 1) What is God at Home? From books such as: • Prior to the opening prayer hold a silent period for a couple of Weekly meeting at home when • The Spirits’ Book A. Choose a Day of the Week minutes so everyone can tune in family members and friends get • The Gospel According to Spiritism with the harmonious Spirit together to study the Spiritist • Convenient to all participants; presences. teachings and pray together. • Or any other enlightened book • Gather at a comfortable place • Fifteen minutes before the Encourage participants to comment at home (living or dining room). meeting, you play light classical and discuss on the read messages. music to help the ambience. 2) What are its purposes? •Try to keep interruptions to a minimum during the meeting. E. Duration of the Meeting 1. To create at home the healthy B. Be Consistent and Punctual •Encourage all members to habit of getting together family • 30 minutes to 1 hour participate. members to practice spirituality; • Avoid canceling or delaying • If you have children at home keep •Respect all opinions and points of these meetings unless 2.To open the family’s vibratory the meeting shorter, but do include view. Avoid arguments. absolutely necessary (travel, field to loving and kind them. i.e.) •If someone opens up and shares Enlightened Spirits; his/hers personal life do not • Highly Evolved Spirits have 3. To prevent and/or treat judge or criticize and keep other commitments to attend. individual and familial everything in confidence. Thus, if we want their presence F. Closing Prayer disturbances; and guidance, we need to be • Finish the meeting with another • Avoid and control mediumistic 4. To cleanse our home’s vibratory punctual and consistent. heartfelt prayer asking God for phenomena. field through the elevation of our protection for your home, friends, • Invite your guests to join you in thoughts and feelings; relatives, neighbors and all the ones this meeting. 5. To expand spiritual knowledge C. Open it with a Heartfelt who suffer. and consciousness; Prayer •You may also ask for world peace. 6. To strengthen family ties; Attune with God by: 7. To elevate the vibrational • praising for the blessings of pattern of the family to help the life; G. Spiritually Magnetized Water Spirit Benefactors build a better If You Have Children world; • asking for protection and Before the meeting starts provide guidance; a glass or jar of water to be • Use coloring books with spiritual 8. To teach spirituality to children magnetized by the Spirit themes. while practicing it at home; • giving thanks for the Benefactors during the meeting, • Use techniques (play dough, opportunity of getting who will kindly pour in the spiritual 9. To unite humanity through puzzles) that may help them together. remedies that each family member prayer. understand the topic. needs to lead a balanced life. • Ask them to write a short prayer or letter to God. The God-at-Home meeting is equivalent to a lamp shining onto the work of assistance

and spiritual enlightenment. -InDisobsession by Andre Luiz, F.C. Xavier and W. Vieira ©U.S. Spiritist Symposium SPIRITISMSPIRITISM FORFOR CHILDRENCHILDREN ANDAND YOUTHYOUTH

“It is through education rather than instruction that the world will be transformed.” ALLAN KARDEC

Childhood Spiritist Education Educational Environments

The child who we receive in our arms today is the spirit who Integral Education Education is every influence exerted by one person onto another, in a reincarnates on Earth for a new evolutionary step. This child brings way to stimulate an evolutionary process. It may occur in any 1 Integral education must encompass feelings, intelligence, and the with him/her an immense baggage of his/her millennial past . relationship. Every time a human being awakens a good feeling in application of what is learned, in order to awake all the powers of 4 the soul in a balanced and integrated way. another one, that becomes an educational action.

All children are an Reincarnation is a process Spiritist Educational Triad incarnated spirit. that begins at conception, (based on Pestalozzi’s idea) HOME SCHOOL SPIRITIST CENTER Childhood is a necessity. when its educational To achieve its goal, schools It’s a time of repose for the process shall also begin. Educate the Educate the Head Educate the Hands must provide integral education. spirit. A spirit reincarnate to to develop the to stimulate manual According to Pestalozzi, Heart to help They have to educate, not only progress and to contribute from conception to the age bring about the intelligence, how to activities and work in instruct. Schools have to be to the general work in of 7 the spirit is still love for God observe, to analyze, general, as much to beautiful, exciting and enjoyable God’s creation.2 adapting to its new body. and the to deduce and to cultivate agility, places, where students work, neighbor. think. Consequently health and harmony interact, and discuss. There, The fragility of the body learning how to tell of the body. A spirit incarnates in order they exercise their freedom in a inspires our love. Such good from bad. constructive way, while being love would be weakened to perfect itself, and it is stimulated by creative and if faced with a bad- more accessible during HEART enthusiastic teachers. tempered character. childhood to the HOME IS OUR FIRST The spiritist center plays the The bad tendencies impressions it receives, SCHOOL role of sublime school that being dormant facilitates and which may assist in its enlighten the mind and the progress.3 the educational In the modest or wealthy home, heart. This is the place where 3 process. the soul of a child receives her we learn Jesus’ teachings It is then that one can The experiences from the first lessons of sensibility and revisited by Spiritism in its best reform their past and the real character INTEGRAL affection, the first three aspects: scientific, character and curb their of the spirit, take place philosophical and religious, wrong tendencies. Such EDUCATION manifestations of nobility and gradually as the organs 6 while focusing on its is the duty that God understanding. develop, so one must study application in our daily lives. entrusts to parents, a the signs shown. sacred mission for By the end of adolescence which they will have to the spirit has recaptured its HEAD HANDS True love is always educational and the true education is always an act of love. 3 answer . nature3. The relationship between love and education is intrinsic, inseparable. Each spirit builds itself with the experiences lived throughout the millennia. Whatever its 1 present situation may be, this spirit brings, deep within itself, THE GERM OF PERFECTION, Spiritist Pedagogy because it is a child of God. Visionary Education Here lies the objective of education in its true meaning: To aid the spirit to develop its inner Evolvement 1 potential, its dormant faculties, in one word: THE GERM OF PERFECTION. through Interaction with Personal work spiritual realm The current educational model with its short-term view of life, with emphasis in the wild Spiritist pedagogy also takes into consideration the competition and the insane search for success and social approval, drives humanity to the Threefold Constitution of Children spiritual realm that unceasingly interacts with the paradox of great material comfort and great moral and spiritual discomfort. While material world. technology surprises each day, social inequalities increase, generating anxiety, violence, The subconscious retains our past experiences depression, fear, insecurity, aggressiveness, etc. This leads individuals to having and To better understand children’s educational needs, Spiritism explains their (habits and automatisms) that connect us to the ones accumulating in detriment to the values of being, sharing and feeling. 1 threefold constitution : we lived with in the past.

• Spiritual: Children bring formed personalities from past experiences with unique Through the conscious, we interact with the material characteristics, which lie dormant during infancy. and spiritual world at the same time, working, in the present to build our future (effort and willpower). • Social: Children have a new personality in development, which will be formed and Interaction with The superconscious is the germ of perfection, where influenced by the environment, education, and all stimuli in the present existence. material world lays our superior ideals, the Divine Inheritance, our • Biological: Children are also representatives of the human species and must destiny, connecting us to GOD. necessarily obey to certain instinctive patterns of development, which are common to the species. As the spiritist pedagogy defines the spirit of a child as an immortal being, we must help the child to discover her inner needs, and aid her integration in her current social environment, thus seeking her future integration in different social groups, preparing the citizen of the universe, in harmony with the Divine Laws.

Goals of Spiritism for children and youth SOCIAL BEING SPIRITUAL BEING With its visionary view of life, Spiritism brings a different educational proposal that Understand God as the all-loving Creator; fosters our self-improvement and long-term goals for immortal life. Therefore, it aims at THE INDIVIDUAL the perpetual being and not simply the secular being. Studying its origin, nature and Understand our threefold nature: physical body, spiritual destiny, it guides humanity to the age of regeneration in which we are already entering. body (perispirit), and Spirit;

Understand the value of prayer and make it a habit;

Understand the relationship between the material and spiritual BIOLOGICAL BEING worlds;

Better understand Jesus’ teachings and practice them in daily life;

Understand the death as a normal process of evolution.

The understanding of this interaction should lead us to a revolution in the way we When a body is produced the soul which incarnates in it has come from space in References: th see child development. The greatest educators of the 18 century, among them order to progress. So acquaint yourselves with your duty and then put all your 1. Education of the Spirit, Walter O. Alves. love into bringing this soul nearer to God. This is the mission with which you have 2. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 382. Rousseau and Pestalozzi, stated that children develop themselves by responding 3. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 385. to an inner impulse (the germ of perfection), while being also influenced by the been entrusted and for which you will receive just reward if you fulfill your trust 4. Education According to Spiritism, Dora Incontri. social and biological conditions.4 faithfully. The care and education given by you to this child will help in its 5. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 5 14, item 9. improvement and future well-being. 6. Emmanuel ©U.S. Spiritist Symposium THE DISEASE THE REMEDY Product description: Effective What is the greatest against the virus of selfishness obstacle to progress? and pride. It also serves to promote progress. - Pride and selfishness.1 Generic name: Love in action

Greed Wrath Directions: Use it as often as Lust Less possible, especially when Sloth Reinforce our ethereal, Gluttony material/animal denser challenged by the selfishness Selfishness andanan PridePri Envy nature perispirit and pride virus. (THE VIRUS) Pride

ALTEREDALTE Emotional, Opens doors HEALTHHEA Mental and/or for Obsession Side effects: May experience (Negative and persistent References: Physical excessive happiness. influence of spirit onto 1. The Spirits Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 785. Imbalance other4) 2. Sabedoria do Evangelho, C. T. Pastorino, vol. 2, p. 153/154 (adaptation). 3. The Spirits Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 886. 4. The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec, Chapter 23. 5. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 11, item 4. 6. The Gospel According to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, chapter 13, item 10. CHARITY3 MOLECULE Eight Levels of Charity Maimonides - (1135-1204) To give sadly Benevolence Indulgence True Expression of Charity To give less than is fitting, but with good humour towards to others 'To love your neighbor as yourself: to do unto To give only when asked everyone imperfections others as you would have them do unto you," To give before being asked expresses the most complete form of charity To give so the donor does not know who the recipient is because it summarizes all of human beings' To give so the recipient does not know who the donor is obligations towards humankind.5 To give so that neither the donor nor the recipient knows the identity of the other To give a loan or a job rather than a gift, so preserving the recipient’s self-respect and encouraging self-help Mishneh Torah, Laws of Charity, 10:7-14 Forgiveness for offenses CHARITY CHARITY PROMOTES A HEALTHIER SOCIETY

MATH OF CHARITY Eliminates selfishness, pride THOUGHTS A heartfelt prayer to alleviate and vices. Develops someones suffering. compassion and humbleness. (-1) (-1) (-2) + = Uncharitable Action Uncharitable Action Double Damage MEANS OF A good advice to your daily Attracts positive influences companions, to those who are in (-1) (0) (-1) PRACTISING from Enlightened spirits + = REMAINING 6 despair. Uncharitable Action No Action Uncharitable Action CHARITY

(-1) (+1) 0 To lessen the burden of a fellow + = Cancelled More ethereal perispirit Uncharitable Action Charitable Action being. Uncharitable Action Better overall healthth “Even if I were to speak all the languages of men and the language of the angels, () ; and if I had all the faith possible

to the point of moving mountains, if I did not have CHARITY, I would be nothing..” Paul of Tarsus (I Cor. 13:1-7, 13) InnerInner TransTransformationformation 6. What is the most profound 1. Who are we? 7. Steps to Inner Transformation transformation we need to make? We are ever-progressing immortal spirits1 destined to perfection and Benjamin Franklin’s 10 happiness. 7 Self-centeredness . The highest virtue 13 Virtue Program consists in the sacrifice of self-interest for the good of one’s neighbor without 8 ulterior motives . 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Love 7. How can disinterestedness and 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part detachment foster our progress? of your business have its time. Forgiveness 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; Attachment to material things is a perform without fail what you resolve. notorious indication of imperfection, 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or Service to others because the more humans are attached yourself; i.e., waste nothing. to the things of this world, the less they understand their true destiny. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in 2. Where do we find the key something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. to our destination? Expression of gratitude Through disinterestedness, however, we 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and show that we see the future from a more 7 justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 3 evolved point of view . In our conscience . 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the Meditation benefits that are your duty. 8. What is the most effective 9. MODERATION. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting 3. Since we carry God’s law in injuries so much as you think they deserve. Willingness to Change Habits means for transforming and our conscience, why does it improving ourselves? 10.CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, have to be revealed to us? cloaths, or habitation. 11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at Self-Discovery We have forgotten and accidents common or unavoidable. disregarded it, but God has A sage of antiquity has told you: 12.CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, willed for us to remember it ‘Know thyself’9. never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or through missionary spirits who another's peace or reputation. have instructed humankind in 13.HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates. Happiness does not 4 Happiness does not every age . come from 9. By what means can we get 10. What are the characteristics possessions or 4. How do we get to our to know of ourselves? power, but rather ultimate destination? of the good person? from a wise and The good person11: dedicated heart.12 By acquiring experiences and knowledge 1.At the end of each day let us examined our dedicated heart. that are in synchronicity with God’s laws. conscience, review what we had done and ask * Places their faith in God; ourselves whether or not we had failed to fulfill * Do all the good it was possible to do; * When faced with life’s struggles, accepts them without protest; some duty and whether or not anyone had had 5. What are the means to * Never disapprove of someone because that person happens to References: reason to complain about us9. (See Benjamin those acquisitions? think differently; Franklin’s method) * Forgive and forget wrongs and only remember the good they 1. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, part III, Conclusion. 2. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 100-113. The soul undoubtedly undergoes a have received; 3. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 621. transformation, which shall happen * Tolerate others’ frailties; 4. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 621-622. through many lives * Study their own imperfections and constantly battle against 5. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 166. 5 them; 6. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 800. (reincarnations) . * Always respect the rights of their fellow human beings. 7. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 895. 8. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 893. Transformation therefore can only 9. The Spirits’ Book, Allan Kardec, Q/A 919. These aren’t all the qualities that distinguish the good person, 10.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. be realized with time, gradually, 2. Praying to God and our guardian angels to 9 but anyone who tries diligently to possess them will find 11.The Gospel According to Spiritism, item 3, Chapter 17. little by little6. enlighten us . themselves on the road that leads to all the rest. 12. Endearing Gems from Chico Xavier, J. Korngold.

9 Self-knowledge is the key to individual improvement . © U.S. Spiritist Symposium "We must not force the development of mediumistic faculty in children."

"The Mediums Book", Allan Kardec – Chapter XVIII

Mediumship doesn't make The medium has to rest. anybody mad.

"The prolonged exercise of any faculty produces "Mediumship will not produce insanity where the fatigue. The same happens with mediumship, germ of insanity does not already exist. But if it especially the physical effects types, which does, it is easily recognized through the necessarily cause a expenditure of fluids." individual's mental condition, and common The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec sense tells us that we must take all the Chapter XVIII Question 2 precautions necessary, for in such a case any disturbance would be harmful." The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec Chapter XVIII Question 5

Mediumship development is not recommended for children Let the children be or mental patients. children.

Avoid the fatigue: take a nap, take a vacation. "There are persons that should avoid any cause of over-excitement, and the practice of Mental problems mediumship will be one of them." The Mediums Book, Allan Kardec require medical and Chapter XVIII Question 5 spiritual treatment, not mediumship.

"There are times when is prudent and even necessary to abstain from or at least moderate the use of mediumship."

"The Mediums Book", Allan Kardec – Chapter XVIII "Spirits go to such places, just as they go everywhere else." "The Mediums Book", Allan Kardec – Chapter IX

"Spirits who are no longer earth-bound go where they find those whom they The house in Hydesville was The famous Amytville house in the love, for they are attracted rather by persons than by material things. Some of them considered a "haunted house". What state of New York, one of the most was really happenining was that a notorious haunted places in the world. may, for a time, retain a preference for certain places; but those who do so are spirit was asking the mediums Fox The Lutz family wrote a book about spirits of inferior advancement. sisters for help. their haunting experiences at the house. (...) If some of them live alone, they do so because it pleases them, but this is no reason why spirits should necessarily prefer ruins; and, assuredly, there are many more spirits in cities and inhabited dwellings than in solitary places."

"The Mediums Book", Allan Kardec – Chapter IX The Fox family house in Hydesville, New York

"It has grown out of men's instinctive belief in spirit manifestations, a belief that has prevailed in all ages of the world; but, as I said just now, the aspect of lugubrious places strikes the imagination, and men have naturally located, in such places, the beings whom they have regarded as supernatural. This superstitious belief is upheld by the fanciful imaginings of your poets, as well as by the nonsensical stories told to you in the nursery." Knowledge of the Love, spiritual world and "The Mediums Book", Allan Kardec – Chapter IX compassion + the study of prayer mediumship

"Besides, you must not forget that there are spirits everywhere; and that, wherever you may be, you have them incessantly around you, even in the quietest houses." "The Mediums Book", Allan Kardec – Chapter IX

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From the book “The Gospel According to Spiritism” Chapter 3, Items 8-199 Life in the Spirit World

The greatest surpriseppy of physical death is that it places us face-to-face with our own conscience – Nosso Lar

"The spirit-world is like a great city where individuals of all ranks and conditions see and meet each other... As in a city, circles are formed by similarities in tastes, and good and bad spirits share the same space without having to interact.” The Spirits Book by Allan Kardec ANDRE LUIZ Man Spirit Work INTERESTING Author: Andre Luiz, Spirit (through the medium Physician in Brazil FACTS Francisco Cândido Xavier - From 1944 to 1968 Enlightenment: The collection of 13 books Married with three children known as “Life in the Spirit World” represent the 2nd Phase of dictations received by Chico Xavier, called Enlightenment In order to bring valuable insights, to his earth-bound brothers and sisters, Andre Luiz had to renounce all conventions, including his own name. 1943 – André Luiz appears With wisdom and discidiscipline,pp,line, Andre LLuizuiz hhasas ttransmittedransmitted ttoo 37 DICTATED WORKS THROUGH CHICO humankind valuable teachingsteachings bbyy pportrayingortraying the 9% OF CHICO’S PSYCHOGRAPHIC WORK eexperiencesxperiences of spiritsspirits who live in the spiritspirit worldworld.. FRANCISCO Chico heard voices and saw spirits since he was C. XAVIER four years old. His first Spiritist meeting took place in May 1927. Even though barely educated, Chico has published 458 books - the spirits of dead people dictated the texts to him through his mediumship.

His books sold an estimated 45 million copies, the profits of which were all donated to charitable organizations. April, 1910 – June, 2002

Toward the end of 1941, the spirit Emmanuel informed Chico Xavier about a project to publish books that would enable human beings to know what life is like in MOVIES the spirit world.

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