Mediumship: Study and Practice Program 1 Federação Espírita Brasileira Mediumship: Study and Practice Program 1 Organized by: Marta Antunes Moura Translated by: Content INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 6 CREDITS .............................................................................................................................................. 7 SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO OFFER THE COURSE .............................................................................. 9 MODULE I - FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDIUMSHIP STUDY THEME 1: HISTORIC EVOLUTION OF MEDIUMSHIP ........................................................................ 15 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 1: “SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND“ .................................................................... 20 THEME 2: MEDIUMSHIP, METAPSYCHIC AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY.................................................. 23 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 2: THE PUBLICAN’S AND PHARISEE’S PRAYER ............................................... 27 THEME 03: THE KARDECIAN METHOD OF PROOF OF MEDIUMSHIP .............................................. 29 PRATICAL ACTIVITY 3: PRAYER IN THE AFFLICTIONS OF LIFE ........................................................... 34 THEME 4: SPIRIT, MATTER AND FLUIDS ........................................................................................... 36 ACTIVITY 4: THE GIFT OF HEALING THROUGH PRAYER ................................................................... 40 THEME 5: PERISPIRIT AND VITAL PRINCIPLE .................................................................................... 42 PRACTICE 5: THE LORD’S PRAYER (1) ............................................................................................... 46 THEME 6: PRAYER ACCORDING TO SPIRITISM. PRAYER DURING THE MEDIUMSHIP MEETING. .... 48 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 6: THE LORD’S PRAYER (2) ............................................................................ 56 THEME 7: CLASSIFICATION OF MEDIUMSHIP: PHYSICAL EFFECTS .................................................. 58 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 7: THE GRATUITOUSNESS IN THE MEDIUMISTIC PRACTICE .......................... 62 THEME 8: CLASSIFICATION OF MEDIUMSHIP: INTELLIGENT EFFECTS ............................................. 64 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 8: APPLICATION OF THE PASS BETWEEN INCARNATE SPIRITS: THE ESSENTIALITY OF QUALITY ............................................................................................................... 70 THEME 9: THE SPIRITIST PASS .......................................................................................................... 73 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 9: QUALITIES OF THE DISCARNATE PASS-GIVER ............................................ 79 THEME 10: THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SOUL ............................................................................... 81 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 10: EXERCISE - APPLICATION OF THE PASS .................................................... 86 COMPLEMENTARY MODULE ACTIVITY ............................................................................................ 88 BIMONTHLY ACTIVITY FOR COURSE PARTICIPANTS ........................................................................ 89 MODULE II - FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIUMSHIP COMMUNICATION THEME 1: MEDIUMSHIP ECLOSION ..................................................................................................93 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 1: PRAYER AND MENTAL IRRADIATION ......................................................... 97 THEME 2: TRANCES .......................................................................................................................... 99 PRACTICAL ACTIVITIY 2: HOW TO PERFORM MENTAL IRRADIATION ............................................ 102 THEME 3: ACTION OF FLUIDS, PERISPIRIT AND MIND IN MEDIUMSHIP COMMUNICATION ........ 104 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE OF MENTAL IRRADIATION ....................................................... 109 THEME 4: LABORATORY OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD ...................................................................... 111 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 4: PRACTICE OF MENTAL IRRADIATION WITH PRAYER ............................... 115 THEME 5: SERIOUS MEDIUMSHIP MEETINGS: NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS ......................... 117 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 5: PRACTICE OF SILENT MENTALIZATION .................................................... 121 THEME 6: MORAL INFLUENCE OF MEDIUMS IN COMMUNICATIONS OF SPIRITS ......................... 123 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 6: PRACTICE OF FREE MENTALIZATION ...................................................... 126 THEME 7: EDUCATION OF MEDIUMSHIP FACULTY ....................................................................... 128 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 7: MENTAL IRRADIATION AND IDEOPLASTIC ............................................... 133 COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITY OF THE MODULE ............................................................................. 136 MODULE III - MEDIUMSHIP. OBSESSION. DISOBSESSION THEME 1: THE ACTION OF SPIRITS ON THE PHYSICAL PLANE ....................................................... 139 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY1: HOW TO WORK THE PSYCHIC HARMONIZATION ..................................... 145 THEME 2: OBSESSION: CAUSES, DEGREES, AND KINDS ................................................................. 148 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY2: EXCERCISE OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE: WHO AM I? ........................................ 153 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 3: SELF-KNOWLEDGE ACCORDING TO SAINT AUGUSTINE .......................... 159 THEME 4: THE OBSESSIVE PROCESS .............................................................................................. 162 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 4: ITINERARY FOR SELF KNOWLEDGE .......................................................... 167 THEME 5: DISOBSESSION: SPIRITISTS RESOURCES ........................................................................ 169 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 5: PSYCHIC HARMONIZATION AND MENTAL IRRADIATION ........................ 177 THEME 6: THE PRACTICE OF CHARITY AS DISOBSESSION ACTION ................................................ 179 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 6: FEEL MY DIFFICULTY! ............................................................................... 184 SUPPLEMENTARY ACTIVITY ........................................................................................................... 187 5 Mediumship: Study and Practice - Program 1 MODULE IV - LIFE IN THE SPIRITUAL PLANE THEME 1: DISCARNATION .............................................................................................................. 190 PRACTICE ACTIVITY 1: HARMONIZATION AND SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION (1) .................................. 195 THEME 2: ERRANT SPIRITS ............................................................................................................. 197 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 2: SPIRITUAL HARMONIZATION AND PERCEPTION (2) ............................... 203 THEME 3: THE COMMUNITIES OF THE SPIRITUAL PLANE ............................................................. 205 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 3: SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION - THE DIVERSITY OF HUMAN BEINGS ................ 210 THEME 4: EXAMPLES OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES (1) ................................................................ 212 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 4: SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION - IDENTIFYING EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS ........ 217 THEME 5: EXAMPLES OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES (2) ................................................................ 219 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY 5: SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION - HEARING SOUND OF THE NATURE ................. 223 COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITY TO THE MODULE ............................................................................. 225 © Brazilian Spiritist Federation 2016 6 Mediumship: Study and Practice - Program 1 INTRODUCTION This book results from the sum of efforts of learning coordinators and facilitators in the area of mediumship, whose representatives gathered at the Federação Espírita Brasileira (Brazilian Spiritist Federation), Brasilia/DF, in October 2012, to assess proposed revision of Spiritist doctrinal contents that, since 1998, were being used for the education of mediumship workers in order to adapt them to the current demands of the Spiritist Movement. At that meeting, some points were defined as priorities for the construction of this new Course, which was renamed to Mediumship Course: Study and Practice. We highlight the following: 1º. The mediumship course remains composed of two study programs, but more compressed, with more objective texts. Program I aims at the development of the Spiritist worker in general, regardless if the person has active mediumship or just wants to integrate the mediunic group in the future. Program II focuses on key aspects related to mediunic practice, per se, common in the Spiritist Center. 2º. The doctrinal content of the Course are firmly based on the principles of the Spiritist Doctrine codified by Allan Kardec, and the moral values of the Gospel of Jesus. 3º. The period for the duration of the Course was substantially reduced. The content of both programs can be conducted in a year (seven months for the first program and five months for the second), excluding complementary module activities that, in effect, are optional and are aimed at all workers of the Spiritist institution. However, the duration of the Course may be extended for a year and a half, or three semesters if study is suspended during the holidays and recesses occur. 4º. Mediumship Course: Study and Practice is open to young people and other adults