The Spiritist Psychological Society Year III l Issue N°13 l November - December 2010 The Journal of Psychological Studies Science, Philosophy and Religion What is the Human Mind? How does it work? The Brain Adenáuer Novaes The mind is a communica- or immortal individuality, go- "The brain is the central tion channel in the service of ing towards the Unconscious, force that, only little by little the Spirit. In the mind the crossing it to reach Conscious has been discovered, lying processing of desire and will and eventually turning into almost entirely ignored, par- happens, which begins at the behavior by the Ego’s action. ticularly with regards to psy- core of the Spirit. The mind Along the way, between leav- chological, parapsychological connects to the brain thanks to ing the Spirit until it reaches and psychic phenomena. the properties of Only the the perispirit in epiphysis or pin- which it is located eal gland, located and remains even in the brain after the death of above and behind t h e p h y s i c a l the optical lay- body. According ers, is, itself, an to the Analytical incomparable Psychology of sanctuary that Carl Gustav Jung, watches for the the human mind sexual functions or psyche is com- during childhood posed of the Un- and puberty, conscious and experiencing Conscious. The significant Unconscious is changes in form divided into Per- and function; sonal and Collec- becomes thereaf- tive. It is in the ter, a casket of Collective Uncon- light, a lotus of a scious that lay the Archetypes, the Ego, alchemically mix thousand petals that unfold psychic structures that deter- emotions, thoughts and feel- like ultra-sensitive antennas mine and guide human behav- ings with contents of the Un- towards the spiritual Spheres ior. Yet the Personal uncon- conscious and Conscious itself, where life proceeds, playing a scious is composed mainly of eliciting a set of behaviors that key role in the spiritual ex- Complexes, functional cores delineate what is known under periences of human beings." full of affection, arising from the name of Personality. A emotional experiences. In the person's personality is the set Joanna de Ângelis Book: O Despertar do Espírito. mind thoughts and emotions of behaviors, thoughts and are also processed, since it is emotions that form at any here that the Spirit’s experi- given time or stage of life. It is ences are recorded, and every- changeable throughout the thing that happens to it. The incarnation, and especially in relationship between the Con- the gap between the incarna- "The mind, exter- scious and Unconscious is com- tions. The mind is an impor- pensatory, e.g.; every tension tant "organ" for the Spirit and nalizing the psy- in one of these parties will be its primary means of contact chological levels, compensated in another. Con- with the dimension in which it scious is the product of the is situated. It is the "factory" is responsible for Unconscious, the latter being processing Psychic Energy to the attitudes, for the matrix of all activities that service the evolution of the occur in the first, as well as of Spirit, deserving attention, expressing the the emergence of the Ego or care and constant use of love- spiritual reality of the “I”. It is through the mind liness. that intellective mediumship Adenáuer Novaes is a Clinical Psychologist each one." phenomena pass. and one of the directors of the Foundation "Lar Harmonia" in Salvador, living in Brazil. The impulse for life is born Joanna de Ângelis 1 Book: Momentos de Saúde in the Spirit, the divine essence “... seeing that to study the Spirits is to study man ...” Allan Kardec The Journal of Psychological Studies - Year III l Issue N° 13 l November - December l 2010 Consciousness in Progress Reincarnation and Integral Memory Evanise M Zwirtes Ercilia Zilli The transpersonal approach, Reincarnation, according to regardless of whether they oc- in the spiritist’s psychology view spiritists, is the process of re- curred in this or other reincarna- which considers the person’s turning to earthly existence, tions, which are not conscious. spiritual anteriority, presents the successively, with the goal of Through specialized tech- human as an evolving being, spiritual evolution. The belief in niques, it is possible to access undergoing an internship the survival of the soul and the some information from past ex- through nature’s different king- possibility of constant learning istences, but certainly we can doms. leads us to think of the accu- not get into contact with all the Initially the being is created mulation of these experiences content of this informational simple and ignorant, that is, without knowledge and wisdom, travels through experiences from the unconscious state to the conscious one. The intelligent principle will awaken its full po- tential throughout experiences in the matter. The Spirit Joanna de Ângelis, in O Homem Integral (11th edi- tion; pp. 154), elucidates that "the acquisition of consciousness is the result of an ongoing pro- cess, through which the psyche augments, from the dormant state in the mineral’s molecules binding force; to the sensitivity in the plant; instinct in the ani- Editorial Staff mal; and intelligence, reason in Journalist the human being." João Batista Cabral - Mtb n° 625 The evolving consciousness is Editor a process of psychological deve- Evanise M Zwirtes lopment, in which the human and their storage. If the life of field. In the book The Astral City, Collaborators being in its triple constitution – the physical body is finite and Adenáuer Novaes Spirit, perispirit and matter - we talk about evolution, the André Luiz, psychographed by Maria Angélica de Mattos Maria Novelli increases consciousness, follow- experiences should be recorded Chico Xavier, we find a woman Cricieli Zanesco and available to act uncon- who can only get into contact Christina Renner ing the natural mechanism of Maria Madalena Bonsaver life. Perceiving oneself as an sciously in the ongoing exis- with a small part of her past, Lenéa Bonsaver Valle García Bermejo integral and timeless being will tence. after a lot of work of discipline Nicola Paolo Colameo awaken, gradually, to cosmic According to Gabriel Delanne, and reflection and in such a way, Greisse Nilly Fernandes Blayac Sophie Giusti consciousness. The conquest of "memory is not simply an or- that this information would not the enlightened human con- ganic faculty, linked to brain’s be a destabilizing factor for the Reporting Adenáuer Novaes sciousness, as Jung suggested substance, but is, rather, in balance achieved so far. Evanise M Zwirtes "breaks the chain of suffering, Ercilia Zilli that indestructible part, which If today is our highest point of Sonia Theodoro da Silva acquiring thereby metaphysical spiritists call perispirit.” There- spiritual evolution, what were Manuel Portásio Filho Ana Cecília Rosa and cosmic significance." fore, the spirit that does not die left behind are primitive experi- In the progression’s proposal, with the physical body carries ences in which its remem- Graphic Design Kelley Cristina Alves the human being is a set in con- its experiences, which can be- brances would shock us because tinuous transition, in accordance Printing come opportunities for growth, they are errors prior to our cur- Circulation: 2500 copies to the laws of God, which are learning and evolution in this rent stage of understanding. inserted in the being’s own con- Study Meetings (In Portuguese) spiritual body, influencing their We believe that is possible to Sundays - 06.00pm - 09.30pm sciousness, since its creation. future reincarnation projects. access all the integral memory Mondays - 07.00pm - 09.30pm Aiming at this analysis’ para- Wednesdays - 07.00pm - 09.00pm When we talk about integral contents only when we reach the (Translation available if required) digm, of progression, Reincarna- BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE memory, understandable from fullness of spiritual evolution, 378, Lillie Road - SW6 7PH tion becomes a mechanism that the spiritual concept, we refer consciously integrating self- Information: 0207 371 1730 facilitates the expansion of con- [email protected] to the ancestral experiences log knowledge, self-forgiveness and, www.spiritistps.org sciousness, meeting the Spirit’s file, not remembrance. remembering Jesus, loving oth- Registered Charity N° 1137238 evolution, the immortal being, in Memory is different from re- ers as we love ourselves. progressive change of incessant membrance, since the latter improvement in all aspects. Ercilia Zilli is President of ABRAPE, Presenter requires awareness. Experi- of the Novos Rumos—Radio Boa Nova program, Evanise M Zwirtes is a Psychotherapist and ences with sleepwalkers Clinical Psychologist, resident in São Paulo, Coordinator of The Spiritist Psychological Brazil. Society, resident in London, UK. through hypnosis show that 2 2 you can redeem past records, The Spiritist Psychological Society Year III l Issue N° 13 l November - December l 2010 - The Journal of Psychological Studies Perispirit: Nature and Functions Mind, Perispirit and Mediumship Sonia Theodoro da Silva Manoel Portásio Filho Over the centuries tradition tion of individuality. For the ancient Romans, the has attempted to define the In the process of reincarna- word mind involved several existence of the body-involucres tion, the aspects of expandabil- meanings, the main ones be- of the Spirit; Paul of Tarsus, in ity of the perispirit stress, due ing: the mind, the spirit (as his 1st Epistle to the Corinthians to its molecular spaces being opposed to corpus), and in- was the closest one, with the reduced, as well as its vibra- resurrected spiritual body defini- tional deceleration. Gabriel De- tion. Allan Kardec researched lanne classifies this trend under the matter with the rigor and indestructibility and constitu- insistence that characterized tional stability (retaining the him and inquiring the Spirits, organic shapes). got the answer that the Spirit is The thoughts and actions of covered with a vaporous sub- the incarnate or discarnate telligence.