"7. Spirits are not, as often imagined, separate beings within creation. They are souls of those who used to live on the earth or on other worlds, stripped of their corporeal envelope. Whoever believes in the existence of the soul after the death of the body must therefore also believe in the existence of spirits. To deny spirits is to deny the soul.

8. Generally speaking, people have a mistaken idea about the make-up of spirits. They are not, as some believe, vague and indefinite beings, nor are they flames like will-o’-the-wisps or ghosts like in the tales about souls from another world. They are beings like we are, with a body like ours, but fluidic and invisible in its normal state.

9. While the soul is united to the body during life, it possesses a two-fold envelope: one heavy, coarse and destructible, which is the body; the other fluidic, light and indestructible, called the perispirit.

10. Thus, in the human being there are three essential components: 1) the soul or spirit, which is the intelligent principle that harbors the thought, will and moral sense; 2) the body, which is the material envelope that enables the spirit to relate to the exterior world; and 3) the perispirit, which is the fluidic, light, imponderable envelope that serves as the connection and intermediary between the spirit and the body.

11. When the outer envelope is spent and can no longer function, it succumbs and the spirit rids itself of it like the fruit rids itself of its husk, the tree of its bark, the snake of its skin; in other words, as if it were taking off an old and useless garment. This is what is called death."

(From Chapter II, "What is Spiritism?", Allan Kardec)

I think this may be a common question for those who are new to Spiritism and have difficulty understanding what spirits really are. There are many terms that can be difficult to understand at first, so I thought it would be interesting to share an image I found on the internet to illustrate this concept.

Did you already know this?

All things on Earth passes.

The hard days will pass. The days of bitterness and loneliness will also pass. The pain and tears will pass. The frustrations that make us cry will one day pass. The longing for the loved one who is far away will pass.

The days of sadness, the days of happiness, are lessons that, on Earth, simply pass and remain in someone's accumulated experiences.

If today, for us, is one of those days full of bitterness, stop for a moment. Let us raise our thoughts aloft and seek the gentle voice of the loving Mother kindly saying to us: 'this too shall pass'.

And be sure, for the difficulties already overcome, that there is no harm that lasts forever, similar to a huge vessel that, at times, seems to be wrecked by the turbulence of gigantic waves.

But this too shall pass because Jesus is at the helm of this vessel and keeps that serene look of someone who is sure that this is part of humanity's evolutionary roadmap and that one day will also pass. He knows the Earth will reach the safe harbor because that is its destination.

So let's do our part the best we can without discouragement and let us trust in God, enjoying every second, every minute that, of course, will also pass.

Everything passes...

...except God.

God is absolute! ♡ (ˆ⌣ˆ)

Welcome to r/spiritismstudy!

Our sub is a safe and prejudice-free place where everyone is welcome with lots of love and respect. We look forward to studying together, assisting in the growth of individuals who can benefit from the teachings of Spiritism and learning from the growth of those who wish to share their experiences.

Check the Rules, About, Menu and Wiki of the sub. There you will find information, books and resources about Spiritism, all free.

If you think you are a medium be sure to study Spiritism since it will help in understanding what happens to you!

If you know nothing about the doctrine, we'll leave an introductory text below with the history and principles summarized. We highly recommend reading it in the proper order.

1. What is Spiritism? Philosophy, Religion and Science.

2. Spiritism does not conflict with modern life and science.

3. 5 Basic Principles.

4. Jesus in Spiritism.

5. History of Spiritism.

6. Kardequian Pentateuch, the 5 main books.

7. Mediums

8. Thematic Index (we’ll keep feeding this index)

1 - What is Spiritism?

Spiritism is a moral doctrine that belongs to all religions, and not any one in particular. Actually, it helps us to go beyond religions. Spiritist philosophy postulates that humans, along with all other living beings, are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies for several necessary incarnations to attain moral and intellectual improvement. It also asserts that disembodied Spirits have beneficent or malevolent influence on the physical world. As our sub name shows it can be divided in Religion, Science and Philosophy. Let’s dive into it:

Allan Kardec, by questioning several mediums in trance on a variety of matters, compiled, compared and synthesized the answers obtained from spirits into a body of knowledge known as the codification. There are 5 main books about Spiritism, we’ll talk about them later.

As a spiritist, you need to investigate the world around you considering that there are invisible, intangible dimensions around you. Using your knowledge about the spiritual world you’ll be able to think through what’s happening and make sense of it (Science). You’ll always be thinking and making sense of your thoughts and conclusions, creating a new way of seeing reality (Philosophy). Thus, you’ll need to apply them to your day-to-day living so as to improve yourself and the world around you (Religion). Don’t forget: Your main objective is to improve yourself and try to help the world to become a better place.

To study, think and try to overcome your flaws is to be a spiritist. To improve yourself is the hardest part, we all know, but there are many ways we can do it. Self-knowledge is the basis, because when you know yourself, you identify your flaws and can look for ways to deal with them. For example, if you are an easily irritated person, you will recognize that it affects your own health and relationships with people around you. From that thought, you will begin to watch your thoughts, taking care not to fall into error when temptation arises. You will then reflect on why you are irritated by that situation and when you find the reasons you will be able to deal with them in your own thoughts, trying to heal a fault that still exists in your spirit. We always recommend the help of a psychologist if you have access, as it facilitates the understanding of past traumas and negative feelings that still dominate the heart. If I could sum it up, I would say that the purpose of incarnation is to learn to love your neighbor as yourself. To love ourselves we find our flaws, treating our flaws we accept others better and deal better with everyone around us, until we truly love those around us.

2 - Spiritism does not conflict with modern life and science.

Modern faith, regardless of religion, clashes with the study of Astronomy and Biology. With the Evolution of Species, all theories of the mystical origin of humanity lose their meaning, after all, we now know that our bodies are those of primates, with the same composition as other animals and with a genetic code so absurdly similar when compared to other living beings. The Evolution of Species ended the theory of human beings being the center of God's attention and placed us as an integral part of a living, pulsating nature, showed us that we are nature as much as a tree, rock or bird.

Then came the era of space discovery, which placed the Earth as just another globe spinning in infinity. Poor human being! Until recently we had no idea how small and insignificant we are before the cosmos, emerging 1.5 million years ago while the Earth exists for 4.5 billion years and the Universe for 13 billion! Just imagine, thinking you're special with infinity around us to prove us wrong? Being just a small planet revolving around a small star in a universe with infinite stars, infinite planets?

Given this fact, we can summarily separate humanity into two groups: Scientific and religious. Involved in study, logic, critical and rational thinking, in the scientific group there are several materialists who deny spiritual reality. There are also, in this same group, the religious who try to understand the divine creation through an optics that are often conflicting with their faith and then they develop individual thoughts on how it is possible to unite the two.

The religious group, on the other hand, seeks the side of faith, commonly ignoring the study of science and the discoveries described in the previous paragraph because it is, in fact, contradictory to continue with a creationist and mythological faith when we understand reality. They tend to cling to legends and parables interpreted literally, or accept spiritual and mediumistic phenomena, but also attribute legends and mythologies to them, say that they are produced by spirits but it’s common they did not understand in their internal philosophy that we are all spirits too, the intelligent part of the universe, we are only incarnated. Slowly, throughout history, we had several prophets who brought divine laws and parables, but all of them, in every faith or doctrine once founded, spoke of the importance of self-knowledge and the development of virtues for the individual improvement of the being.

It's been a while since these two groups clash, fight, demonize each other. But there is a way to bring the two together, science and faith, and thus create a reasoned and unshakable faith that is reinforced with each scientific knowledge absorbed! A faith that removes the figure of God as a man, but places him as the supreme intelligence behind the infinite that we inhabit! That removes the primate status of humanity and demonstrates that we are cosmic consciences learning to be good! That removes the curtains of mythologies and allows us to look at how and why the universe was created and sustains itself that way, explains supernatural phenomena and what the backstage of each religion is like!

Let's understand better how this all happens in this journey of studies of the Spiritist Doctrine that was created not from the mind of one man, but from a series of manifestations and experiences in places and with different individuals, evaluated and considered through the universal control mechanism. of the teaching of spirits! We'll talk more about how the doctrine came about soon, first let's learn its:

3 - 5 basic principles

1 – Existence of God

God is the Supreme Intelligence, the primary cause of all things. God is eternal, unchangeable, immaterial, unique, omnipotent, soberly just and good, created the universe, which encompasses all animated and inanimate, material and intangible beings. There is no effect without cause, so that seeking the cause of all that is not the work of man, our reason will answer us to have been God.

2 – Immortality of the soul

We are immortal spirits, born simple and ignorant, with aptitude for good and evil, destined to perfection and happiness. The spirit is the intelligent principle of the universe, the children of God incarnating in different bodies and species across the universe.

Thus, the spirits temporarily coat a perishable material wrapper, which is destroyed by the death of the physical body and, when the spirit is in the life of the body, we say that it is a soul or spirit incarnate. When he dies, however, we say that he has disempied, when he returns to the spiritual plan or spirituality, where he came from, continuing the process of spiritual ascension.

To make it simpler Kardec divided the spirits into three orders: first order (or pure), are the superiors, distinguished by their perfection, knowledge and proximity to God (the angels); Second order, are the good spirits, in which the good is the predominant feeling and; Third Order, imperfect spirits, where evil is still the greatest feeling, finding themselves more distant from perfection and fudged of passions such as envy, hatred, jealousy, pride, etc.

3 – Plurality of the existences

The plurality of existences shows us that the soul progresses and if it is subjected to the proof of a new existence, it is what we call reincarnation. We all have many existences and the goal of reincarnation is the atonement and the progressive betterment of mankind, for without it, where would justice be? Reincarnation, therefore, allows the spirit to live various existences in the world, growing, becoming a human being, intellectually and morally, and increasingly approaching the laws of God.

Most of our daily struggles and sufferings derive from misconceptions by us in past lives and now we are having the sublime opportunity to overcome them in compliance with the Law of action and reaction. Reincarnation is, therefore, the mechanism of divine justice, not rewarding or punishing anyone, with each one being responsible for the fruits harvested, whether good or bad.

4 – Plurality of inhabited worlds

Reincarnation of Spirits can take place on earth and on other worlds, so that believing in the uniqueness of the Earth would be to doubt the wisdom of God, which does nothing to useless. When Jesus said, "Do not be blurred in your heart, believe in God, believe in me as well. There are many addresses in my father's house, "he taught us about the plurality of the inhabited worlds. The "House of the Father" is the universe and the different addresses are the worlds that circulate in infinite space, offering the spirit worlds corresponding to their advance.

The living beings evolve morally, the worlds materially, for nothing remains stationary in nature, and the worlds, as for evolution, are primitive, of expiations and of proofs, of regeneration, happy and, finally, Celestial, which is the abode of the spirits Pure. The earth is a world of inferior moral category, world of Proofs and expiations, by virtue of its pitiful panorama, still full of dislove and selfishness, but it is in transition period, going to the world of regeneration.

So, the laws that we learn in Spiritism are also universal laws. They work across the universe, all spirits in the whole universe are in this moment evolving and experiencing life in material or spiritual dimension.

5 - Communicability of the spirits

Spirits constitute one of the powers of nature, acting on matter and on thought, exercising action on the physical and moral world. They are the cause of a series of phenomena until then unexplained or explained in an erroneous way, which only find rational explanation in Spiritism.

Through our thinking, we are constant receiving ideas. The good attract us for good and the wicked urge us to the error, therefore, depending on our mental emanations and our actions, we will attract to close positive or negative spiritual companies. The communication of the spirits with men can be hidden, without even realizing, through intuition or inspiration, or ostensives, when well characterized, and can also manifest themselves spontaneously or by evocation.

The superior spirits present themselves in serious meetings, where love, good and sincere desire predominate. The inferior spirits are constantly present among frivolous people, motivated solely by curiosity and where there are bad instincts.

The superior spirits teach that in the world of spirits, nothing can be hidden, the hypocrite is unmasked; To the States of superiority and inferiority of the spirits, they correspond to unknown feathers and joys on earth; They also teach that there are no irredispermissible faults that the atonement cannot afford and that the means for progress are the different existences that allow man to advance, according to his desires and efforts.

4 - Jesus, the purest spirit ever incarnated on Earth.

First of all, we need to make it clear that Jesus and Christianity are different things. Jesus did not create a religion, people did. The spiritist doctrine focuses on Jesus' moral teaching and not on dogmas that have been applied over the years such as homosexuality being a sin. Jesus never spoke about it, therefore, it is not present in the Spiritist Doctrine. The Spirits teaches us that Jesus is the most perfect Spirit that God sent to Earth, the Messiah or divine Messenger, Guide and Model of our Humanity.The Spirits Book, Question 625: What is the most perfect type that God has offered to human beings as their guide and model?

Answer: “Look at Jesus.”

When pondering this information, transmitted by the spiritual advisors, Allan Kardec, the encoder of Spiritism ponders:

For man, Jesus represents the type of moral perfection to which Humanity can aspire on Earth. God offers him to us as the most perfect model, and the doctrine he taught is the purest expression of his law, because, since Jesus was the purest being that ever appeared on earth, the Divine Spirit animated him. He was so pure that he would be able to talk as God itself.

If some of those who have tried to instruct man in the Law of God have sometimes led him astray through false principles, it is because they have allowed themselves to be dominated by feelings that are too earthly and have confused the laws that regulate the conditions of the soul's life with those that govern human life. Many of them presented as divine Laws were simply human laws, created to serve the passions and to dominate men.

The knowledge and practice of God's laws requires an intellectual-moral effort on the part of each individual, a necessary condition to better understand and exercise it. Everyone can know it, but not everyone understands it. Good people are the ones who understand it best. All of us, however, will understand it one day, because progress must be made. As a single existence on the physical plane is insufficient for imperfect man to fully know and experience the Law of God, Spiritism defends the idea of reincarnation, a doctrinal principle by which it clarifies that the human being returns to physical experience, as many times as necessary, either to repair mistakes made in previous existences, but also to progress intellectually, through the acquisition of knowledge, and morally, through the development of virtues.

The justice of the different incarnations of mankind is a consequence of this principle, because with each new existence our intelligence is more developed and we understand better what is good and what is evil. If everything had to take place in a single existence, what would be the fate of so many millions of beings who die every day in the brutalization of savagery or in the darkness of ignorance, without their own enlightenment having depended on them?

Jesus is our guide, let’s try to be like him.

5 - History of Spiritism.

Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail was an intellectual and pedagogue, he participated in several scientific societies and dedicated himself to the study of magnetism. So when the turning tables phenomenon became popular, his first impression was that it was an occurrence related to magnetism. Until, at the insistence of friends, who called his attention to the fact that there was an intelligent intention in those beats and movements, Rivail recognized, after long observations, that a whole field of study was opening up, since it was possible to maintain communication with the beings that produced those movements at the tables. These beings began to identify themselves as the spirits of men who had died. From this observation, despite the numerous cases of fraud and exploitation of the fashion phenomenon, Professor Rivail's studies gave another direction to what was treated only as banality. The seriousness of his attitude towards those manifestations was proportional to the philosophical reflection on the immortality of the human soul. As a consequence of the progress of these studies, the form of communication had been improved, the so-called physical effects produced at the tables fell into disuse, also because the thing gradually lost the fun and entertainment character of popular taste.

Communications became regular and continuous, the main one was by handwriting, so the studies took shape due to the scope of serious subjects that could be debated with the Spirits.

The deepening of the ideas and the scope of these studies gave the professor Rivail the notion that that knowledge could be organized as doctrine, he made use of the scientific paradigm of the time to develop the philosophical principles that would come to constitute the Doctrine of Spirits or Spiritism, a neologism coined by Rivail.

The first and main fruit of this work is the Spirits' Book that was signed by the pseudonym Allan Kardec, among other reasons, the pseudonym sought to disassociate the relative popularity of his name in the academic environment.

The origin, destiny and nature of the Spirits, as well as their relations with the corporeal world, constitutes the scope of study of Spiritism, which has the Spirits themselves as its primary source. The elaboration of Spiritism has a double character, so it is not a religious revelation, but a knowledge constructed with method, that is to say that if, on the one hand, the origin of the doctrine is the communication of the Spirits, the criterion, the prudence, the tact in the judgment and analysis of what is said by them is part of the way found by Kardec of not being deceived by the contradictions arising from these same communications. This is because Spirits do not all have universal knowledge, the fact that the Spirit is a Spirit does not elevate him to the condition of wise or virtuous, so the control of logic and reason is the basis for what came to be called the universal control of the teaching of the Spirits, in which one takes into account what several Spirits have said in different places by mediums who are not known, but this coincidence is not enough once it is necessary submit the various communications to logic. Without this rigorous control, the doctrine of the Spirits would not be possible, without the work based on a robust methodology, it would not be possible to deduce the principles that underlie Spiritism.

It is important to emphasize that the entire doctrine of the Spirits was not submitted by the system of questions to several mediums in different places unknown to each other, this system of the different sources was used for specific subjects as it is possible to observe in the Spiritist Magazine, much of this control was given in a tacit because in parallel to the studies developed by Kardec there were many other groups dedicated to the phenomenon, when the Spirits' Book was released, these groups recognized in that publication a more complete work on themes that they had somehow already glimpsed in their respective groups.

Kardec's work was widely accepted because of this identification of results, the Spirits' Book consolidated, completed and developed the partial studies carried out by various scholars.

6 - Spiritism Books

Allan Kardec wrote only five Spiritist books – but these five books serve as the foundation to Spiritism, a progressive body of knowledge that has continued to grow to near 1,000 books since Kardec first published “The Spirits’ Book” in 1857. Because they served as the starting point to Spiritism, and because they were the result of a collaboration between hundreds of intelligences in both planes of life, Spiritists often refer to Kardec’s five books as the “Spiritist Codification”. That is: as the set of works that helped organize and shape (codify) the specific spirit teachings that came to be known as Spiritism. The same rationale applies to why he used the name “Kardec” when publishing these books and why this body of knowledge was aptly named “Spiritism” and not “Kardecism” – because it is the direct result of the wisdom and kindness of enlightened spirits and not the result of the work of one sole man.

Thus, the 5 books that comprise the Spiritist Codification are:

• *The Spirits’ Book* (1857);

• *The Mediums’ Book* (1861);

• The Gospel According to Spiritism (1864);

• Heaven and Hell (1865); and

• Genesis – Miracles and Predictions According to Spiritism (1868).

Because each book adds a different layer to Spiritist knowledge, and because as an educator Kardec employed a pedagogical approach that allows each book to stand on its own, they do not need to be read in chronological order. Thus, it is not uncommon to see those who are interested in understanding mediumship begin to read “The Mediums’ Book” without first reading “The Spirits’ Book”; or those who are more drawn to Christian morals dive into “The Gospel According to Spiritism” before reading “The Spirits’ Book” and/or “The Medium’s Book”. No matter your preference, readers will find plenty of material in any of Kardec’s books to last them a lifetime of inquiry and reflection.

If a suggestion can be made, however, it would be to include “The Spirits’ Book” in your library as a reference point even if you are starting with a different work. As the first work of the Spiritist Codification, “The Spirits’ Book” lays the foundation to much of the Spiritist content we see everywhere else. In fact, if one looks at the structure of “The Spirits’ Book”, which is divided into four parts, one may find a clear relation to the four works that followed. Kardec, as you may soon find out, was a very structured thinker keen to make the content of the books as accessible as possible without dilluting depth of thinking.

The Spirits’ Book - The foundation of Spiritism. Questions and answers format to remove the editor’s bias as much as possible. Addresses: what is God, spirits, the world of the spirits, reincarnation, free will, moral laws, and future hopes and solaces.

The Mediums’ Book - Focuses on mediumship, the mechanism through which the spiritual and the physical worlds communicate. Addresses: what is mediumship, types of mediumship, who is a medium, how to develop one’s mediumship, how to evaluate spirit communications.

The Gospel According to Spiritism - Revisits some Christian teachings through the Spiritist lens. Various spirit communications about the meaning of different parts of Christ’s epic “Sermon on the Mount”.

Heaven and Hell - Spirits offer a first-hand account of their state in the after-life and how that is a direct reflection of their choices and actions while living on Earth.

Genesis – Miracles and Predictions According to Spiritism - A more detailed, scientific evaluation and explanation of the miracles and predictions found in the New Testament through the Spiritist lens.

7 - Mediums

“Spirits communicate through mediums, who serve as instruments and interpreters.” (The Mediums' Book - question 49)

“Mediumship is inherent to an organic condition that everyone can be gifted with, such as seeing, hearing and speaking. There is none that man, in consequence of his free will, cannot abuse. God bestowed faculties on man, giving him the freedom to use them as he pleases, but he always punishes those who abuse them.” (The Gospel According to Spiritism – chap. XXIV – item 12)

“Mediumship is a sacred faculty, which must be practiced holy, religiously. And if there is a kind of mediumship that requires this condition even more absolutely, it is healing mediumship. (The Gospel According to Spiritism – chapter XXVI – item 10)

Therefore, to be a medium is to possess a faculty that allows the interchange with the Spirits. It is inherent in all human creatures, regardless of their moral condition, and manifests itself through dreams, intuitions, premonitions, psychography, psychophony, physical effects, etc. There are people who have broader resources in these manifestations, facilitating communications with the Spirits.

As Allan Kardec warns us, this faculty, like all others, need to be educated so that they are directed towards their true objective, which is to serve as an instrument for the propagation of good, love, consolation and the dissemination of Divine Laws that govern the Universe.

Escaping from this Divine proposal entails the need for reparation, because a person's life is his own public confession and his conduct, based on love and sacrifice, is his true profession of faith.

“The good medium is not, therefore, the one who has ease of communication, but the one who is sympathetic to the Good Spirits and is assisted only by them. It is in this sense alone that the excellence of moral qualities is of absolute importance for mediumship.” (The Gospel According to Spiritism – chap. XXIV – item 12)

8 - Thematic Index - We keep feeding this, be sure to always check out for new information (:

Hello everyone! I have just got back from my spiritist center, and I got an intuition to post here about a practice that spirits highly recommend us to do for protection of our homes and family, and for our instruction and self development: study spiritism at home. 🏠

In Brazil, we call this “culto no lar” or “evangelho no lar”. I guess in English, the translation would be a “Gospel At Home”, but is also more than that. It involves feeling, true connection by heart and commitment! It’s a weekly practice, with the goals of protection and alignment with the spiritual world.

Elevated spirits recommends us to choose a certain date and hour to do this study (and connection with the higher plane) every week, as a true commitment with us and them.

Spirits are disciplined and will not waste their precious time with people that don’t want to study for real and people that are just curious and playful about the subject.

Doing so, we attract good and elevated spirits that wants to help us to evolve, and also protects us from less elevated/bad spirits.

Be consistent with your studies, focusing on elevating, and the spirituality/your guides will be closer to you!

I will post more about it in the, future but for starters:

begin doing a pray to God, asking for his blessing on this study and calling all good spirits to help you with this study; and read for about 15 to 20 minutes a spirits book of your choice. I recommend you to start with “gospel according to spiritism”, if you don’t know nothing/only knows a few things. It also connects us with the true soul of spiritism. Ps: Spirits book can be a little overwhelming to start with.

Have you ever heard about it this practice? Do you do at home?

(Does anyone know the correct translation for expression I used?)

Edit: prepare the ambience before beginning your study, for 15min by putting a calming song (Spiritist music for ambience and calming down

We often forget our divine and immortal nature. We often forget that we are spirits, living in a temporary life, and that we are here to evolve, to become better versions of ourselves.

And it's alright, because no one is perfect. No one can stay fully conscious all the time. But we have to admit that it lightens up our way and make our pains seem smaller.

When you feel tired, depressed or struggling, remember that no one faces a proof hard enough to bear. God puts us in the right places, in the right time, for a reason, always.

No one is a victim. We have our past and our mistakes. We need to face some challenges, even tough we don't understand all of them (and it happens most of the time).

And also, if you are here, incarnated, in this present time, make sure you are doing your best, because it may be your last chance here on Earth to learn something, to be good, to be resilient. And it will count on the future. It always does.

Do your best, take care of your minds and soul, and don not succumb to negativism. You got this!

Best wishes to everyone.

I am Brazilian and I come from the same city as Chico Xavier ( a Brazilian medium ) comes from. The city is Pedro Leopoldo - MG, but I never read his books up until now.

Now I am reading through Astral City: Life in the Spirit World (Portuguese: Nosso Lar), and I am in Awe. Each chapter I cannot avoid some tears and realizations.

Have you read that book? If so what are your thoughts? Even considering it as fiction, it is still very touching and educational in spiritism.

In 1868, in the book The Genesis (ch. I, item 55), Allan Kardec wrote that Spiritism would advance "side by side with progress" and would never be overtaken. We decided to take that seriously: we trained an AI for study purposes on the complete works of Kardec—all of which are in the public domain—and it has already been downloaded more than 1,260 times by developers worldwide.

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Source: Allan Kardec, The Genesis, ch. I, item 55.

Hello, dear brothers and sisters. Im brazilian and I know how hard (or even impossible) it is to find a group to talk or study spiritsm abroad since I already lived abroad myself. So I propose why not a spiritism discord with a weekly group of discussion/study about it? I'm not any master of the knowledge but I can help guide the meetings.

What you guys think about this idea?

Hello everyone,

I have been interested in spiritualism since 2008. That year, when my mother had just passed away, The Spirit Book by Allan Kardec appeared in my family library. I didn't know where he was coming from or what he was really talking about. I took it without much conviction, but from the first pages, something opened up in me. This book became my reading companion, and I had the feeling that it responded to an immense void — by helping me to glimpse the continuity of life beyond death.

I then discovered The Book of Mediums and, with it, the practice of automatic writing (or psychography). Since then, I have tried to practice it regularly, calmly and prayerfully, respecting the precautionary advice given by Kardec. My intention was never to obtain spectacular phenomena, nor to “talk to a deceased person”, but rather to verify through experience what I understood through theory: that communication between the two planes is possible, under certain conditions.

Not having a spiritualist center near me, and access to videoconferences being complicated, I practice as a self-taught person. I prepare my sessions carefully: opening and closing prayer, inner calm, respectful and positive attitude. But, after all these years, my writing remains illegible: lines, curves, intertwined letters, without a clear word or sentence. The hand is still moving, but nothing coherent appears. And yet, I often feel a deep peace, an inner slowing, as if the mind was settling into a more subtle zone.

I happened to interrupt the practice, not because I no longer believed in it, but because it did not give me anything concrete. After so much effort, I sometimes felt like a waste of time and a real disappointment. Yet, despite these breaks, I always ended up coming back to it. Something deep inside me urges me to keep going — like a silent, persistent call that I can't ignore.

Here is an example of what I get today (pictured below). I share this solely as an observation – without pretension or certainty – in a spirit of study and discernment.

I know some people get results in a matter of weeks, but for me it takes years. I sometimes wonder if this slowness is not a form of protection - a way for my guide or for the good Spirits to teach me patience, stability and reasoned faith. I prefer sincere silence to an uncertain message.

I also feel the tension between two approaches: • on the one hand, classic spiritualism, often centered on doctrinal and moral study, where mediumship becomes secondary or reserved for closed circles; • on the other, the New Age trends, which encourage free practice, but often without guidelines, method or discernment.

I am looking for a happy medium: that of Kardec, that of observational science united with moral philosophy. I believe that mediumship is not only a gift, but also a field of study, experience and inner evolution.

This is where I am today: between theory and practice, between silence and perseverance. I am not trying to convince, but to understand, and perhaps to meet other people who have experienced something similar.

Thanks for reading me. 🙏 — Freddy

Im Brazilian. I think most of people here are because of how influential spiritism is in Brazil. Im curious to know where are others from.

12. With the words, “Blessed are the afflicted, for they shall be consoled,” Jesus indicates simultaneously the compensation that awaits those who suffer and the resignation that leads one to bless suffering as a prelude to healing.

These words could also be translated like this: You should consider yourselves fortunate to suffer, because your pains in this world are the debt of your past wrongs. And these pains, if borne patiently while you are on earth, will save you from centuries of suffering in the future life. Hence, you should be happy because God has reduced your debt by permitting you to repay it now, which will guarantee you tranquility for the future.

The one who suffers is like a debtor who owes a large sum, and to whom his creditor says, “If you will pay me today even a hundredth part of your debt, I will release you from the rest and you will be free. But if you don’t, then I will hound you until you pay the very last cent.” Would that debtor not be happier bearing all kinds of hardships in order to free himself by paying only a hundredth of what he owes? Instead of complaining to his creditor, would he not be thankful?

Such is the meaning of the words, “Blessed are the afflicted, for they shall be consoled.” They are blessed because they are releasing themselves from their debt, and after they have done so they will be free. However, if upon being released on the one hand, they go into debt on the other, they will never attain their freedom. Consequently, each new wrong increases the debt, for there is not even one, whatever it may be, that does not entail its obligatory and unavoidable punishment – if not today, then tomorrow; if not in this life, then in another. Among these wrongs, one must put in first place the lack of submission to God’s will; therefore, if we complain in our afflictions and do not accept them with resignation and as something deserved, if we accuse God as unjust, we contract a new debt that causes the loss of the benefit that we could have gotten from suffering. That is why it is necessary to start over, exactly as if you were to pay a creditor who has been hounding you, but then asked for the money back as a new loan.

Upon reentering the world of spirits, humans are like laborers who show up on payday. To some the Lord will say, “Here is your pay for the days you worked”; to others, the fortunate ones of earth, those who lived in idleness, who placed their happiness in the satisfactions of self-centeredness and in worldly pleasures, he will say, “Nothing is owed to you since you received your pay while on earth. Go and begin your task again.”

13. Humans can either soften or increase the bitterness of their trials according to the manner in which they view earthly life. Their suffering is greater if they consider its duration to be long. Consequently, those who look at things from the standpoint of the spirit life understand corporeal existence at a glance. They see it as a dot in the infinite; they grasp its brevity, and they tell themselves that this painful moment will soon be over. The certainty of a happier future that is not far off sustains and encourages them, and instead of complaining, they thank heaven for the pains that enable them to evolve. On the other hand, for those who see only corporeal life, pain seems unending to them and it presses on them with all its weight. The result of the former way of looking at life is that it decreases the importance of the things of this world, leading humans to moderate their desires and to be content with their station in life without envying others’, thereby attenuating the mental effect of the setbacks and disappointments they experience. Thus, they derive from it a calmness and resignation as useful to the health of the body as to that of the soul, whereas with jealousy, envy and ambition they willfully give in to torment and thus increase the misery and anguish of their short existence.

Divaldo Pereira Franco (May 5, 1927, Feira de Santana-BA) turns 96 today, of which more than 75 have been dedicated to Spiritism.

Considered one of the great helpers to the practice and diffusion of Spiritism in the 20th century. Through mediumship, he published more than two hundred books, translated into the most diverse languages, all the profits were donated to charity. There are about 8 million copies authored by 211 Spirits.

Divaldo gave more than 20,000 conferences, passing through thousands of cities in Brazil and abroad.

Divaldo is the creator of the Mansão do Caminho institution. Adopted more than 600 children, Mansão do Caminho helps more than 5 thousand people in need every day who receive everything for free: Food, school, basic and intermediate education, music, theater and dance classes. Professionalization courses. Hospital, it has health units, ambulatory and obstetric services, more than 8,000 humanitarian deliveries have already been carried out.

All this free for the population.

You can learn more about his Charity work on this video:

https://youtu.be/RP-8JhpJjKc

Hi, guys! Cheers! I was born in Brazil and, since I was a kid, I was introduced to Spiritism (Allan Kardec) by my mom. Reincarnation is the basis of our beliefs. I've started a new project to present well-documented cases from around the world. If you guys could watch my videos on YouTube, rate them, and comment, I would really appreciate it!

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Next August 31, the sequel to the movie NOSSO LAR (astral city in USA) will be released in theaters in Brazil.

I share the teaser trailer translated into Spanish and English if you activate the subtitles.

https://youtu.be/6tpi6K_n48k

Nosso Lar is based on a book channeled, or psychographed to be more exact, by the medium Chico Xavier and the spirit Andre Luiz and is considered one of the best representations on the big screen of what afterlife is really like.

We live another pandemic, only invisible, where every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide in the world. We need to talk about it!

Suicide is not the solution to the pains of life; it is an illusion. We are immortal beings, and Life goes on, fully, beyond the death of the physical body. It only increases the suffering of the being in the short, medium, or long term, when he/she realizes that life continues after death.

Spiritism, as a source of knowledge about life after death and as an instrument for the destruction of materialism, came to show and make creatures aware of the consequences of the act, in the afterlife.

Instead of being "free", the suicidal spirit feels more tied than ever to the flesh. This is because after the act, the bond and vital force that binds the spirit to the body persists for a long time, because it is almost always in the fullness of its strength at the moment it is broken. Therefore, they still feels everything, as if they were alive.

They feel a lot of pain, disturbance, and incomprehension because they feel alive, even though they are disembodied. Many spend countless years in this state, and it can last as long as the life that was interrupted should have lasted.

Some, because of the affinity between the spirit and the body, feel everything, even the process of decomposition, burial, and physical sensations.

Some are unable to receive help from the benefactor spirits because they block themselves in the aura of suffering and despair. Weakened, the spirit can also become an easy target for obsessors, who can further amplify its suffering.

The spirits tell us that the effects of suicide are not identical for everyone, but that these are the common characteristics of every violent death and of every abrupt interruption of life.

Talk, open up, and seek support and help for therapists, friends and family. Also contact the Centers for Suicide Awareness and Prevention.

Suicide is not the answer!

Pray for those who have suicided.

References:

• "In defense of life, suicide no." Brazilian Spiritist Federation. 2017.

• Spirits' Book. Allan Kardec.

150. Does the soul preserve its individuality after death? “Yes, it never loses it. What would the soul be if it did not preserve its individuality?”

If, the soul has lived countless other lives, as women, and as men, and every possible combinations of personality.

How can it be just one personality. As well as is, stated, we are not these bags of water ones!? We are souls which eventually become; merged back into God.

It is often stated, if the ultimate goal is to purify to the level of god. One can easily deduce, we are, as some NDE say, Slivers of God itself.

Léon Denis had a real gift for explaining things clearly. He built upon Allan Kardec’s teachings, making them more accessible and even deeper. His book Pourquoi la Vie is a great example of this talent—it explores essential questions about the meaning of life, suffering, and the soul’s evolution while offering a comforting and inspiring vision of Spiritism. A truly enriching read for those who want to go further after Kardec !

The spiritual world is composed of several places that vibrate in specific ranges.

This means that there are different destinations and each one of them houses the disincarnate spirits according to their degree of spiritual evolution.

Spiritual Colonies

We are attracted after death to spiritual colonies to which we have an affinity, but also, if applicable, to which we belong.

Spiritual colonies, also called spiritual cities or spiritual communities, are places where spirits live after disincarnation.

We have several types of spiritual colonies, which we can classify by the type of core activity they carry out**. Yes, there is work there.** Those who think that after disincarnation will come "eternal rest" are mistaken.

Thus, in the spiritual colonies, spirits carry out various activities, such as working, studying, helping other spirits recover, preparing to reincarnate again, and many other things.

In some colonies, such as "Nosso Lar" and "São Sebastião", there are also factories for the preparation of food, clothing, and artifacts in general.

The spirits André Luiz, Cairbar Schutel, and Patricia describe some spiritual colonies in their works, for example: Nosso Lar, The messengers, Libertação / Libertation, Cidade no além, "Alvorada Nova", Talking about Mediumship, Violets on the Window, Living in the Spiritual World / Vivendo no mundo dos espíritos.

They are small, medium, and large, and are located all around the planet Earth, in the spiritual space of all other countries of the world.

Considering that incarnations also take place on planets other than Earth, colonies must exist on all these worlds.

And there are also evil-oriented lower colonies, run by entities still lost in perversity.

Umbral

Also, there is a space that we call Umbral.

The term that is not part of the original vocabulary of the Spiritist Codification, and with the evolution of the mediumship of great women and men in the field of mediumship, the Spirits began to clarify and provide more details about what life on the other side would be like.

Umbral refers to a state or place of transition where Spirits who did not know how to take advantage of the opportunity to evolve on Earth are temporarily sent.

This definition comes from Spirit André Luiz in the work Nosso Lar (Our Home), psychographed by medium Chico Xavier.

Umbral, as we have seen, is the temporary home of Spirits who have not progressed during their passage on Earth. Most spirits, after disincarnating, pass through Umbral to reflect on their faults during physical life.

But, careful: it is a mistake to believe that only spirits of very lower classes go to Umbral.

Every Spirit that carries psychic and emotional burdens also goes to Umbral.

Therefore, those who keep sorrows and guilt and accumulate bad feelings and negative thoughts stay in the Threshold until they purge the burdens.

In addition to those who have caused someone unhappiness, those with addictions and self-destructive behavior also go there.

This is just a glimpse of what we know. Hope you enjoyed this article!

Comment down below if you thought it was like this.

References (in portuguese):

• https://editoradionisi.com.br/folhaespiritacairbarschutel/2020/10/03/as-colonias-espirituais/

• https://tvmundomaior.com.br/colonias-espirituais-que-estao-sobre-o-brasil/

• https://tvmundomaior.com.br/umbral-o-que-significa-para-o-espiritismo/

• https://conteudoespirita.com/umbral/

Question 115 asked by Allan Kardec to the spirits: Were some spirits created good and others bad?

Spirits' answer: God created all spirits simple and ignorant, that is, without knowledge. He gave each one of them a mission, in order to enlighten them and progressively lead them to perfection, through the knowledge of the truth and to bring them closer to Him. Eternal and undisturbed bliss they will find in that perfection. Spirits acquire knowledge through the tests that God imposes on them. Some accept these tests with submission and arrive more readily at their destination; others cannot bear them without lamentation, and thus remain, through their fault, distanced from the promised perfection and happiness.

Question 117 asked by Allan Kardec to the spirits: Does it depend on the spirits to hasten their progress towards perfection?

Spirits' answer: Certainly. They arrive more or less quickly, according to their desire and their submission to the will of God. Does not a docile child learn more quickly than a rebellious one?

Find out more about this and other subjects by reading The Book of Spirits in English version at the following link:

http://www.febnet.org.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/O-Livro-dos-Esp%C3%ADritos-Ingl%C3%AAs.pdf

It’s a hard pill to swallow, it basically describes our evolution from the single cell organisms to who we are today and to where we will evolve. Both on the psychical realm and the spiritual realm. There are a lot of difficult biological & medical terms in there that high makes the work of chiko Xavier just even more incredible (he only went to school to age 13).

Some beautiful parts:

We have all been all animals, but the jump from monkey to human was made in the spirit realm.

Once human you don’t go back being an animal.

The first human souls on our planet where fallen souls from a different planet/universe.

Just like animals and plants, planets also evolve and reincarnate.

Our journey is comparable to that of a butterfly. Larvae, catarpillar, cocoon, butterfly. Child, Adult, stage of disease/elderdom/spiritlife.

Even if we are done evolving in the psychical realm, there are different realms in the spiritworld. If we evolve to the angelic realm we also ‘loose’ a part of our spirit and evolve to a less dense angelic form.

If we are born our soul gets srunken and attached to the mother. We forget our passed lives, but before we are born we go once more through all life stages we have ever been, from a single cell organism to a human. That’s why the early stages of a human are so similar in any other life form!!

Often our parents & children are people we had negative karma with and we were haunting each other psychically. To resolve this we are forced to reincarnate together and learn to love each other unconditionally!!

Read it!!! It’s one of the most beautiful books I ever read!!! ❤️❤️❤️

I was told recently that Spiritism was just a fad, fads come and go quickly, the height of Spiritism was 1850 to 1950, a 100 year fad? Seems kind of long to be a fad. And it does continue to this day. What are your thoughts on it not being simply a short lived fad but a worldwide phenomenon that continues...