A Practical Guide for the Spiritist
A Practical Guide for the Spiritist

Author: Edgar Crespo

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-08-01

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 0595895174

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Having faced adversity and tragedy in his early life, Miguel Vives found salvation in Spiritism and renown and success as a healing and spiritual medium. Yet while Vives made his mark as a nineteenth-century Spiritist, for anyone who is determined to achieve moral and spiritual advancement in this lifetime and beyond, his teachings shine as a twenty-first century beacon of inspiration and affirmation. In this concise guidebook, translated from Spanish by Edgar Crespo, Vives draws a precise roadmap that shows how we can reach a new level of spiritual fulfillment and a profound sense of peace and communion with humanity. Based on his understanding of the natural and spiritual law of reincarnation, Vives provides guidelines for our obligations to our Creator and to Jesus-based on a universal moral code that goes beyond any creed or religion. Vives also shows how we are to behave with love and charity with our families, with ourselves, and with all other persons, even those who bring heartache and pain. Steered by an abiding devotion to moral and ethical conduct, Vives spells out how we can obtain the moral courage to triumph over the challenges of life.

A Practical Guide for Magnetic and Spiritual Healing
A Practical Guide for Magnetic and Spiritual Healing

Author: Jussara Korngold

Publisher: United States Spiritist Council

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781948109024

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The power of healing through one's gaze, touch, and the laying on of hands is one of the forms by which spiritual action is exerted over the world. Some individuals, by prayer and magnetic lan, attract this influx to themselves, this radiance of the divine force which drives off the impure fluids that cause so much suffering. The spirit of charity, of devotion verging on sacrifice, of forgetfulness of self, is the condition necessary to acquire and preserve this power, one of the most wonderful ones bestowed by God on humans. In the words of the Spirit Emmanuel ..".health means the perfect harmony of the soul." Some ancient practices advocated the need for cure of the subtle body prior to any permanent physical cure could be achieved. This is also present in the Spiritist approach to healing. To heal, human beings must be considered in their wholeness - body plus spirit. All the healers of antiquity were initiates and priests. In modern medicine there is a great demand for highly specialized training, and this leads us to ask: "Who can heal?" When considering spiritual healing through passes, we can safely say that everyone is able to heal to some degree, and we will be looking at this throughout this book.

Spiritism and Mental Health
Spiritism and Mental Health

Author: Emma Bragdon

Publisher: Singing Dragon

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0857010395

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Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. Leading practitioners and researchers in the field describe the history, principles and diagnostic processes of the Spiritist approach to mental health, and provide an extensive summary of the various methodologies used, including spiritual mediumship, energy work, prayer, homeopathy, past life regression and the practice of integrating spirituality into counselling and psychotherapy. Considering the ways in which Spiritism aligns with contemporary science, they show that the Spiritist model has the potential to bring about a positive transformation in the ways in which mental health care is conceptualized and delivered around the globe. The final part of the book explores how Spiritist centers and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with specific examples from Brazil and the USA. Providing important new insights into the rich tradition of Brazilian Spiritism, this authoritative text will be of interest to mental health professionals, counselors, therapists and alternative and complementary health practitioners.

The Spiritist Review - 1862
The Spiritist Review - 1862

Author: Allan Kardec

Publisher: United States Spiritist Council

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9781948109062

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The Spiritist Review was written and published by Allan Kardec from January 1858 to April 1869. In total there are 136 monthly issues of the Review, bundled in volumes of 12 issues per year, yielding 12 volumes. It is the largest Spiritist production of Allan Kardec.In addition to the profound study of the Spiritist theory and the explanations about several questions raised by the Spiritists, the Review shows the evolution of Kardec's thought during the construction of the Spiritist Science.While complementing the two main books of the Spiritist Doctrine, The Spirits' Book and The Mediums' Book, and showing their most important applications, the Review is indispensable to all those willing to have an in-depth understanding of Kardec's thoughts.

Acts That Prove Causes of Human Suffering from the Perspective of Reincarnation
Acts That Prove Causes of Human Suffering from the Perspective of Reincarnation

Author: Yvonne Crespo Limoges

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2022-07-14

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 166324216X

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There is much unfairness, inequality and suffering in our world. Could some of these situations be the direct result of actions we took in past lives? This book provides a series of spirit communications received through spiritual mediumship indicating that to be true. Spirits in the afterlife reveal reasonable explanations why many seemingly unexplained human conditions, people and many tragic circumstances in our lives were brought about as a consequence of our choices and actions made in past life existences. Also revealed, is that we chose and were aware, before rebirth, what the circumstances of our lives would be. For we returned to earth, out of love: to make amends, for redemption, self-sacrifice in caring for those we love, as well as for the spiritual progress of our soul. Further, we are not alone in our journey throughout our material lives. We have our spirit guides and the spirits of family and friends that help us from the afterlife, always providing inspiration, guidance and consolation. We are never alone in our sorrows! The life stories herein will provide new insight and answers to the whys of our lives, individually and collectively, and the spirits reveal there is a Divine Plan which is one of CONSOLATION, HOPE and UNCONDITONAL LOVE.

The spirits’ book
The spirits’ book

Author: Allan Kardec

Publisher: FEB Editora/CEI

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 6555703024

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After you have read The Spirits’ Book, you will no longer have any reason to fear death. The Spirits’ Book will provide you with the answers to nearly all the questions you may have with regards to the origin, nature and destiny of each and every soul on earth – and those of other worlds as well. It also addresses the issues of God, creation, moral laws and the nature of spirits and their relationships with humans. The book contains answers that were dictated to mediums by highly evolved spirits who love God. The Spirits’ Book is the initial landmark publication of a Doctrine that has made a profound impact on the thought and view of life of a considerable portion of humankind since the first French edition was published in 1857.

Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing
Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing

Author: Helmar Kurz

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-14

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1040047939

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This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a globally circulating mental health agenda. The book addresses the human experience within Spiritist psychiatric clinics and affiliated Spiritist centers in Brazil, which in migratory contexts also have connections to Germany. Chapters interrogate the spaces where people inside and outside Brazil engage in implementing Spiritist practices in mental healthcare, introducing the Aesthetics of Healing as a conceptual tool to understand interactions between religion and medicine more broadly. Establishing a novel analytical and interdisciplinary perspective on embodied aspects of sensory experience and perception, this compelling volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with mental health research, medical anthropology, Spiritualism, and cross-cultural psychology. Practitioners in the fields of transcultural psychiatry and the sociology of religion will also find the volume of use.

Secular Spirituality
Secular Spirituality

Author: Lynn L. Sharp

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006-09-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0739160710

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Secular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on reincarnation as a path to progress for individuals and society. Leaders like Allan Kardec argued for social reform; spiritist groups strove for equality; and women mediums challenged gender roles. Lynn L. Sharp looks closely at what it meant to practice spiritism, analyszing the movement's social and political critique and explaining the popularity of the new belief. She explores points of convergence and conflict in the interplay between spiritism and science, spiritism and psychology, and spiritism and the Catholic church to argue that the nineteenth century was not as 'disenchanted' as has been thought. Secular Spirituality successfully places spiritism within a larger cultural conversation, going beyond the leaders of the movement to look at the way spiritism functioned for its followers.

Sea El Santisimo - A Manual for Misa Espiritual & Mediumship Development
Sea El Santisimo - A Manual for Misa Espiritual & Mediumship Development

Author: Mario Dos Ventos

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0955690307

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SEA EL SANTISIMO sets out to be an alternative, English language primer for the practice of Espiritismo and Mediumship Development. While there are many different types of spiritual religions in the modern world today, Espiritismo (Caribbean Spiritism) is a widely known spiritist practice of Caribbean cultures. This manual provides detailed information based on the principals that an Espiritista would live by, a 'how to' guide on performing Misa Espiritual, information on setting up and work a 'boveda' and how to do novenas to the saints and spirits. Also included are the celebrations for the Day of the Dead, songs for Misa Espiritual and prayers for La Madama, El Congo and many Saints.