“Soul education: this is the secret of healing diseases”
is the title and also the theme of our editorial, which
brings considerations about the published interview on
this number, one of the spots of the current edition.
Our interviewee of the day is the physician Ricardo de
Souza Cavalcante, settled in Botucatu (SP). Physician
specialized in infectology of the Clinics Hospital of
the Medical School of Botucatu – UNESP, is the current
president in Spirit-Physician Association of Botucatu,
working regularly in the Spirit Center Path of Light in
the same city. One of the interview themes is the
spiritual origin of ills.
“It is necessary to talk about suicide” is the title of
the Especial published on this edition, authored by our
collaborator Marcos Paulo de Oliveira Santo, from
Taguatinga Norte (DF). It reminds us that suicide is a
severe public health issue he proposes in his article we
lead our efforts to constrain this behavior that brings
so much unhappiness to our orb.
Last August 12th the headquarters of
Brazilian Spirit Federation (FEB), in Rio de Janeiro,
held the closing of seasons lectures of Divaldo Franco
in 2017 in Rio State, how it is told us in an especial
report by our collaborator Luismar Ornelas de Lima.
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Last Tuesday, August 22nd, it completed 60
years of desincarnation which had happened in 1957 of
Leopoldo Machado, educator, writer and spirit speaker
who marked brilliantly his performance in the Brazilian
Spiritist Movement. He was from Arraila de Cepa Forte,
nowadays known by Jandaíra (Bahia), Leopoldo was married
to Marília de Almeida Barbosa, with who he leaded in
Nova Iguaçu (RJ) Leopoldo High School, the Doss House
Allan Kardec and the Jesus Home.
Devotee of young spirit movement, Leopoldo Machado
promoted in 1948 the I Congress of Spirit Adolescence
and Youth of Brazil and the creation of the Consultive
Board of Spirit Youths.