It still prevails in many of us - thinking beings, the rational creatures of the One God – the tendency to adapt everything, adjust and, in many cases, alter the idea of someday else, any established practice or even a Doctrine; the possibilities are countless.

One can easily observe this common conduct in this portion of Universal Humanity. On the other hand, it is rightly argued that changes are expected and even desired in everything that is not yet finished, however changing well-established and correct procedures and teachings would not be advisable.

There are known to be altered versions of the Bible; to be convinced of this reality, it is enough to observe the Protestant translation, whose collection of religious texts does not contemplate the Book of Tobias. On the other hand, the catholic translation includes books which are absent in the corresponding Jewish compendium. It is a notorious fact that some New Testament texts have undergone mutilations and adaptations to accommodate the convictions of the translator, or, perhaps, those who commissioned the translation task; by the way, these facts may have originated the well-known refrain "translator, traitor"..

Examples of modifications in important original texts are significant, but this inclination is easily verified at a minor point in other situations. Among many, we will record a few examples related to practice in the mediumistic area in relation to the Doctrine of Spirits itself:

•  To send mediums without doctrinal knowledge to psychic rooms, aiming, among other strange objectives, to compose the deficient number of participants of the respective meeting, does not seem to be a Spiritist conduct, this when the motivation is the fear of "losing" the newcomer medium to another house, as if there were a dispute for number of followers among some associations. In this way the novice will understand that it would be enough to be a medium to act in mediumship, failing to assimilate the very correct conduct for all the beginning medium to study in detail all aspects of his faculty before he can exercise it well, first for himself, and second, for others.

• Believing that mediumistic works cannot be performed in different rooms, i.e., once the activity in a particular room or room of the institution has started, one cannot leave this room, otherwise the result will no longer be the same. Some believe there is a special organization in the atmosphere of the place formed perhaps by "mediumistic fluids", created at the beginning of the activity, who knows some "magical" environment has formed in function of this new meeting, they ask?

•  A variant of the previous one is to admit that a room used for magnetic pass service can no longer be used for, for example, for evangelistic tasks, because the fluid atmosphere formed in this room would be incompatible and harmful to children.

•   Another very similar nuance would be the belief of maintaining a room only for mediumistic meetings, that is, in that environment only activities involving mediums can happen.

•   Not to follow the team's schedule and frequency, on the grounds that "too much precision" drives away Good Spirits, as if observing the discipline in any Spiritist meeting was excessive!

•    To accept the late arrival of the medium according to the starting time agreed by all, as if it would not be charitable to prevent the entry of the late and flustered participant, demonstrates the doctrinal knowledge of the leader. The late worker should not even try to enter the meeting room; instead, he should take a Spiritist book and dedicate the time corresponding to the duration of the work to study by keeping his attention focused on doctrinal texts. If, of course, the delays or absences are regular, and are not satisfactorily justified, the member should be advised to leave temporarily, however nothing prevents his participation in this period in other tasks of the house, in fact the best recommendation. By the way, in principle, it is not recommended to accept a medium from another institution that has left there due to the “excess of rigor” in the activities. This candidate must be given a primarily attention to know precisely which were the “excesses of rigor” that made him leave his previous work.

• Dedicating excessive time or even regular activities at the meeting to "handle" cases involving family and friends represents another strange behavior. It is common for the group to get carried away by the false idea that it must first attend its many relatives and acquaintances, after all, where would Charity be if not practiced first to the nearest ones!? Not attending to part of the countless strangers, as much in need as friends and relatives. To make of the mediumship meeting a familiar task and dedicated to the acquaintances, not forgetting to contemplate the closest friends, is not recommended. We can mention a variant of this conduct, in the cases of medical and spiritual treatments, giving priority to the relatives and friends of the group involved.

• Necessarily receiving a magnetic pass before the mediumship activity is another illusion in the movement, after all, it is alleged that to subject to a good spiritual pass before the work is a necessity to better watch the disincarnated! We could argue that if the worker does not feel ready, considering that he has not prepared himself adequately during the day for the task, it will not be a pass that will harmonize him and put him in the necessary conditions to perform well in the group; it takes a little common sense. The practice is greatly aggravated if the leader of the group, or even the direction of the house, is aware of the routine and does not manifest itself to clarify the medium.

• A public meeting with a medium incorporated enabling messages or interpretations of general interest, including responses to the questions of a heterogeneous assembly. There is not and has never been any mention of this type of procedure in Allan Kardec's fundamental and related works. It's natural, because Spiritist Doctrine is serious. Besides being an incorrect initial presentation of Spiritism to those who appear for the first time, it suggests to the older ones that they can question about any subject relative to their particular interests, when in reality what should be taught is that everyone should be encouraged to read the Spiritist books and to study them hard to self-clarify, seeking to answer their own doubts and questions, before asking private questions to the Spirits.

• Studying too much during the meeting or suppressing day (s) of activities to attend this highly recommended conduct of studying Spiritist works does not seem equally reasonable. The group, not willing to use an extra day a week to study, is on the path opposite to that recommended by good psychic practice. Spiritual service is not replaced by decree, that is: Spirits disincarnated, in need of care, today do not even appear, because we are studying! In this particular item one cannot try to "kill two birds with one stone" as in the popular saying. If the group cannot study on a different day of the meeting, they should keep the study and not the practical part, until there is a consensus among the members on a day and time, making it possible to perform both activities at different times.

•  To accept directly in a psychic room an imbalanced medium that has just arrived at the house does not conform to good Spiritist practice. The medium needs balance to integrate well with the task; how to justify a candidate in intimate, and often obsessed, disharmony on the grounds that he urgently needs to "receive Spirits"; how can he be accepted into an already constituted group? How does the group stay in the presence of a discordant element in the team? What is the formation of this leader in accepting such conduct? Was it in fact a Spiritist mediumistic group, or a team prioritizing only the phenomenon and nothing else?

• Meetings where participants are regularly leaving the group, and the latter, in turn, incorporating new members as a result of these absences, also do not represent Spiritist works. The group to harmonize needs time and it is not short period of time; if the task has usually new elements, there is no possible harmony, leaving the team at the mercy of the imbalance, it is necessary to observe the preparation of the leader in admitting such routine.

We mentioned a few indispensable requirements to achieve good results in a serious mediumistic activity in the light of Spiritism. If the house or members cannot organize themselves using these routines, it would be preferable to act in other areas.

Besides the Book of Mediums being the basic reference for the understanding of the mediumistic phenomenon, there are other highly recommended literatures; one of them is the relatively unknown book of the "modern spiritist movement" entitled Disobsession. Published in 1964, authored by Andre Luiz, it establishes clear criteria of organizational Spiritism to guide a work in this particular area.

The philosopher of Spiritism, Leon Denis recorded in one of his righteous thoughts: Spiritism will be what men do. The sage of Tours, in 1911, when the warning was written in the monumental work In the Invisible, recommended to the knowledge of all mediums, he already sensed or even knew closely this tendency of the human being, and the companions of ideal in the ranks of the New Revelation do not escape this conduct, adapting and modifying the Spiritist orientations long settled. They accept as true the Doctrine of the Immortals, acknowledge Allan Kardec as a higher Spirit of high evolution, they know the Spirit of Truth coordinated all the elaborate work of the codification of Spiritism, however, in "translating" the teachings, in day to day practice,  they betray doctrinal principles, living the Spiritist postulates in the way that suits them best.

This present situation represents nothing more than Spiritism practiced in the fashion of the house, when leaders, still unprepared to lead, overlook a great many irregularities committed and often observed in the associations. Who knows, soon, if the unwary of the Doctrine so desire, we will have a Spiritism in the fashion of Allan Kardec and the wise Leon Denis can be reassured intimately, for he must be very apprehensive to see that his important warning is becoming true, at least in this significant area of ​​action of the Spiritists, according to a branch that he certainly did not want and does not want.

The way in which the practice of the Doctrine of the Immortals goes, in relation to the mediumistic activities in the so-called Spiritist centers, clearly does not occur in all cases, but certainly they are many, and leaves much to be desired of that imagined by Allan Kardec, when in his simplicity he talked with the dead, and took from them the necessary information for the composition of the Spiritist works, never betraying the confidence placed in his mission by the Christ.

It is absurd to argue that Allan Kardec did not say anything about these particularities of Spiritism, some even venture to suggest: The Book of Mediums belongs to the past, because of this, so we believe, Jesus, our Governor, allowed the coming of mediums of feedback here reincarnating and, through their own mediumship, that they bring us new compendiums on this subject, psychographics of the so-called subsidiary works. There are many, just look for books dealing with the subject of Chico Xavier, Divaldo Franco, Raul Teixeira, Yvonne Pereira, and their corresponding spiritual guides; Herminio Miranda and Therezinha de Oliveira, just to name a few and read, study, analyze, reflect deeply on the records of the Spirits found in these many books, works patiently waiting to be discovered and used by all involved in this beautiful area, law of God, who can bring consolation and hope to those who are discouraged, not only incarnate, but also to the immense population of the disincarnated.