Letter to the reader

Year 16 - 768 - April 17, 2022

Concept of vital fluid and its function according to the spiritist doctrine


“Among the many questions posed to the student of the Spiritist Doctrine, that of the vital fluid is one of the most intriguing. We could think that the expression vital fluid, widely used by Kardec, could be limited to a term appropriate to the encoder's time, with no meaning in our days.” This is how it begins the Special written by Ricardo Baesso de Oliveira, one of the writers and also a member of the Editorial Board of our magazine. The article is one of the highlights of this issue.

Another highlight is the interview given to us by Professor Regina Lúcia Silveira Martins, from Rio de Janeiro. Master and doctoral student in Education, she is part of the team of workers at Regeneration Spiritist Group (Grupo Espírita Regeneração), founded by Dr. Bezerra de Menezes on February 18, 1891. In the interview, she tells us about her father, the spiritist psychiatrist Dr. Roberto Silveira, who passed away on September 7, 2019, at the age of 90.

It was founded on April 18, 2013, EVOC – Editora Virtual O Consolador, which celebrates 9 years of activities tomorrow, a period in which it has published 119 titles so far. The origin of the publishing house and its objectives are explained in an interview that Astolfo Olegário de Oliveira Filho gave to Wilson Czerski, from ADE-PR. The interview, originally published in the newspaper Spiritist Communication Action (Comunica Ação Espírita), an organ of ADE-PR, it is reproduced in this edition.
 

  Astolfo O. de Oliveira Filho
Director of Writing
 

 
José Carlos Munhoz Pinto
Administrative Director

 

Translation:
Francine Prado
francine.cassia@hotmail.com

 

 
 

     
     

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