Letter to the reader

Year 16 - 798 - November 13, 2022

Experience tells us that it is possible to prevent suicide


The thesis expressed in the sentence above is by our interviewee Ivete Marques de Oliveira, a clinical psychologist with a postgraduate degree in Transpersonal Psychology and in cognitive-behavioral therapy. President of AVIVA – Associação para Valorização da Vida, maintainer of the CVV program for emotional reception and suicide prevention, she is a speaker and member of the Spiritist Association Semeador, from Catanduva (SP). The interview is one of the highlights of this issue.


Another highlight is the Special entitled The excesses of human “justice”, by our collaborator Anselmo Ferreira Vasconcelos, from São Paulo (SP). In the opening of the article, as an introduction to his considerations, he evokes the spiritist concept of justice, as stated in question No. 875 of book The Spirits’ Book: "Justice consists in respect for the rights of others." precept that should also guide the application of human justice.


A little over 141 years ago, precisely on September 6, 1881, the 1st Spiritist Congress of Brazil was held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, an initiative of the God, Christ and Charity Academic Society, which became the first step in for the unification of the Brazilian spiritist movement, as shown in a special article by our collaborator Eder Andrade.
 

  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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 Revista Semanal de Divulgação Espírita