Letter to the reader

Year 16 - 815 - March 19, 2023

Are the stories told to us about haunted places true?


The subject above is examined in detail by our collaborator Rogério Miguez, who reminds us, in an article published in this issue, that the manifestations of Spirits are natural events, therefore contemplated in the order of things, and have no relation with the marvelous and the so-called supernatural. In fact, it was thanks to manifestations of this nature that the risen movement to the advent of the Spiritist Doctrine started years later.


“If the example is the best publicity, we are in very bad shape” – this phrase summarizes the thought of our editorial colleague Paulo da Silva Neto Sobrinho, expressed in the interview that we publish this Sunday. A member of the spiritist movement since 1987, he is one of the most active promoters of Spiritism in our country, especially through articles and books. The interview is one of the highlights of this issue.


It was founded on March 22, 1923 in the city of Mineiros do Tietê by Marcelino Martinez, whose story deserves a specific approach, both personal and family, the Spiritist Center Francisco Xavier dos Santos is celebrating its first centenary this week, as shown in a special article, our editorial colleague Orson Peter Carrara, who took his first steps there, as a child, in spiritist endeavors.
 

  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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