There is no
Spiritism without Kardec and
his method!
The quote above is from our
interviewee, Denizard Lopes
Augusto de Souza, from
Brasília (DF). He was born
in Recife (PE), he graduated
in Psychology and Social
Sciences, with a master's
degree in Sociology from the
Federal University of
Pernambuco, and works
professionally as a
professor and clinical
psychologist. In spiritist
endeavors, he participates
in the Spiritist Communion
in Brasilia, where he
collaborates as a speaker.
The interview is one of the
highlights of this issue.
Another highlight is the
Special by Paulo Neto, from
Belo Horizonte (MG),
“Ectoplasm in the works of
codification”. In the
article he says that the
term ectoplasm would have
appeared, as far as is
known, in the year 1894 and
its creator, according to
some, was the French
physician Charles Richet,
awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physiology in 1913 and
founder, years later, of a
new science, Metapsychics.
This week marks another
anniversary of the death of
the English chemist and
physicist William Crookes,
which took place on April 4,
1919. A member of the London
Academy of Sciences, Crookes
dedicated himself to the
investigation of spiritist
phenomena, and his research
in the years from 1870 to
1874 constitute one of the
most significant incidents
in the history of Spiritism,
as Thiago Bernardes shows us
in this issue.
