Some people can’t perceive the superior reality of life unless they go through pain. In other cases, the pain constitutes a kind of shortcut, to invoke or motivate a change, as revels Ana Maria Brito Leal Previato during an interview to this magazine, focusing on a subject which is the central theme of this week’s editorial, entitled Pain and its valuable effects.

In the aforementioned interview, conceded to our collaborator and editor Orson Peter Carrara, Ana Maria Brito Leal Previato makes a brief narration about the Spiritist Movement in Três Lagoas, town located in Mato Grosso do Sul state, where she lives, and her interchange with the Spiritist institutions of Ilha Solteira and other places in Sao Paulo state. The interview is one of the highlights in this issue.

Another highlight in this edition is the special report by Marcelo Borela de Oliveira about the spiritual influences and how Spiritism instructs us with ways to neutralize them.

Last Sunday 20th, the VIII Dutch Spiritist National Conference took place in Amsterdam, whose them was “To work together for the good”, as shows the report by Claudia Werdine, which is also a highlight in the present issue.

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A newness the can be seen on the left-hand margin of our homepage, which has already been presented in our last edition: the link Rádio Espírita On-line (Spiritist Radio On-Line) – which refers to various Spiritist radios for the reader to enjoy via the worldwide network, having an amazing sound quality, regardless of which country the visitor is accessing from.