A chat with Sandra Mussi about the Canadian
Spiritist movement

 
This week’s editorial, We must save the Audio Library Salt & Light, comments on the difficulties that may lead to the closure of the Audio Library Salt & Light, founded 25 years ago in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Sandra Mussi, from Toronto, the provincial capital of Ontario, Canada, is our interview of the week. Sandra, who until recently was president of the Canadian Spiritist Council, is the Doctrinal Coordinator of TSS - Toronto Spiritist Society, a Spiritist society she helped found in August 2010. In the interview, which is one of the features of this edition, she talks about her initiation into Spiritism and tells how the Spiritist movement is doing in Canada.


Another highlight of this issue is the special article by Leda Maria Flaborea on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the need we all have to include the practice of goodness and charity as an important ingredient of the acts of our lives.

Last month at the Lost Theatre in London, writer and researcher Guy Lyon Playfair gave an important lecture as shown in Claudia Werdine’s report, also one of the features of the week.

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On Friday, July 1st, we celebrated one more anniversary of the launch of the first Spiritist periodical of Brazil - The Echo d'Beyond the Tomb founded and directed by Luís Olímpio Teles de Menezes, in Salvador, Bahia. Appearing in 1869, the newspaper reached 56 pages and was available abroad in cities like London, Madrid, New York and Paris.