A chat with
Gerson Sestini, from Rio de
Janeiro
This week’s editorial, "After
the storm comes the calm.
Really?" examines the
familiar proverb in light of
what we are taught by the
spiritist doctrine.
Among the highlights of this
edition, we call the
reader's attention to the
interview given by the
colleague Gerson Sestini to
our collaborator Peter Orson
Carrara. Living for many
years in Rio de Janeiro-RJ,
the colleague, who is a
native of São José do Rio
Preto-SP, talks about Altivo
Pamphiro and Yvonne Pereira,
two remarkable personalities
of the Brazilian spiritist
movement with whom he
maintained close relations.
Another highlight of this
edition is the special
article titled "Who was
Chico Xavier," authored
by the colleague Marcus De
Mario, from Rio de
Janeiro-RJ. In the article,
the author discusses some of
the alleged life experiences
of Chico Xavier, but
concludes expressing the
thinking that to know if
Chico Xavier was this or
that person in the past does
not change anything.
Divaldo Franco returned
again to Paraná, where he
spoke in Maringá, Ponta
Grossa and Pinhais, as one
of the highlights of the 15th
Spiritist State Conference
held during March 8-10. The
report, authored by the
colleague Paulo Salerno, is
also one of the highlights
of this edition.
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March 14th
recalls a pivotal event in
Europe, because it was on
this day in 1874 that the
scientist Alfred Russel
Wallace obtained the first
photograph of a materialized
spirit. Alfred Russel
Wallace (1823-1913) was not
only a British investigator
of spiritist phenomena but
was also a naturalist,
geographer, anthropologist
and biologist.
