Cláudio Marins, president
of ABRARTE, assesses
Spiritist art
 

This week’s editorial, "Loneliness , isolation and technology" focuses on the importance of new technologies in the life of human beings and their use in the present moment of life in our world.

Cláudio Marins, president of ABRARTE - Brazilian Association of Spiritist Artists, is our interviewee this week . Based in Belo Horizonte-MG, he works at the White Rose Spiritist Fraternity, and directed the Social-Spiritist Communication Department of the Spiritist Union of Minas Gerais between 2008 and 2011. The theme of his interview, which is one of the highlights of this edition, is Spiritist art.

Another highlight of this issue is the special article titled "Is there life beyond Earth?" authored by Ricardo Baesso de Oliveira, from Juiz de Fora-MG. As our contributor and columnist recalls, the existence of organic life in other  worlds in the universe is one of the basic postulates of the Spiritist Doctrine.

Concurrently with the Movement: You and Peace, held in late 2013 in Salvador -BA, the caravans attending the event participated, between the scheduled activities, in meetings of doctrinal studies with Suely Caldas Schubert. Read about them in the article by Paulo Salerno , which is also one of the highlights of this edition.

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On this date - January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was born in 1746 in Zurich, Switzerland. He distinguished himself as a teacher and educator of international renown. For twenty years, in his school at Yverdon on Lake Neuchâtel , he devoted himself to his work in education, where one of his students would later be known as Allan Kardec, the encoder of the Spiritist doctrine.