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Humanity's spiritual history has
been a ceaseless effort of the Spirits to bring us, earthlings, the feeling of
being one with God and respect for the Allpervading Divine Laws. Religions, shamanism, spiritism,
philosophies - are all the result of a great continuous endeavour to connect the
spiritual world with the physical world. Spiritism was officialy introduced in
the Western Hemisphere in the 19th century, by a bursting scientifical evidence
on invizible entities' existence and manifestation. Its
revelations were compiled in the Spiritist Doctrine. Since then human knowledge
has considerably grown due to new parapsychological concepts and findings, which make
nonconventional forms of life more intelligible and acceptable. Today's people
are more mentally receptive to spiritist teachings.
The contact with yoga
techniques and teachings of the Far Eastern great masters had a great impact on
'civilized' world during the 20th century. Many research fields have
substantially enriched the spiritist ideology and practice for the last decades. Here are
some most important ones:
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Thanatology
(acknowledgement of life after death through studies of Near Death
Experience, by Dr. Raymond Moody, Elisabeth Kubler Ross and others);
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Studies of spontaneous
remembering of previous incarnation of children, by Dr. Ian
Stevenson and others);
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Regressive hypnotherapy
under medical control, which reveal pacient's previous lives (Michael
Newton and others);
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Out of Body Experiences
(so-called astral projections), popularised by Robert Monroe and others;
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Coming up and popularization of many so-called
channels - traditionally known as mediums;
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Transpersonal Psychology,
which deals with the altered states of consciousness and spiritual enlightenment;
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Misterious geometric patterns that
spontaneously emerge in crop fields, which are intelligent non-human creations
(so-called crop circles);
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Numberless photographs made
by people all over the world, which show geometric light-forms that cannot be
explained by film flaw exposition, developing or other common causes, which is
actually a way for the spirits to show themselves and be widely recognized.
It is fair and necessary to keep
the Spiritist Doctrine in its original form, as it was compiled by Allan Kardec.
Yet, as it is a perfectible Science, it may also adopt new elements, which
contribute to the century-old theory. This is the very difference from
religious dogma, but with a similar noble pursuit. Humanity constantly
acquires new information, and the spiritist science evolves along.
May God give us all the
inspiration, courage and strength to discover and spread the jewels of spiritist
concepts, which are sparks of universal Truth!
Razvan Petre
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