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Study on perispirit gains space in Pernambuco |
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The
importance
and need for
a deepening
of knowledge
about the
perispirit
is a must
for all who
study the
Doctrine
codified by
Kardec.
Several
scholars
write texts
and books
about this
subject, and
thanks to
the attitude
of many
Spiritist
Centers
spread
throughout
Brazil,
groups come
together to
exchange
ideas and
knowledge
about this
part of our
Spiritual
constitution.
In
Pernambuco,
the male
nurse
Eduardo
Tavares
Gomes (photo),
a member of
the
Medical-Spiritist
Association
of the State
of
Pernambuco
(AMEEPE),
conducts
studies on
the
perispirit,
and there is
already a
demand for
new classes.
We talked to
him about
this matter.
How did the
idea of
forming a
perispirit
study group
come up?
Here in
Pernambuco,
in our
Spiritist
Movement, a
person of
great
relevance
began this
proposal
many years
ago. Ernani
Menezes was
a professor,
researcher
and
Spiritist
worker, and
was the
director for
the Allan
Kardec and
Ceci Costa
Spiritist
Institute
and held a
course on
perispirit
for a long
time until
he became
ill and
disincarnated
in January
2013.
Ernani
maintained a
monthly
course
lasting one
year and a
half
approximately.
Each week,
he
ministered
in a
different
Spiritist
Center the
same course.
Since his
disincarnating,
I thought
several
times about
this and got
to comment
with Dr.
Rozane,
president of
AMEEPE, that
she should
look for
someone who
continued
this work.
She was very
wise and
said that we
did not have
someone
available
with the
needed
profile, and
that AME,
still
recent, had
many
commitments
and that I
should wait
for a future
that would
come at the
right
moment. At
MEDNESP 2017
in Rio, the
restlessness
was already
greater and
the Spirits
told us that
we should
commit
ourselves to
take the
proposal
from the
paper and
continue
with
Ernani's
proposal - I
say proposal
because it
would not be
possible for
me to work
it. I
hesitated
for a
moment, but
I agreed,
believing
that I would
have time to
prepare
myself and
also that it
would only
take place
from 2019
onwards.
However,
they were
emphatic
that it was
time for
this study
to begin and
so we
started the
meetings in
September of
the same
year. Our
AME did not
have a large
room for a
big study
group, so we
contacted a
Spiritist
Center that
had a good
relationship
with AME -
the Uniao
Espirita a
Caminho da
Luz -
UNILUZ,
which opened
their doors
for us
immediately.
We had hoped
that we
would form a
class with
about 20
students,
but the
demand
surprised
us: there
were almost
170
enrolled,
which we
allocated in
two classes
and a
waiting
list. The
volunteers
from UNILUZ
collaborated
with the
registrations,
the
secretarial
work and the
house
prepared to
receive the
pupils
preparing
the course
in every
detail, and
with
affection.
We started
the
Perispirit
Studies
Course with
representatives
from 14
centers in
the
metropolitan
region of
Recife (PE),
from six
different
cities! It
was a joy to
see that
there was a
repressed
demand
interested
in the study
and also
because it
was the
first course
of our AME
to have that
reach. It
was a joy to
see the
continuity
of the
proposal of
our Ernani
Menezes!
How are the
classes?
The classes
are monthly
and the
class
receives the
list of
references.
The issues
go from the
study of
fluids, to
the
evolution of
forms on
Earth and to
the
acquisition
of
automatism,
to later
reach the
study of the
perispirit
itself:
concept,
nature,
functions,
properties,
centers of
force and
their role
in the
laying on of
hands,
mediumship,
in birth and
in the
processes
health-disease
and
death-dying.
The
references
are the
Spiritist
Codification
and the
Spiritist
Magazine (a
source of
much
information
and we
Spiritists
would gain a
lot if we
consulted it
more
frequently),
the first
hour workers
of the
Spiritism,
such as Leon
Denis and
Gabriel
Delanne, the
works of
Andre Luiz
and
Emmanuel,
the work of
other
Spiritist
researchers,
such as dr.
Zalmino
Zimmerman,
and AME
researchers
such as
Marlene
Nobre and
Decio
Iandoli.
There is a
lot of
Spiritist
reference
that makes a
revision of
these
authors, as
well as
Spiritualist
works on the
subject, in
particular
on the
centers of
force. Few
works
compose the
material of
our
meetings,
only those
that do not
disagree
with the
reliable
references
that we
mention.
Who are the
most
interested
in the
course?
The most
interested
in the
courses are
the
Spiritist
workers and
many who are
doing or who
have just
completed
the regular
courses
offered in
their
Spiritist
houses. As
the public
is
Spiritist,
our care is
in
translating
the
Spiritist
research or
not that
builds that
range of
knowledge on
the subject,
making it
accessible.
We refer to
recent
studies and
research, as
well as to
propositions
that are in
the process
of finding
evidence in
the field of
science, but
which have
been
revealed by
the Spirits
about the
relations
between
perispirit
and body, in
genetics and
in the
cellular
machinery,
impacting on
the
physiology
of all the
organism and
expressing
the
vibrational
state of the
Spirit, its
history and
integrality.
Is the
course only
held in
Recife? Is
it planned
to extend
it, via the
internet, to
other
locations?
We are
currently
only in
Recife.
However,
there is a
UNILUZ
project to
be able to
broadcast
live. When
the project
materializes,
it might
lead us to
distance
learning
too.
However, if
anyone is
interested
in starting
a study like
ours, just
contact us
and we will
send you a
script and
references.
Here's our
contact:
buscarameepe@gmail.com
Translation:
Eleni
Frangatos - eleni.moreira@uol.com.br