Musical art in the Brazilian spiritist movement

According to the thoughts of musician Paulo Cesar Vieira Xavier, our interviewee this week, the space that musical art enjoys in the spiritist movement in our country is still shy. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, he has lived in Brasília (DF), where he has lived since 1960, and has been working in the spiritist movement in the capital of the Brazilian Republic since 1970. He is graduated in journalism at CEUB and in music at the Brasília Music School, he is one of the founders of Claudio Santoro National Theater Symphonic Orchestra. The interview is one of the highlights of this edition.

Another highlight is the special “Mental disorders in childhood: what Spiritists should know”, written by the columnist and physician Ricardo Baesso de Oliveira, from Juiz de Fora (MG). In the article, which was divided into two parts, the author presents and comments on excerpts from interviews and presentations on the subject made by physician Tais Silveira Moriyama, doctor in Psychiatry for children and adolescents and director of the Barrail Psychiatrist Institute, in Itapira (SP). The conclusion of the article will be published in our next issue.